craft-author-voice

**User request**: $ARGUMENTS

# Author Voice Skill

Create a maximally information-dense AUTHOR_VOICE.md document through iterative refinement. The resulting document enables any LLM to write content that authentically matches your voice.

## Overview

This skill supports both **creating a new voice doc** and **refining an existing one**. Users often come back multiple times to adjust their doc as their voice evolves or as they notice issues in generated content.

This skill guides you through:
0. **Check Existing** - Look for existing AUTHOR_VOICE.md; let user choose to refine or start fresh
1. **Discovery** - Clarifying questions about your voice characteristics and goals
2. **Initial Draft** - Generate first AUTHOR_VOICE.md based on your inputs (good enough to start!)
3. **Refinement Cycles** - Generate sample texts, collect your ratings/feedback, update the doc ⬅️ **THE REAL MAGIC**
4. **Completion** - Final honed document ready for AI content generation

**Returning users** can skip straight to Phase 3 to run more feedback cycles on their existing doc.

### Where the Value Comes From

The discovery questions give you a solid starting point - but **the real magic happens in Phase 3**. That's where you:
- See actual generated samples in your "voice"
- Judge them ("this doesn't sound like me")
- Give specific feedback ("too formal", "wrong words")
- Watch the voice doc evolve until it truly captures YOU

Each feedback cycle sharpens the doc. Most users need 3-5 cycles to get from "this is okay" to "this is actually me."

## Workflow

### Phase 0: Check for Existing Document

Before starting discovery, check if the user already has an AUTHOR_VOICE.md:

1. **Search for existing doc**: Use Glob to search for `**/AUTHOR_VOICE.md` in the current directory and common locations
2. **If found**: Read it and ask the user what they want to do

```
header: "Existing Voice Doc Found"
question: "I found an existing AUTHOR_VOICE.md. What would you like to do?"
options:
  - "Ref