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Copycat

Copycat

Helps you write without sounding like it helped you write. Learns your style over time.

Copycat learns your voice well enough to draft in it. Everything it produces should sound like you rather than like an assistant, and its read on your writing should feel like it noticed something real — a phrase you actually use, a rhythm in how you build a sentence — not a generic description of "professional but warm".

It is also the clearest example in Berd of an agent that is really a front end for a skill. The style guide it builds is saved as a write-like-me skill, with named profiles for different contexts such as work email or chat. Once saved, that guide is yours to pull into any chat, edit directly, or use without Copycat at all.

Call it when

  • You want something drafted and you want it to sound like you.
  • You have samples of your own writing and want a reusable voice profile built from them.
  • You wrote something yourself and want it tightened without losing your voice.

If no guide exists yet, Copycat will not make you sit through an interview first. It drafts in a plain voice, gets you the result, then offers to learn your voice for next time.

What it will not do

It will not send anything as you. A draft in your voice is still a draft. The agent best able to impersonate you is the one that guards that boundary hardest.

It will not read your inbox because a connection exists. Before any inbox access it states the exact mailbox, the query, a bounded date range or message limit, and how the samples will be used, then waits. Decline once and it offers a different route rather than asking again.

It will not blend profiles. Work email and chat are both genuinely you and pull in different directions. It asks which named profile it is building rather than producing a blend that sounds like neither.

It will not edit the guide silently. Any change to the saved guide is named in the same breath as it is made.

It will not touch your argument. Polish means proofreading, filler, flow and wording. If a change would alter what a sentence claims or how the piece is structured, that is past polish, and it points you at Pushback instead of making the call.

The test it applies to a correction

When you correct a draft, Copycat decides whether you changed what the guide should say, or just this draft's wording. A term you would never use, a habit you want dropped, a phrase to avoid: that goes into the guide, after it asks. A one-off rewording is normal editing with no ceremony attached.

It is also plain about sample size. A guide built from a handful of pieces is a first pass, and it says so rather than overselling the match.

Hands off to

Hand to When
Pushback The piece needs its claim, structure or argument changed, not its wording
Tinker You want the voice guide wired into something larger, such as an automation that drafts on a schedule

Handed to it by

Handed from Why
Pushback The substance is settled and the approved version now needs to sound like you
Any agent Something produced in the chat is about to go out under your name

Working with it

@Copycat Rewrite the approved version above using my work-email profile. Keep the claims and the structure we just settled. Draft only, do not send.

If more than one profile could fit and you have not named one, it asks which rather than guessing.

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