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Run npx skillmds@latest add theonize/author in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

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theonize (@theonize) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Author by theonize — Agent Skill

Name: Author
Author: theonize

File contents

Author Skill

Pi port: This project-local Pi skill is based on .claude/skills/author/SKILL.md, but runs from .pi/skills/author/SKILL.md. When using it in Pi, read this .pi file and do not edit or depend on the .claude skill.

Research and determine the context of a Biblical passage by answering the following questions:

What is the genre (and sub-genres) of the passage? What rules of interpretation do those genres call for?
What is the literary structure of the immediate and surrounding?
What is the voice, mood and style of the passage?
What rhetorical devices are used in the text?
What literary devices are used in the text?
What are the characters and images in use? and their purpose in the passage?
What numerology is in play here?
What colors, items, et cetera have significance?
What overt symbols are present and what is their significance?
What word counts are of interest — words or ideas repeated a specific number of times?
What numerical word values are important in the original language?
What micro-patterns are established in the text?

Scope boundary: this skill owns literary patterning within the passage and its book (structure, repetition counts, chiasm). Canon-scale patterns (type-scenes, covenant echoes, Genesis-to-Revelation threads) belong to the disciple skill — note a handoff rather than developing them here.

Output Format

Produce content under the heading ## Literary Analysis.

Organize answers as ### subsections:

1. Genre and Sub-Genres

Primary genre classification, any sub-genre elements, and the rules of interpretation those genres call for.

2. Literary Structure

Immediate and surrounding structure. Use ASCII diagrams for chiastic and parallel structures:

A  - element
  B  - element
    C  - pivot
  B' - element
A' - element

3. Voice, Mood, and Style

Narrative voice, emotional tone, stylistic characteristics.

4. Rhetorical Devices

Identified devices with examples from the text.

5. Literary Devices

Identified devices with examples from the text.

6. Characters and Images

Who/what appears, their role and purpose in the passage.

7. Numerology and Symbolic Elements

Number significance, word counts, repeated patterns, numerical word values, and micro-patterns within the passage and book (canon-scale patterns are the disciple skill's territory).

8. Colors, Items, and Significance

Symbolic objects, colors, and their biblical precedent. Use catalog tables: | Symbol | Meaning | Biblical Precedent |

Formatting

ASCII structural diagrams with indentation
Chiastic notation: A/B/C/B'/A'
Symbol catalog tables
Hebrew/Greek terms: term (Hebrew: script, transliteration)
Cross-references for pattern identification

---name: authordescription: Analyze literary features of Bible passages. Use when examining genre, literary structure, chiasm, voice, mood, style, rhetorical devices, imagery, characterization, or narrative techniques in Scripture.---# Author Skill> **Pi port:** This project-local Pi skill is based on `.claude/skills/author/SKILL.md`, but runs from `.pi/skills/author/SKILL.md`. When using it in Pi, read this `.pi` file and do not edit or depend on the `.claude` skill.Research and determine the context of a Biblical passage by answering the following questions:* What is the genre (and sub-genres) of the passage? What rules of interpretation do those genres call for?* What is the literary structure of the immediate and surrounding?* What is the voice, mood and style of the passage?* What rhetorical devices are used in the text?* What literary devices are used in the text?* What are the characters and images in use? and their purpose in the passage?* What numerology is in play here?* What colors, items, et cetera have significance?* What overt symbols are present and what is their significance?* What word counts are of interest — words or ideas repeated a specific number of times?* What numerical word values are important in the original language?* What micro-patterns are established in the text?Scope boundary: this skill owns literary patterning **within the passage and its book** (structure, repetition counts, chiasm). Canon-scale patterns (type-scenes, covenant echoes, Genesis-to-Revelation threads) belong to the disciple skill — note a handoff rather than developing them here.## Output FormatProduce content under the heading `## Literary Analysis`.Organize answers as `### ` subsections:### 1. Genre and Sub-GenresPrimary genre classification, any sub-genre elements, and the rules of interpretation those genres call for.### 2. Literary StructureImmediate and surrounding structure. Use ASCII diagrams for chiastic and parallel structures:```A - element B - element C - pivot B' - elementA' - element```### 3. Voice, Mood, and StyleNarrative voice, emotional tone, stylistic characteristics.### 4. Rhetorical DevicesIdentified devices with examples from the text.### 5. Literary DevicesIdentified devices with examples from the text.### 6. Characters and ImagesWho/what appears, their role and purpose in the passage.### 7. Numerology and Symbolic ElementsNumber significance, word counts, repeated patterns, numerical word values, and micro-patterns within the passage and book (canon-scale patterns are the disciple skill's territory).### 8. Colors, Items, and SignificanceSymbolic objects, colors, and their biblical precedent. Use catalog tables:| Symbol | Meaning | Biblical Precedent |### Formatting- ASCII structural diagrams with indentation- Chiastic notation: A/B/C/B'/A'- Symbol catalog tables- Hebrew/Greek terms: **term** (Hebrew: script, *transliteration*)- Cross-references for pattern identification

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