Simplify prose using established style advice

Type: kb/types/instruction.md

Revise the requested text so a careful reader can follow it on the first reading. Aim for clarity, directness, coherence, and natural rhythm—not merely fewer words. Recast a sentence or paragraph when its intended meaning and role are already clear; otherwise leave it alone.

Use your judgment, informed by established advice such as Orwell's preference for concrete, familiar language; Strunk and White's and Zinsser's emphasis on economy; Williams's focus on clear actors and actions; Gopen and Swan's attention to reader expectations and emphasis; and Lanham's attack on bureaucratic padding. These are lenses, not a checklist. Ignore any recommendation when an exception is clearer, more accurate, or better suited to the text.

Preserve the argument, evidence strength, causal direction, scope, uncertainty, conditions, comparisons, technical relations, and intended voice. Do not replace a precise or registered term with a familiar near-synonym unless the replacement carries the same meaning or the distinction is explained. Split, combine, or locally reorder prose only when the equivalence is clear. Do not resolve ambiguity, choose among plausible readings, relocate implications, or redesign the larger argument as part of this pass.

Choose your own editing process. Read the result as a whole, undo changes that are merely different, and keep only changes that clearly improve it. Run the relevant validation after editing.