{"version":"2.1.242","anchor":"skill-prose-rewritten-with-ascii-punctuation","canonical_anchor":"skill-prose-rewritten-with-ascii-punctuation","heading":"Skill prose rewritten with ASCII punctuation","tier":"internal","area":"Skills","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.242\/e\/skill-prose-rewritten-with-ascii-punctuation","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.242","markdown":"### Skill prose rewritten with ASCII punctuation\n\nSeveral skill texts swapped fancy punctuation for plain ASCII; nothing behaves differently for you.\n\n**What**\n\nThe design-sync, doc, whiteboard and workshop skill bodies now use ASCII punctuation in the text fed to the model: em dashes become `-`, arrows become `->`, `<=` replaces the math symbol, `...` replaces the ellipsis, and the doc skill's save hint says `Ctrl\/Cmd+S` instead of the command glyph.\n\n**Details**\n\n- The count of escaped em dashes across the bundle falls from 9,495 to 7,326, and most survivors sit in the doc template's CSS comments, so this is a pass over skill markdown rather than a bundle-wide sweep.\n- No instruction changes meaning.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`the toolbar shows unsaved changes until they click **Save** (or press Ctrl\/Cmd+S)`\n\n- Area: Skills\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}