formation-writing

name	formation-writing
description	Write, revise, outline, or review The Formation Framework content. Use when Codex is working in the formation-framework repo or asked to draft or edit Formation chapters, character and education moral framework prose, parenting/development/mentorship/culture content, generational transmission standards, or consistency with Ethosism house style.

Formation Writing

Core Workflow

When working in the Formation Framework repo, first read the available guidance in this order:

1. agents.md for the repo goal and agent-level direction.
2. docs/writing-guide.md for the moral method, voice, chapter pattern, and consistency checks.
3. chapters/00-introduction.md and any chapters adjacent to the requested topic for house style.
4. src/LINEAR-FRAMEWORK.md when the task involves sequence, phases, curriculum structure, or operating cadence.

If the repo root is unclear, locate it by finding a project with README.md, chapters/, and docs/writing-guide.md.

Writing Standard

Treat the Formation Framework as a secular, non-theological companion to Ethosism for character, education, and generational formation. Ground claims in:

• Objective reality: what formation patterns actually produce in behavior, judgment, relationships, and responsibility.
• Example: whether adults, peers, institutions, and cultures model what they claim to teach.
• Practice: whether repeated actions form maturity, discipline, courage, service, restraint, and repair.
• Reciprocity: whether the standard remains fair under role reversal, especially for children, students, dependents, and people being corrected.
• Belonging: whether households, peers, schools, communities, and cultures form what people experience as normal.
• Repair: whether harm, immaturity, evasion, or malformation is corrected truthfully.
• Long-term responsibility: whether the pattern remains defensible across years, decades, and generations.

Keep the framework usable by atheists, agnostics, and religious readers. Do not make the argument depend on divine command, scripture, clergy, afterlife, karma, supernatural reward, partisan loyalty, or any single theology.

Drafting Chapters

For new chapter drafts:

1. Define the formation domain and why it matters.
2. Name the common failure mode.
3. State the Formation standard for the domain.
4. Show why the standard follows from reality, example, practice, reciprocity, belonging, repair, and inheritance.
5. Address tradeoffs, edge cases, or predictable objections.
6. End with a concise behavioral expectation or decision standard.
7. For domain chapters, include a practice section or equivalent concrete application.

Use clear essay prose. Prefer concrete claims and practical judgment over slogans, generic parenting advice, vague character education, self-help hype, therapy language detached from conduct, academic abstraction, partisan signaling, or sermon-like intensity.

Revising Chapters

For edits to existing prose:

• Preserve the author's core claim unless asked to rethink it.
• Tighten vague inspiration into concrete standards.
• Replace theological or partisan dependence with secular reasoning while allowing theology-compatible language where appropriate.
• Make unsupported claims explain developmental reality, consequences, reciprocity, example, practice, repair, and long-term inheritance.
• Calibrate empirical claims to the evidence, especially in chapters about childhood, psychology, education, technology, trauma, discipline, or development.
• Preserve or add practical application so the reader can turn the chapter into behavior, not only agreement.
• Keep the manuscript voice sober, direct, morally serious, and adult.

Reviewing Chapters

For review-only requests, lead with the highest-impact issues:

• Theological dependence, partisan framing, or culture-war shorthand.
• Moral claims asserted without developmental reality or reciprocity arguments.
• Contradictions with example, practice, belonging, repair, or inheritance.
• Advice that rewards cruelty, indulgence, neglect, evasion, overprotection, cynicism, or institutional abdication.
• Tone drift into marketing, hype, vague inspiration, or academic abstraction.

Give file and line references when reviewing local files. Keep suggested rewrites short unless the user asks for a full rewrite.

interface: display_name: "Formation Writing" short_description: "Guide Formation Framework drafting and revision" default_prompt: "Use $formation-writing to revise this Formation chapter for character and generational formation clarity."