Best Claude skills for writing
Writing skills give your agent an editor's discipline: a clear structure, a voice that matches yours and the habit of cutting filler. From blog writers that research current sources to screenwriting and book translation, these skills cover long and short form.
665 writing skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Matt Pocock
Writing For Agents
Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
Pack321k33MScore 95 - 2#2
Writing Shape
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
Pack321k33MScore 94 - 3#3
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Writing Skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Pack316k3.9MScore 94 - 4#4
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropic
Docx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word…
Pack192k3.8MScore 93 - 5#5
Writing Beats
Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
Pack321k33MScore 93 - 6#6
Anthropic
Skills
Pptx
Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or…
Pack192k3.8MScore 91 - 7#7
Anthropic
Skills
Xlsx
Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .csv, or…
Pack192k3.8MScore 91 - 8#8
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Haines
Reverse Engineer Marketing
When the user wants to know how another company grew and what to copy, or asks what a competitor did and when: a dated log of their moves against their traffic from public data, archives…
Pack60k6.3MScore 90 - 9#9
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Writing Plans
Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code
Pack316k3.9MScore 90 - 10#10
affaan-m
Agent Security Hardening
Security hardening guidance for AI agent frameworks that process untrusted content, invoke tools, write workspace files, manage runtime identifiers, or handle credentials. Use when building…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89
What makes a great writing skill.
Voice and style rules you can adapt to your own writing.
A research or sourcing step for factual pieces.
Editing passes that remove AI tells.
All 665 writing skills.
Matt Pocockwriting-for-agents
Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
Matt Pocockwriting-shape
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentwriting-skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicdocx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word…
Matt Pocockwriting-beats
Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicpptx
Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicxlsx
Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .csv, or…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainesreverse-engineer-marketing
When the user wants to know how another company grew and what to copy, or asks what a competitor did and when: a dated log of their moves against their traffic from public data, archives…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentwriting-plans
Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code
affaan-magent-security-hardening
Security hardening guidance for AI agent frameworks that process untrusted content, invoke tools, write workspace files, manage runtime identifiers, or handle credentials. Use when building…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainesad-creative
When the user wants to write or judge ad creative, or asks which ad, hook, or angle to run or kill: headlines, primary text, and variations for Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok, fresh…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainesads
When the user wants to plan, run, or fix paid ads on Google, Meta, and LinkedIn, or asks a judgement call on them: are ads worth it, which channel or budget split, why CPA rose, kill or…
affaan-marticle-writing
Write articles, guides, blog posts, tutorials, newsletter issues, and other long-form content in a distinctive voice derived from supplied examples or brand guidance. Use when the user…
wshobson
Agents
wshobsonavoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite prose so it stops reading as machine-generated. Use this skill when asked to remove AI-isms, clean up AI writing, edit a draft for AI tells, audit a README, changelog…
JuliusBrusseecaveman-commit
Write a Conventional Commits message compressed to intent only. Use for "write a commit", "commit message", /commit or /caveman-commit.
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHubacreadiness-generate-instructions
Generate tailored AI agent instruction files via AgentRC instructions command. Produces .github/copilot-instructions.md (default, recommended for Copilot in VS Code) plus optional per-area…
JimLiubaoyu-comic
Knowledge comic creator supporting multiple art styles and tones. Creates original educational comics with detailed panel layouts and batch-capable image generation. Use when user asks to…
JimLiubaoyu-diagram
Create professional diagrams with configurable dark/light theme via CSS custom properties. Use this skill whenever the user asks for any kind of technical or conceptual diagram…
JimLiubaoyu-format-markdown
Formats plain text or markdown files with frontmatter, titles, summaries, headings, bold, lists, and code blocks. Use when user asks to "format markdown", "beautify article", "add…
Yuan1z0825nature-writing
Draft or restructure scientific manuscript arguments, sections, and initial-submission materials from author-provided evidence. Use for 论文写作、章节起草、论证重构、正文压缩、首次投稿材料. Use nature-polishing for…
Yuan1z0825researchwrite
Compose, revise, or audit research proposals, opening reports, and research plans from supporting evidence. Use for 研究计划、开题报告、科研项目申请书. Invoked as researchwrite for compatibility; use…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanwrite-skill
Write a new agent skill or improve one without bloat: the edit ladder, levels, drift and size checks, full diets. (gstack)
wshobson
Agents
wshobsondata-storytelling
Transform data into compelling narratives using visualization, context, and persuasive structure. Use when presenting analytics to stakeholders, creating data reports, or building executive…
Yuan1z0825nature-polishing
Polish, translate, or tighten existing academic prose while preserving facts, terminology, and evidence boundaries. Use for 论文润色、学术翻译、正文精简, or manuscript LaTeX layout fixes. Use…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicskill-development
This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202sr-screener
Protocol-driven study screening for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews. Turns a proposal or PROSPERO protocol into confirmed eligibility rules, then screens titles/abstracts and full…
sickn33
Agentic Awesome Skills
sickn33adhx
Fetch any X/Twitter post as clean LLM-friendly JSON. Converts x.com, twitter.com, or adhx.com links into structured data with full article content, author info, and engagement metrics. No…
AgriciDanielseo-cluster
Cluster keywords by SERP overlap and design hub-and-spoke content architecture with internal links. Use for planning; `/seo cluster execute` then writes the posts with claude-blog's…
AgriciDanielseo-content-brief
Generate competitive SEO content briefs with per-section word counts, competitor scoring, keyword placement guidance, and page-type templates. Supports both new page briefs and…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper
12-agent academic paper writing pipeline. 11 modes (full/plan/outline/revision/revision-coach/abstract/lit-review/format-convert/citation-check/disclosure/rebuttal-audit). 6 paper types, 5…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper-reviewer
Multi-perspective academic paper review with dynamic reviewer personas. Runs a 5-seat, role-separated review panel (Journal-Fit Reviewer + 3 peer-review roles + Devil's Advocate) with…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIfigma-generate-design
Use this skill alongside figma-use when the task involves translating an application page, view, or multi-section layout into Figma. Triggers: 'write to Figma', 'create in Figma from code'…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicwriting-hookify-rules
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hookify rule", "write a hook rule", "configure hookify", "add a hookify rule", or needs guidance on hookify rule syntax and…
phuryngrammar-check
Identify grammar, logical, and flow errors in text and suggest targeted fixes without rewriting the entire text. Use when proofreading content, checking writing quality, or reviewing a…
AgriciDanielseo-content
Evaluate page content for usefulness, E-E-A-T, readability, thinness, and AI citation readiness, plus last-mile draft cleanup (AI-typical phrasing and invisible Unicode watermark…
gamedev-skillsvisual-novel
Build a visual novel: a branching script, character and background display, a text box with choices, save/load, backlog, and skip/auto. Use for a VN, dating sim, or branching story game.
Writing skills, explained.
Also searched as: writing skills claude, copywriting skill, blog writing skill, humanizer.
What are the best Claude skills for writing?
Right now the top-ranked writing skills on Alyn are Writing For Agents (Matt Pocock), Writing Shape (Matt Pocock), Writing Skills (Jesse Vincent). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
Which skill makes Claude write like a human?
Humanizer, avoid-ai-writing and sepia focus specifically on removing AI writing patterns. See the anti-slop category too.
Can a skill learn my writing style?
Some skills distill a writing style from samples you provide and save it as reference material for future drafts.
How do I install a writing skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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