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.
aiworkskillsaws-wechat-sticker
公众号贴图｜九宫格｜多图推送｜图片消息｜表情包 — 贴图与多图推送：从创意构思、规划图序、AI 生图到整组图审核，产出一组风格统一的图片 + 每张配文。发布走常规图文链路（拼成图文后 formatting + publish），微信原生「图片消息」需在公众号后台手动发。面向公众号运营、自媒体、IP 账号。触发词：「贴图」「多图推送」「发组…
Ootto-AIbest-time-scheduler
Recommends the posting times and weekly cadence that fit your audience's actual activity windows. Use when the user says "when should I post", "best time to post", "posting schedule", "how…
Ootto-AIbio-profile-optimizer
Rewrites your bio, name field and pinned-reel order to convert profile visits into follows and clicks. Use when the user says "rewrite my bio", "optimize my profile", "what should my bio…
Ootto-AIcaption-and-hashtags
Write the caption, hashtag set, and first comment for a reel or post. Use when the user says "caption", "hashtags", "write the description", "what do I write under this", "first comment"…
Ootto-AIcarousel-builder
Turns one idea into a swipeable carousel — slide-by-slide copy, a slide 1 that stops the scroll, and a last slide worth saving. Use when the user says "make this a carousel", "turn this…
Ootto-AIcollab-outreach
Drafts personalized pitches to creators and brands for collab reels, shoutouts and partnerships. Use when the user says "pitch a collab", "outreach to creators", "write a DM to this…
Ootto-AIcomment-mining
Reads your comments and DMs to surface the questions, objections and exact phrases your audience uses — and turns them into content ideas. Use when the user says "what should I post about"…
Ootto-AIcomment-responder
Turn every comment into a lead on autopilot. Claude watches your new comments, posts a friendly public reply (never a link), and DMs the commenter your lead magnet / resource — then logs…
Ootto-AIcompetitor-teardown
Reverse-engineers a rival account's best posts into the patterns, hooks, and posting cadence actually driving their growth. Use when the user says "break down this account", "why is this…
Ootto-AIcontent-audit
Reviews your last 30 posts to find what is worth doubling down on, what is dead weight, and the gaps to fill. Use when the user says "audit my content", "what is working on my account"…
Ootto-AIcontent-calendar
Turn a batch of ideas (or your content pillars) into a 2-week reel posting calendar with hooks, formats, and a daily plan. Use when the user says "content calendar", "posting schedule"…
Ootto-AIcontent-pillar-builder
Defines the 3-5 themes your account posts against, so every reel ladders up to a clear position. Use when the user says "what are my content pillars", "define my themes", "what should my…
Ootto-AIcontent-repurposer
Turn one long-form source (blog post, podcast, YouTube video, webinar, transcript) into a batch of short-form reel ideas and scripts. Use when the user says "repurpose", "turn this into…
Ootto-AIcover-thumbnail-brief
Writes the cover-frame text and visual brief that makes your reel stop the scroll on the grid and in Explore. Use when the user says "write my cover text", "thumbnail brief", "what should…
Ootto-AIcross-platform-reformatter
Reshapes one Instagram reel into a TikTok and a YouTube Short — adjusting hook, length and captions per platform. Use when the user says "repost this to TikTok", "make this a Short"…
Ootto-AIcta-writer
Writes the end-of-reel call to action that drives the exact next step — follow, DM a keyword, save, or click. Use when the user says "write my CTA", "how should I end this reel", "what…
Illyism
SEO Skills
Illyismcustomer-journey
Map how customers discover, evaluate, and choose a product across Google, AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity), and social platforms, using the 5-stage awareness journey. Use when the…
Ootto-AIdm-script-writer
Writes the DM flow that turns an inbound comment or lead-magnet request into a booked call or a sale. Use when the user says "write my DM script", "what do I send after they comment", "DM…
zLanqing
Codex Claude Academic Skills
zLanqingresearch-writing-skill
Chinese-first research paper writing, revision, polishing, section drafting, rebuttal, peer-review response, thesis prose improvement, and manuscript argument planning. Use when the user…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitoryour-skill-name
Replace with when the AI should activate this skill. Be pushy — cover multiple phrasings so the AI activates for a wide range of user prompts.
brycewang-stanfordaamas-writing-style
Use when revising an AAMAS paper so the interaction contribution leads the first page, the solution concept or incentive property is named, the game and agents are legible, claims are…
Affitor
Affiliate Skills
Affitoraffiliate-check
Live affiliate program data from openaffiliate.dev. Search programs, compare commissions, check cookie days, find top performers. Use when researching affiliate programs, comparing options…
Ootto-AIb-roll-shot-list
Turns a script into a shoot-ready shot list — every clip, angle and visual you need to film, in order. Use when the user says "what do I need to film", "shot list for this", "b-roll list"…
irinabuht12-osscontent-aeo-optimizer
Rewrite existing pages so AI assistants can extract, quote, and cite them. Claude restructures your content into answer-ready blocks — direct answers, comparison tables, stats with sources…
inhouseseoimprove-content
Use when rewriting or refreshing an existing page that's underperforming. The agent fetches the URL, analyzes the current content, researches the SERP, and rewrites using the full…
inhouseseokeyword-deep-dive
Use when planning to rank for a specific keyword. The agent Googles it, reads the top 10, classifies intent, reads the top 3 competitor pages, and produces a 90-day ranking plan with…
inhouseseolinkbuilding
Use when planning link acquisition. Classifies the site's authority phase from site age and visible signals, then recommends phase-appropriate tactics from the bundled tactic playbook…
inhouseseopage-audit
Use when auditing a specific page's SEO performance, content quality, and competitive position. The agent fetches the URL, Googles the primary keyword, reads the top 3 competitors, and…
inhouseseotopic-cluster-planning
Use when planning a topic cluster (hub + spokes) for a new content area. The agent researches the space, identifies the hub topic, maps the spokes, and produces a specific content plan with…
inhouseseowrite-content
Use when writing a complete SEO article. Includes the full anti-AI-slop ruleset (banned vocabulary, banned phrases, banned structural patterns) and voice rules. The agent researches the…
inhouseseosemantic-gap-analysis
Use when a page ranks for a keyword but isn't in the top 3 and you want to know exactly what's missing. The agent compares the page to the top-ranking competitors and produces a specific…
inhouseseoexpert-interview
Use when extracting first-party expertise from a subject-matter expert before writing content. Produces a knowledge document of contrarian takes, specific examples, and surprising outcomes…
appariciojunior
Video Editor Skills
appariciojuniorrough-cut
Editorial rules for choosing what to keep in talking-head footage (retakes, false starts, spoken notes to the editor, fillers) and the keep-list / moments formats that a planner script…
Prat011internal-comms
A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227paper-writing-section
Write a specific section of an academic paper (Abstract, Introduction, Background, Related Work, Methods, Experiments, Results, Discussion/Conclusion) with section-specific guidance and…
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
lingzhi227rebuttal-writing
Write point-by-point rebuttals to reviewer comments. Extract concerns from reviews, generate evidence-based responses, and format as a structured rebuttal document. Use after receiving peer…
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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