Article

Write publication-ready long-form articles, repo theses, or lens essays with optional Replicate hero images.

Updated Jun 11, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/aaronjmars/aeon-bd --skill article-aaronjmars
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agentβ–Ό
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: Article
Source: https://github.com/aaronjmars/aeon-bd/tree/main/skills/article
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/aaronjmars/aeon-bd --skill article-aaronjmars

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Producing consistent, well-researched technical articles on a schedule is hard: topics get repeated, drafts lack evidence, and tone drifts into marketing filler. This Skill automates the full editorial pipeline β€” topic selection, research, falsifiable thesis, drafting, self-editing, logging, and notification β€” so every article ships with citations and a defensible claim. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Three article angles: a standard long-form article or technical explainer on a trending or given topic, a thesis-driven article about a watched GitHub repo using gh api activity data, and a project-through-a-lens essay connecting the project to an external trend or idea. - Editorial quality gates: falsifiable thesis requirements, banned-phrase lexicons, source minimums (primary sources, in-repo and external links), word-count bounds, and abort-on-weak-draft logic. - Optional hero images: append --visual to generate a labeled technical illustration via Replicate's Nano Banana Pro, with a Seedream fallback and graceful text-only degradation when REPLICATE_API_TOKEN is absent. - Use Case: Run with repo:aaronjmars/aeon --visual to research that repo's last 7 days of commits and PRs, form a falsifiable thesis about its direction, draft a 600–900 word article with cited evidence, generate a hero diagram, and save it to output/articles/. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to write an article using the article skill with an input like "lens:unix philosophy --visual" or "repo:owner/repo" to produce and save a fully cited article.

Frequently Asked Questions about Article

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I generate a technical explainer article automatically?β–Ό

Pass a topic naming a single mechanism as the input, and the skill runs three WebSearch queries, fetches primary sources like papers or docs, and writes a 600–1000 word explainer with a fixed structure covering intuition, mechanism steps, anchor numbers, and falsification criteria.

How do I write an article about a GitHub repo's recent activity?β–Ό

Use the repo: prefix, e.g. repo:owner/repo. The skill queries the GitHub API via gh for commits, merged PRs, issues, and releases from the last 7 days, forms a falsifiable thesis, and drafts a 600–900 word evidence-cited article.

Does the article skill require a Replicate API token?β–Ό

No, REPLICATE_API_TOKEN is optional and only used when the --visual flag is passed. Without the token, the skill logs IMAGE_SKIPPED and ships the article text-only with an HTML comment noting the skip.

What happens when a watched repo has no recent activity?β–Ό

If there are fewer than 3 commits, no merged PRs, no recent release, and no external mentions, the skill aborts with a REPO_ARTICLE_SKIPPED notification. A quiet-repo exception allows a shorter piece focused on one substantive change for historically important repos.

How does the skill avoid repeating topics or angles?β–Ό

It reads memory/MEMORY.md and recent memory/logs/ entries before selecting topics, and the lens angle checks memory/project-lens-angles.md to enforce a 14-day gap between uses of the same angle category.