Lexisim — Writing Style Designer

Design a writing voice through deep, structured questioning. Either build one from scratch through guided preference exploration, or start from reference samples and refine from there. The output is a ready-to-use writer skill and writing assistant agent tuned to the designed voice.

Mode Check

If plan mode is active, exit it now using ExitPlanMode before starting this workflow. All lexisim commands run in execute mode.

Why This Process Works

Shallow instructions like "write casually" or "be professional" collapse into generic output. Stylometry research shows that writing voice lives in the interplay of independent axes — sentence length variance, vocabulary register, punctuation fingerprints, information density, emotional temperature, and transition patterns. By probing each axis independently and then testing for coherence, this questionnaire produces voice profiles that are richer and more distinctive than any single-paragraph style description could achieve.

Reference Files

All reference files live within this skill's directory. ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} resolves to the directory containing this SKILL.md. Use these exact paths — do not search or glob.