Blog Post Skill
SkillMediaA long-form article / blog post, masthead, hero image placeholder, article body with figures and pull quotes, author byline, related posts. Use when the brief asks for "blog", "article", "post", "essay", or "case study".
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the Blog Post Skill skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by mphinance/alpha-skills in skills/blog-post/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Produce a single long-form article page — editorial layout, no chrome.
Workflow
- Read the active DESIGN.md (injected above). Lean into the typography tokens — long-form is 70% type, 20% image, 10% chrome.
- Pick the topic from the brief and write a real article — at least 600 words across 4–6 H2 sections. No lorem ipsum.
- Sections, in order:
- Masthead — small wordmark + 4–6 nav links, plain.
- Article header — category eyebrow, headline (display token, large), deck (1–2 sentence subhead), author name + role + date.
- Hero image — a 16:9 placeholder block using a DS-tinted gradient or solid fill (no external images). Add a 1-line caption underneath.
- Body — alternating prose paragraphs with at least:
- 1 pull quote (large display type, accent rule on the left).
- 1 figure (image placeholder + caption).
- 1 list (numbered or bulleted).
- 1 inline blockquote.
- Author footer — author avatar (initials in a circle), bio paragraph.
- Related — 3 cards linking to other posts. Each card: tiny image block, title, 1-line excerpt, date.
- Write a single HTML document:
<!doctype html>through</html>, CSS inline.- Article body uses the DS body font, centered, max-width per DS layout rule (typically 680–720px).
- Drop caps (
first-letter) only if the DS mood is editorial / serif — skip on tech-y DSes. data-od-idon the headline, hero, body, pull quote, related grid.
- Self-check:
- Type hierarchy is unambiguous — H1 is clearly the headline; H2s are section dividers; pull quotes do not compete with H1.
- Line length 60–75 chars for body prose.
- Accent appears at most twice (eyebrow + pull-quote rule, or one link).
- The page reads like a magazine, not a marketing landing.
Output contract
Emit between <artifact> tags:
<artifact identifier="post-slug" type="text/html" title="Article Title">
<!doctype html>
<html>...</html>
</artifact>
One sentence before the artifact, nothing after.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 27
- Forks
- 5
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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- Item type
- skill
- Key
blog-post-mphinance- Source
- github.com/mphinance/alpha-skills