Long-Form Summarizer

What it does

Reads a long post, page, or uploaded document and produces a short digest, a one-paragraph summary plus a bulleted list of key takeaways, sized for a reader deciding whether to read the full piece or someone who needs the gist quickly. It preserves the original's actual conclusions rather than a generic restatement of the topic.

Install

This skill isn't packaged in an installable registry. It's a plain SKILL.md file you can copy directly. Copy it from the SKILL.md tab and save it at the path for your assistant:

Use it in your AI assistant

Claude Code

.claude/skills/long-form-summarizer/ (or ~/.claude/skills/long-form-summarizer/ for all projects)

GitHub Copilot (VS Code)

.github/skills/long-form-summarizer/

OpenAI Codex

.codex/skills/long-form-summarizer/

Cursor

.cursor/skills/long-form-summarizer/ (or ~/.cursor/skills/long-form-summarizer/ globally)

Compatibility

Any WordPress site. No special plugin required; can also summarize non-post content the user pastes in or uploads.

The complete SKILL.md for this skill:

---
name: long-form-summarizer
description: Use when a user wants a long post or document condensed into a short summary or key-takeaways list. Triggers on "summarize this post", "give me the key takeaways", or "what's the tl;dr of this".
---

# Long-Form Summarizer

## When to use
A post, page, or document is long enough that a reader would benefit from a short digest, either as a standalone summary block on the page or as a quick way for the user to get the gist.

## Procedure
1. Read the full source material; do not summarize from the title and intro alone, since long posts often bury their real conclusions further in.
2. Write a one-paragraph summary (3 to 4 sentences) capturing the piece's actual argument and conclusion, not just its topic.
3. Extract 3 to 6 key takeaways as a bulleted list, each a specific point the piece makes, not a restated table of contents.
4. Preserve any caveats, exceptions, or nuance the original states, an overconfident summary that drops a caveat misrepresents the source.
5. Present the summary and takeaways together, noting if the source's length or complexity means some nuance is necessarily lost in condensing it.

## Guardrails
- Do not present a generic topic restatement as a summary; it must reflect the source's actual conclusions and specific points.
- Do not drop caveats, exceptions, or conditions the original stated just to make the summary punchier; that changes what the source actually claims.