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discover-tonality

A discovery interview that captures your English writing voice. This is the highest-leverage part of the Discovery foundation — it keeps every draft sounding like you.

When to use it

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When your output sounds generic, AI-generated, or misaligned with your natural voice — or when the register mismatches the piece type (a case study reading as an opinion piece, a descriptive build log drilling a thesis, instructional content meandering into essay, a curated list turning into an argument). Also whenever you want to define, revisit, or sharpen your tonality.

When not to use it

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How it works

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It weaves preference questions, comparisons, and rewrite prompts to extract your values across six voice dimensions — Commitment, Reasoning Style, Reader Relationship, Emotional Register, Density, and the agent-specific failure modes to resist — then runs a register check by piece type and synthesizes a profile you confirm. It loads purpose.md and buckets.md so examples come from your real domain.

Produces

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tonality.md — a voice summary, dimension profiles, agent-specific failure modes, register tendencies, format rules, and 8–10 reference samples from your own rewrites. Every content skill loads it to match your voice and check output against your anti-patterns.

Example

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Run discover-tonality — build my voice profile from examples so drafts sound like me.
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