| name | disguise-self |
| description | Disguise Self changes how something is said, never what is said. The input content is already correct — only the delivery surface needs adjustment. If the user wants to change facts, add new information, transform code implementations, or produce multiple versions at once, this is NOT this spell. |
| user-invocable | true |
Disguise Self
Adapt voice, tone, or presentation for a specific audience without changing the underlying substance.
Overview
Disguise Self is interpreted here as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now execution model.
Canonical source: Disguise Self (spell)
Provider target: OpenClaw
When To Use
- Trigger this spell when the user asks to rewrite, adapt, repackage, or convert existing content for a different audience, tone, format, or medium while keeping all facts, meaning, and requirements intact.
Workflow
- Lock the substance. Read the source content and extract all facts, requirements, decisions, and constraints. These are immutable.
- Profile the target. Identify the audience's reading level, expectations, preferred structure, and what jargon they know or don't know.
- Apply the disguise. Rewrite using the target's vocabulary, sentence length, formality, and structure. Map every original point to a corresponding point in the output — nothing drops, nothing invents.
- Report the changes. Return the adapted content plus a short note: what presentation choices were made and which facts were deliberately preserved unchanged.
Deliverables
- The content re-presented for the target audience or medium.
- A brief note on the presentation changes made.
- Confirmation that no factual content or critical nuance was altered.
Guardrails
- Never alter facts, omit requirements, or soften warnings to suit the audience.
- Adaptation serves comprehension, not deception. The reader should understand the same thing the original reader understood, just in their own language.
- If the source content is ambiguous or incomplete, flag it — do not invent clarity that isn't there.
- Do not use for: Multi-audience generation ("write versions for engineering, sales, and legal") — that's a batch/orchestration spell, not a single disguise.
- Do not use for: Code refactoring ("rewrite this Python in Go", "switch to the new ORM") — implementation changes, not presentation changes.
- Do not use for: Rebranding ("change the name, logo, branding") — identity work, not content adaptation.
- Do not use for: Anonymization/redaction ("strip PII", "remove sensitive data") — that removes substance; disguise preserves everything.
- Do not use for: Monitoring/visibility changes ("hide this service from dashboards") — literal invisibility, not metaphorical disguise.
- Do not use for: Adding or removing content ("summarize by cutting details", "expand with examples") — substance changes, not presentation changes.
Default Invocation
Use $disguise-self to rewrite this for the target audience without changing what it actually says.
