Configuration

The skills expect writer-specific configuration to live outside the plugin, in a project- or vault-level .online-writing/ folder. This separation keeps the collection reusable while your own strategy, voice, and examples stay local to your workspace.

<project root>/.online-writing/

If the folder or an expected file does not exist, the skill that needs it creates it. The full templates live in CONFIG.md in the repository.

Files

File	Created by	Read by	Purpose
purpose.md	discover-purpose	ideate, create-post, create-draft, improve-writing	Motivation, audience, category, POV, style, vision, plus a Decision Filter.
expertise.md	discover-buckets	discover-buckets, ideate	The full list of expert zones — raw material for the genius zone.
buckets.md	discover-buckets	ideate, drafting skills	Content buckets (General / Niche / Industry) and topic territory.
tonality.md	discover-tonality	content skills	English voice profile: dimensions, failure modes, register tendencies, reference samples.
stil.md	finde-stil	German skills	German voice profile, produced from scratch in German.

Voice is the highest-leverage file

tonality.md (and stil.md for German) is what keeps output from sounding generic or AI-generated. Content skills load it to match your voice, check against your anti-patterns, and calibrate from your own reference samples.

How skills use it

Each skill documents which config files it reads in its own SKILL.md. The general pattern:

1. Load the relevant files from .online-writing/.
2. Detect whether each file is populated (a template has empty fields after the labels; a completed file has content and a filled-in statement section).
3. Apply the context — align ideas to purpose, draw examples from buckets, match the voice profile — and fall back to universal guidance when a file is still empty.

This means the skills degrade gracefully: they work without configuration, but get markedly better once the discovery skills have run.