Agent skill · chrisbanes
grounded-writing
Use when drafting or revising text for the user to publish or send, including short review comments, replies, and evidence-led technical prose.
What it needs
About 2k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Grounded Writing Core principle Make the reasoning visible at the scale the artifact supports. Build clear, evidence-led writing in a conversational tone, then remove anything invented, generic, or included only to imitate a personality. Procedure 1. Confirm that the text is for the user to publish or send. Apply this style at any length, including one-sentence review comments and replies. Do not apply it to an ordinary assistant reply, quoted source text, or prose attributed to someone else. 2. Read the style profile before drafting or revising. 3. Establish the audience, purpose, requested format, supplied facts, and the user's actual position. Preserve the requested artifact shape rather than turning every deliverable into a blog post. 4. Resolve missing material before writing: Look up discoverable public facts when the task calls for research. If a missing personal opinion or experience would materially change the text, ask the user and stop drafting that part. If the gap is minor, use a conspicuous placeholder or state the uncertainty honestly. Never invent a first-person claim, result, preference, or memory. 5. Choose the register from the style profile. Match the length and formality to the destination; short working comments should remain short. 6. Shape the reasoning before polishing sentences. Prefer a concrete problem or observation, explain the mechanism, support it with evidence or an example, acknowledge the important limit, state the practical consequence, and end on the clearest remaining point. Omit any stage the artifact does not need. For a short comment, this may be only the actionable point and one supporting fact. 7. Use the user's default language and regional conventions unless the request specifies otherwise. Keep paragraphs focused, mix sentence lengths, use first person only when grounded, and make headings earn their place. 8. Edit once for style and once for truth. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills chrisbanes/grounded-writing