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

Matt Pocock
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

Matt Pocock
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
Anthropic
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
Anthropic
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
Jesse Vincent
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.
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
bluesky
Create and manage content for Bluesky social network. Use when the user says "Bluesky post", "post to Bluesky", "Bluesky content", "Bluesky strategy", "AT Protocol", or asks about creating…
arnabbagxd
Brand Building Skills
brand-voice
Define a brand's verbal identity — tone, voice, writing style, vocabulary, and messaging rules. Use when the user says "brand voice", "tone of voice", "how should we write", "writing…
Paramchoudhary
ResumeSkills
career-changer-translator
Translate skills from one industry to another, identify transferable skills
claims-gate
Checks every claim in a piece of copy (ads, emails, posts, pages, scripts, briefs) against the claims the brand has approved. Keeps, rewrites or cuts each line, and lists the proof that…
Paramchoudhary
ResumeSkills
cold-email-writer
Write personalized cold outreach emails to hiring managers and founders — specific, human, not a pitch deck
ScrapeCreators
Social Media Research Skills
competitor-social-research
Use when the user wants to research competitors' social media strategy, compare brands or creators, find what content is working in a niche, identify content gaps, or produce a practical…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
content-calendar
Plan and schedule social media and content marketing calendars. Monthly and weekly planning, content mix ratios, theme days, platform-specific timing, and batch creation workflows. Trigger…
OpenClaudia
Openclaudia Skills
content-gap-analysis
Identify content gaps between your site and competitors. Use when the user says "content gaps", "what am I missing", "competitor content", "content opportunities", "topics I should cover"…
content-research-writer
Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your…
jsmastery-pro
Skills
document
Run /document `pr` | `changelog` | `release-note` | `postmortem` (or let it ask) to write the human facing prose about a change. Drafts from the real commits and diff, writing to the right…
aiskillstore
Marketplace
docx
Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When Claude needs to work with professional…
Paramchoudhary
ResumeSkills
executive-resume-writer
Create C-suite and VP level resumes emphasizing strategic leadership
Jakeschincariol
Instagram Agent Skill
ig-repurpose
Turn one long asset - a YouTube video, podcast, livestream, newsletter, blog post or client call - into a week of reels and carousels. Use when the user says "repurpose this", "turn this…

md2wechat
Convert Markdown to WeChat Official Account HTML, inspect supported providers/themes/prompts, generate article images, create drafts, write with creator styles, prepare title suggestions…

validate-evaluator
Calibrate an LLM judge against human labels using data splits, TPR/TNR, and bias correction. Use after writing a judge prompt (write-judge-prompt) when you need to verify alignment before…

write-judge-prompt
Design LLM-as-Judge evaluators for subjective criteria that code-based checks cannot handle. Use when a failure mode requires interpretation (tone, faithfulness, relevance, completeness)…
Jakeschincariol
Youtube Agent Skill
yt-script
Write a YouTube video script from a raw idea - hook options off 21 formulas, scored, then the full spoken script with the retention beats marked. Use whenever the user wants a video script…
adaptation
This skill should be used when the user asks to "make an audiobook", "narration script", "narrator", "ACX", "Findaway", "pronunciation guide", "how long is the audiobook", "adapt to a…

amazon-a-plus-content
Amazon A+ Content strategy and creation. Module layouts, persuasive copy, comparison charts, image briefs, and conversion optimization. Use when the user asks about A+ Content, Enhanced…

blender-video-editing
Video in Blender 5.2 - Video Sequencer edits from Python (clips, image sequences, crossfades, titles, music fades, proxies, color management, H.264/AAC output) and motion tracking (feature…
ZeroPointRepo
Youtube Skills
captions
Use when captions, subtitles, or the spoken text of a YouTube video is needed — even if not explicitly requested: pasted video links or IDs, requests to read, quote, or translate a video…
chapter-writing
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a chapter", "next chapter", "chapter outline", "draft chapter", "continue the story", "write a scene", "outline a chapter", or wants…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
chekhov-dramaturgy
Writing plays and screenplays in the Chekhovian mode (契诃夫戏剧法) — distilled from the complete plays (没有父亲的人/普拉东诺夫, 伊凡诺夫, 林妖→万尼亚舅舅, 海鸥, 三姊妹, 樱桃园, nine one-acts) plus Chekhov's own letters…

chinese-novelist
当用户要求写小说、创作故事、分章节写作、连续剧情、长篇小说,或需要续写/校验未完成的小说项目时使用。支持悬疑/言情/奇幻/科幻/历史等全题材中文创作。
bitwize-music-studio
Claude AI Music Skills
cloud-uploader
Uploads promo videos and content to Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3. Use when the user wants to host promo content for social media or distribution.
boraoztunc
Skills
copy-editing
When the user wants to edit, review, or improve existing marketing copy. Also use when the user mentions 'edit this copy,' 'review my copy,' 'copy feedback,' 'proofread,' 'polish this,'…

copy-trading
Wallet evaluation, monitoring, and copy-trade strategy design for Solana DEX trading
boraoztunc
Skills
copywriting
When the user wants to write, rewrite, or improve marketing copy for any page — including homepage, landing pages, pricing pages, feature pages, about pages, or product pages. Also use when…
databricks
Databricks Agent Skills
databricks-serverless
Serverless compute for Databricks jobs, Lakeflow pipelines and Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs), with STANDARD or PERFORMANCE_OPTIMIZED and classic only where serverless cannot run the…
waynesutton
Builder Skills
dev
House style for full stack Convex work: React, Vite, TypeScript, Convex mutations, Convex Auth, Resend, design system over browser defaults, and the files.md, changelog.md, task.md habit…
discovery-drafting
This skill should be used when the user asks about "pantsing", "discovery write", "write without an outline", "discovery draft", "write into the dark", "story kernel", "reconcile a…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
fill-protocol
Use when an institutional Word form (.doc/.docx IRB protocol, ethics application, grant template) must be filled without breaking its styles, tables, fonts or page layout. Renders content…
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
humanize
Use when a manuscript or response-to-reviewers letter reads as AI-written. Scans for 27 AI writing patterns and rewrites flagged passages, preserving technical accuracy and bounding how…

instagram-marketing
Plan, draft, audit, and publish content for Instagram. Use when the user wants to write a caption with a first-125-char hook, plan a slide-by-slide carousel, reverse-engineer the hook from…
bitwize-music-studio
Claude AI Music Skills
lyric-writer
Writes or reviews lyrics with professional prosody, rhyme craft, and quality checks. Use when writing new lyrics, revising existing lyrics, or when the user says 'let's work on a track.'
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
ozu-screenplay-style
Writing screenplays in the style of Ozu Yasujiro and Noda Kogo (小津安二郎・野田高梧) — distilled from six complete screenplays (晚春 Late Spring, 麦秋 Early Summer, 东京物语 Tokyo Story, 浮草 Floating Weeds…
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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