PocketAuthor field guides

Book work, broken into skills you can actually use.

Open any skill for its inputs, deliverables, review gates and reusable prompt. Use it in PocketAuthor, copy it to your preferred assistant, or hand it to a human collaborator.

New field guides

Sixty skills for the work around the manuscript.

Build the author business, prepare retail and library outreach, organize rights, improve accessibility, grow reader communities and run literary events.

10 skillsauthor businessStart with Author Expertise Inventory →10 skillsretailStart with Independent Bookstore Pitch →10 skillsrightsStart with Book Rights Inventory →10 skillsaccessibilityStart with Accessible EPUB Review →10 skillscommunityStart with Beta Reader Cohort Plan →10 skillseventsStart with Book Launch Event Runbook →

Book marketing studio

One hundred skills from first announcement to enduring backlist.

Build author and book websites, reveal the title and cover, plan a content calendar, launch across channels, prepare media and events, and keep the book discoverable after launch.

100 marketing skills

10 skillsbrand foundationStart with Book Positioning Brief →10 skillswebsitesStart with Book Website Brief →10 skillsannouncementsStart with Book Announcement →10 skillsteasersStart with Book Quote Teaser →10 skillscontent calendarStart with 30-Day Book Content Calendar →10 skillslaunchStart with Book Launch Strategy →10 skillsmediaStart with Book Press Release →10 skillssocialStart with LinkedIn Book Launch Plan →10 skillsevents partnershipsStart with Book Launch Event Plan →10 skillspost launchStart with 90-Day Post-Launch Plan →

Guided workbenches

Start with your role or the book you are making.

Each path narrows the library to a practical brief, review and production handoff.

Selected workbenchBusiness Book Author

Built to help you a defensible framework with cases, application and commercial boundaries.

Clear workbench

Browse the library

Choose a skill, then bring your book context.

2 skills

Search skills /CategoryWorkflow phaseProfessional roleBook typeCapabilityRiskReview needsSort

genre · v1.0.0Business Book Author · Book BlueprintCreate a genre-aware promise, structure, evidence/story plan and completion definition. Designed to help business book author deliver a defensible framework with cases, application and commercial boundaries.plan workflow

genre · v1.0.0Business Book Book BlueprintA specialist workflow for a defensible framework, cases, application and commercial clarity.plan workflow

100 new library improvementsCatalog expansion, comparison, context and Cursor portability

catalog Expansion

✓ Sixty new canonical ecosystem skills
✓ Ten author-business workflows
✓ Ten retail and library workflows
✓ Ten rights-management workflows
✓ Ten accessibility workflows
✓ Ten reader-community workflows
✓ Ten literary-event workflows
✓ Consistent ecosystem skill identifiers
✓ Canonical catalog aggregation
✓ Database-sync-ready skill records

discovery

✓ Skill-ID search
✓ Version search
✓ Workflow-phase search
✓ Output-contract search
✓ Input-type search
✓ Professional-role search
✓ Book-type search
✓ Expanded placeholder examples
✓ Deferred large-catalog search
✓ Empty-result recovery action

contextual Filters

✓ Workflow-phase filter
✓ Professional-role filter
✓ Book-type filter
✓ Batch-ready filter
✓ Meaning-preservation filter
✓ Dynamically derived phase options
✓ Dynamically derived role options
✓ Dynamically derived book-type options
✓ Single-action filter reset
✓ Filter-safe role workbenches

comparison

✓ Skill comparison selection
✓ Three-skill comparison limit
✓ Comparison-limit announcement
✓ Persistent on-page comparison tray
✓ Category comparison context
✓ Workflow comparison context
✓ Risk comparison context
✓ Deliverable-count comparison
✓ Direct detail links from comparison
✓ One-click comparison clearing

collections

✓ Saved-skill Markdown export
✓ Portable saved-skill links
✓ Saved-skill category metadata
✓ Saved-skill version metadata
✓ Empty export fallback
✓ Safe object-URL cleanup
✓ One-click saved-list clearing
✓ Storage-failure recovery
✓ Optional recent-history persistence
✓ Bounded saved-skill hydration

