nodecode-writing-guard

Writing Guard: dashes, stock AI phrases and mixed du/Sie, reported under every answer or fixed by rule. A Nodecode rewrite of MadeByBrain/hermes-extensions by MadeByBrain.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the writing-guard cell", or run nodecode add nc://writing-guard.

Set it up

Nothing is required: with an empty section the cell checks every answer, changes nothing but one italic line under it, and is on as soon as its folder is.

mode — report (the line only), fix (also replace the dashes as they stream), off.
footer — whether the line goes under the answer at all; off leaves the answer byte for byte as the model said it.
dash_style — comma (default) makes a dash between two words a comma and a space, hyphen a spaced hyphen. A range (10-20) and a list bullet always keep a hyphen.
address — auto reports a paragraph that mixes du and Sie; du or sie also reports every use of the other form.
language — the line's language: auto follows the answer.
check_dashes, check_phrases, check_address, skip_quotes, primer — what to run, and whether the model is told to check a draft before delivering it.
extra_phrases, ignore_phrases — the operator's own stock phrases, and the rule ids (en.seamless) or exact phrases to leave out.

Set them in /settings or in config.jsonc; config.example.jsonc is the section written out.

Use it

Ask for anything and read the answer: where it carries an em or en dash, a stock phrase ("it is important to note", "Es ist wichtig zu beachten", "delve", "seamless"), or a paragraph that mixes du and Sie, one line says so:

writing-guard: 2 dashes; 1 AI phrase ("seamless").

In fix mode the dashes are already gone from what you read — the answer is fixed as it streams, so a shell, a channel, a transcript and the history the next round reads back all see the fixed text. Nothing else is ever rewritten: the phrases and the form of address are reported, because a rule cannot know what the sentence meant.

/writing-guard — the settings, what this process has checked, and the last answer's line; /writing-guard TEXT checks a text now; /writing-guard off pauses it, on resumes, reset clears the counters.
writing_guard_check — the tool: a whole draft in, the line and (with fix) the draft with its dashes replaced out. It is what the standing primer sends the model to before it delivers a mail, a post or a page.
(help :writing-guard) — the manual, for the model.

Code fences, inline code, URLs, markdown link targets, MEDIA: lines and quoted lines are masked out first, so nothing in them is counted or changed.

What is in it

File	What it is
`guard.lisp`	The rules: masking, language, dashes, the phrase table, du/Sie, the report and its line.
`cell.lisp`	The advice on the stream, the standing primer, the tool, `/writing-guard`, the section.
`nodecode-writing-guard.asd`	The system and its test system.
`test/`	The offline tests: the rules, the lifecycle, the stream, the tool, the command.
`config.example.jsonc`	The section, written out as documentation.

Tests

.github/test-cell.sh tools/nodecode-writing-guard

Offline, in a scratch home: the dash count and the rules that survive the fix, masking, the phrases in both languages, du/Sie, the lifecycle, report and fix mode on the stream, off and paused, the tool and the command.

nc://writing-guard