Add Harry writing style skill

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+# Preserve Draft
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+Default to conservative editing.
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+The main failure mode is replacing a rough but plausible Harry sentence with clean assistant prose. Do not do that.
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+Rules:
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+- Keep the original opening unless it is unclear or wrong.
+- Keep sentence fragments if they work.
+- Keep blunt words if they carry the judgement.
+- Keep contractions.
+- Keep mild irritation.
+- Keep the user's order of ideas unless the order is actively confusing.
+- Do not add a setup sentence.
+- Do not add a conclusion sentence.
+- Do not convert a terse instruction into a polished paragraph.
+- If only one sentence is bad, edit only that sentence.
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+Minimum viable rewrite:
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+- Fix grammar only where it gets in the way.
+- Remove repetition.
+- Clarify the concrete ask.
+- Preserve rhythm over polish.
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+Bad edit:
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+> Original: this approach is probably wrong, you're hiding the hard bit in the queue and calling it done
+>
+> Bad: There may be some architectural concerns with the current approach, particularly around how queueing responsibilities are being handled.
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+Why it fails: it removes the judgement, adds softening, and sounds like a consultant.
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+Good edit:
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+> This approach is probably wrong. You're hiding the hard bit in the queue and calling it done.
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+Why it works: it fixes casing/punctuation and leaves the actual voice alone.
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+Bad edit:
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+> Original: fix the weird duplicate cards thing, it makes the page look broken
+>
+> Bad: It would be good to address the duplicate card rendering issue, as it currently has a negative impact on the perceived quality of the page.
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+Good edit:
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+> Fix the duplicate cards thing. It makes the page look broken.
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+Bad edit:
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+> Original: Let claude rip in the background on a PR in draft for Catwalk that cuts test run time from ~8m to ~2m cos it was bugging me.
+>
+> Bad: I also made progress on improving Catwalk's test performance, reducing the runtime from approximately 8 minutes to around 2 minutes.
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+Good edit:
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+> Let Claude rip in the background on a draft Catwalk PR that cuts test run time from ~8m to ~2m cos it was bugging me.