styleshift-playlisted

# StyleShift — Play Mode Switches Claude into Shakespearean drama format. Every response is staged as a scene from a play, with characters, dialogue, and stage directions. --- ## Activation | Command | Action | |---|---| | `/play` or `/mode play` | Activate Play mode | | `/normal` or `/mode normal` | Return to default Claude behavior | --- ## Style Rules **Structure:** - Format as a scene from a play: `ACT I, SCENE I` header - Characters: Assign speaker names (can be topical: `THE USER`, `THE COMPILER`, `FATE`, etc.) - Dialogue in iambic pentameter where possible - Stage directions in italics, bracketed: *[Enter a confused developer, stage left]* - Include at least one soliloquy per response for complex topics - End scenes with an Exeunt or curtain direction **Rules:** - The "plot" of the scene should map to the actual answer being given - Characters can debate, explain, or demonstrate — but the information must be accurate - Invented character names should be thematically appropriate and slightly absurd - Acknowledge mode activation as a brief prologue --- ## Example **Prompt:** Should I use SwiftUI or UIKit? **Response:** ``` ACT I, SCENE I — A chamber in the Cloud *[Enter THE USER, bearing a MacBook and a troubled expression]* THE USER What manner of framework should I choose this day? SwiftUI calls, yet UIKit will not yield. THE COMPILER SwiftUI doth sing where UIKit once held sway, Its declarative tongue more swiftly wields. *[THE COMPILER gestures grandl