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.
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-format-adaptation
Screenplay format, page craft, the writing process and adaptation (剧本格式/写作流程/改编) — merged from Wendy Henson (spec format rules), Richard Walter (page craft, revision), Neill Hicks (selling…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-genre-anatomy
Genre anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Genres (类型解剖 / 类型节拍 / 混合类型 / 超越类型) — genres as beat systems with a life philosophy underneath; three rules (hit every beat of your genre, mix…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-industry-business
The screenwriting business and career (编剧行业与生意经) — merged from Diamond & Weissman's Bulletproof (buyer's-eye workflow, three Cs, one-page nine-step, set pieces, submission, notes…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-japanese-screenwriting
Japanese (and other non-Hollywood) screenwriting methods (日本编剧方法/原创剧本实战) — distilled from ten Japanese directors and writers in ゼロからの脚本術; Kosawa Ryota (three acts as 起承转合, speed by…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-korean-french-screenwriting
Korean and French screenwriting practice (韩国/法国编剧方法) — from the international masterclass; Oh Seung-uk (Christmas in August, The Shameless; field research in disguise, "write the emotion"…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-premise-theme
Premise, theme, controlling idea, subject selection and logline for scripts (前提/主题/立意/选材/戏核) — merged from Lajos Egri's premise-as-tyrant and dialectic, Robert McKee's controlling idea…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-scene-craft
Scene and sequence craft (场景/段落/细节/道具/悬念/情趣) — merged from Robert McKee's scene design and five-step scene analysis (value turn, beats, text/subtext, turning points, pacing, image systems)…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-series-case-studies
Case studies of television series writing (剧集案例库) from primary texts; Sorkin's six West Wing teleplays (act-page tables, eight act-out types); Chase's five Sopranos scripts (the 35-beat…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-series-engine-bible
From an idea to a sellable series design; series engine / franchise, story pattern, character webs that keep generating conflict, pilot types, and the documents that sell them…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-series-structure
Episode and season structure for TV series (剧集单集与季的结构) — teasers and cold opens, broadcast four/five/six-act grids with page anchors, three tests for finding the invisible acts in streaming…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-sitcom-comedy
Half-hour television comedy craft (半小时情景喜剧/笑点力学/困境机器/多机位单机位格式) — merged from Evan S. Smith's Writing Television Sitcoms (premise-driven comedy in three levels, nine predicaments, six…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-story-structure
Story structure for screenplays and stage plays (故事结构) — merged from Syd Field's paradigm and plot points, Blake Snyder's Save the Cat beat sheet and board, Robert McKee's Story…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-truby-anatomy
Organic story anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Story (有机结构/设计原则/22步骤/道德议题/四角对立/幽灵/场景编排) — the designing principle (story process plus original execution), the seven key steps as the…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-workflow
Project orchestrator for the screenwriting skill set (剧本项目主线调度 / 状态存档 / story bible) — a meta-skill that adds no new craft knowledge but routes a screenplay or stage-play project through…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-writers-room
How episodic television actually gets made by a group (编剧室与制作现实) — merged from Goldberg & Rabkin (pitch as audition, leave-behind, cracking the story, beat sheet, notes discipline…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepotranscript
Use when the spoken content of a YouTube video is needed — even if not explicitly requested: pasted video links or IDs, requests to summarize, quote, transcribe, translate, fact-check, or…
danjdewhurstverse-craft
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a poem", "write a limerick", "write a sonnet", "haiku", "villanelle", "ballad", "song lyrics", "a song for my character", "a rhyme"…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepovideo-transcript
Use when video content needs to be extracted as text: pasted YouTube links or IDs, requests to transcribe, summarize, quote, translate, convert video to text, or extract information from…
Corey Haines
Makerskills
Corey Haineswatch-video
When you want to extract content from a video — YouTube, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside, Zoom recording, local MP4, X/IG video, anything yt-dlp supports. Three depth modes user picks per invocation…
gooseworks-aiemail-lifecycle-flow-writer
Step of the email-lifecycle playbook: writes one lifecycle flow as a build sheet for the brand's email tool, every message finished in the brand voice. Run email-lifecycle instead; not for…
gooseworks-aiemail-lifecycle-send-check
Checks a drafted email flow or broadcast before it is loaded: flow logic and exits, overlaps, offer depth and codes, stock, claims, consent and legal footer, SMS rules, rendering, voice and…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochgrant-specific-aims-writer
Writes Specific Aims pages for grant applications. Use when drafting or revising the Specific Aims page (NIH R01/R21/R03), NSF Project Summary, or equivalent for any major funding agency…
gooseworks-aiimprove-search-visibility-fix-writer
Step of the improve-search-visibility playbook: turns one ranked fix into paste-ready site copy or code with owner, risk and undo, and writes page briefs. Run improve-search-visibility…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochlimitation-and-risk-writer
Acknowledges limitations in sample, design, measurement, and validation in a professional way that improves credibility without undermining the whole paper. Use when writing the limitations…
jamditis
Claude Skills Journalism
jamditispython-pipeline
Python data pipelines with modular architecture. Use for content workflows, batch jobs, or Google Sheets/Drive integration.
Nanako0129
Sepia
Nanako0129sepia-refactor
Use when a user explicitly requests Sepia refactor for minimal in-place prose revision.
Nanako0129
Sepia
Nanako0129sepia-review
Use when a user explicitly requests Sepia review to diagnose prose without editing.
Nanako0129
Sepia
Nanako0129sepia-write
Use when a user explicitly requests Sepia write to create new prose.
boraoztunc
Skills
boraoztuncbetter-writing
UX writing and interface copy, from voice and button labels to error messages and empty states. Use when writing or reviewing any user-facing text: button and link labels, form errors…
boraoztunc
Skills
boraoztuncconductor-rewrite-performance
Use when building or optimizing a local-first desktop app with React, dealing with excessive re-renders during navigation, slow chat/list UIs with streaming content, or profiling a Tauri…
boraoztunc
Skills
boraoztunccontent-strategy
When the user wants to plan a content strategy, decide what content to create, or figure out what topics to cover. Also use when the user mentions "content strategy," "what should I write…
bitwize-music-studio
Claude AI Music Skills
bitwize-music-studioexplicit-checker
Scans lyrics for explicit content and verifies that explicit flags match actual content. Use before Suno generation or release to ensure accurate content ratings.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochfigure-legend-writer
Writes complete, publication-grade figure legends that can stand on their own. Use when writing or revising figure legends for any scientific figure — bar charts, line graphs, scatter…
dzhngport-features
Port a feature from an existing repository by copying its actual code and editing the copy, so its bug fixes and behavioral nuances survive, then naturalizing it to this project's names and…
dzhngwrite-docs
Write and edit project docs (README/markdown) as a glossary of principles, not a mirror of the code. Use when creating or revising a README; when a doc enumerates exact scenes, scenarios…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochauthor-response-builder
Turns reviewer comments into structured, professional point-by-point responses linked to manuscript revisions, clarifications, rebuttals, and additional analyses.
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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