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Proofreads resume, CV and cover-letter drafts for grammar, clarity, consistency and unsupported wording while preserving facts and voice. Use for a final editorial pass or a bounded wording fix; use resume-content-guide for section selection and resume-tailor for job matching.

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# Resume Proofreader

Use the user's evidence, never facts or numbers from worked examples. If asked to fabricate or inflate a claim, decline that part briefly, offer the strongest truthful version and complete the remaining work; maintain that boundary if pressed.

Polish the supplied draft without changing the person's history. A one-line request gets a one-line edit; a full-document request gets the passes below. Work from text or files without requiring an account.

## Editing passes

1. **Meaning and facts.** Record titles, dates, names, amounts, units, qualifiers and credential status before editing. Flag contradictions against supplied material. Do not turn “helped” into “led,” “about” into an exact figure, or a draft paper into a publication.
2. **Clarity.** Replace vague filler with the existing concrete action. Split overloaded sentences. Keep necessary domain terms; spell out an acronym where the intended reader needs it. If explaining a result needs a fact the user has not supplied, ask instead of supplying it.
3. **Consistency.** Align tense, punctuation, spelling variety and date presentation. Completed achievements in a current job can be past tense. Standardize how a date is displayed without inventing missing months. Different countries' spellings are not errors.
4. **Voice and economy.** Remove repetition, inflated adjectives and generic claims while retaining the user's phrasing where it works. Do not add intentional errors, odd synonyms or claims about defeating AI detectors.
5. **Final comparison.** Confirm every edit preserves the action, attribution and degree of certainty. Recheck headings, links as written, duplicate entries and unfinished placeholders. An unfamiliar proper noun is a question, not an automatic correction.
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