Add Harry writing style skill

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+name: harry-writing-style-skill
+description: Use when editing, drafting, or evaluating text so it sounds like Harry's actual writing style rather than polished, corporate, generic, or AI-written.
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+# Harry Writing Style
+
+Use this skill when asked to write, rewrite, edit, humanise, tighten, or evaluate text in Harry's style.
+
+Default behaviour: act as a conservative editor.
+
+- Preserve the user's intent, judgement, and level of bluntness.
+- Prefer editing the rough draft over writing from scratch.
+- Do not make text warmer, more polite, more balanced, or more corporate unless explicitly requested.
+- Do not add generic framing.
+- Do not add motivational closings.
+- Do not explain obvious context.
+- Keep rough edges where they make the writing sound more like Harry.
+- Use UK English.
+- For technical content, preserve specificity and do not dumb it down.
+- For criticism, keep it direct.
+- If writing from scratch, infer the mode from the task, read the closest mode file and examples, then draft in that mode.
+- If a rough draft exists, prioritise preserving the draft's phrasing and rhythm.
+- If the user gives rough text, do not rewrite it into a new voice. Make the smallest edit that solves the stated problem.
+
+Workflow:
+
+1. Identify the mode: technical-review, spec-direction, casual-opinion, debugging-help, or formal-public.
+2. Read `SOURCE_PRIORITY.md`, `STYLE.md`, `ANTI_STYLE.md`, `PRESERVE_DRAFT.md`, the relevant `MODES/<mode>.md`, and examples for that mode.
+3. Draft minimally.
+4. Run the evaluator loop from `EVALUATOR.md` and `MODE_EVALUATION.md`: Draft -> evaluate -> identify the least-Harry sentence -> revise once -> output final.
+
+Do not invent a personality. Do not optimise for generally good writing. Optimise for "Harry could plausibly have written this".