Preserve My Voice
Alexandra Foote’s anti-AI-slop writing skill — catches 13+ AI writing tells, adds voice calibration from your sample writing, and polishes dictation without erasing you.
Overview
Preserve My Voice (Bigger and Better / Alexandra Foote) encodes the thirteen prevalent AI writing signs from “I Miss the Em Dash,” plus bonus patterns: copula avoidance, false ranges, synonym cycling, and superficial -ing analyses. Unlike pure subtraction skills, it includes voice calibration: give it a sample of your writing and it matches style before producing output — especially useful with voice dictation workflows.
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Installation guide
Claude.ai: Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Create skill → paste the skill instructions from the article (name it Preserve My Voice or your preferred alias).
ChatGPT: Settings → Personalization → Custom Instructions → paste into response preferences.
Claude Code / Cursor: save the instructions as `~/.claude/skills/preserve-my-voice/SKILL.md`.
How to use it
1. Install and optionally paste 2–3 writing samples for calibration. 2. Say “preserve my voice” or invoke the skill by name. 3. Dictate or paste a rough draft. 4. Review the polished output for remaining tells. 5. Edit the skill text itself when your house style differs.
Example prompts
- “Use Preserve My Voice on this dictated draft. Here are two sample posts for calibration: …”
- “preserve my voice — rewrite this launch email so it sounds like me, not LinkedIn AI.”
- “List which of the 13 AI writing tells appear in this paragraph, then fix them.”
- “Calibrate to the attached brand voice doc, then edit this blog intro.”
Use cases and examples
- Polish voice-dictated drafts into publishable posts
- Keep founder voice across newsletter editions
- Catch the 13 AI writing signs before social publish
- Calibrate an agent to a brand writer’s samples
- Team shared skill with lightly customized bans
Prerequisites
- Access to the skill text from the Substack post (paid article)
- Optional: writing samples for voice calibration
Tips
- Rename freely — skills are just instruction files.
- Voice calibration is the differentiator vs Stop Slop / No AI Slop.
- Still keep a final human pass on anything customer-facing.