multi-author-harmoniser

# Multi-Author Harmoniser ## What This Skill Does Takes a draft written by two or more contributors and rewrites it as a single, consistent voice — smoothing over clashing tones, register shifts, and stylistic inconsistencies while preserving every author's factual content and reported material. ## When To Use This Skill - When two reporters have jointly written a news feature and their sections read noticeably differently - When a freelance contribution has been stitched into a staff-written piece and the seams are visible - When a multi-part investigation has been written by different team members over several months - When translated content from different translators has been combined into one article - Before a long-form piece goes to a senior editor and the multiple-author origin would be obvious ## What You Need To Provide **Required:** The full draft text to be harmonised. **Optional:** A target house style or reference publication (e.g., "write in the style of a quality broadsheet news feature — authoritative, direct, no first person"); the preferred tense (past or present); whether to preserve each author's section roughly intact or allow restructuring for flow; any passages that must not be changed (confirmed quotes, legal-approved text, translated sections). ## How the Assistant Approaches This 1. Reads the full draft and maps the stylistic variation: identifies shifts in sentence length, vocabulary register, use of first or second person, punctuation habits, ...