speak-as

Write a public post in the owner's own voice with a role model's style and idea palette layered on top, reading a style-palette file so the same engine works for any thinker the owner has profiled. Dr

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/speak-as <role model> โ€” a post in the owner's voice through the chosen thinker's optics

๐Ÿง’ When reporting to a non-technical owner: end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap (only in the reply TO him, NEVER inside the post draft).

A thin writing engine, parameterized by the role model: it takes the style palette of the chosen thinker + the owner's voice + his real material on the topic and writes ONE post as a mix โ€” "frame/optics from the role model, voice/confessional tone/concreteness from the owner". One engine for any role model (one person today, anyone tomorrow). A manual command "write a post in the style of X about Y" (โ‰  the daily [[content-factory]], โ‰  the /portret dossier).

[!warning] SAFETY FUSE (read this first)

  • โญ The owner's authorial voice is written by the top-tier model or stronger (a cheap model is forbidden for authorial text โ€” a carve-out of model-routing-sonnet-grunt). Session weaker than that โ†’ delegate the WRITING itself to a top-model subagent (Agent, model:'opus'); the groundwork (resolving the role model, recall, choosing the platform) can run on the cheap model.
  • INFLUENCE, NOT copying. The role model's words = origin: external. Don't paste his phrases verbatim, don't pass his thoughts off as ours without rethinking them. The post stays the owner's post (origin: anton).
  • Preserve the owner โ€” don't dissolve into the role model (his = the frame/optics, the owner's = the material and the voice).
  • Privacy from [[fb-diary-voice]] applies (names/amounts/sensitive material/live leads and deals must not be burned; abstract them up to an insight).
  • Draft-first โ€” I hand over the draft, the owner posts it himself (publishing outbound = Tier-2).

Step 0 โ€” Resolve the role model โ†’ the palette (cheap, no LLM)

  1. The role model's name โ†’ a latin slug (as in 07-People\person-<slug>.md).
  2. Look for the palette: $OBSIDIAN_VAULT/08-Templates/style-<slug>-influence.md.
    • Exists โ†’ load it (techniques + idea palette + "how to preserve the owner"). Carry on.
    • Missing โ†’ a STOP fork for the owner: "There is no style palette for <X> yet. Build one? โ†’ run /portret <X> (dossier + social media + DR), then I'll synthesise style-<slug>-influence.md and write in his style." Do not invent a style out of thin air.
  3. Always load the owner's voice: [[fb-diary-voice]] โ€” โš ๏ธ this is a MEMORY file on the system drive (~\.claude\projects\...\memory\fb-diary-voice.md), NOT a vault note; searching for it in the vault is pointless (the two-drives pitfall).

Step 1 โ€” RECALL on the topic (the material MUST be the owner's, not generalities)

/ask "<topic>" (RAG) ยท /search "<words>" (exact words) ยท a fresh day from the [[content-factory]] inbox if it is a diary post. The groundwork can run on a cheap subagent; the text itself โ€” top model.

Step 2 โ€” Platform and length

Facebook diary ~3000โ€“4500 chars (confessional, interwoven threads) ยท X โ€” short (a hook formula + 1 thought) ยท Telegram content โ€” medium. Not specified โ†’ default to the Facebook diary and say so.

Step 3 โ€” Write the mix (top model)

From the role model (out of his palette file): the frame, the optics, the signature techniques, the idea boundaries. From the owner: the concrete detail of the day, hard self-irony, vivid images, confessional tone, 1โ€“2 genuine questions at the end, honesty. Contested topics โ€” handled with epistemic neutrality ([[epistemic-neutrality]]).

Step 4 โ€” Self-check before handing it over (quality gate)

  • Does it sound like the owner, not like a cosplay of the role model? (role model outweighs him โ†’ rewrite in the owner's voice)
  • Is there a hook + a frame (formula/triad/theses) + 1โ€“2 genuine questions?
  • Zero verbatim phrases from the role model; ideas rethought, not copied?
  • Privacy respected (no third-party names/amounts/live deals/sensitive material)?
  • Length fits the platform? No long dashes ([[no-long-dashes]]). Below the owner's bar โ†’ rewrite; don't hand over a weak draft.

Delivery

A clean post block (ready to copy) + one line: role model ยท platform ยท length ยท which technique was used. The owner posts/edits it himself. Optionally โ€” 2โ€“3 hook headline variants.

How to ADD a new role model (full cycle)

  1. /portret <Name> โ†’ the dossier person-<slug> + (synthesis) an insight-* note on "how he thinks".
  2. Synthesise the palette 08-Templates\style-<slug>-influence.md following the reference palette (style techniques + idea palette + "how to preserve the owner" + the influence-not-copy fuse). Back up before writing ([[vault-backup-rule]]).
  3. Done โ€” /speak-as <Name> about <topic> works immediately (the same engine reads the new file).

Gates and links

  • Top model for the writing; groundwork on the cheap model. Draft-first; publication = Tier-2 (the owner himself).
  • The reference palette ยท the core-ideas insight note ยท the voice [[fb-diary-voice]] ยท the pipeline [[content-factory]] ยท the person dossier.
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