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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
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  2. #2
    Matt Pocock

    Writing Shape

    Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.

    Pack321k33MScore 94
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  3. Jesse Vincent

    Superpowers

    #3
    Jesse Vincent

    Writing Skills

    Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment

    Pack316k3.9MScore 94
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  4. Anthropic

    Skills

    #4
    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
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  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
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  6. Anthropic

    Skills

    #6
    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
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  7. Anthropic

    Skills

    #7
    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
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  8. Corey Haines

    Marketingskills

    #8
    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
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  9. Jesse Vincent

    Superpowers

    #9
    Jesse Vincent

    Writing Plans

    Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code

    Pack316k3.9MScore 90
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  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
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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.

chubbyguan

Chubbyskills

51
chubbyguan

wechat-article-ingest

微信公众号文章 → Markdown 提取 + A层观点提取 + B层问题链生成。 支持直接链接抓取和 PDF 提取两种方式。

Pack1.3k461Writing
50
brycewang-stanford

aaai-writing-style

Use when revising an AAAI manuscript for broad-AI-audience fit, a first-page contribution statement legible to non-specialist Phase-1 reviewers, two-column readability, concise novelty…

Pack1.4k864Writing
50
irinabuht12-oss

ad-copy-variant-generator

Analyzes your top performing ads, identifies what's working in the hooks, CTAs, messaging angles, and formats, then generates new variants that follow the same winning patterns while…

Pack7.2k16Marketing
50
inhouseseo

content-brief

Use when planning a new article. The agent Googles the keyword, reads the top 10 results, classifies intent, maps the content gap, and produces a writer-ready brief with structure, outline…

Pack3921.6kWriting

chubbyguan

Chubbyskills

50
chubbyguan

content-enrich

内容加工:给任意采集产物(转录稿 / 文章 / 笔记)自动补「摘要 + 要点 + 标签 + 价值判断」, 写进 frontmatter 并在正文顶部插入摘要块。是「加工层」通用能力,惠及仓库所有采集 skill。

Pack1.3k461Writing

tfriedel

Claude Office Skills

50
tfriedel

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…

Pack8497kDocuments
50
inhouseseo

eeat-audit

Use when auditing a page for E-E-A-T signals. The agent reads the page and scores Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — then tells you exactly what to add to each…

Pack3921.6kSEO & GEO
50
inhouseseo

featured-snippet-optimizer

Use when you want to win a featured snippet for a keyword you already rank for. The agent checks the current snippet format, analyzes your content, and rewrites the relevant section to…

Pack3921.6kWriting
50
qufei1993

manage-skills-hub

Use this skill whenever an Agent needs to query, find, install, deploy, update, tag, adopt, diagnose, or safely remove Skills Hub content, including natural-language requests to manage…

Pack1.9k28Writing
49
Microck

andrew-kane-gem-writer

Write Ruby gems following Andrew Kane's proven patterns and philosophy. Use when creating new Ruby gems, refactoring existing gems, designing gem APIs, or when the user wants clean…

Pack4134.8kWriting

badlogic

Pi Skills

49
badlogic

brave-search

Web search and content extraction via Brave Search API. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any web content. Lightweight, no browser required.

Pack2.7k4.2kWriting
49
Prat011

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…

Pack1.9k987Writing

Aboudjem

Humanizer Skill

49
Aboudjem

humanizer

Detects 55 AI writing patterns and rewrites text in five voice profiles so it reads like a specific human wrote it, with an optional 0-100 AI-tell score. Use when text sounds AI-generated…

3051.3kAnti-slop
49
zhnnky329

paper-section-writer

Draft submission-ready mathematical-modeling paper sections from the approved solution package, frozen numbers, human decision ledger, and verified figures without searching scattered…

Pack1.1k1kResearch

appariciojunior

Video Editor Skills

49
appariciojunior

resolve-scripting

Practical DaVinci Resolve Studio scripting knowledge for building edits from code - timelines from a template, frame-exact appends, zoom, grades, custom frame sizes, subtitles, renders, and…

Pack435519Video

tfriedel

Claude Office Skills

48
tfriedel

pptx

Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working…

Pack8497kDocuments

appariciojunior

Video Editor Skills

48
appariciojunior

video-editor-setup

Sets up an AI first-pass video editing workspace for DaVinci Resolve Studio with Claude Code - folders, tools, API keys handled safely, the Resolve template, and which small scripts to…

