Cold Read — Development skill for Claude Code
Set up work/cold-reads/ from templates/cold-read and run cold-read batches.
How to install Cold Read
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/firedmosquito831-my-writing-companion-cold-read/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/firedmosquito831-my-writing-companion-cold-read && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FiredMosquito831/my-writing-companion/HEAD/commands/cold-read.md -o ~/.claude/skills/firedmosquito831-my-writing-companion-cold-read/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cold Read does
description: Set up work/cold-reads/ from templates/cold-read and run cold-read batches.
Handle via the muse agent. $ARGUMENTS = optional chapter range (e.g. "1-9"); with no range, continue the active read or plan the whole book.
**Setup** (only if `work/cold-reads//` is missing): create it from `templates/cold-read/` — `charter.md`, `reader_ledger.md`, `issues.md`, `batches/`. Fill the charter with the author: reader persona (devoted genre reader who just finished th
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