qiaomu-syc: Teach Your Agent to Write with Restraint

Where this fits

You're building a content-generation agent for Chinese social media or personal essays. Your user asks for a reflective piece about a breakup, but the output is either melodramatic or flat. They want the style of Sun Yuchen's viral essay "My Girlfriend Jing Tian"—short sentences, precise numbers, buried emotion. qiaomu-syc encodes that exact style into a reusable skill your agent can invoke on demand.

Why agents benefit

• Consistent persona enforcement: The skill defines strict rules (short sentences, no explicit emotion words, numeric anchors every 500 characters) so your agent doesn't drift into generic prose.
• Trigger-based activation: Users can say "用SYC风格写" or "冰山叙事" and the agent knows exactly which style profile to load.
• Structured rewriting: It can transform existing drafts by applying the three core rules (rhythm, numbers, iceberg) without manual prompt engineering.
• Excludes inappropriate genres: The skill automatically avoids news, technical docs, marketing, and academic writing—preventing misuse.
• Philosophical closers: It generates the signature philosophical closing lines that give the style its memorable weight.

Practical scenarios

Personal statement polishing

A user uploads a rough draft about their career change. The agent rewrites it with numeric anchors (e.g., "eleven years, three companies, two layoffs") and short declarative sentences, making the narrative more grounded and less sentimental.

Emotional narrative generation for fiction

An author wants a restrained scene between two characters. The agent generates dialogue without quotation marks, using precise details ("the clock ticked forty-seven times") to carry the tension.

Social media post adaptation

A user wants to turn a long personal story into a thread for X or WeChat. The agent condenses it into the signature short-line format, preserving emotional weight through implication rather than statement.

Add it to your agent workflow

Install the skill with:

npx skills add joeseesun/qiaomu-syc --skill qiaomu-syc

Then in your agent prompt, include a trigger line like:

Rewrite the following paragraph using qiaomu-syc style. Keep the facts, change the tone.
[original text]

The agent will apply the style rules automatically. For a broader catalog of agent skills, check OpenAgentSkill.

Compare before adopting

Before you commit, evaluate three things. Quality signals: Look at the 41 GitHub stars and the README's detailed style rules—does the skill actually encode the source style faithfully? Maintenance freshness: The skill was created recently (version 1.0.0); check if the author updates it when the source style evolves. Alternatives: There are other Chinese writing persona skills (e.g., 鲁迅风, 王家卫风). Compare the trigger specificity and rule granularity. Also consider workflow fit: does your agent already handle persona switching? If not, you may need to wrap this skill in a router.

Why it is worth tracking

This skill is a strong example of a niche, high-fidelity persona skill—it doesn't try to cover all writing, just one distinctive style with precise mechanics. The author (向阳乔木) is active on X, and the skill's trigger list is well-curated. It's worth tracking because it demonstrates how agent skills can encode subtle cultural and stylistic knowledge that generic LLM prompting often misses. Keep an eye on its star growth and any version updates to see if it becomes a reference point for other persona-style skills.