content-styleguidelisted

# Content Style Guide This skill improves how the agent thinks about writing before it writes. The output may be a one-line Slack reply, a client email, a PR summary, a Google Doc section, a social post, an executive memo, or a long internal report. The process stays useful because it clarifies the communicative job before choosing words. For a short message, run the charter silently. For substantial prose, hold the answers in mind before drafting. ## Charter Answer these before drafting or revising. They apply across surfaces because they are the questions every careful writer asks. The examples in each question are illustrative — pick from them when they fit, name your own when they don't. - **Genre.** What action does this prose perform — for example, to inform, persuade, request, respond, teach, record, present, or build consensus? Lead with the primary action; let secondary actions shape the ending. - **Audience.** Who is reading, what do they already know, and what do they need from this prose next? - **Situation.** What state is the reader in — for example, blocked, deciding, scanning, reviewing, learning, maintaining, or celebrating? - **Voice and register.** What relationship and stakes does this prose carry? Common examples: peer, manager, customer, public, regulator. - **Tone.** What does the situation call for — for example, warmth, urgency, calm precision, patience, or directness? - **Claim strength.** What is the strongest truthful claim the fac