voicelisted

# voice Style matching usually fails the same way. It copies the surface (sentence length, punctuation habits, a favourite word) and misses the thing that actually makes writing sound like a person, which is **what they never say**. A useful voice profile is mostly negative space. Not "uses short sentences" but "never opens with a compliment", "never says 'excited to'", "will not claim a tool they have only opened once". Those rules come from corrections, not from reading samples, which is why this skill is built to grow rather than to be written once. ## The mechanism, stated plainly A skill cannot remember anything on its own. This one persists by reading and writing a file: ``` ~/.claude/voice/<person>.md # default, applies everywhere .claude/voice/<person>.md # project-local, wins if both exist ``` Everything below is operations on that file. There is no magic; if the file is not updated, nothing was learned. ## Mode 1, build the profile Triggered by "learn how I write", or automatically when asked to write in a voice with no profile on disk. **Only use samples the person actually wrote themselves.** This is the rule that decides whether the profile is any good. Text they approved, edited, or accepted from an assistant is contaminated with the assistant's voice, and a profile built from it will drift further from them every cycle. Ask for raw samples: sent emails, Slack messages, commit messages, notes to themselves. Messy is better than polis