writing

Plugin writing from marketplace scratchpad-skills in scratchpad-sh/skills. Commands read from the repo's manifest — 6 days ago.

Skills (20)

• blog-post

  Writes a blog post from notes, with a specific opening promise, scannable sections, real examples, a useful ending, and title and meta description options. Use when someone wants to "write a blog post", "turn these notes into a post", "write an article for my site", or has an idea, outline, or rough

• developmental-edit

  Gives big-picture feedback on a draft as a prioritized edit letter about its point, structure, gaps, cuts, and where readers get lost, without line edits. Use when someone asks for "feedback on my draft", "a structural edit", "what's not working", "is this any good", or has a full draft of an essay,

• dialogue-polish

  Revises dialogue so it sounds like real people, with distinct voices, subtext, dead and on-the-nose lines cut, better tags and beats, and a read-aloud test. Use when someone says their dialogue "sounds stiff", "everyone sounds the same", "it's too on the nose", or wants a conversation in a story, no

• email-drafter

  Drafts emails that get answered, with the ask in the first two lines, context after, one clear next step, and a tone that fits the relationship. Use when someone says "write an email to", "help me reply to this", "draft a follow-up", "how do I say this politely", or needs to ask for something, decli

• essay-structure

  Structures an argumentative or expository essay around an arguable thesis, claim-led paragraphs, a fair counterargument, and a conclusion that adds something. Use when someone has an essay assignment or a research paper to plan, says "help me structure my essay", "write a thesis", or has a draft who

• fiction-scene

  Drafts or revises a fiction scene around a goal, a conflict, and a turn, with sensory detail, emotion shown through action, and a steady point of view. Use when someone is writing a story or novel and asks to "write this scene", "fix this scene", "it feels flat", or has a scene card, outline beat, o

• headlines-and-titles

  Writes title and headline options in plain, curious, benefit, and number styles, explains the trade-offs, and never promises what the piece does not deliver. Use when someone asks for "a title", "headline ideas", "a better subject line", "what should I call this", or has a draft or talk that needs a

• how-to-guide

  Writes step-by-step instructions people can follow, with what you need first, one action per step, expected results, warnings up front, and troubleshooting. Use when someone asks to "write instructions", "a how-to", "a step-by-step guide", or "document this process", wants an SOP or standard operati

• newsletter-issue

  Writes a newsletter issue from the week's notes and links, with one main story, a few short items, a sign-off, and subject line options. Use when someone says "write this week's newsletter", "draft my newsletter", "turn these links into an issue", or keeps a running note of things to share with subs

• notes-to-draft

  Turns a pile of notes (fragments, quotes, and half-thoughts) into a first draft with a clear point, a deliberate order, and connecting sentences. Use when someone says "turn my notes into a draft", "write this up", "I have all my notes but can't start", or pastes scattered notes and wants prose, wit

• outline-first

  Builds and tests an outline before any drafting, with a one-sentence point, a named reader, sections written as claims, and the evidence under each. Use when someone wants to "outline this first", "plan an article", "structure a report or talk", or keeps writing drafts that wander and wants the skel

• personal-essay

  Helps write a personal essay from real memories by finding the subject under the story, balancing scene and reflection, and finding an ending that lands. Use when someone wants to "write about something that happened to me", is drafting a personal essay, memoir piece, or college application essay, o

• persuasive-argument

  Builds a persuasive piece from the audience's current belief to a clear claim, with the writer's best evidence, a fair counterargument, and a specific ask. Use when someone needs to "convince", "make the case for", "pitch", or "write a proposal", or is drafting an op-ed, a request to a manager, a le

• plain-language

  Rewrites text in plain language, answering the reader's question first, with short sentences, common words, and jargon defined or cut, keeping every fact. Use when someone asks to "make this plain English", "simplify this", "make it easier to read", wants a lower reading level or grade level, or has

• proofread

  Proofreads a finished text for typos, grammar, punctuation, consistency, and formatting, fixing only errors, listing every fix, and flagging style questions. Use when someone asks to "proofread", "check my grammar", "spell check", "check for typos", "catch mistakes", "give it a final read", or is ab

• remove-ai-tells

  Edits text so it reads like a person wrote it, removing stock phrases, reflexive threes, false contrasts, signposting, bland hedges, and generic endings. Use when someone says a draft "sounds like AI", "sounds like ChatGPT", or "sounds robotic or generic", asks to "humanize this", wants it "more hum

• summary-writer

  Summarizes any text at a requested length for a named reader, keeping the conclusions, numbers, and caveats, and noting what was left out. It is a summary to read or send, rather than notes to keep. Use when someone asks to "summarize this", "give me the gist", "TL;DR", "write an executive summary",

• tighten-prose

  Cuts wordiness from a draft without losing meaning or voice, aiming at a stated cut (20 percent by default) and reporting what went. Use when someone says "tighten this", "make it shorter", "cut this down", "it's too wordy", or has a word limit to hit.

• tone-rewrite

  Rewrites a short message, post, reply, or bio in a requested tone or more clearly, keeping every fact and the writer's intent, and notes what changed. Use when someone says "make this more professional", "less harsh", "friendlier", "say this nicer", "firmer", "sound more confident", "more casual", o

• voice-match

  Learns a person's writing voice from samples, writes a short voice profile they can save and reuse, then writes or rewrites text in that voice. Use when someone says "write this like me", "match my style", "make it sound like me", "capture my voice", or shares past writing and wants new text that so

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