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.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochclaim-strength-calibrator
Calibrates manuscript claim strength so wording matches the actual evidence level, study design, and validation status.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochconsistency-checker-across-manuscript
Checks consistency across title, abstract, methods, results, figures, tables, and supplements to identify internal contradictions and version drift in biomedical manuscripts.
aiskillstore
Marketplace
aiskillstoredoc-coauthoring
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochgraphical-abstract-generator
Converts a biomedical study storyline into a graphical abstract and, when direct image capability is available, generates the graphical abstract directly; otherwise it falls back to…
sergebulaevig-content-planner
Generate a weekly Instagram content plan from a theme, audience, and content pillars. Produces a per-day mix of Reels, carousels, single images, and stories, each with a hook formula…
sergebulaevig-hook-extractor
Reverse-engineer the hook from a viral Instagram Reel or carousel, given a URL or a pasted caption. Identifies which of the 10 canonical 2026 formulas it uses (number-first, contrarian…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochintroduction-logic-builder
Builds background-gap-objective logic for biomedical manuscript introductions with clear study positioning and disciplined narrative structure.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochintroduction-section-writer
Writes the full Introduction section of a biomedical manuscript based on an approved or sufficiently clear study logic, while preserving evidence boundaries and introduction discipline.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochlatex-manuscript-format-converter
Converts existing manuscript content into LaTeX format aligned with a target journal, conference, or template while preserving manuscript meaning and structural integrity.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochmedical-english-precision-editor
Improves medical English precision without changing the underlying facts, evidence boundaries, or intended scientific meaning.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochmethods-section-writer
Turns your protocol and analysis workflow into publication-ready Methods text. Use when writing or revising the Methods section of a biomedical manuscript, ensuring it complies with…
sanjay3290
AI Skills
sanjay3290outline
Search, read, and manage Outline wiki documents. Use when: (1) searching wiki for documentation, (2) reading wiki pages or articles, (3) listing wiki collections or documents, (4) creating…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochpaper-sprint-review
Scrum-inspired paper review, revision, and R&R workflow. Handles docx/tex/md/PDF in English or Chinese. Auto-detects manuscript stage, estimates sprint count, runs multi-lens review…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochreference-integrity-checker
Checks whether manuscript references are accurately matched to claims, appropriately scoped, and not overextended, misquoted, or second-hand cited.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochresults-section-structurer
Organizes biomedical figures, analyses, and result blocks into a clear Results section structure with disciplined narrative ordering and evidence-aware presentation.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochresults-section-writer
Writes the full Results section of a biomedical manuscript from a sufficiently clear result structure, figure inventory, or analysis summary while preserving evidence boundaries and result…
Illyism
SEO Skills
Illyismseo-autopilot
When the user wants an agent to run SEO for a product end to end on a daily schedule, with state kept in a seo/ folder in the repo. Covers site health checks, fact checks against commits…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochtable-narrative-writer
Converts biomedical table content into clear manuscript or presentation narrative by prioritizing meaningful patterns, contrasts, and interpretation boundaries rather than restating every…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochtitle-and-abstract-optimizer
Optimizes manuscript titles and abstracts for information density, factual accuracy, and submission fit in biomedical research writing.
Illyism
SEO Skills
Illyismdiff-marketing
Generate customer-focused marketing content from recent git changes, commits, merged pull requests, and shipped features. Use when the user invokes /diff-marketing or /marketing, or asks…
sergebulaevig-audience-insights
Read your Instagram niche and profile from real data via Apify, no login. Scan a hashtag for the posts traveling now (likes, comments, owner) to see the format and hook that works. Pull…
sergebulaevig-hashtag-strategist
Build a sized Instagram hashtag set for a post using the 2026 reality that 3 to 5 well-chosen tags beat 30 random ones. Sizes each tag as niche (under 50k posts), mid (50k to 500k), or…
sergebulaevig-profile-optimizer
Audit and rewrite an Instagram profile end-to-end for 2026: profile photo, searchable NAME field weighted with a keyword, @handle, bio (150 chars: value plus topic plus proof), goal-matched…
sergebulaevig-repurposer
Repurpose existing content into a native Instagram post. Take a LinkedIn, blog, YouTube script, or X tweet or thread and rebuild it for Instagram: a long piece becomes a carousel or a…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitorperformance-report
Generate affiliate performance reports with KPIs and recommendations. Triggers on: "show my affiliate report", "how are my programs doing", "performance review", "earnings report", "monthly…
Illyism
SEO Skills
Illyismscribiz
Get the transcript, on-screen text, summary, and chapters of any video or audio with Scribiz. Use when the user wants to transcribe a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, podcast, or local media…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitorviral-post-writer
Write viral social media posts that promote affiliate products naturally. Use this skill when the user asks anything about writing social media content for affiliate marketing, creating…
boraoztunc
Skills
boraoztuncanimejs
Anime.js adapter patterns for HyperFrames. Use when writing Anime.js animations or timelines inside HyperFrames compositions, registering animations on window.__hfAnime, making Anime.js…
aiworkskillsaws-wechat-article-assets
公众号素材｜业务资料库｜预设包｜.aws 预设包｜主题包｜品牌包｜aiworkskills.cn — 用户业务资料库与预设包管理：业务资料按产品名组织在 `.aws-article/products/{产品名}/`（介绍 .md 直挂产品根 + 配图归 `images/` 子目录含同名说明 .md），AI 与用户对话产出业务介绍内容时引导用户保存；图片入库走…
aiworkskillsaws-wechat-article-formatting
公众号排版｜Markdown 转 HTML｜排版主题｜段落样式 — 公众号一键排版工具，Markdown 文稿转微信后台可粘贴 HTML，多主题、多字号、段落样式切换，所见即所得。面向公众号编辑、独立作者、排版岗。触发词：「排版」「版式」「美化」「格式化」「字号」「段落样式」「换个排版主题」「换个版式」「转 HTML」「弄好看点」「调整格…
aiworkskillsaws-wechat-article-publish
公众号发布｜公众号草稿箱｜公众号群发｜图文推送｜微信 API｜wechat automation｜WeChat API automation｜auto publish｜scheduled publish — 公众号 API 发布工具，图文入草稿箱或直接群发，支持封面素材上传、发布前检查与 draft/published 模式切换。面向公众…
Illyism
SEO Skills
Illyismblitz-copy
When the user wants high-converting copy for landing pages, headlines, cold emails, X/LinkedIn posts, video intros, or SEO titles — and already knows their audience. Also use when the user…
onvoyage-ai
GTM Engineer Skills
onvoyage-aigeo-content-research
Researches what prompts people ask AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude) about a product category and produces a prompts.csv artifact — a prioritized, strictly-schema'd list of…
sanjay3290
AI Skills
sanjay3290google-docs
Interact with Google Docs - create documents, search by title, read content, and edit text. Use when user asks to: create a Google Doc, find a document, read doc content, add text to a doc…
charlie947
Motion Graphics Skills
charlie947newsletter-promo
Turn a newsletter edition into a 12-20 second promo clip for LinkedIn, Instagram or X that drives people to read and subscribe. Hook question, three proof frames from the edition, then the…
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingpaper-lookup
Search 10 academic paper databases via REST APIs for research papers, preprints, and scholarly articles. Covers PubMed, PMC (full text), bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref…
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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