kalyvask/winning-writing

kalyvask/winning-writing · catalog/SKILL.md · Mode-aware writing critic. Distilled from Rachel Konrad's Stanford GSB "Winning Writing" course (spring 2026), the 10…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/bluf-rewriter/SKILL.md · Reorganizes a memo, email, status update, or report so the bottom line is up front. Implements Kramon's BLUF (Bottom…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/compression/SKILL.md · Cuts a draft to a target word count without losing substance. Two modes behind one skill. target-count hits a specific…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/feedback-rephraser/SKILL.md · Rewrites blunt downward or peer feedback as "what I like plus what I would like," focused on the work rather than the…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/fun-angle/SKILL.md · Finds the unexpected, dry, or self-deprecating angle that makes an email memorable. Turns "professional and polite"…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/headline-as-claim/SKILL.md · Rewrites section titles, slide titles, op-ed headlines, email subject lines, and chapter headings from category labels…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/irrelevant-detail-killer/SKILL.md · Cuts cinematic details that don't serve the main point. The opposite move from vividness. Vividness adds sensory…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/pick-a-lane/SKILL.md · Diagnoses drafts that tell three half-stories instead of one full story, and rewrites them around the single strongest…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/style-tells/SKILL.md · Scrubs the three surface tells that make prose feel AI-generated, padded, or jargon-heavy. Three targets behind one…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/tell-them-something-new/SKILL.md · Cuts opening sentences that recap what the recipient already knows about themselves, their company, or their own work…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/vividness/SKILL.md · Pushes a draft from abstract toward concrete at two scales. Noun-level (replaces "dog" with "German shepherd,"…

kalyvask/winning-writing · side-panel-coach/rules/skills/warmth-and-competence/SKILL.md · Audits a draft on Susan Fiske's two-axis model of social judgment — warmth (do I like and trust this person?) and…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/bluf-rewriter/SKILL.md · Reorganizes a memo, email, status update, or report so the bottom line is up front. Implements Kramon's BLUF (Bottom…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/cold-email-coach/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques cold emails using Rachel Konrad's 10 rules, Heidi Roizen's mailing rules, and Danny Hertzberg's…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/compression/SKILL.md · Cuts a draft to a target word count without losing substance. Two modes behind one skill. target-count hits a specific…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/connection-finder/SKILL.md · Finds specific, genuine "like you" hooks between the writer and a cold-outreach target — the bridges that turn a…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/cross-model-review/SKILL.md · Independent second-model gate for cold emails before send. Must run on a DIFFERENT model than the one that drafted…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/dealing-with-reporters/SKILL.md · Drafts and reviews answers to reporter questions, on-the-record statements, crisis-comms responses, and press-inquiry…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/fact-checker/SKILL.md · Verifies every checkable claim in a draft before it goes out — numbers, names, titles, dates, quotes, company facts…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/feedback-rephraser/SKILL.md · Rewrites blunt downward or peer feedback as "what I like plus what I would like," focused on the work rather than the…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/fun-angle/SKILL.md · Finds the unexpected, dry, or self-deprecating angle that makes an email memorable. Turns "professional and polite"…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/gratitude-note-coach/SKILL.md · Helps draft cinematic, specific gratitude notes — Kramon's favorite assignment. Coaches the user through the writing…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/graveyard-historian/SKILL.md · When pitching an idea, researches the graveyard — companies that tried something similar in the past 5–25 years and…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/headline-as-claim/SKILL.md · Rewrites section titles, slide titles, op-ed headlines, email subject lines, and chapter headings from category labels…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/humanize/SKILL.md · Makes a draft read like a real human typed it — adds asymmetry, light contractions, and (rarely) one safe typo. Use…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/irrelevant-detail-killer/SKILL.md · Cuts cinematic details that don't serve the main point. The opposite move from vividness. Vividness adds sensory…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/op-ed-coach/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques op-eds, opinion pieces, and LinkedIn long-form posts using Glenn Kramon's framework, Katie…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/performance-review-coach/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques performance reviews using Glenn Kramon's seven rules from Stanford GSB's Winning Writing course…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/pick-a-lane/SKILL.md · Diagnoses drafts that tell three half-stories instead of one full story, and rewrites them around the single strongest…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/pitch-coach/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques business pitches, investor decks, mission statements, and personal pitches using the 7-part pitch…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/pitch-memo/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques a text-first investor pitch memo for pre-seed and seed founders, structured around the 15…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/recipient-research/SKILL.md · Builds a research dossier on a cold-outreach target before drafting. Pulls LinkedIn, podcasts, blog posts, news…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/rhythm-killer/SKILL.md · Fixes two sentence-rhythm tells that mark prose as AI-generated. Two targets behind one skill, picked via the --target…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/sent-mail-outcome-tracker/SKILL.md · Read the user's recent cold-outreach sent mail, look up which messages got replies, classify reply sentiment, and…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/speech-coach/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques speeches, talks, keynotes, lightning talks, demo-day pitches, all-hands updates, conference…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/style-tells/SKILL.md · Scrubs the three surface tells that make prose feel AI-generated, padded, or jargon-heavy. Three targets behind one…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/tell-them-something-new/SKILL.md · Cuts opening sentences that recap what the recipient already knows about themselves, their company, or their own work…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/vividness/SKILL.md · Pushes a draft from abstract toward concrete at two scales. Noun-level (replaces "dog" with "German shepherd,"…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/voice-update/SKILL.md · Update `context/voice-and-style.md` or `context/about-me.md` from one of three sources. Manual (user dictates a single…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/warm-intro-finder/SKILL.md · Finds the human bridges between the writer and a target — mutual contacts, alumni networks, ex-colleagues, podcast…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/warmth-and-competence/SKILL.md · Audits a draft on Susan Fiske's two-axis model of social judgment — warmth (do I like and trust this person?) and…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/winning-writing-critic/SKILL.md · Grades any draft against the full Winning Writing rubric (Kramon + Konrad + Kingsbury) and rewrites it. The…

kalyvask/winning-writing · skills/yourself-story/SKILL.md · Drafts and critiques bios, LinkedIn About sections, intro slides, "tell me about yourself" interview answers, and…