The skills¶
The agent skills that write in this voice live in their own repository, so they can be installed into any tool that reads SKILL.md files without carrying the book, the glossary, and the product exports with them.
| Skill | Use it for |
|---|---|
fontlab-neutral |
Release notes, what's new, announcements, introductions, About pages. The primary voice skill. |
fontlab-marketing |
Landing pages, product pages, store copy, campaigns, taglines. |
fontlab-technical |
Manuals, procedures, reference pages, help articles, tooltips, API documentation. |
fontlab-write |
New content that joins emotional appeal to precise technical explanation. |
fontlab-rewrite |
Existing mixed text: identify each passage's job, edit in the matching style, and smooth the transitions. |
fontlab-tldr |
Literary TLDRs at about 20% of the source length, preserving perspective, structure, key identities, and distinctive phrases. |
fontlab-simplify |
Plain-language, controlled-English or easy-to-read rewrites that keep every fact, condition and hedge. See plain writing. |
fontlab-terminology |
Product names, term checking, and the nouns that mean different things in different apps. |
fontlab-localization |
Writing English that survives translation, and maintaining the term tables. |
fontlab-partners |
Content for partners.fontlab.com, where the traps are structural rather than stylistic. |
Each skill installs on its own, carries every rule it enforces, and reads no file outside its own directory. Each also ends with a checklist of the failures it is most likely to cause. House rule H17 tells the agent to run it after every portion of the work, one item at a time, repairing what fails for at most three rounds. For agents explains why. Use the house voice to interpret their register rules. The accompanying measurement tool supplies diagnostics for editorial review.
Balanced combines existing registers according to each passage's purpose; it has no separately measured corpus or fixed percentage. Neutral retains its established factual voice. The corresponding copyable prompts are Neutral text, Write balanced text, and Edit balanced text.
The TLDR prompt combines neutral-writing discipline with source-voice preservation and three private condensation rounds. /fontlab-tldr returns only the final transformed text.
Prompts¶
Where a tool cannot install skills, the same rules travel as copyable prompts, published with the skills. Each prompt's long variant is generated from its skill, so the two cannot drift apart.
How the two repositories divide¶
This repository is the reference: the guide, the book, the glossary, the translation tables, and the product documentation they are drawn from. It is where a rule is decided and where the evidence lives.
The skills repository is the executable form of those decisions, kept small enough to install anywhere.
When a rule changes, it changes here first, in the guide, and then in the shared house-rules block of the skills repository. The skills carry their own copy of the rules on purpose: an installed skill has no access to this repository.
Overriding them¶
The house rules yield to three things, in this order: a direct instruction from you, a voice sample or brand style you supply, and the override rule, which is to break any rule sooner than write something worse.
What no instruction overrides is the fact rules. A skill may not invent a specific, inflate a claim past its source, or manufacture proof, whatever it is asked.