commands/cw-commands.md

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name: cw-commands
description: List Compound Writing workflows by the outcome they support.
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# Compound Writing Workflows

## Orchestration

- `cw-scribe` — Route an open-ended request to the smallest useful workflow.
- `cw-emergent` — Compose a custom workflow when no single tool fits.

## Writing Home And Context

- `cw-setup-project` — Manually create a portable writing home with `VOICE.md`, `STYLE.md`, `examples/`, and `drafts/`.
- `cw-onboarding` — Begin or refresh voice, style, and optional audience context.
- `cw-save` — Capture a confirmed preference, lesson, or workflow improvement.

## Develop The Idea

- `cw-brainstorm` — Surface promising raw material.
- `cw-interview` — Draw out the thinking, stakes, and material behind an idea.
- `cw-thesis` — Generate possible central claims.
- `cw-promise` — Clarify what the reader should anticipate or receive.
- `cw-outline` — Organize material into a workable structure.
- `cw-hook` — Generate opening options.
- `cw-transition` — Bridge sections or ideas.
- `cw-analogy` — Explain a difficult concept concretely.
- `cw-simplify` — Rewrite complex material in plainer language.

## Draft And Revise

- `cw-draft` — Turn available material into a complete draft.
- `cw-bluf` — Find the most important idea and judge whether it appears where it belongs.
- `cw-dev-edit` — Fix argument, structure, stakes, evidence, and payoff.
- `cw-line-edit` — Revise sentences without flattening voice.
- `cw-voice-check` — Diagnose voice drift and offer a closer revision.
- `cw-ai-check` — Remove common machine-generated writing patterns.
- `cw-tracks` — Remove scaffolding and process residue.
- `cw-final-pass` — Make a publication-readiness judgment.

## Pressure-Test And Add A Lens

- `cw-objections` — Surface reader resistance and counterarguments.
- `cw-panel` — Synthesize several reviewer perspectives.
- `cw-debate` — Let reviewers challenge one another across rounds.
- `cw-nemesis` — Attack weak claims from the least charitable position.
- `cw-hemingway` — Demand economy.
- `cw-hitchcock` — Review suspense and tension.
- `cw-reader` — Trace the first-time reading experience and flag confusion, missing setup, and off-putting friction.
- `cw-mom` — Test general-reader clarity.
- `cw-sedaris` — Find specificity, humor, and self-implication.
- `cw-sorkin` — Review pacing and momentum.
- `cw-vonnegut` — Apply story fundamentals.

The full toolbox is available immediately. Describe the outcome and let `cw-scribe` route it. On first use, Scribe can establish one writing home without requiring the user to learn this catalog; name a tool directly only when you know what you want.