cw-voice-check
Diagnose whether writing matches the active writer, project, publication, and platform voice context, then offer a closer revision. Use when the user asks whether text sounds like them, feels generic, or has drifted from an established voice.
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/everyinc/compound-writing --skill cw-voice-checkIs this agent skill safe to install?
- Gen Agent Trust Hubpass
The skill analyzes writing voice by reading local project documents. It is safe for its intended use but possesses an attack surface for indirect prompt injection if the files it reads contain malicious instructions.
- Socketpass
No alerts
- Snykpass
Risk: LOW · No issues
What does this agent skill do?
Voice Check
Evaluate the passage against the voice context that actually governs the assignment.
Load Voice Context
Read ../../references/context-contract.md, then load the relevant maintained voice and style sources it identifies.
Use this authority order for voice work:
- Explicit instructions for the current passage.
- The active writer and project
VOICE.mdfiles. - Project, publication, column, or platform
STYLE.mdand more specific guides. - Relevant curated examples from the active project's
examples/folder. - Legacy
TASTE.md, only when the project still maintains it. - Plugin defaults only for unresolved gaps.
Name the sources used in the assessment. Do not treat plugin defaults as the writer's identity.
Diagnose
Check for:
- sentence architecture and cadence;
- diction and register;
- specificity, scenes, examples, and stakes;
- humor, vulnerability, priors, and distinctive asides;
- publication or platform fit;
- smoothing, generic symmetry, scaffolding, and other AI residue;
- phrases copied too closely from illustrative voice-guide examples.
Preserve intentional rule-breaking when it carries the writer's point of view. Treat examples as evidence for voice rules, not a corpus to imitate.
Output
Provide:
- Voice sources used — the live files or supplied instructions.
- Aligned — the strongest specific matches.
- Drift — the few highest-impact mismatches, quoted precisely.
- Closer revision — a usable rewrite that preserves meaning and authorship.
- Judgment call — any tension between writer voice and publication/platform constraints.
Do not turn the result into a generic style checklist. The test is whether this piece sounds like this writer in this context.
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
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