Writing Beats
Skill ActiveShape an article as a journey of beats, choose-your-own-adventure style. The user picks a starting beat from the raw material, you write only that beat, then offer options for where to pivot next, beat by beat, until the article reaches a natural end. Use when the user has raw material and wants to assemble it as a narrative rather than an argument.
To help users assemble raw material into a narrative article using a choose-your-own-adventure style, beat by beat.
Features
- Shapes articles as a narrative journey of beats.
- User picks a starting beat from raw material.
- Writes only one beat at a time.
- Offers options for next pivots.
- Continues until article reaches a natural end.
Use Cases
- Assembling raw notes into a story.
- Developing a narrative structure for an argument.
- Collaboratively writing articles with an AI assistant.
- Exploring different narrative paths for a piece of content.
Non-Goals
- Argumentative or expository article writing.
- Generating content without user-provided raw material.
- Producing the entire article in one go without user guidance.
Workflow
- User provides raw material.
- User selects a starting beat.
- Agent writes the chosen beat to the article file.
- Agent offers 2-3 candidate next beats based on the current article.
- User selects the next beat.
- Agent writes the selected beat and repeats until the article is complete.
Trust
- warning:Issues AttentionThere are 27 open issues and 117 closed issues in the last 90 days, resulting in a closure rate below 50% and a high number of open issues.
Practical Utility
- info:Usage examplesThe README and SKILL.md describe the process but lack concrete, copy-pasteable examples demonstrating input, invocation, and output for the beat-writing process.
- info:Edge casesThe skill documents the happy path of writing beats and ending the journey, but does not explicitly detail failure modes (e.g., malformed input, user edits) or recovery steps.
Installation
npx skills add mattpocock/skillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
Quality Score
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