portability

✓ Cursor prompt handoff
✓ Official Cursor web deeplink
✓ Cursor prompt-length guard
✓ Full-prompt clipboard preservation
✓ Oversize-prompt handoff fallback
✓ Cursor handoff status feedback
✓ Cursor privacy disclosure
✓ Review-before-run disclosure
✓ No automatic prompt execution
✓ Recognizable Cursor action mark

detail Pages

✓ Canonical skill URLs
✓ HowTo structured data
✓ Structured deliverable steps
✓ Workflow-fit panel
✓ Professional-role context
✓ Book-type context
✓ Output-contract visibility
✓ Batch-readiness badge
✓ Expanded related-skill discovery
✓ Static generation for every skill

responsive Accessibility

✓ Mobile comparison-sheet positioning
✓ Safe-area-aware comparison controls
✓ Scrollable mobile comparisons
✓ Semantic comparison labels
✓ Named comparison controls
✓ Pressed-state comparison feedback
✓ Live nonvisual status announcements
✓ Touch-sized comparison actions
✓ Responsive new-release grid
✓ Keyboard-safe export controls

integrity Safety

✓ Per-skill human approval gates
✓ No invented partnership claims
✓ No invented availability claims
✓ No invented accessibility conformance
✓ No invented sales claims
✓ No invented rights ownership
✓ No invented permissions
✓ Explicit estimate labeling
✓ Explicit missing-evidence labeling
✓ Legal-information boundary for rights skills

quality Assurance

✓ Exact new-skill count assertion
✓ Unique new-skill ID assertion
✓ Per-group count assertion
✓ Required guardrail assertion
✓ Required deliverable assertion
✓ Role-context assertion
✓ Book-type-context assertion
✓ Exact improvement-count assertion
✓ Unique improvement-copy assertion
✓ Cursor deeplink contract assertion

100 foundation improvementsReview the first skills-library release

discovery

✓ Full-text skill search
✓ Deliverable-aware search
✓ Guardrail-aware search
✓ Category filtering
✓ Risk-level filtering
✓ Source-requirement filtering
✓ Human-review filtering
✓ Alphabetical sorting
✓ Category sorting
✓ Risk-priority sorting

organization

✓ Saved skill collection
✓ Persistent local favorites
✓ Recently opened collection
✓ Bounded recent history
✓ Recent-first sorting
✓ All-skill count
✓ Filtered result count
✓ Saved-skill count
✓ Recent-skill count
✓ One-click filter reset

navigation

✓ Stable skill permalinks
✓ Fully linked skill cards
✓ Previous-skill navigation
✓ Next-skill navigation
✓ Related-skill navigation
✓ Role workbench links
✓ Author-type workbench links
✓ Clear-workbench action
✓ Studio sidebar destination
✓ Accurate Studio route title

skill Briefs

✓ Plain-language purpose
✓ Version visibility
✓ Category visibility
✓ Risk visibility
✓ Required-input checklist
✓ Deliverable checklist
✓ Guardrail checklist
✓ Workflow-phase context
✓ Output-contract fallback
✓ Meaning-preservation indicator

portability

✓ One-click prompt copy
✓ Markdown skill download
✓ Native device sharing
✓ Link-copy sharing fallback
✓ Print-friendly skill output
✓ ChatGPT handoff
✓ Claude handoff
✓ Recognizable assistant marks
✓ Portable Markdown structure
✓ Filename-safe downloads

prompt Quality

✓ Explicit outcome confirmation
✓ Missing-input detection
✓ No invented facts instruction
✓ No invented sources instruction
✓ No invented permissions instruction
✓ No invented author-intent instruction
✓ Author-voice preservation
✓ Fact and assumption separation
✓ Question and recommendation separation
✓ Context insertion boundary

privacy Safety

✓ No automatic manuscript transfer
✓ External handoffs require a user gesture
✓ New-tab isolation
✓ No opener access
✓ Authorized-material reminder
✓ Confidential-content reminder
✓ Traceable-source requirement
✓ Material-claim source attachment
✓ Human approval gate
✓ High-risk visual treatment

accessibility

✓ Semantic search label
✓ Semantic filter labels
✓ Live result announcements
✓ Live copy-status announcements
✓ Visible keyboard focus
✓ Named skill links
✓ Named save controls
✓ Pressed-state favorites
✓ Reduced-motion support
✓ Keyboard-readable prompt

responsive Ux

✓ Mobile single-column cards
✓ Tablet two-column cards
✓ Desktop three-column cards
✓ Touch-sized controls
✓ Responsive detail layout
✓ Sticky mobile-safe filters
✓ Compact list view
✓ Card view toggle
✓ Content-visibility optimization
✓ Long-prompt scrolling

data Integrity

✓ Versioned database primary key
✓ Idempotent catalog upserts
✓ Batch-safe synchronization
✓ Row-level security
✓ Active-skill read policy
✓ JSON input validation
✓ JSON guardrail validation
✓ JSON role validation
✓ Unique manifest identifiers
✓ Canonical catalog source marker

