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.
Owl-Listener
Designer Skills
Owl-Listenerlocalization-design
Design for multiple languages, writing directions, and cultural contexts — text expansion, RTL mirroring, and locale formats. Use when shipping beyond one locale. For the words themselves…
brycewang-stanfordresearch-grants
Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements…
OpenSenseNovasn-image-imitate
Generates a new image that imitates the style of a reference image while updating content based on user intent. Uses a three-stage pipeline: image annotation (long caption), caption…
rmyndharis
Antigravity Skills
rmyndharisarticle-illustrations
Generate hand-drawn 16:9 article illustrations featuring the Grav character IP. Turns article concepts into memorable whiteboard-sketch explanations with a recurring floating character…
kangarookingcangjie-skill
Distill a book, long-video transcript, podcast, course, or interview into a coherent set of executable skills. Use when the user asks to "拆书" / "蒸馏一本书" / "把 XX 书做成 skill" / "把这个视频/播客/课程蒸馏成…
Corey Haines
Makerskills
Corey Hainescastmate
When you want to pull in the right AI model for the right job: hand a task to another agent CLI (Codex, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Amp, OpenCode, Cursor, Kiro, Antigravity), or send one prompt…
jezweb
Claude Skills
jezwebonboarding-ux
Audit and generate in-app user guidance — onboarding flows, empty states, tooltips, feature tours, contextual help, defaults, and inline hints. Browses the app to find where new users would…
gooseworks-aianalyze-performance
Weekly performance read across every channel we run: what worked, why, and what to make next, judged on the business's real number (store revenue, qualified pipeline, retained users), not…
dzhngcinematic-shot
Shoot software UI like a film. A sequence of hero shots, each a steep, oblique, extreme close-up of the interface floating in black, with a razor-thin focal plane, a slow motivated camera…
jeremylongshorecode
Use BEFORE generating, refactoring, reviewing, or debugging code. Trigger phrases include "write a function/script/class for X", "review this code/diff/PR", "refactor this", "debug this…
dpearson2699
Swift IOS Skills
dpearson2699core-bluetooth
Build direct Bluetooth Low Energy workflows with Core Bluetooth. Use when implementing BLE central or peripheral GATT communication, scanning or connecting with CBCentralManager…
dpearson2699
Swift IOS Skills
dpearson2699core-nfc
Read and write NFC tags using CoreNFC. Use when scanning NDEF tags, reading ISO7816/ISO15693/FeliCa/MIFARE tags, writing NDEF messages, handling NFC session lifecycle, configuring NFC…
Pluviobyte
Rnskill
Pluviobytedbs-content-system
dontbesilent 内容结构化系统。把本地大量文稿、推文、选题、案例和课程稿搭成一个可持续生长的内容结构化工程：先审计内容规模与边界，再建立新工程、复制素材、抽取内容单元、生成主题地图与选题装配稿。 触发方式：/dbs-content-system、/内容结构化系统、「把我的内容做成结构化系统」「把本地素材变成可重组系统」「帮我搭内…
alchaincyfhuashu-proofreading
三遍审校降低AI检测率，让文章更有人味。当用户提到"AI味太重"、"像AI写的"、"降低AI检测率"、"审校"、"自然一些"时使用。
kajisho5shipping-across-surfaces
Land a change everywhere the same fact is stated — enumerating the full surface inventory (landing copy, docs, machine-readable summaries, changelog badges repeated across every page…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepotranscriptapi
Use when YouTube is or could be relevant — even if not mentioned: pasted video/channel/playlist links, video IDs, @handles, creator lookups, video summaries, quotes, translations, topic…
arnabbagxd
Brand Building Skills
arnabbagxdugc-strategy
Build a User Generated Content (UGC) strategy — getting customers to create content, review generation, UGC briefs for creators, social campaigns, contest mechanics, legal rights…
kajisho5verifying-external-behavior
Confirms what a third-party library, remote API, build backend, or scraped document actually does before writing code that depends on it — throwaway probes that run in seconds, permissive…
kajisho5writing-defect-reports
Establish a finding before you publish it, and correct it after — headlines that overstate what actually reproduces at the layer a user sees, reporting code that no entry point can reach or…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
ZeroPointRepoyoutube-full
Use when YouTube is or could be relevant — even if not mentioned: pasted video/channel/playlist links, video IDs, @handles, creator lookups, video summaries, quotes, translations, topic…
mohitagw15856aeo-optimizer
Optimize an article for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) so AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude can extract, quote, and cite it. Use when asked to AEO-optimize, make content…
posit-dev
Skills
posit-devalt-text
Generate and improve accessible alt text for data visualizations and images in R packages and Quarto documents. Use when the user wants to add, improve, or audit alt text for figures in a…
Corey Haines
Makerskills
Corey Hainescompany-cfo
Monthly CFO workflow for a company or agency — pull raw data from bank + payment processor + payroll + expense management, categorize and reconcile, compute end-of-month cash via…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningdevelopmental-band-translator
Tags harness-decomposed curriculum items (KUDs, LTs, criteria) with a school's developmental band metadata while preserving source voice and labels. Supply the band schema; the skill…
nexscope-aiecommerce-content-marketing
E-commerce content marketing strategy planner. Generates content calendars, topic ideas, and platform-specific strategies by analyzing customer reviews, trends, competitor content, and SEO…
composio-communityinternal-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…
Corey Haines
Makerskills
Corey Hainespaste
When you want to clean and reformat content (usually from your terminal) for pasting into Slack, Notion, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, email, GitHub, or plain text. Strips ANSI codes, box-drawing…
posit-dev
Skills
posit-devr-testthat
Best practices for writing R package tests with testthat version 3+. Use this skill when writing or organizing tests for an R package or when improving existing tests that use testthat. It…
posit-dev
Skills
posit-devrelease-post
Create professional package release blog posts following Tidyverse or Shiny blog conventions. Use when the user needs to: (1) Write a release announcement blog post for an R or Python…
plugin87ux-writing
Write or review UI copy (buttons, errors, empty states, microcopy, notifications, labels) using the voice & tone system (clear, concise, useful, human, honest) with the what→why→how error…
waynesutton
Builder Skills
waynesuttonwrite
Drafts, proofs, and audits prose in the author's voice, matched to the reader and destination. Covers social posts, articles, emails, docs, READMEs, commit messages, and feature…
Callstackwriting-user-docs
House style for user-facing documentation — voice, scope, structure, and what to leave out. Use this skill whenever writing, editing, or reviewing anything a user reads to learn how to use…
dzhngxiaohei-illustrations
Generate Ian-style Xiaohei illustrations for articles, posts, blogs, Notion documents, workflows, methods, processes, structures, states, metaphors, and opinions. Use when the user asks for…
gooseworks-aiad-policy-check
Checks paid ads against the ad platform's rules (Meta, TikTok, Google, LinkedIn and others) and the brand's category rules: the copy, on-image or on-screen text, pictures and people…
jamditis
Claude Skills Journalism
jamditisai-writing-detox
Eliminates AI-generated writing patterns that erode reader trust. Use when writing or editing articles, docs, or press releases.
dzhngaudit-tests
Audit whether tests earn their maintenance cost and which suite owns each contract. Use when pruning redundant tests, investigating implementation coupling or test-only production hooks…
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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