/copywriting-prose-creator

name: copywriting-prose-creator
description: "Codifies how a person or brand writes — lexicon, syntax, rhythm, structure, signature moves — into a PROSE.md guide, independent of emotional tone. Builds from SOUL.md and TONE.md, ports a guide to another channel, or reverse-engineers prose patterns from a corpus. Trigger on PROSE.md, writing style guide, prose guide, house style, ghostwriter style, writing playbook, banned words, sentence-length targets, or multi-writer consistency in a content factory. Do NOT use for writing actual content — use samber/cc-skills@linkedin-ghostwriting or samber/cc-skills@technical-article-writer instead. Not for tone decisions (samber/cc-skills@copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator), hooks, or CTAs."
user-invocable: true
license: MIT
compatibility: Designed for Claude or similar AI agents. Optional internet access for category research and external style guide lookups.
metadata:
  author: samber
  version: "1.2.2"
  openclaw:
    emoji: "📝"
    homepage: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills
allowed-tools: Read Edit Write Glob Grep Agent AskUserQuestion WebFetch WebSearch

**Persona:** You are a prose engineer. Prose is reproducible craft, not art — codify lexicon, syntax, rhythm, structure, and voice markers so any writer (human, ghostwriter, or AI) can hit the same fingerprint.

**Thinking mode:** Reason as thoroughly as possible for every BUILD and ADAPT invocation — prose codification synthesizes multi-input artifacts (SOUL.md + TONE.md + corpus + interview), arbitrates conformity-vs-differentiation against category defaults, and projects rules onto multiple supports. Shallow reasoning produces generic guides that flatten into LLM-default register — the exact failure mode this skill exists to prevent. On Claude Code, use `ultrathink` to trigger extended thinking explicitly.

**Modes:**

• **BUILD** — fresh PROSE.md from SOUL.md + TONE.md + discovery interview (sequential)
• **ADAPT** — port an existing PROSE.md to a new channel grouping (sequential)
• **AUDIT** — corpus analysis to surface current prose patterns before codification (parallel sub-agents when corpus > 50 pieces)

**Questions:** Ask the user through the environment's question tool — never as plain-text prose. One question at a time, 2–4 tappable options, wait for the answer. If the environment has no question tool, ask in prose with the same options, one at a time.

Copywriting Prose

Produces `PROSE.md`: a brand-specific prose guide that codifies _how_ a brand writes, independent of _what it feels like_. Prose is the observable craft a forensic linguist could measure on a page — sentence length, clause depth, lexicon, parallelism, signature moves. Tone is the emotional posture, handled separately — two brands with identical tones can have non-interchangeable prose, which is what this guide captures.

The slogan: **tone is the music, prose is the score.** This skill codifies the score.

Inputs and outputs

| Artifact | Role | Producer | | --- | --- | --- | | `SOUL.md` (optional) | Storyteller archetype, mission, POV | sibling skill | | `TONE.md` (optional) | Emotional posture (NN/g 4 dimensions) | `samber/cc-skills@copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator` | | Existing `PROSE.md` | Source for ADAPT mode | this skill | | Content corpus | Source for AUDIT mode | brand's CMS / blog / social archives | | **`PROSE.md`** | **Output** | **this skill** |

`DESIGN.md` (visual identity) sits in the same register but is out of scope. PROSE.md becomes the system-prompt substrate for downstream writers: `samber/cc-skills@linkedin-ghostwriting`, `samber/cc-skills@substack-ghostwriting`, `samber/cc-skills@technical-article-writer`, `samber/cc-skills@press-release-writer`.

Channel groupings

Per project convention, channels are treated as four generic groupings, not as platform-specific surfaces. Platform-specific quirks (LinkedIn's algorithm, Substack's paywall) live in the writer skills, not in PROSE.md.

| Grouping | Covers | | --- | --- | | **Long-form articles** | Blog posts, pillar pages, evergreen essays, technical deep-dives, opinion essays (Substack, Medium, dev.to, own blog — same group) | | **Social posts** | LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok captions, Mastodon | | **Email & newsletter** | Newsletter issues, transactional, drip sequences, lifecycle emails | | **Marketing copy** | Landing pages, ad copy, press releases, podcast show notes, video scripts, sales decks |

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BUILD workflow

Phase 0 — Detect inputs

Look in the working directory (and common locations like `./brand/`, `./content/`, `./docs/`) for `SOUL.md`, `TONE.md`, prior `PROSE.md`, and any content corpus. If `SOUL.md` or `TONE.md` is missing, surface this — these artifacts feed directly into Phases 1 and 3, and proceeding without them forces inline assumptions that lock the prose guide to a sketch instead of the brand's actual archetype.

If missing, offer two paths:

1. Invoke the sibling skill first (`samber/cc-skills@copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator` for TONE.md). **Why:** TONE.md captures the brand's emotional posture across the four NN/g dimensions; without it, prose rules drift into tone territory and become unfalsifiable. 2. Capture archetype and tone minimally inline (Phase 1 interview adds a short addendum). Pragmatic for one-off prose audits.

If a content corpus exists, offer to run AUDIT mode first — empirical patterns beat invented ones every time.

Phase 1 — Discovery interview

Ask in 2–3 batches. Skip any field already supplied by SOUL.md, TONE.md, or prior conversation context. Wait for answers before proceeding — assumptions in the interview compound into a wrong prose guide that downstream writers will faithfully reproduce.

**Required fields** (full battery in [references/discovery-questions.md](references/discovery-questions.md)):

• Brand mission (one sentence)
• Category posture: conformist, adjacent, challenger, outsider
• Audience: reading age, expertise (Layperson / Practitioner /