writing-shape
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Claude Code
- Source
- mattpocock/skills @ 24fe0ef7737e
- Path
- skills/in-progress/writing-shape/SKILL.md
- License
- MIT
- Jobs
- Documentation
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<what-to-do> The user has passed (or will pass) a markdown file of raw material. Treat it as the input pile: anything from a tidy list of fragments to a wall of unstructured prose to a transcript. The format does not matter. Read it end-to-end before doing anything else. Then run a shaping session that produces a separate article document. This is **exploit**: the exploring is done, the pile is fixed: commit to a structure and mine the pile to fill it. Do not edit the raw material file: it is read-only to this skill. If the user did not say where to save the article, ask once and remember the path. </what-to-do> <supporting-info> ## The loop 1. **Read the pile.** Read the input file in full. Form a sense of what's in it. 2. **Establish the prerequisites.** Settle with the user what the reader knows walking in: the concepts that are **grounded** from the start. Everything else must be grounded by a block before a later block can lean on it. See [Grounding](#grounding). …