Style Calibration
Use style as a soft production guide, not a reason to violate truth, domain standards, or user constraints.
Load by mode
- Extract:
references/computational-stylistics.md, references/extraction-workflow.md, references/output-template.md, references/accuracy-tips.md
- Chinese samples: also load
references/chinese-style-rules.md
- Validate/apply:
references/calibration-protocol.md
Modes
- Check input quality: sample count, genre, author consistency, non-author material, total length.
- Quantify before qualifying: sentence, paragraph, function word, and punctuation baselines.
- Extract surface language, structure, tone, thinking patterns, taboos, positive examples, and negative examples.
- Every conclusion must cite original text evidence.
- Prefer differentiating, stable, executable rules over vague adjectives.
- Mark small-sample or single-genre findings as tentative.
Validate
Use hold-out or cross-genre calibration when samples permit. Revise overfit or missing profile rules.
Compare
Identify stable similarities, decisive differences, and likely transfer risks between two styles or between a draft and a target voice.
Apply
- User instructions, domain rules, factuality, and compliance outrank style.
- Preserve safe style dimensions: rhythm, transitions, modifier density, hedging, register, punctuation habits.
- Treat risky dimensions carefully: persona, unsupported claims, excessive informality, identity imitation.
- Log conflicts once and choose the higher-priority rule.
- When rewriting, preserve content intent and mark any style-versus-truth conflict.
Output
Choose the smallest suitable format from references/output-template.md: compact profile, full profile, comparison, or application note. Adapt user-facing output to the user’s language and never imply source-author authorship or endorsement. The result may support a style guide, rewrite, or later drafting work.