writing-shape

writing-shape is a Chinese-language (translated) writing skill from the mattpocock-skills-zh-cn collection (in-progress path) that shapes raw material into a finished article, advancing paragraph by paragraph. It uses the explore/exploit framing from ideation: exploration is already done and the raw-material "pile" is fixed, so this skill is the exploit phase—commit to a structure and mine the pile to fill it. The word "exploit" here refers to that explore/exploit tradeoff, not to any security exploit. It is marked disable-model-invocation, so it is invoked deliberately.

The loop is: read the entire input pile first; establish prerequisites—what the reader knows on entry versus what must be grounded inside the article, treating each concept as something that must be grounded before a later block can depend on it; draft 2-3 candidate openings that each imply a different thesis and let the user choose or hybridize; then grow the article one block at a time, asking what the reader needs next and pulling material from the pile to answer, deciding deliberately whether each block should be prose, list, table, callout, quote, or code. It appends each agreed block to the article file immediately (re-reading from disk first, never blindly overwriting), pushes back on weak transitions, and names gaps when the pile lacks needed material. The raw-material file is treated as strictly read-only, and publishing/platform formatting is out of scope.

It targets writers turning notes, transcripts, or fragment piles into a coherent article with a single voice, who want a disciplined, grounding-aware, conversational drafting process rather than a one-shot generation.