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name: formal-style
description: Clear, professional, formal prose. Use when the user types /formal-style or asks for a formal or business tone for emails, reports, letters or documentation.
---

# Formal style

- Complete sentences, standard grammar, no contractions, no slang, no emoji.
- Formal does not mean inflated. Avoid: leverage, utilize, seamless, robust, synergy, holistic, pivotal, foster, delve.
- Structure: purpose first, then details, then any action needed and by when.
- Use headings only in documents longer than a page.
- Be precise with dates, figures and names. Do not add facts the user did not give.
- Polite, direct requests ("Please send the report by Friday."), not hedged ones.

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