Pack435519Writing

zxkane

Aws Skills

47
zxkane

aws-sst-development

SST v4 (Ion) expert for managing AWS resources as code with the Pulumi-backed framework. Use when writing or editing sst.config.ts, building infra/ modules (sst.aws.Funct…

Pack3774.6kDevOps

lingxling

Awesome Skills Cn

47
lingxling

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…

Pack331388Writing
47
qufei1993

dsh-translate-docs

仅在用户明确调用时翻译或同步指定文档,保留技术含义、结构、命令和两边的独立修改。

Pack1.9k28Writing

appariciojunior

Video Editor Skills

47
appariciojunior

edit-video

The one-command first-pass edit. Takes footage from raw video/, transcribes it, cuts retakes and dead air while keeping a natural vlog rhythm, keeps B-roll, and builds the timeline in the…

Pack435519Video

BrianRWagner

AI Marketing Claude Code Skills

47
BrianRWagner

newsletter-creation-curation

Industry-adaptive B2B newsletter creation with stage, role, and geography-aware workflows

Pack45510kWriting

lingzhi227

Agent Research Skills

47
lingzhi227

novelty-assessment

Assess research idea novelty through systematic literature search. Multi-round search-evaluate loops with harsh critic persona. Binary novel/not-novel decision with justification. Use…

Pack46260kResearch

lingzhi227

Agent Research Skills

47
lingzhi227

related-work-writing

Write Related Work sections that compare and contrast prior work with your approach. Organize by theme, cite broadly, and explain how your work differs. Use when writing or improving the…

Pack46260kWriting

arpitg1304

Robotics Agent Skills

47
arpitg1304

robotics-testing

Testing strategies, patterns, and tools for robotics software. Use this skill when writing unit tests, integration tests, simulation tests, or hardware-in-the-loop tests for robot systems…

Pack4012.1kTesting

lingzhi227

Agent Research Skills

47
lingzhi227

survey-generation

Generate complete academic survey papers using multi-LLM parallel outline generation, RAG-based subsection writing, citation validation, and local coherence enhancement. Based on AutoSurvey…

Pack46260kResearch

Jesse Vincent

Superpowers Skills

47
Jesse Vincent

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass

Pack76017kTesting

Jesse Vincent

Superpowers Skills

47
Jesse Vincent

Writing Skills

TDD for process documentation - test with subagents before writing, iterate until bulletproof

Pack76017kWriting

gulucaptain

Best Paper Writing Skill

46
gulucaptain

bestpaper-writing

Draft or rewrite the title, Abstract, Introduction, Method and Experiments of an ML/CV paper in the style of CVPR/ICCV/NeurIPS best papers, distilled from 60 award papers, and plan and draw…

3387Writing
46
sno-ai

test-writer

Write and improve test-owned code: tests, test scripts, fixtures, evals, and test-only helpers. Use whenever Codex is asked to create or change test code. Its only job is to produce the…

Pack8641Testing
45
sno-ai

charter

Write, revise or review a charter: the one document that tells an executor what to deliver, what is out of bounds, what the owner already decided, and how each success check will be proven…

Pack8641Data analysis

BrianRWagner

AI Marketing Claude Code Skills

45
BrianRWagner

content-idea-generator

Generate content ideas rooted in positioning. Use when someone needs "content ideas," "what should I post," "blog topics," "LinkedIn ideas," or is stuck on what to create.

Pack45510kWriting

alirezarezvani

Claude Code Skill Factory

45
alirezarezvani

content-trend-researcher

Advanced content and topic research skill that analyzes trends across Google Analytics, Google Trends, Substack, Medium, Reddit, LinkedIn, X, blogs, podcasts, and YouTube to generate…

Pack8981.4kWriting
45
sno-ai

less-is-more

Write the least code that works, and cut what an AI agent over-built. Use on any coding task: write, fix, refactor, or review a diff. Also when the user says 'less', 'simplify', 'too…

Pack8641Coding

BrianRWagner

AI Marketing Claude Code Skills

45
BrianRWagner

linkedin-authority-builder

Build a LinkedIn content system for thought leadership. Use when someone needs to establish authority, attract inbound leads, or build a consistent content presence. Covers positioning…

Pack45510kSocial media

BehiSecc

VibeSec Skill

45
BehiSecc

VibeSec-Skill

This skill helps Claude write secure web applications. Use this when working on any web application or when a user requests a scan or audit to ensure security best practices are followed.

1.4k1.2kSecurity

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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