Cut a bloated artifact to its load-bearing minimum: same meaning, fewer words. Goal An artifact that is correct and current can still rot a second way: it accretes. Each edit bolts a qualifier onto the nearest sentence, a rule gets restated wherever it might apply, an enumeration grows into a wall — until a reader must study what they should skim. compresses that bloat to its load-bearing density: every claim that carries weight survives, every word that does not is cut. It is not a rewrite ( ), a dedup ( ), or a tell-remover ( , ) — it is a density pass on prose that is otherwise fine. Workf…