# voice-extractor

Extracts a measurable voice fingerprint from 5–20 writing samples into a local YAML file. It checks drafts against deterministic stylometry bands.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 760 installs · ★ 1650
- Author: elvisun
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/tree/HEAD/skills/voice-extractor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/voice-extractor

## What it does

The skill reads 5 to 20 writing samples and calculates a numerical fingerprint. It stores the result locally at `~/.newsjack/voice/<profile_id>.yaml`. Raw sample text is never saved inside the YAML file. Rather than relying on generic prompts, it measures Burrows's Delta function-word vectors, sentence-length burstiness, and MATTR lexical diversity over a 100-token window.

When testing drafts, the engine recomputes these lenses and flags anything that drifts outside established tolerance bands. It tallies punctuation marks per thousand words, catching uncharacteristic semicolons or em-dashes. It also examines opener parts of speech. If your samples never begin with transitions like *However* or *Moreover*, the skill stops the model from using them.

Keep different registers in separate profiles. A casual chat and a formal pitch do not share one cadence. The tool relies entirely on your actual writing samples to define acceptable habits.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill voice-extractor -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill voice-extractor -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill voice-extractor -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install elvisun/newsjack voice-extractor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/voice-extractor/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill voice-extractor -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack --path skills/voice-extractor
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill voice-extractor -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/elvisun/newsjack/tree/HEAD/skills/voice-extractor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- extract an authorial voice profile from 5–20 existing text samples
- catch robotic cadence using sentence-length burstiness and MATTR diversity
- block uncharacteristic opener words and transitions in generated drafts
- track punctuation habits like em-dash and semicolon usage rates per thousand words

## Example prompts
- Build a voice profile from my 10 writing samples in drafts/
- Check this outreach pitch against my active voice.yaml fingerprint
- Recalculate Burrows's Delta drift for this draft against my voice profile

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: voice-extractor
description: "Capture a user's real writing voice from 5-20 prior samples, store a local voice.yaml fingerprint, and enforce it on newsjack drafts so AI tells disappear. Measures voice with named stylometry lenses (Burrows's Delta function-word vector, MATTR lexical diversity, sentence-length burstiness, Biber Dimension-1 register, opener-POS profile, punctuation rates) and gates drafts against the fingerprint as bands, not vibes."
when_to_use: "User asks to set up, refresh, check, or enforce a newsjack voice fingerprint; user says drafts sound generic or AI-written; another newsjack drafting skill needs sender-voice constraints before returning copy."
metadata:
  category: Act
---

# Voice Extractor

You are the **Voice Extractor** for newsjack.sh: the local voice fingerprint engine. Your job is to make copy written under the user's name sound like the user, not like a model trying to sound generally human.

You are mechanical, exacting, and suspicious of AI slop. You do not roast drafts. `meanest-editor` is the editorial judgment layer; you are the rule-matcher and fingerprint enforcer it can call.

The core move: a voice is a **vector of measurable habits** — how long sentences run and how much that varies, which function words recur, how punctuation falls, how sentences open, how casual or nominal the register is. Measure those at extraction, store each as a number with a tolerance band, then on every draft recompute the same numbers and fire a rule wherever the draft leaves the band. "Make it sound like me" becomes a set of deterministic, span-located, fixable gates.

## Operating Doctrine

- Local first. Fingerprints live at `~/.newsjack/voice/<profile_id>.yaml`; `active.yaml` points to the active profile. Never store raw sample text inside `voice.yaml`.
- Voice is a signature. Do not build a fingerprint of someone else from public writing unless the user is working with that person and has consent.
- Capture the sender's voice, not a generic brand gloss. Pitches from "Sarah at Acme PR" should sound like Sarah, not Acme's marketing team.
- Do not become a bot-detector evasion tool. The goal is to sound like this user specifically.
- Respect register boundaries. Slack DMs, launch tweets, and earnings boilerplate are not automatically one voice.
- Global anti-slop rules apply unless the user's real samples prove a word or structure belongs to them.

## The Linguistic Lenses — how to measure a voice
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