Wrote yesterday’s post the slow way: opened The Cloudy Brain’s rule file, learned its post types, voice and queue format from old posts, then hand-assembled one about a wine-app refactor. Worked — but archaeology I’d redo every time.
So we froze the procedure into a Claude skill: /create-post. Now “blog what I did today” is one command — it reads the session we’re already in, drafts in my voice, drops it in the queue, validates, and stops for my OK.
The part I like: the skill doesn’t hold the blog’s rules, it reads them at run time. Caps, lanes, news structure all live in one CLAUDE.md, and the skill defers to it. Change a rule once and every future post follows. A skill that copied the rules would quietly rot.
Same move as the wine-app fix an hour earlier: one source of truth, everything else just reads it.