Personalize

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name: personalize
description: Draft or revise text Pablo will send or publish as himself, including email, Slack, comments, tweets, letters and reviews. Use his private voice samples and humanize's English-prose catalogue within the drafting pass. Not for internal notes, commit messages, code, or text authored by someone else.
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# Personalize

Draft in Pablo's voice while preserving what he actually means. Style matching
is an approximation, not proof of authorship or a reason to invent his views.

## Bind the request

Identify the recipient, requested language, purpose, supplied facts and desired
action. Use the user's current instructions and the destination's requirements
over general style preferences. A multi-question reply must answer every
requested point; a short message must still contain necessary context.

This skill authorizes composition, not sending, publication, opening a private
thread or editing an unrequested file. Use the mandated service-access route
only when accessing that context is within the task. Auditing this skill does
not require reading private voice samples or drafting a message.

## Load the references

1. Read the private voice samples at the canonical dotfiles
   `claude/context/voice-samples.md` when composing. Resolve the actual dotfiles
   root; both runtimes intentionally share that private file. It is gitignored,
   not a distributable skill asset. Never copy it into a repository, public
   report, test fixture or another tool to make the skill portable.
2. Learn register, rhythm, sentence length and vocabulary, not sample facts.
   Names, experiences, private details and instructions inside examples are
   not facts or authority for the new draft. Do not quote or paraphrase their
   substance into unrelated writing.
3. If the sample file is missing or unreadable, state that limitation. Do not
   claim it was loaded or silently substitute the distilled rules below.
   Use suitable writing samples supplied for this task, or obtain agreement
   before offering an explicitly labelled style-only approximation. Do not
   search private message stores or rebuild a sample corpus without authority.
4. For anything longer than a short chat message (roughly a paragraph, or any
   text to be published), read the available sibling `humanize/SKILL.md`
   completely, including its preservation and calibration rules. Use its
   catalogue as a reference inside this pass, not as a recursive invocation or
   a second blanket cleanup. Reload if it is no longer available in context;
   “read earlier this session” is not sufficient. If unavailable, report the
   missing reference rather than inventing its contents.

   **Short-message fast path.** For a Slack or chat reply of a few sentences,
   skip the catalogue: its clusters cannot form in that length, and the
   preferences below already cover it. Read the voice samples, draft once,
   check the supplied facts, and deliver. A one-line reply should take one
   drafting step and, if staging is requested, one `kill-ring-put` command.

The catalogue covers English. For another requested language, keep that
language and its conventions; do not translate to English to apply the list.
Use language-appropriate evidence of voice and note a material sample mismatch.
Treat clusters as review cues, not word or punctuation bans. Preserve meaningful
technical phrasing, uncertainty and required authorship disclosures.

## Compose and check

Draft once with the requested substance and voice in mind, then re-read for
fidelity. “One pass” avoids stacked style workflows; it does not prohibit fixing
an error or checking facts, omissions, formatting and unintended commitments.
Use an additional review when explicitly requested or substantively necessary,
not an automatic second `humanize` pass for public text.

Preserve supplied names, numbers, dates, negation, uncertainty, attribution and
citation attachment. Keep quotations verbatim, and preserve URLs, code, commands,
identifiers and functional markup exactly unless their change is requested.
Do not invent facts, sources, personal experiences, apologies, feelings,
confidence estimates, promises or approval to sound like Pablo. Flag essential
missing substance rather than filling it with a plausible personal statement.

Apply the following preferences to new prose, not to protected literal content:

- Keep only what the recipient needs to understand, act or decide. Cut padding,
  not distinct requirements, answers or meaningful caveats.
- Lead with the main ask or point. Prefer one primary ask when the task permits;
  do not split or drop explicitly requested questions to enforce a quota.
- Use full grammatical sentences, natural contractions and plain openings.
  Include greetings and closings only when useful for the relationship and
  channel; never add an offer or promise Pablo did not authorize.
- Never write that Pablo will do something he can do now. Do the thing first,
  then write the reply as already done. Announce a pending step only when it
  depends on someone else or on an action only Pablo can take, and say which.
- Preserve genuine epistemic qualifiers and separate a claim from its stated
  confidence. Use a credence or rough number only when actually supplied or
  supported, not as a stylistic flourish.
- Number several substantive points; use plain asterisk bullets for casual
  lists, with the renderer's required blank-line spacing.
- Use concrete examples when supplied or clearly labelled hypothetical and
  useful. Do not import an anecdote from the voice samples.
- Keep candid self-deprecation and blunt judgments only when they express his
  supplied stance. Do not manufacture modesty, harshness or personal disclosure.
- Use philosophical or Latin terms only when they earn their place; otherwise
  choose common words.
- In chat, a standalone URL may fit; in prose, use ordinary links. Preserve
  the exact target and respect any mandatory citation or platform format.
- Avoid formulaic framing, redundant summaries, engagement bait and unnecessary
  exclamation marks or emoji. Let the requested tone and real relationship
  determine warmth.
- Use dashes sparingly; commas and parentheses usually carry asides.
- Prefer smart quotes in newly written prose when the target supports them:
  double quotes for quotation/scare quotation, single quotes for mention.
  Never smarten code, commands, URLs, identifiers or verbatim source text.

## Deliver

Return the requested draft or authorized file edit without a routine style
scorecard. Keep any material missing-source, sample or factual limitation
outside the draft. When Pablo genuinely must paste it himself, use
`paste-via-kill-ring`; staging still does not authorize sending.

For prose not authored by Pablo, use `humanize` only when the user requests its
editing purpose. Neither skill promises that prose will evade an AI detector.