| name | ce-house-style |
| description | Collision Engineers house style and branded document generation. Use whenever a CE output needs the house visual layout, the house writing tone, or a branded document built. Modes: document-builder generates branded DOCX and PDF (letters, reports, fee notes, certificates) from a JSON spec via a self-contained ReportLab/python-docx engine with no external service; visual-layout for logo, typography, page headers/footers, brand red, and templates; writing-tone for the plain independent-engineer register, dispute/TPI wording, and anti-AI phrasing checks. Use this skill whenever you draft, brand, or format any CE client, court, insurer, valuation, repair, rebuttal, roadworthy, fee-note or invoice document, even if "house style" is not mentioned. Consumed by vehicle-valuation, damage-estimating, rebuttal, roadworthy, finance-document, and invoice drafts. |
CE House Style
Shared Collision Engineers house style and a self-contained branded-document generator. Load this
skill whenever document layout, written tone, or producing a branded DOCX/PDF is needed.
Modes
| Mode | Use when | Load |
|---|
document-builder | Producing a branded CE document — letter, report, fee note, certificate — as DOCX and/or PDF. | references/document-spec.md, scripts/ce_document.py, assets/examples/ |
visual-layout | Checking or describing brand layout (logo, typography, headers/footers, brand red, templates). | references/visual-layout.md and assets/ |
writing-tone | Drafting or revising client, court, insurer, invoice, rebuttal, valuation, or status wording. | references/writing-tone.md and references/query-responses.md |
Building a branded document
The builder is self-contained (pure-Python ReportLab + python-docx, no system libraries), so it
runs anywhere including Claude Desktop. One-time setup:
python -m pip install -r src/skills/ce-house-style/requirements.txt
Describe the document as a JSON spec (schema in references/document-spec.md; start from
assets/examples/report.json or letter.json), then render:
python src/skills/ce-house-style/scripts/ce_document.py --spec my-spec.json --format both --out output
--format is docx, pdf, or both. The brand — logo, reference block, footer, red rules, table
styling, fonts, margins — is applied automatically; you supply only the content. For the wording,
follow writing-tone.md and reuse query-responses.md.
Governance
Assist/reference class. This skill formats and styles output; it does not approve expert findings or
authorise external sends. The calling skill owns sign-off: valuation, roadworthy, rebuttal, salvage,
and damage-estimating expert outputs remain AI-assisted drafts until a named human signs off.
Validation
- Drafts:
python src/skills/ce-house-style/scripts/check_house_style.py <draft-or-spec> flags AI
tell-tales and internal workflow terms before anything goes out.
- Generated documents: render
assets/examples/report.json and letter.json and compare against the
worked examples in assets/ and docs/reference/case-corpus/.
- Repository changes:
python tools/verify_scaffold.py.
