Prose

This skill writes and reviews long-form text: posts, breakdowns, case studies and design notes. It explains each decision through the problem it solved and the options it beat, in plain sentences told by the person who did the work.

Facts are exact, the voice is the author's

A guess stated as fact, an uncited claim and an experience the author never described are findings every time. Style rules bend to the author's draft. Their tense and register stay, and so does their choice of I or we.

Interface labels, em dashes and ellipses belong to copy. Commit messages belong to ship.

Open on where you stand

The first paragraph says what the piece is about and where the author stands: they built it, rebuilt it, use it or noticed it. The problem it answers arrives by the end of that paragraph. A line on what the piece isn't is welcome.

A contents list, "In this post I'll cover" or a feature tour as the opener is prose-open-with-context.

Tell it in the first person

The author is in the piece. "I" covers their own work and "we" a team's, saying what they built, tried, saw and dropped. A breakdown nobody seems to have written is prose-first-person.