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.
dzhngclose-spec
When a spec under specs// is done shipping (a write-spec build, or any planned task that produced a spec), archive it to specs/done/ and rewrite it from a build-plan into a durable…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiacontent-repurposing
Repurpose and atomize content across platforms and formats. Use when the user says "repurpose this", "turn this into", "convert blog to", "make a thread from", "content atomization"…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiacontent-strategy
Build content strategies, editorial calendars, topic clusters, and content plans. Map content to buyer journey stages and plan distribution. Trigger phrases: "content strategy", "content…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiacopy-editing
Line-by-line copy editing and improvement for marketing content. Polish existing copy for clarity, conciseness, impact, and conversion. Trigger phrases: "edit my copy", "improve this copy"…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiacopywriting
Write marketing copy for any page type: landing pages, product pages, about pages, sales pages, ads, and more. Trigger phrases: "write copy", "marketing copy", "sales copy", "persuasive…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiadiscord-bot
Send messages, embeds, and marketing content to Discord channels via webhooks or bot API. Manage community engagement, announcements, and automated posting. Trigger phrases: "post to…
dzhngeval-skills
Eval and improve a skill against golden cases — run the target skill blind in a fresh, context-free subagent on each example input, grade the artifact against the expected outcome, and let…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
OpenClaudiafacebook-ads
Create Facebook and Meta ad campaigns, write ad copy, define audiences, and plan budgets. Use when the user asks about Facebook Ads, Instagram Ads, Meta Ads, social media advertising…
gooseworks-aigooseworks
GooseWorks growth coworker and router for markets, competitors, audiences, creators, campaigns, ads, photos, graphics, video, content, email, SEO, social, leads and contacts. Use for brand…
dzhngmarketing-pages
Best-practice rulebook for a marketing site's pages, organized by page class — campaign landers, product pages, programmatic SEO trees, editorial. Use when writing or updating a…
Paramchoudhary
ResumeSkills
Paramchoudharyportfolio-case-study-writer
Transform resume bullets into detailed portfolio case studies
Paramchoudhary
ResumeSkills
Paramchoudharyresume-bullet-writer
Transform weak resume bullets into achievement-focused statements with metrics and impact
dzhngwrite-skills
Create or revise agent skills. Use when adding a new skill file, renaming a skill, simplifying an existing skill, improving trigger descriptions, or deciding what belongs in a skill versus…
dzhngwrite-spec
Break large features into independently verifiable, human-reviewable slices under a feature directory in specs/. Use for risky or multi-step feature work that needs upfront questioning, API…
dzhngwrite-tests
Write tests that pin real behavior instead of implementation details, config values, or lucky samples. Use when adding tests for new behavior, writing a regression test, fixing a brittle or…
posit-dev
Skills
posit-devdeploy-to-connect
Deploy or publish Python and R content to a Posit Connect server using rsconnect-python or the R rsconnect package. Handles interactive apps and dashboards, web APIs, rendered documents…
danjdewhursteditorial-review
This skill should be used when the user asks for a "sensitivity reader", "authenticity reader", "cultural review", "is this portrayal okay", "real people in my novel", "defamation", "can I…
danjdewhurstfeedback-triage
This skill should be used when the user asks to "process beta reader feedback", "alpha reader feedback", "feedback round", "synthesize reader feedback", "reader notes", "beta feedback"…
posit-dev
Skills
posit-devggsql
Write ggsql queries — a grammar of graphics for SQL. Use when the user wants to create, modify, or understand a ggsql visualization query.
danjdewhurstinteractive-fiction
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a branching story", "interactive fiction", "choose your own adventure", "plan the branches", "choice graph", "add a choice"…
danjdewhurstline-editing
This skill should be used when the user asks to "line edit", "edit my prose", "polish this chapter", "tighten the prose", "improve the sentences", "copyedit", "proofread", "proof pass"…
danjdewhurstpremise-workshop
This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm a story idea", "I have an idea for a story", "what if", "develop a premise", "is this idea strong enough", "workshop my logline"…
danjdewhurstpublishing
This skill should be used when the user asks to "self-publish", "publish my book", "ISBN", "copyright page", "book metadata", "BISAC", "keywords", "KDP", "IngramSpark", "Draft2Digital", "go…
posit-dev
Skills
posit-devr-mirai
Help users write correct R code for async, parallel, and distributed computing using mirai. Use when users need to run R code asynchronously or in parallel, write mirai code with correct…
danjdewhurstseries-continuity
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a sequel", "write a prequel", "start book two", "continue the series", "companion novel", "spin-off", "link books in a series", "carry…
danjdewhurststory-init
This skill should be used when the user asks to "start a new story", "initialize a story project", "create a story", "new book", "set up a story", or wants to begin a new fiction writing…
danjdewhurstsubmission
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a query letter", "query", "querying", "pitch", "blurb", "back cover copy", "jacket copy", "comp titles", "comparable titles"…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointReposubtitles
Use when subtitles or the spoken text of a YouTube video is needed: pasted video links or IDs, requests to translate a video, read along, follow foreign-language content, or extract what…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-american-case-studies
Case studies of American screenwriting (美国电影剧作案例) — Mei Feng's readings of the Hollywood Western (value pairs, four oppositions), screwball comedy (strong heroine, buddy vs adversary…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-character-conflict
Character creation, protagonist/antagonist design and dramatic conflict for scripts (人物/对手/冲突) — merged from Lajos Egri (three-dimensional character, orchestration, unity of opposites…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-banqiang
Playwriting for banqiang-system Chinese opera (板腔体：京剧、豫剧、越剧、秦腔、评剧、沪剧、淮剧、川剧弹戏), where sung passages are paired seven- or ten-character lines varied by metre (板式) rather than filled into…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-banqiang-cases
Worked full-length scripts of banqiang-system Chinese opera with their creation records (板腔体全本语料库). Primary texts; 翁偶虹《锁麟囊》 (the revised score edition, 65 arias, 15 self-account-vs-score…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-qupai
Chinese opera playwriting for the qupai (曲牌体) system — 元杂剧, 明清传奇, 昆曲, 川剧高腔, where sung text is filled into fixed tune patterns (填词) rather than built from paired lines varied by metre…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-qupai-cases
Worked qupai-system (曲牌体) opera scripts, act by act. Guan Hanqing's three surviving zaju (窦娥冤／救风尘／金线池 — twelve acts, 126 tunes, one mode and one rhyme per act, sung/spoken ratios); Tang…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-series-practice
Mainland-Chinese TV-series craft, documents and production chain (国产剧创作体系与制片链) — the China layer parallel to the Japanese and Korean/French skills. Distilled from Yao Kougen…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-dialogue
Dialogue writing and revision for screen and stage (对白/台词/潜台词) — merged from Robert McKee's Dialogue (dialogue as action, said/unsaid/unsayable, exposition as ammunition, beat =…
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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