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PocketAuthor field guides

Book work, broken into skills you can actually use.

Open any skill for its inputs, deliverables, review gates and reusable prompt. Use it in PocketAuthor, copy it to your preferred assistant, or hand it to a human collaborator.

New field guides

Sixty skills for the work around the manuscript.

Build the author business, prepare retail and library outreach, organize rights, improve accessibility, grow reader communities and run literary events.

Book marketing studio

One hundred skills from first announcement to enduring backlist.

Build author and book websites, reveal the title and cover, plan a content calendar, launch across channels, prepare media and events, and keep the book discoverable after launch.

100 marketing skills

Guided workbenches

Start with your role or the book you are making.

Each path narrows the library to a practical brief, review and production handoff.

Selected workbenchBusiness Book Author

Built to help you a defensible framework with cases, application and commercial boundaries.

Clear workbench

Browse the library

Choose a skill, then bring your book context.

2 skills

Search skills /CategoryWorkflow phaseProfessional roleBook typeCapabilityRiskReview needsSort

genre · v1.0.0Business Book Book BlueprintA specialist workflow for a defensible framework, cases, application and commercial clarity.plan workflow

100 new library improvementsCatalog expansion, comparison, context and Cursor portability

catalog Expansion

✓ Sixty new canonical ecosystem skills
✓ Ten author-business workflows
✓ Ten retail and library workflows
✓ Ten rights-management workflows
✓ Ten accessibility workflows
✓ Ten reader-community workflows
✓ Ten literary-event workflows
✓ Consistent ecosystem skill identifiers
✓ Canonical catalog aggregation
✓ Database-sync-ready skill records

discovery

✓ Skill-ID search
✓ Version search
✓ Workflow-phase search
✓ Output-contract search
✓ Input-type search
✓ Professional-role search
✓ Book-type search
✓ Expanded placeholder examples
✓ Deferred large-catalog search
✓ Empty-result recovery action

contextual Filters

✓ Workflow-phase filter
✓ Professional-role filter
✓ Book-type filter
✓ Batch-ready filter
✓ Meaning-preservation filter
✓ Dynamically derived phase options
✓ Dynamically derived role options
✓ Dynamically derived book-type options
✓ Single-action filter reset
✓ Filter-safe role workbenches

comparison

✓ Skill comparison selection
✓ Three-skill comparison limit
✓ Comparison-limit announcement
✓ Persistent on-page comparison tray
✓ Category comparison context
✓ Workflow comparison context
✓ Risk comparison context
✓ Deliverable-count comparison
✓ Direct detail links from comparison
✓ One-click comparison clearing

collections

✓ Saved-skill Markdown export
✓ Portable saved-skill links
✓ Saved-skill category metadata
✓ Saved-skill version metadata
✓ Empty export fallback
✓ Safe object-URL cleanup
✓ One-click saved-list clearing
✓ Storage-failure recovery
✓ Optional recent-history persistence
✓ Bounded saved-skill hydration

portability

✓ Cursor prompt handoff
✓ Official Cursor web deeplink
✓ Cursor prompt-length guard
✓ Full-prompt clipboard preservation
✓ Oversize-prompt handoff fallback
✓ Cursor handoff status feedback
✓ Cursor privacy disclosure
✓ Review-before-run disclosure
✓ No automatic prompt execution
✓ Recognizable Cursor action mark

detail Pages

✓ Canonical skill URLs
✓ HowTo structured data
✓ Structured deliverable steps
✓ Workflow-fit panel
✓ Professional-role context
✓ Book-type context
✓ Output-contract visibility
✓ Batch-readiness badge
✓ Expanded related-skill discovery
✓ Static generation for every skill

