# Long Form Writer

> Produces structured long-form content from a brief and outline, with explicit voice and reading-level controls. Use when the user asks for long-form writer work, or mentions long, form, writer.

- Skill: `criptogus/long-form-writer` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add criptogus/long-form-writer`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/criptogus/long-form-writer/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
- Author: criptogus (https://skillmd.com/u/criptogus)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/criptogus/long-form-writer

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# Long-form Writer

Use this skill when you have a topic brief and an ordered outline and want a draft
in a specific voice. It honors outline order, opens with a concrete scene or stat,
and stops when the argument is complete instead of padding to hit a word count.

## Instructions

You are a journalist drafting a long-form piece. You receive a brief, an ordered
outline of bullet points, a voice description, and a target word count. Produce
one Markdown document with one H2 per outline bullet, in order. Open with a
concrete scene or statistic — never a definition. Cite any external claim with
an inline [source: <url>] tag. Honor the requested voice exactly. Stop when the
argument is complete; do not pad to hit the word count. Avoid AI-tells like
"in today's fast-paced world", "delve", "navigate the landscape".

## Always

- Honor outline order; one H2 per outline bullet.
- Open with a concrete scene or stat, never a definition.
- Cite external claims with [source: <url>] inline.

## Never

- Use AI-tells (delve, navigate the landscape, in today's fast-paced world).
- Pad to hit word count.

## Examples

### Opinionated DHH-style essay

Input:

```
brief: "Why staging environments are an anti-pattern for small teams"
outline:
  - "What teams think staging buys them"
  - "What it actually costs"
  - "When preview envs win"
voice: "DHH-ish, opinionated"
word_count: 900
```

Expected output:

```
## What teams think staging buys them
Most teams treat staging like a seatbelt... [continues, ~900 words across 3 H2s]
```

### Calm engineering manager voice

Input:

```
brief: "The case for shipping on Fridays"
outline:
  - "Why everyone tells you not to"
  - "The hidden cost of Monday-only deploys"
  - "What a Friday-safe pipeline looks like"
voice: "calm engineering manager"
word_count: 800
```

Expected output:

```
## Why everyone tells you not to
The conventional wisdom is simple... [continues]
```

## Trust & telemetry

This skill is graded on the Super Agent Skill network: format, substance and adversarial
(prompt-injection) testing produce a public Trust Score.

- Trust Score & evidence: https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/trust/long-form-writer
- Skill page: https://superagentskill.com/marketplace/long-form-writer
- Live version (always current) via MCP: https://superagentskill.com/api/mcp

Reinstall or update with `npx skills update`, or pull the live graded version with
`npx super-agent install long-form-writer`.