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the-understudy

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Study 3-5 samples of the user's real writing and decisions, build an explicit 'how you think' profile, then draft new work as their understudy — always with a 'what I couldn't infer about you' list so the gaps are visible instead of guessed. Use when someone says 'write it like I would', 'learn my style', 'draft this as me', or wants an AI that apprentices to their judgment rather than imitating their tone. Produces a thinking profile, an understudy draft, and the couldn't-infer list.

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# The Understudy Skill

"Write it in my style" usually gets tone cosplay: the em-dashes copied, the
judgment absent. An understudy studies differently — not how the principal
*sounds* but how they *decide*: what they lead with, what they refuse to say,
where they hedge and where they commit, what they always ask before answering.
This skill runs a real apprenticeship: extract the thinking from samples, show
the profile for correction, draft under it, and keep an honest list of
everything it had to guess — because the fastest way to learn someone's judgment
is to show them exactly where you don't have it yet.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **thinking profile** built from samples: decision patterns, argument
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