responsive Accessibility

✓ Mobile comparison-sheet positioning
✓ Safe-area-aware comparison controls
✓ Scrollable mobile comparisons
✓ Semantic comparison labels
✓ Named comparison controls
✓ Pressed-state comparison feedback
✓ Live nonvisual status announcements
✓ Touch-sized comparison actions
✓ Responsive new-release grid
✓ Keyboard-safe export controls

integrity Safety

✓ Per-skill human approval gates
✓ No invented partnership claims
✓ No invented availability claims
✓ No invented accessibility conformance
✓ No invented sales claims
✓ No invented rights ownership
✓ No invented permissions
✓ Explicit estimate labeling
✓ Explicit missing-evidence labeling
✓ Legal-information boundary for rights skills

quality Assurance

✓ Exact new-skill count assertion
✓ Unique new-skill ID assertion
✓ Per-group count assertion
✓ Required guardrail assertion
✓ Required deliverable assertion
✓ Role-context assertion
✓ Book-type-context assertion
✓ Exact improvement-count assertion
✓ Unique improvement-copy assertion
✓ Cursor deeplink contract assertion

100 foundation improvementsReview the first skills-library release

discovery

✓ Full-text skill search
✓ Deliverable-aware search
✓ Guardrail-aware search
✓ Category filtering
✓ Risk-level filtering
✓ Source-requirement filtering
✓ Human-review filtering
✓ Alphabetical sorting
✓ Category sorting
✓ Risk-priority sorting

organization

✓ Saved skill collection
✓ Persistent local favorites
✓ Recently opened collection
✓ Bounded recent history
✓ Recent-first sorting
✓ All-skill count
✓ Filtered result count
✓ Saved-skill count
✓ Recent-skill count
✓ One-click filter reset

navigation

✓ Stable skill permalinks
✓ Fully linked skill cards
✓ Previous-skill navigation
✓ Next-skill navigation
✓ Related-skill navigation
✓ Role workbench links
✓ Author-type workbench links
✓ Clear-workbench action
✓ Studio sidebar destination
✓ Accurate Studio route title

skill Briefs

✓ Plain-language purpose
✓ Version visibility
✓ Category visibility
✓ Risk visibility
✓ Required-input checklist
✓ Deliverable checklist
✓ Guardrail checklist
✓ Workflow-phase context
✓ Output-contract fallback
✓ Meaning-preservation indicator

portability

✓ One-click prompt copy
✓ Markdown skill download
✓ Native device sharing
✓ Link-copy sharing fallback
✓ Print-friendly skill output
✓ ChatGPT handoff
✓ Claude handoff
✓ Recognizable assistant marks
✓ Portable Markdown structure
✓ Filename-safe downloads

prompt Quality

✓ Explicit outcome confirmation
✓ Missing-input detection
✓ No invented facts instruction
✓ No invented sources instruction
✓ No invented permissions instruction
✓ No invented author-intent instruction
✓ Author-voice preservation
✓ Fact and assumption separation
✓ Question and recommendation separation
✓ Context insertion boundary

privacy Safety

✓ No automatic manuscript transfer
✓ External handoffs require a user gesture
✓ New-tab isolation
✓ No opener access
✓ Authorized-material reminder
✓ Confidential-content reminder
✓ Traceable-source requirement
✓ Material-claim source attachment
✓ Human approval gate
✓ High-risk visual treatment

accessibility

✓ Semantic search label
✓ Semantic filter labels
✓ Live result announcements
✓ Live copy-status announcements
✓ Visible keyboard focus
✓ Named skill links
✓ Named save controls
✓ Pressed-state favorites
✓ Reduced-motion support
✓ Keyboard-readable prompt

responsive Ux

✓ Mobile single-column cards
✓ Tablet two-column cards
✓ Desktop three-column cards
✓ Touch-sized controls
✓ Responsive detail layout
✓ Sticky mobile-safe filters
✓ Compact list view
✓ Card view toggle
✓ Content-visibility optimization
✓ Long-prompt scrolling

data Integrity

✓ Versioned database primary key
✓ Idempotent catalog upserts
✓ Batch-safe synchronization
✓ Row-level security
✓ Active-skill read policy
✓ JSON input validation
✓ JSON guardrail validation
✓ JSON role validation
✓ Unique manifest identifiers
✓ Canonical catalog source marker