skills/thumbgate-brand-voice/SKILL.md
--- name: ThumbGate Brand Voice description: Make any ThumbGate-facing copy — landing/pricing/compare/guide pages, README, postinstall banners, CLI receipts, Reddit/LinkedIn/Bluesky/Threads posts, docs, outreach drafts, blog/launch content — sound like ThumbGate: direct, technical, honest, anti-hype. Use BEFORE writing or editing customer-facing or marketing text, and when the user says "write a landing page", "draft a Reddit/LinkedIn post", "write the README", "make this on-brand", "punch up th
npx skillsauth add igorganapolsky/rlhf-feedback-loop skills/thumbgate-brand-voiceInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Orchestrator skill for producing on-brand ThumbGate copy. Method adapted from the "Claude brand skill" approach (contrast-based learning: show the model a good line, a line that goes too far, and a line that dies of beige).
Use this whenever you are about to write or edit copy a human will read as ThumbGate: landing/pricing/compare/guide pages, README, postinstall banners, CLI receipts, social posts (Reddit, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads), outreach drafts, or blog/launch content. Do not use it for code comments, commit messages, or internal notes.
brand-foundation.md — who ThumbGate is, the
5 personality traits, and the explicit "what we aren't" list.voice-and-tone.md — per-trait good / too-far /
too-flat rewrites. Match the "good" column; never the other two.content-formats.md — which traits amplify or
recede per channel, with on/off-brand examples per channel.voice_profile.md — for specific pacing, tone, and vocabulary guidelines.body_of_work.md — to anchor the core technical thesis and foundational opinions of ThumbGate.tokens.json — for color palettes, typography, and styling constraints when generating assets.Never overclaim. ThumbGate is pre-revenue and honesty is the brand. No fabricated traction ("trusted by N teams"), no benchmark claims without a cited source, no "live" integration we don't ship. Honest-and-specific beats impressive-and-vague every time.
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List the active ThumbGate prevention rules, reliability rules, and the promoted lessons behind them, so the user can see which guardrails are currently protecting this project and WHY each one exists. Reads the live rule and lesson stores via the prevention_rules, get_reliability_rules, and search_lessons MCP tools (CLI fallback `npx thumbgate rules`). Use when the user says "what is ThumbGate protecting me from", "show my rules", "show my gates", "what has the agent learned", "list active guardrails", or "what's blocked here". Do NOT use to CREATE a new rule (use the thumbgate-guard skill), to see runtime enforcement counts of what actually fired (use the thumbgate-blocked skill), or to diagnose whether ThumbGate is wired up at all (use the thumbgate-doctor skill).
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Inspect this repo's branch and release governance (protected branches, release rules, protected-file globs) and, only when the user explicitly approves, grant a scoped, time-limited exception so a protected-file edit or publish can proceed under audit. Reads posture via the get_branch_governance MCP tool and records a narrow, expiring approval via the approve_protected_action MCP tool. Use when the user says "is main protected", "show branch governance", "what am I blocked from editing", "approve this protected change", or "let me edit a protected file just this once". Do NOT use to disable protection wholesale, to grant broad or standing exceptions, or to diagnose hook wiring (use the thumbgate-doctor skill) — this skill is for narrow, temporary, audited approvals only.
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Turn the agent's most recent mistake into an enforced ThumbGate prevention rule (a PreToolUse block gate) so the same bad tool call is intercepted before it runs again, in this and every future session across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Amp, and Cline. Captures the failure with the capture_feedback MCP tool, then force-promotes it via `npx thumbgate force-gate` so it is enforced, not just logged. Use when the user says "guard against this", "block this from happening again", "never do that again", "make that a rule", "stop the agent from repeating that", or right after a bad action or thumbs-down that should become a hard rule. Do NOT use to merely log a thumbs-up/down without enforcement (use the thumbgate-feedback skill), to recall prior context before starting work (use the Agent Memory skill), or to list rules that already exist (use the thumbgate-rules skill).
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Health-check whether ThumbGate is actually wired into this agent — PreToolUse/SessionStart hooks installed, MCP server reachable, lesson store present, statusline, and overall agent-readiness — then report exactly what to fix. Runs the existing `npx thumbgate doctor` audit and the check_operational_integrity MCP tool. Use when the user says "is ThumbGate wired up", "thumbgate doctor", "check my guardrails are installed", "why aren't my gates firing", "is the MCP server connected", or "agent readiness". Do NOT use to view rules (use the thumbgate-rules skill), to view what was blocked (use the thumbgate-blocked skill), or to capture a new rule (use the thumbgate-guard skill) — this skill only diagnoses setup and wiring.