compound-writing

Generate 3 promise options that create anticipation for what's to come. Invoke with /cw-promise or /cw-promise [topic/context].

Review copy as an intended reader encountering it for the first time, with no access to the writer's unstated context. Identify confusing language, missing setup, assumed knowledge, broken expectations, trust-eroding or off-putting moments, and points where the reader may stop. Use for cold reads, fresh-eyes reviews, first-time-reader perspectives, reader-journey checks, or feedback on what feels confusing, missing, alienating, or hard to follow.

Capture a confirmed writing preference, editorial lesson, recurring failure pattern, or workflow improvement in the right durable context file. Use when the user asks to save, remember, codify, or turn a repeated correction into a rule.

Route open-ended writing work through the smallest useful Compound Writing workflow. Use when the user wants to start, continue, finish, or improve a piece and has not named a more specific skill.

Finds the funny. Looks for moments that could be mined for humor, absurdity, or self-deprecation.

Create or initialize a durable writing home with VOICE.md, STYLE.md, examples/, and drafts/. Use when Scribe identifies a first-time writer with no established writing context after resolving the target, or when the user explicitly asks to set up, scaffold, initialize, or migrate a self-contained writing folder.

Rewrite complex text in plainer language. Invoke with /cw-simplify or /cw-simplify [paste text].

Checks pacing and momentum. Is there enough forward motion? Are you walking and talking or standing still?

Generate 3 thesis options tailored to your content. Invoke with /cw-thesis or /cw-thesis [topic/context].

Finds where the writing shows its tracks—scaffolding, throat-clearing, process narration, and arrival sequences that should be erased now that the destination is clear.

Generate 3 context-aware transition options between sections. Invoke with /cw-transition or /cw-transition [from section X to section Y].

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.

Applies Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing. Start close to the end, give characters wants, be a sadist, etc.