Voice Generate

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Drafting content that must match a specific authors style profile extracted by voice-extract

Example prompts

• “Use the voice-generate skill to generate text in a learned writing voice. An agent skill from athola/claude-night-market”
• “/voice-generate”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Load Voice Profile
2. 2Register Selection
3. 3Frame Source Material
4. 4Generation Prompt
5. 5Post-Generation

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Voice Generate loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 40 tokens; SKILL.md has 370 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~40

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 370 words, ~1,363 tokens.

name

voice-generate

description

Generates text in a learned writing voice. Use when drafting content that must match a specific author's style profile extracted by voice-extract.

globs

**/*.{md,txt}

alwaysApply

false

category

writing-quality

tags

voice, generation, style-transfer, writing, registers

complexity

high

model_hint

opus

estimated_tokens

2400

progressive_loading

true

modules

modules/source-framing.md, modules/register-selection.md, modules/generation-pipeline.md

dependencies

scribe:voice-extract, scribe:slop-detector

PROFILE_DIR="$HOME/.claude/voice-profiles/{name}"

if [ -f ".voice/override.md" ]; then
  # Merge project overrides with profile
fi

Below are my rough notes on this topic. I'm still thinking
through these ideas. Use them as the raw material for the
piece, not as a structure to follow:

---
{user_provided_source_material}
---

You are writing a piece in a specific voice. The voice
features below were extracted from the writer's own work.
Follow them as concrete instructions, not suggestions.

## Voice Features

{extraction.md content}

## Active Register: {register_name}

{register content}

## Craft Techniques (apply all)

- Concrete-first: Lead with specific, physical details before
  any abstraction
- Naming: When you describe a pattern in 2+ sentences, compress
  it into a 2-4 word label
- Opening moves: Start mid-thought, with a specific moment, or
  with a counterintuitive claim. Never start with throat-clearing
- Human-moment anchoring: Ground every abstraction in a specific
  scene or lived experience
- Aphoristic destinations: At least one sentence per section
  should be worth repeating out of context

## Banned (never use)

{banned_phrases content, or default list:}
- Em dashes (use commas, colons, semicolons, parentheses)
- ", so" tails on fact after fact (cut the consequence, or give it
  its own sentence)
- "delve", "utilize", "leverage", "facilitate"
- "it's important to note", "in today's world"
- "here's the thing", "let that sink in"
- "furthermore", "moreover", "comprehensive"
- Negation-correction patterns ("This isn't X. This is Y.")

## Source Material

{framed source material from Step 3}

## Task

Write the piece. Follow the voice features precisely. Apply
craft techniques. Do not use any banned phrases. The output
should read as if the writer produced it themselves.

Length: {user_specified or ~same as source material}
Format: {user_specified or prose paragraphs}

© athola, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files in plugins/scribe/skills/voice-generate of athola/claude-night-market.

• SKILL.md
• modules/generation-pipeline.md
• modules/register-selection.md
• modules/source-framing.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00