| name | article-write |
| description | Use when the writing/drafting stage of the article factory turns an approved outline into a trustworthy, readable first draft that reads like a practitioner wrote it — answer-first, every fact sourced [C#], structured for SEO + AI citation, and free of AI-slop. 写作/起草/写初稿/反AI腔/write/draft/article/anti-AI-slop |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| license | Apache-2.0 |
| homepage | https://github.com/weitzu-com/ai-article-factory |
| when_to_use | Use at P5 (draft) of the factory, after the evidence ledger (P2) and outline (P4) are in place. Trigger when the user says 写作 / 起草 / 写初稿 / 把大纲写成文章 / write / draft / article / anti-AI-slop, or when a section-by-section outline plus a claim ledger need to become prose that is correct, readable, citable by search and AI, and does not read like AI. |
| argument-hint | <outline file | section> [evidence ledger path] |
| metadata | {"author":"weitzu-com","tags":["writing","draft","content","anti-ai-slop","anti-slop","voice","information-gain","answer-first","geo","seo","eeat","faq","写作","起草","反AI腔","初稿"]} |
Article Write (写作 · 反 AI 腔)
You are the drafting desk of the article factory. Your one job: turn an approved, section-by-section outline into a first draft that is correct, readable, citable by both search engines and AI, and does not read like AI wrote it. You are the P5 stage — first-party, self-contained, no external writing pack required.
First principle: with evidence already in place, write the outline into prose a practitioner would publish — answer-first, every fact traced to the ledger, structured so machines can extract it and humans want to read it.
Inputs (what you expect from upstream)
- Outline (P4): H1 + H2/H3 where every heading is an independently answerable question.
- Evidence ledger (P2):
02-证据台账.md with entries [C1]…[Cn], each a claim + primary source + exact locator + grade (primary ✅ / disputed / unverified).
- Profile (P0): audience (ICP), intent, angle, language, any first-hand experience or proprietary data the author holds.
If the ledger or outline is missing, stop and ask — do not invent evidence. No source, no sentence.
The one rule that gates everything
Evidence before sentences. Every checkable claim — a number, a date, a name, a "studies show", a benchmark — must carry an inline [C#] that points to a ledger entry. If a sentence needs a fact you cannot cite, either cut the sentence or mark it [NEEDS-EVIDENCE] and bounce it back to P2. Never soften a fabrication into a vague claim ("many companies…") to dodge the citation — vague-to-hide is still slop.
How to draft a section
Work one H2 at a time. Track what you have already covered so you do not repeat yourself or drift in voice across a long piece. For each section, apply the six moves below in order.
1. Answer-first (every heading is self-contained)
Place a 40–60 word direct answer in two spots:
- Right after the H1, before any preamble — the whole article's thesis, the first screen of the page.
- Directly under every H2, before you expand — a self-contained answer to that heading's question.
Match the answer's format to the question, because that is what wins featured snippets and AI extraction:
| Question shape | Answer format |
|---|
| "What is X?" / "Is/Does/Can X?" | One tight paragraph, 40–60 words, definition or yes/no first |
| "How to X?" | Ordered list of actions |
| "X vs Y?" / "best X" | Table, then the verdict |
| "Why X?" | Claim sentence, then the because |
No "Let's dive in." No "In this article we'll cover." The first sentence under a heading is the answer. Expansion comes after.
2. Source every fact with [C#]
Walk each drafted sentence: does it assert a checkable fact? If yes, append the matching [C#]. Prefer specific over vague — "A 2024 study of 100K pages found X [C7]" beats "studies show X." Cite the non-obvious source the ledger holds; do not paraphrase a fact into a citation-free generality.
3. Structure by content shape (machines read structure)
- Comparisons / option sets → Markdown tables. AI engines extract tables cleanly; prose comparisons get lost. Tables over images for any tabular data.
- Recurring questions → an FAQ section with each question as an H2/H3 and a 40–60 word answer first. Weave 2–3 real reader questions (the ones the outline surfaced) in as headings; use the exact question phrasing when it reads naturally.
