Write and edit to your taste
Compound Writing provides a full toolbox for developing ideas, drafting, revising, pressure-testing, and preparing work for publication. Scribe acts as the context-aware front door: it helps a first-time writer establish one portable writing home when needed, or starts directly from an existing draft or workspace. More
Skills 33 in the ChatGPT listing
Cw ai check Scan or clean prose for AI-generated residue, including unsupported connective tissue, epistemic inflation, over-completed arguments, performed voice, formulaic structure, empty figurative language, stock phrasing, corporate abstraction, hedging, and false enthusiasm. Cw analogy Generate analogy options to explain a concept. BLUF Diagnose whether the most important idea in an article, essay, post, memo, section, paragraph, or sentence appears where it best serves the reader. Cw brainstorm Help users surface raw material for a piece when they don't have a specific idea yet. Cw debate Run a multi-round deliberation between reviewers. Cw dev edit Review a draft for big-picture issues in argument, structure, stakes, evidence, and payoff. Cw draft Turn an outline, notes, source material, or partial prose into a complete draft while preserving the writer's voice, thesis ownership, and source provenance. Cw emergent Compose existing Compound Writing skills and runtime capabilities for open-ended writing outcomes that no single skill covers, such as cross-draft analysis, source-to-outline comparison, or multi-pass revision. Cw final pass Run a publication-readiness check on a nearly complete piece and deliver a clear ready, almost-ready, or needs-work verdict. Cw hemingway Cuts ruthlessly. Cw hitchcock Reviews for suspense and tension. Cw hook Generate 3 hook options tailored to your content. Cw interview Draw out and organize the writer's own thinking without supplying meaning, stakes, or an argument for them. Cw line edit Revise prose at the sentence and word level while preserving voice, meaning, source accuracy, and useful weirdness. Cw mom Reads your writing from a loving, supportive, but not-quite-getting-it perspective. Cw nemesis Reads your writing through the meanest, least-charitable lens. Cw objections Surfaces counterarguments, objections, and "yeah buts" a reader might have to your argument. Cw onboarding Begin or refresh the separate VOICE.md, STYLE.md, and optional AUDIENCE.md guides in a writer's durable writing home from a short conversation, existing writing, or maintained context. Cw outline Organize interview material into a detailed structure using the 10%/30% framework. Cw panel Convene a panel of reviewers to analyze a draft from multiple perspectives, then synthesize their feedback into consensus findings, productive tensions, and prioritized recommendations. Cw promise Generate 3 promise options that create anticipation for what's to come. Cw reader Review copy as an intended reader encountering it for the first time, with no access to the writer's unstated context. Cw save Capture a confirmed writing preference, editorial lesson, recurring failure pattern, or workflow improvement in the right durable context file. Cw scribe Route open-ended writing work through the smallest useful Compound Writing workflow. Cw sedaris Finds the funny. Set Up Writing Home Create or initialize a durable writing home with VOICE.md, STYLE.md, examples/, and drafts/. Cw simplify Rewrite complex text in plainer language. Cw sorkin Checks pacing and momentum. Cw thesis Generate 3 thesis options tailored to your content. Cw tracks Finds where the writing shows its tracks—scaffolding, throat-clearing, process narration, and arrival sequences that should be erased now that the destination is clear. Cw transition Generate 3 context-aware transition options between sections. Cw voice check Diagnose whether writing matches the active writer, project, publication, and platform voice context, then offer a closer revision. Cw vonnegut Applies Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing.