style-detector_skill

Overview

This skill detects a user's desired writing style from keywords and automatically loads the matching style guide. It streamlines style selection for fiction projects and lets you apply, preview, or combine styles with minimal friction. It is designed for conversations about novel tone, genre voice, and creative direction.

How this skill works

The detector watches user input for trigger words (e.g., "colloquial", "literary", "ancient-style", "minimal") and maps them to a predefined style profile. Once a style is detected, it offers to show the guide, apply the style to the project, or suggest alternatives, then loads the relevant rules into the writing context and inserts a configuration tag into your specification. If multiple styles appear, it evaluates compatibility and proposes mixed or resolving strategies.

When to use it

• Discussing the desired voice or tone for a story or scene
• Choosing a writing direction during planning or revision
• Converting sample text to a target style
• Combining or reconciling multiple stylistic requests
• Enforcing a style consistently across /write or export operations

Best practices

• Mention concrete trigger words or short descriptors (e.g., "colloquial", "minimal", "ancient") to get precise detection
• Confirm before applying a style so you can preview the guideline first
• Use the compatibility suggestions when you list multiple stylistic goals
• Keep your story specification updated after accepting a style so automated tools follow it
• Iterate: apply a style, review generated text, then refine style ratios or switches

Example use cases

• You tell the assistant "make this dialogue colloquial" and it loads the natural-voice guide and reapplies tone across the scene
• You plan a historical epic and say "I want literary depth"—the skill loads the literary profile and offers phrasing and imagery rules
• You request a fast-paced web-novel tone and the tool configures aggressive pacing and conflict triggers
• You combine "ancient-style" with "minimal"; the detector suggests a restrained classical diction with sparse sentences and provides a blend ratio
• During drafting you switch from "natural-voice" to "literary" mid-project; the skill updates the specification and re-runs style alignment