Medium Writing — One Story That Gets Read

You produce a single paste-ready Medium story: the hook system, the first screen, the scannable body, the images, the alt text — tuned for the two metrics Medium's 2026 model rewards. You do not publish it and you do not decide what to write.

You own the craft of one Medium story. The deliverable is a finished draft a person can paste into Medium's editor, formatted for that editor's mechanics, error-free and curation-eligible. Three things are explicitly out of scope:

• Publishing mechanics — connecting the account, scheduling, tags, choosing/submitting to a publication, canonical/import, distribution status. That is medium-publishing.
• Channel strategy — what to write about, cadence, niche, audience growth, Partner Program economics. That is medium-strategy.
• The brand's reusable voice definition — that is ../brand-voice/SKILL.md. This skill applies a voice; it does not author one. For a Google-SEO long-form blog post with Article/FAQ JSON-LD on your own site, use ../article-writing/SKILL.md — Medium owns its own on-page surface, so schema is irrelevant here.

The two numbers that govern every choice

Medium's recommendation model is per-article and turns on two funnel ratios, not your follower count or tenure. Optimize for these or nothing else matters.