Recut

Paste an already-cut card and get a fresh cut back: reformatted, or re-claimed for a new argument.

Recut takes a card you (or someone else) already cut and gives you a fresh cut back. Paste it in, and either fix its highlighting against the same claim or point it at a new one. It is a card-cutting mode, not a formatting tool: it runs through the same AI engine every other cut does.

This is a different feature from Improve Card, the "Highlight less / Highlight more / Retag" tool inside the card editor. Improve Card reshapes the words already in front of you without ever re-reading the source. Recut starts over: it takes the pasted card as input to a brand new cut, and when it can, it re-fetches and re-reads the original article.

When to use it

Use Recut when you have a card someone already cut, whether it is yours from months ago, one pulled from a blockfile, or one you found on OpenCaselist, and you want either of these:

A cleaner cut of the same claim. The tag or highlighting is off and you want the engine to take another pass.
A different claim from the same evidence. Paste the card, edit the claim field to describe what you actually need it to prove, and Recut cuts it fresh against the new claim.

How to use it

Open Recut from the Card Cutting menu.
Copy a cut card from a Google Doc (or anywhere with the tag, citation, and highlighting intact) and paste it into the left box (Cmd/Ctrl+V).
If the paste contains more than one card, a list appears below the paste box; click the one you want.
The Claim field prefills with the card's tag. Leave it as-is for a cleaner recut of the same claim, or edit it to re-claim the card for a different argument.
Toggle Keep tag verbatim if you want the claim text used as the tag exactly as typed, instead of letting the AI write its own tagline from it.
Click Recut. The result appears on the right in the same read-only card view every cutting mode uses, with a note underneath showing whether it was verified.

What it actually does

Recut parses the pasted card the same way Rhetorify does (tag, citation, every run of text, highlighted or not), then hands that off to cut-card, the same Gemini-powered engine Single Card Snipe uses.

What makes Recut more than a re-cut of the pasted text is the verification rule: if the pasted card carries a source URL, Recut tries to fetch the live article first. When that succeeds, the cut is made from the actual article text, not from what was pasted, and the result is labeled verified ("Cut from the original article", with a link to the source). This also means a wrong or outdated citation on the pasted card can get corrected, since the citation is read from the live page rather than trusted from the paste.

If there is no URL, or the fetch fails (dead link, paywall, blocked site), Recut does not stop: it falls back to cutting from the pasted card's own full text, and the result is labeled unverified ("Cut from your pasted text"). A dead link never blocks the recut; it only changes which badge you see.

Limits and cost

Recut does not have its own cap. Each recut spends one of your normal card cuts, the same daily/monthly allowance every other cutting mode draws from. See Plans & Limits for the exact numbers.

Common problems

"We couldn't find a cut card in that paste." Recut reads formatting (bold tag, bold citation, highlighting) to find the card. Paste from the original document, not as plain text.
The result says "unverified." The card's source URL was missing or the page could not be fetched. The recut still ran, from the text you pasted; check the citation yourself if you need it confirmed against the live source.
"No matching evidence." The pasted text does not actually support the claim in the Claim field (this comes up most on a re-claim recut). Try a different claim, or a different card.
Hit your daily cut limit. Recut spends a cut the same as any other mode; see Plans & Limits.