Add pattern #30: debunking-pose headings#116
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The existing 29 patterns target prose. Headings often slip through human and automated editing passes because editors treat them as structure rather than copy. A common AI tell is a heading that poses against an implied wrong version of the topic: "actually," "the real," "that lands," "the truth about," "the long game," "demystified." The pose announces *everyone else has it slightly wrong, but I'll give you the truth* without delivering anything different than a plain heading would. This is pattern blader#27 (Persuasive Authority Tropes) operating at the heading level, and a sibling of pattern blader#1 (Significance Inflation): the heading promises a reveal it cannot keep. Pattern blader#30 asks editors to audit headings explicitly as a separate pass, lists the typical pose phrases to look for, and provides before/after examples drawn from real chapter titles. Bumps version 2.5.1 → 2.6.0. Updates README pattern count 29 → 30 and adds row 30 to the Style Patterns table.
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- Add DETECTION GUIDANCE section (false positives, human-writing signs, LLM idiolects) so editors know what NOT to flag (PR blader#113) - Add Tier-1 AI-iness density pre-flight in Full mode; auto-drops to Quick when density = 0 to protect human-first drafts (PR blader#115 adapted) - Expand blader#7 with era-specific vocabulary clusters (GPT-4 / GPT-4o / GPT-5 eras) and figurative-vs-literal caveat (PR blader#111) - Expand blader#9 with "rather than" dismissals + on-the-table test (PR blader#85) - Expand blader#14 with paired em dash bracketing + 4 fix options (PR blader#85) - Expand blader#21 with speculative gap-filling ("maintains a low profile" template detection) (PR blader#111) - Expand blader#23 with three more didactic disclaimers (subsumes pattern 34 from PR blader#112) - Expand blader#25 with structural "## Conclusion" section note - Add pattern blader#35 Debunking-Pose Headings -- heading-level AI tells that slip through prose-only passes (PR blader#116) - Add patterns blader#36 Conditional Frame Stacking and blader#37 Miscalibrated Epistemic Confidence (PR blader#85) - Add patterns blader#38 Reference-Markup Artifacts, blader#39 Phrasal Templates / Placeholder Text, and blader#40 Markdown / Wikitext Contamination -- three chat-UI copy-paste tells that confirm AI involvement (PR blader#112) - Extend domain overrides for blader#35-37; blader#38-40 are universal - Extend final AI audit from 9 to 13 points - README: pattern count 34 -> 40, three new section rows, updated fork-differentiator table, 3.2.0 version-history entry Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Adds a 30th pattern to the humanizer skill: debunking-pose headings.
The existing 29 patterns target prose. Headings often slip through editing passes because editors (human and AI) treat them as structure rather than copy. A common AI tell is a heading that poses against an implied wrong version of the topic: "actually," "the real," "that lands," "the truth about," "the long game," "demystified." The pose announces everyone else has it slightly wrong, but I'll give you the truth — without delivering anything different than a plain heading would.
This is pattern #27 (Persuasive Authority Tropes) operating at the heading level, and a sibling of pattern #1 (Significance Inflation): the heading promises a reveal it cannot keep.
I discovered this when I ran the skill across a 24-chapter book in parallel. The agents cleaned the prose beautifully but left every "actually / the real / that lands / the long game" title intact. Two reasons: (a) the skill's 29 patterns are written for prose with prose examples, and (b) editors instinctively leave headings alone. So this pose lives in a gap between the two.
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### 30. Debunking-Pose Headingssection after pattern Feature: SOTA Tiered Architecture for AI Detection Skill #29 with phrases-to-watch, problem statement, and before/after heading examples. Asks editors to audit headings as a separate pass.29 → 30, version history entry for 2.6.0.version: 2.5.1 → 2.6.0, description updated to include "debunking-pose headings."Test plan
Happy to revise if any of the wording or framing doesn't fit the project's voice.