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Knowledge base from "Contagious: Why Things Catch On" by Jonah Berger. Use when applying Berger's STEPPS framework for word of mouth, virality, social currency, triggers, emotion, social proof, practical value, and storytelling, studying the book, or referencing its concepts.

Comprehensive blog writing skill that handles technical blog posts, personal voice writing, brain dump transformation, and category-aware AEO-optimized content. Use when: (1) writing, editing, or proofreading a blog article or post, (2) transforming unstructured brain dumps into polished posts, (3) writing in specific personal voices (Jarad, Nick Nisi), (4) creating category-aware technology/company/product posts, (5) building tutorials, deep dives, postmortems, benchmarks, or architecture posts, (6) writing engineering blogs, dev blogs, programming blogs, coding tutorials, or documentation posts. Triggers: blog post, blog writing, technical blog, dev tutorial, brain dump, article, content writing, developer article, engineering blog, programming blog, coding tutorial, documentation post, technical writing, blog editing, proofreading, developer content

Run throwaway prototypes to validate feasibility, compare approaches, and report a verdict.

Validate skill outputs against assertion manifests to detect regressions, enforce quality gates, and bootstrap starter manifests from historical runs.

Correct grammar errors, typos, and improve academic readability in LaTeX, Markdown, or plain-text manuscripts. Scans the document once, then walks through every issue one-by-one asking for approval before applying each fix. Trigger when the user says "readability", "check grammar", "fix typos", "proofread for grammar", "improve readability", "polish wording", "语言润色", "修语法", or asks you to clean up the prose in a paper/chapter/section without wanting full content restructuring.

Takes a proofread or apsa-style report file (or any markdown file using **Original:** / **Recommended:** syntax) and rewrites the original source file with git merge conflict markers so the user can accept or reject each suggested edit using VS Code or Positron's built-in merge conflict UI. Branch names are "original" and "claude-edits". Use when asked to apply edits, insert conflict markers, or set up merge resolution for a copy-edit report. Supports an optional @sec-label argument to restrict markers to one section.

APSA style checker for Quarto (.qmd) files. Checks numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, italics, in-text citations, titles of works, neutral and unbiased language, and APSA-specific terminology against the APSA Style Manual for Political Science (2018, updated 2023). Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to check APSA style, fix citations, review capitalization, check number formatting, or flag biased language in a .qmd document. For grammar, spelling, and punctuation, use the proofread skill instead. Supports an optional output-file argument and an optional @sec-label argument to restrict checking to one section.

Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's *On Writing Well* (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs, hollow qualifiers, clichés, inflated academic voice, poor leads and endings, pronoun and tense inconsistency, and unclear explanation. Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to improve prose quality, tighten writing, reduce clutter, or apply Zinsser's writing principles to a draft. For grammar and punctuation, use the proofread skill. For APSA style rules, use the apsa-style skill. Supports an optional output-file argument and an optional @sec-label argument to restrict checking to one section.