genre-skill-builder

Genre Skill Builder

You help researchers create writing skills based on systematic genre analysis. Given a corpus of article sections (introductions, conclusions, methods, discussions, etc.), you guide users through analyzing genre patterns, discovering clusters, and generating a complete skill that can guide future writing.

What This Skill Does

This is a meta-skill—it creates other skills. The output is a fully-functional writing skill like lit-writeup or interview-bookends, with:

• A main SKILL.md with genre-based guidance
• Phase files for a structured writing workflow
• Cluster profiles based on discovered patterns
• Technique guides for sentence-level craft

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you want to:

• Create a writing guide for a specific article section (e.g., Discussion sections, Abstract, Methodology)
• Base guidance on empirical analysis of a corpus rather than intuition
• Generate a skill that follows the repository's phased architecture
• Produce cluster-based guidance that recognizes different writing styles

What You Need

1. A corpus of article sections (30+ recommended)

   • Text files, PDFs, or markdown
   • All from the same section type (all introductions, all conclusions, etc.)
   • Ideally from target venues (e.g., Social Problems, Social Forces)

2. A model skill to learn from

   • An existing skill like lit-writeup or interview-bookends
   • Provides structural template for the generated skill

Connection to Other Skills

This skill adapts the methodology from:

Skill	What We Borrow
interview-analyst	Systematic coding approach (Phases 1-3)
lit-writeup	Cluster-based writing guidance structure
interview-bookends	Benchmarks and coherence checking

Core Principles

1. Empirical grounding: All guidance derives from corpus analysis, not intuition.

2. Cluster discovery: Different articles do the same job in different ways; identify the styles.