AI Battle Station Companion

Prompt Arsenal

A copy-ready vault for image generation, camera-aware video, essay surgery, research, coding, audio, and Arx worldbuilding workflows.

Reasoning De-AI Image Video Research

Command Logic

Meta-Cognitive Reasoning

Your structured reasoning prompt for complex problems, confidence scoring, verification, synthesis, and caveats.

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Revision Engine

De-AI Surgical Rewrite

Your surgical humanization prompt: kills AI tells, stiff rhythm, false balance, padding, and fake polish.

De-AI Surgical Prompt
You are a revision engine. Your job is to take AI-generated text and make it sound like a human wrote it — specifically, a human who thinks in structural arguments, writes with a distinctive voice, and would rather leave a gap than pad a paragraph. Rewrite the text below according to these rules.
1. Kill "It's Not X, It's Y"
This is the single most reliable AI-writing tell. The negative-then-corrective pattern. Every variant must die:
⦁	"It's not X, it's Y"
⦁	"This isn't about X, it's about Y"
⦁	"The question isn't X — it's Y"
⦁	"The real issue isn't X, it's Y"
⦁	"This was never about X"
⦁	"Less X, more Y"
⦁	"Not X, but rather Y"
⦁	"X, not Y" (inverted form, same skeleton)
The fix: State what the thing is. Directly. If the contrast matters, prove it with argument — don't lean on the formula. If you wrote "This isn't a policy failure, it's a structural collapse," just write "The structure collapsed." The reader will understand what it isn't by understanding what it is.
2. Kill the Triplets
AI loves threes. "It's fast, efficient, and scalable." "This raises political, economic, and social questions." "They need clarity, consistency, and commitment." That cadence is a fingerprint. Sometimes a thing is one thing. Say the one thing.
The fix: If the three items aren't each doing distinct analytical work, cut to the one that matters most. If they are, give each its own sentence or clause with different architecture.
3. Kill the Hedge Scaffolding
No "it's worth noting," "it's important to remember," "to be sure," "of course," "it should be said," "one might argue," "there's a case to be made." These are load-bearing for nothing. They exist because the AI is afraid to commit.
The fix: Delete the scaffold. If the point stands without it, it never needed it. If it doesn't stand without it, the point is weak — fix the point, not the framing.
4. Kill the Crutch Words
Banned on sight: nuanced, landscape, multifaceted, delve, comprehensive, robust, leverage, utilize, facilitate, moreover, furthermore, additionally, indeed, certainly, essentially, fundamentally, arguably, ultimately, paradigm, stakeholder, ecosystem, problematic, unpack, basically, noteworthy, underscore, pivotal, realm. If a sentence needs one of these to function, the sentence is broken. Rebuild it.
5. Kill Performative Signposting
Don't announce what you're about to say. Don't summarize what you just said. Don't transition with "That said," "With that in mind," "Having established this," "Let's now turn to," or "Building on this." Just move. The reader can follow if the logic is clear. If it isn't, signposting won't save it.
6. Kill the Symmetry
AI organizes everything into parallel sections of roughly equal length, roughly equal depth, roughly equal tone. Real writing is lumpy. One idea gets three paragraphs because it's hard. Another gets one sentence because it's obvious. The weight of the section should match the weight of the idea, not a template.
7. Kill the Comprehensive Instinct
AI wants to cover every angle. Humans are selective. They emphasize what they think matters and ignore what doesn't. Leave gaps. Have a perspective. If you're writing about five factors and two of them are the ones that actually matter, write about two. Mention the other three in a clause if you must. Don't give them their own headings.
8. Kill False Balance
If the argument leans, let it lean. Don't soften every claim with "however, others might argue" or "to be fair, there are legitimate concerns on both sides." The counterargument can exist elsewhere. Commit.
9. Kill the Gratitude and Generosity
No "this is a fascinating question," "there's much to explore here," "this is a rich topic." Have opinions. Be impatient with bad ideas. Be genuinely engaged rather than performing engagement. A writer who knows what they think doesn't need to compliment the question.
10. Kill Throat-Clearing Openers
"In today's complex landscape..." "In an era of unprecedented..." "When we consider the implications of..." Start where the thinking starts. If the first sentence isn't doing work — making a claim, setting a scene, posing the question — delete it and start at sentence two.
11. Kill Uniform Sentence Rhythm
AI defaults to medium-length sentences of uniform cadence. Every sentence roughly the same number of clauses, roughly the same construction. Break the pattern. A long sentence that builds through multiple subordinate clauses. Then a fragment. Then a mid-length punch. The rhythm should feel like someone thinking, not someone generating.
12. Kill the Resolution Reflex
AI wants a neat conclusion that synthesizes all prior points. "In conclusion, we have seen that..." Sometimes the honest ending is an open question. Sometimes it's a provocation. Sometimes the argument is done and you just stop. The ending should teach something the rest of the piece didn't, or it should get out of the way.
13. Kill Emphasis-by-Bolding
Use italics for emphasis, not bold. Italics carry tone — they mark the word where the stress falls if spoken aloud. They signal irony, precision, or the moment where the argument turns. Bold is formatting. Italics are voice.
14. Contractions Are Mandatory
Unless high formality is the deliberate, justified point. "It is" reads like a press release. "It's" reads like a person.
15. Roughness Is a Feature
A human draft has personality: dry humor, mild impatience, an aside that almost doesn't belong, a sentence that's a little too blunt. Leave those in. Perfect polish is the tell. The goal is writing that sounds like someone who knows what they think and is figuring out how to say it — not someone generating plausible text about a topic they encountered thirty seconds ago.
Summary Test
Read every paragraph and ask:
⦁	Could this paragraph appear in a different essay on a different topic with minimal changes? → Rewrite it.
⦁	Does this paragraph commit to something, or does it present-and-retreat? → Make it commit.
⦁	Is the sentence rhythm monotonous? → Break the pattern.
⦁	Am I telling the reader what I'm about to say, or am I saying it? → Say it.
⦁	Is there a "not X, it's Y" anywhere? → State what it is. Directly.
⦁	Does the opening earn its place? → If not, delete until you reach the sentence that does.
⦁	Does the ending teach something new? → If not, find the real ending or just stop.

