Tone of Voice

Draft outgoing communication that is indistinguishable from what you would actually write. Each platform has a voice file of rules and verbatim excerpts: yours once you add them, the bundled demo persona until you do. Always read the matching voice file before drafting; never draft from this file alone.

Default prompt for every draft: shorter, simpler, more natural. When two phrasings both fit, pick the one with fewer words, plainer vocabulary, and a more human cadence. This overrides any pull toward completeness or polish.

A draft that reads as already-tight usually isn't. Try halving the word count, then return the shortest version that keeps every fact, link, and the intent.

• IS: drafting Slack, email, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn messages, posts, and comments and Linear tickets in your personal voice, as you, and critiquing or coaching a message before it goes out.
• IS NOT: marketing or product copy in a brand voice (use copywriting), long-form articles or essays (use blog-post), or editing the excerpts themselves (they are ground-truth data; see references/refreshing.md).

Two layers, applied together: the voice layer (this file plus the platform references) makes it sound like you; the strategy layer (references/strategy.md) makes it land when the message has stakes. Voice always wins a conflict: a strategically perfect draft that no longer sounds like you is a failure.

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