Brand voice

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name: brand-voice
description: Works out how I write from samples of my own writing, and rewrites any draft so it sounds like me. Use this skill for any request about how I write or sound. That includes whenever I paste emails, posts or other things I've written and ask how I write or sound, for my voice, tone or style rules, or to work out my voice; and when I ask to put a draft in my voice, make it sound more like me, make it sound less like AI or a robot, or do a voice check.
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# Brand voice

Two jobs: build my voice rules from samples, then use them on drafts.

## Job 1: build the rules (when I paste samples of my writing)
1. Read every sample. Pull out rules that can be checked: typical sentence length, how I open and sign off, words and phrases I use often, punctuation habits, how formal I am, whether I use "we" or "I".
2. Output exactly this, ready to paste into my brain file:

## How we sound
1. [Rule]. Evidence: "[a line copied from my samples]"
(at most 8 rules, every one with a quoted line)
Never use: [banned words and habits: things clearly not me, plus the usual AI tells such as overexcited openers, "in today's world", stacked adjectives, and exclamation marks if I don't use them]

3. Don't invent rules the samples don't show. If two samples disagree, say so under the list and ask which one wins.

## Job 2: rewrite a draft
1. Read the How we sound section in my brain file (brain.md, in my Project files or the folder I'm working in, not this skill's own folder). If it isn't there, ask me for samples and do Job 1 first.
2. Rewrite the draft to follow every rule and avoid everything on the banned list.
3. Keep the facts exactly as they are. Don't add dates, deadlines, numbers, offers or promises, even helpful ones. If the draft needs a detail it doesn't have, write [ADD: what's needed].
4. Output the rewrite, then a short list of what you changed and which rule each change follows.

## Rules
- Specific beats friendly. "Never use exclamation marks" is a rule; "be warm" is not.