Better Writing

Use this skill to make prose stronger without flattening the writer. The goal is not to make everything casual or punchy. The goal is to make the text fit its audience, purpose, and medium while removing generic AI tells, filler, fake authority, and formulaic structure.

Core workflow

1. Read the brief before editing.

   • Identify the audience, channel, purpose, stakes, relationship, and requested dialect.
   • Preserve required facts, citations, constraints, legal wording, quoted text, and formatting.
   • If the user gives a voice sample, treat it as the style source of truth.

2. Set the writing read.

   • State this internally unless the user wants a plan: "Reading this as: [genre] for [audience], with [tone], optimising for [outcome]."
   • Choose dials for directness, warmth, personality, density, evidence, and polish. See references/voice-and-context.md.
   • If there is a voice sample, record its profile (sentence lengths, openers, contractions, person, hedges, punctuation, recurring words) before editing and recompute it after. The procedure is under Voice calibration in the same file.