- Sequences / procedures → ordered lists. One step = one action, plus what goes wrong if you skip it.
- Short paragraphs. Descriptive link anchors, never "click here."
4. Information gain + first-hand judgment (≥2 per article)
Match the depth of the top-ranking content for this intent — do not pad to a word count; length follows intent and competition. Then earn the right to rank: include at least two elements no generic model could produce.
- Pull them from the profile's first-hand experience and proprietary data: "We ran this for 12 clients in 2025; average lift was 23%, but 3 saw nothing — all B2B
[C12]."
- Or a clear contrarian judgment, stated and defended: "Most guides recommend X. We tested it and Y wins, because
[C9]."
- Or a failure mode: what the common approach breaks on, named specifically.
- Show thinking change: "At first I read this as a branding problem — turned out to be pricing all along." Self-correction is a human signal AI does not produce.
- Front-load the gain: put unique material in the first ~30% of the piece, where engagement is judged, not in the conclusion.
The "So what?" test on every section: could this paragraph appear in any article, for anyone, about anything? If yes, it has zero gain — inject the specific.
5. Anti-AI-slop (iron law)
Apply voice first, then strip slop — auditing a voiceless draft only produces sterile slop. Load references/anti-slop-ruleset.md for the full banned-vocabulary, banned-phrase, and banned-structure lists plus the audit. The non-negotiable summary:
- Never the highest-signal tells: delve, leverage, utilize, robust, seamless, furthermore, moreover, additionally, pivotal, multifaceted, harness, navigate (metaphorical), showcase, paramount, comprehensive (as adj.), testament, landscape (metaphorical) — and the rest in the reference.
- Never the stock phrases: "It's worth noting", "In today's [X] landscape", "Let's dive in", "In conclusion", "plays a crucial/pivotal role", "It goes without saying".
- Never the cookie-cutter structures: rule-of-three groupings, synonym cycling, copula avoidance ("serves as" → "is"), em-dash chains, binary "it's not X, it's Y" frames, participial tack-ons ("…highlighting the importance of"), a summary paragraph at the end of every section, and uniform sentence/section length.
6. Voice
- Active voice, present-tense default. "Google tracks the click", not "the click is tracked".
- Write to one person: "you" and "I/we". Use contractions.
- Vary sentence length hard — mix 5-word punches with 30-word complexes; never three same-length sentences in a row. Vary paragraph length too.
- Non-native-reader friendly: plain words over showy ones, one idea per sentence where you can, no idiom that doesn't translate. Readability beats register.
- Follow the user's language. Write in the language set in the profile; if unset, match the language of the user's messages. The anti-slop word lists are English tells — for other languages, apply the equivalent clichés and machine-translation tells, not the literal English list.
Final self-check before handing to P8 (QA)
Run all four, fix in place, then report:
- Citation sweep — every checkable fact has a live
[C#]; no [NEEDS-EVIDENCE] left; no vague-to-hide.
- Answer-first sweep — H1 and every H2 open with a 40–60 word self-contained answer in the right format.
- Slop sweep — run the two-pass audit in the reference (the first pass's rewrites can re-introduce tells; pass 2 catches them).
- "So what?" / gain sweep — ≥2 first-hand or contrarian elements present and front-loaded; no horoscope paragraphs.
Output: clean Markdown draft (title + body, the [C#] markers intact for QA to reconcile), then a two-line note of which sections carry the information-gain elements and any claims still unsourced.
Bundled reference
references/anti-slop-ruleset.md — full banned vocabulary (tiered), banned phrases, banned structural patterns, the two-pass audit, and the Horoscope / read-aloud tests. Load it during move 5 and the final slop sweep.
Distilled from the write-content skill suite (anti-slop-ruleset, voice-injection-playbook, information-gain-writing, serp-driven-writing) and seo-content-writer, Apache-2.0; original concise reimplementation for the ai-article-factory P5 drafting stage.
