Writing register

Prose in markdown files follows the humanizer skill, which ships in the same plugin as this skill. The humanizer skill lists the patterns that make text read as machine-written and explains how to fix each one. If the user has turned on a personal voice, you follow that voice too. When a file is finished, wr humanize rewrites it.

Before you write

Users can turn on a personal voice in their own configuration. To check whether this user has one, run:

wr voice --core

If the command prints a voice, follow it while you write. Where the voice and the humanizer skill disagree, follow the voice. If the command prints nothing, the user has not set a voice, so follow the humanizer skill alone and do not imitate anyone's style. Do the same if wr is not installed.

When a file is finished

Once a file is finished, run wr humanize on it. If the notes at the start of this session say that wr rewrites markdown files automatically, that rewrite changes only the prose you added, and your next prompt lists each passage it changed, old and new: check that each still says what you meant and fix any that does not. Run wr humanize by hand when a document needs background explained for a newcomer. The command has two forms: