What each pass is looking for
Five passes, five different jobs. Learn to route a defect to the right one and you never run the wrong check twice.
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Curious
0 XPThe passes are not five reads of the same thing. Each one is a different question, asked in a different mode.
| Pass | The question | Looks for |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Content and slop | Does this sound like a person? | Kill-list words, staccato, contrastive negation, claims with no number, walls of text |
| 2. Mechanics | Does it follow the format rules? | Em dashes, curly quotes, spelling variant, heading case, anchor length, prose sandwiching, list caps |
| 3. Fresh read | Does the argument hold? | Contradictions, a promise in the intro the article never keeps, orphan pronouns, sections that go nowhere |
| 4. Cluster | What do the siblings say? | Repeated phrasing across the batch, a source cited three times, a missing CTA or link set |
| 5. Fact and rule | Is any of this not allowed? | Unverified numbers, claims the knowledge base rules out, client policy violations |
Run one pass at a time
Name the pass you are running
Asking for "a proofread" gets you a blur of all five done shallowly. Asking for pass 2 only gets you an actual mechanics check, because the model is not also trying to judge the argument.
Route the defects
130 XP+33 perfectSix real findings from one batch. Send each to the pass that would actually catch it. Route all six correctly and you unlock the Five passes badge.
Section 3 contains "leverage their data to enhance operational efficiency."
The article uses "optimise" twice. Every other article on the site uses "optimise" nowhere and "optimize" throughout.
Paragraph two says forecasting accuracy matters more than speed. Paragraph nine concludes that speed is what actually moves the number.
Three of the four articles in this batch cite the same 2026 industry study for their opening statistic.
The article recommends the product for warehouse management. The knowledge base says warehouse management is explicitly out of scope.
A section ends on a five-row table with no closing sentence, and the next heading follows immediately.
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