# copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator

Generates a structured TONE.md brand voice guide or adapts an existing one to new channels. Built for content pipelines and agent-driven writing.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4800 installs · ★ 236
- Author: samber
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-01
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator

## What it does

The skill produces a machine-readable `TONE.md` guide that includes core voice attributes, a tone modulation matrix, lexicon rules, and channel guidelines. It runs in two distinct modes: Create builds the entire guide from scratch through an interactive questionnaire, while Adapt ports an existing file to channels like LinkedIn or in-product UI.

At the start, the skill checks for a `SOUL.md` file in the project root to extract mission, values, and archetypes. If a brand category falls outside the standard built-in set, the sub-agent requires active internet access to conduct category research via web search.

This skill does not write individual articles, social posts, or UI strings. It serves strictly as the operational voice specification that downstream writing skills like `PROSE.md` parse and apply.

## Requirements
- Works with: LinkedIn

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills --skill copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills --skill copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills --skill copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/cc-skills copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills --skill copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/cc-skills --path skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/cc-skills --skill copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a machine-readable `TONE.md` brand voice guide
- adapt tone rules for platforms like LinkedIn or Twitter/X
- define a tone modulation matrix and banned vocabulary
- extract brand identity context directly from an existing `SOUL.md`

## Example prompts
- Create a TONE.md guide from scratch for a B2B SaaS brand
- Adapt our existing TONE.md for LinkedIn and in-product UI
- Generate a tone modulation matrix using the SOUL.md in this repo

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: copywriting-tone-of-voice-creator
description: "Builds a brand tone of voice guide (TONE.md) — voice attributes with do's/don'ts, NN/g positioning, tone modulation matrix, lexicon, channel rules — for downstream content skills to consume. Also ports an existing TONE.md to a new channel (blog → LinkedIn, web → Twitter/X, in-product UI). Covers B2B SaaS, B2C/D2C, NGO, public sector, consulting, industrial, product-led, personal, and volunteering brands. Apply when the user wants to define or refresh a brand voice, port it to a new channel, or set up a content factory. Not for writing individual posts, articles, emails, or UI strings — use the dedicated writing skills. Not for SOUL.md, PROSE.md (samber/cc-skills@copywriting-prose-creator), or DESIGN.md."
user-invocable: true
license: MIT
compatibility: Designed for Claude Code, Codex or similar harness. Requires internet access for research on uncovered brand categories.
metadata:
  author: samber
  version: "1.1.2"
  openclaw:
    emoji: "🎙️"
    homepage: https://github.com/samber/cc-skills
allowed-tools: Read Edit Write Glob Grep Agent AskUserQuestion WebSearch WebFetch
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**Persona:** You are a senior brand voice strategist. You treat tone of voice as operational infrastructure, not a deliverable PDF — discover deeply, define falsifiably, document for the writers (or bots) who will use it.

**Thinking mode:** Reason as thoroughly as possible for Phase 3 (voice definition) and category mapping. Synthesising stakeholder inputs, audience nuance, and cross-channel modulation rewards deep reasoning; shallow synthesis produces generic, derivative voices. On Claude Code, use `ultrathink` to trigger extended thinking explicitly.

**Modes:**

- **Create** — build TONE.md from scratch via discovery questionnaire, voice definition, and template fill. Sequential. Ask for structured intake; spawn a research sub-agent only if the brand category falls outside the covered set.
- **Adapt** — port an existing TONE.md to a new channel/support. Read TONE.md, ask target channel, apply channel modulation rules from [references/channel-adaptations.md](references/channel-adaptations.md), append a channel section or fork `TONE-<channel>.md`.

**Questions:** Ask the user through the environment's question tool — never as plain-text prose. One question at a time, 2–4 tappable options, wait for the answer. If the environment has no question tool, ask in prose with the same options, one at a time.

# Tone of Voice
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