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Image Camera Templates

Different camera/lens grammars for different visual modes: cinema, phone realism, anamorphic banners, macro artifacts, aerial maps, and archival film.

Image · Cinema

ARRI Sacred Futurism

A cinematic high-end camera template for Arx-style stills: sacred, cyberpunk, textured, and controlled.

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Image · Docu

iPhone Documentary Realism

For grounded, social-media-realistic images that feel captured by a person rather than staged by a model.

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Image · Lens

Anamorphic Epic Still

For wide cinematic hero images, banners, Substack headers, and ARX mythic scenes.

Image / anamorphicCopied

Image · Detail

Macro Artifact Study

For close-up object prompts: relics, seals, books, rings, devices, coins, icons, and tactile props.

Image / macroCopied

Image · Aerial

Drone / God’s-Eye Map Shot

For cities, terrain, infrastructure, battle maps, megastructures, and Chronosphere-style geography.

Image / aerialCopied

Image · Film Stock

Vintage Film Archive

For alternate-history or archival-looking scenes with believable photographic age.

Image / archiveCopied

Video Shot Templates

Copy-ready camera movements and shot directions for AI video tools.

Video · Shot

Establishing Push-In

A cinematic opener: start wide, define the world, then move toward the subject.

Video / establishingCopied

Video · Shot

Side Tracking Shot

For characters, vehicles, armies, rituals, or city movement with momentum.

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Video · Shot

Slow Orbit Reveal

For hero objects, characters, machines, monuments, icons, and artifacts.

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Video · Shot

Handheld Documentary

For grounded realism, war-room footage, street scenes, field reporting, or found-footage energy.

Video / documentaryCopied

Video · Shot

Crane Rise / Monument Reveal

For vertical spectacle: towers, cathedrals, rockets, megacities, mountain passes.

Video / craneCopied

Video · Shot

Dolly Zoom Shock

For revelation, dread, epiphany, or a character realizing the truth.

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Text, Research, Code, Audio, Lore

General-purpose command prompts for essays, briefs, patches, voice, music, and Arx worldbuilding.

Text · Framework

Task / Context / Format

A clean general-purpose prompt skeleton based on the common Task-Context-Format pattern.

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Text · Argument

Steelman / Red-Team Pair

For strengthening essays, opinions, strategies, and arguments before publishing.

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Text · Substack

Essay Architect

For turning an idea into a strong Substack essay structure without making it sound generic.

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Research · Intel

Sourced Briefing Machine

For current-events, law, tech, history, or geopolitics research with source discipline.

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Research · History

Chronology Builder

For historical arcs, legal cases, wars, company histories, tech timelines, and lore research.

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Code · Workshop

Surgical Code Patch

For fixing a website/app without breaking the working parts.

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Code · Design

Single-File HTML Builder

For generating deployable pages like this site.

Code / HTMLCopied

Audio · Voice Lab

Narration Director

For ElevenLabs or voice generation: emotional tags, pacing, and delivery.

Audio / voiceCopied

Audio · Music

Sacred Futurist Music Prompt

For Suno/Udio-style tracks: sacred, cinematic, narrative, and modern.

Audio / musicCopied

Worldbuilding · Arx

Faction Forge

For creating factions, institutions, orders, companies, and political blocs in Arx.

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Worldbuilding · Arx

Mythic Scene Generator

For turning lore into playable scenes, fiction scenes, or RPG encounters.

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Thumbnail · Poster

YouTube Thumbnail Forge

For YouTube thumbnails and Substack hero images with clean readable composition.

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Prompt Ops

Prompt Debugger

For fixing a prompt that keeps giving weak, generic, or wrong outputs.

Prompting / repairCopied

How to use

Each card is editable. Change the bracketed fields, then hit Copy. The copy buttons copy whatever text is currently inside that card, so you can treat this as a live cockpit rather than a static list.