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.
307 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.
321k33MScore 95 - 2#2
Writing Shape
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
321k33MScore 94 - 3#3
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Writing Skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
316k3.9MScore 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…
192k3.8MScore 93 - 5#5
Writing Beats
Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
321k33MScore 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…
192k3.8MScore 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…
192k3.8MScore 91 - 8#8
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Writing Plans
Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code
316k3.9MScore 90 - 9#9
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…
301k1.7MScore 89 - 10#10
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Haines
Ad Creative
When the user wants to write or judge ad creative, or asks which ad, hook, or angle to run or kill: headlines, primary text, and variations for Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok, fresh…
60k6.3MScore 88
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 307 writing skills.
Matt Pocockwriting-for-agents
Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
Matt Pocockwriting-shape
Writing, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentwriting-skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicdocx
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…
Matt Pocockwriting-beats
Writing, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicpptx
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…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicxlsx
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…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentwriting-plans
Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code
affaan-magent-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…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainesad-creative
When the user wants to write or judge ad creative, or asks which ad, hook, or angle to run or kill: headlines, primary text, and variations for Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and TikTok, fresh…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainesads
When the user wants to plan, run, or fix paid ads on Google, Meta, and LinkedIn, or asks a judgement call on them: are ads worth it, which channel or budget split, why CPA rose, kill or…
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Hainesai-seo
When the user wants to get cited and recommended in AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews), or asks why AI cites a competitor, which content gets cited, or whether llms.txt or a…
affaan-mbrand-voice
Build a source-derived writing style profile from real posts, essays, launch notes, docs, or site copy, then reuse that profile across content, outreach, and social workflows. Use when the…
affaan-marticle-writing
Write articles, guides, blog posts, tutorials, newsletter issues, and other long-form content in a distinctive voice derived from supplied examples or brand guidance. Use when the user…
wshobson
Agents
wshobsonavoid-ai-writing
Audit and rewrite prose so it stops reading as machine-generated. Use this skill when asked to remove AI-isms, clean up AI writing, edit a draft for AI tells, audit a README, changelog…
Addy Osmanigit-workflow-and-versioning
Structures git workflow practices. Use when making any code change. Use when committing, branching, resolving conflicts, splitting uncommitted work in a messy working tree into clean atomic…
JuliusBrusseecaveman-commit
Write a Conventional Commits message compressed to intent only. Use for "write a commit", "commit message", /commit or /caveman-commit.
K-Dense
Scientific Agent Skills
K-Denseexa-search
Searches scientific and technical web content with Exa and extracts page or PDF text from URLs in batches. Supports scholarly discovery with the publication category and academic domain…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHubacreadiness-generate-instructions
Generate tailored AI agent instruction files via AgentRC instructions command. Produces .github/copilot-instructions.md (default, recommended for Copilot in VS Code) plus optional per-area…
JimLiubaoyu-comic
Knowledge comic creator supporting multiple art styles and tones. Creates original educational comics with detailed panel layouts and batch-capable image generation. Use when user asks to…
JimLiubaoyu-diagram
Create professional diagrams with configurable dark/light theme via CSS custom properties. Use this skill whenever the user asks for any kind of technical or conceptual diagram…
JimLiubaoyu-format-markdown
Formats plain text or markdown files with frontmatter, titles, summaries, headings, bold, lists, and code blocks. Use when user asks to "format markdown", "beautify article", "add…
wshobson
Agents
wshobsondata-storytelling
Transform data into compelling narratives using visualization, context, and persuasive structure. Use when presenting analytics to stakeholders, creating data reports, or building executive…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicskill-development
This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202sr-screener
Protocol-driven study screening for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews. Turns a proposal or PROSPERO protocol into confirmed eligibility rules, then screens titles/abstracts and full…
sickn33
Agentic Awesome Skills
sickn33adhx
Fetch any X/Twitter post as clean LLM-friendly JSON. Converts x.com, twitter.com, or adhx.com links into structured data with full article content, author info, and engagement metrics. No…
AgriciDanielseo
Comprehensive SEO analysis for any website or business type. Full site audits, single-page analysis, technical SEO (crawlability, indexability, Core Web Vitals with INP), schema markup…
AgriciDanielseo-cluster
Cluster keywords by SERP overlap and design hub-and-spoke content architecture with internal links. Use for planning; `/seo cluster execute` then writes the posts with claude-blog's…
AgriciDanielseo-content-brief
Generate competitive SEO content briefs with per-section word counts, competitor scoring, keyword placement guidance, and page-type templates. Supports both new page briefs and…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper
12-agent academic paper writing pipeline. 11 modes (full/plan/outline/revision/revision-coach/abstract/lit-review/format-convert/citation-check/disclosure/rebuttal-audit). 6 paper types, 5…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper-reviewer
Multi-perspective academic paper review with dynamic reviewer personas. Runs a 5-seat, role-separated review panel (Journal-Fit Reviewer + 3 peer-review roles + Devil's Advocate) with…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIfigma-generate-design
Use this skill alongside figma-use when the task involves translating an application page, view, or multi-section layout into Figma. Triggers: 'write to Figma', 'create in Figma from code'…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicwriting-hookify-rules
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hookify rule", "write a hook rule", "configure hookify", "add a hookify rule", or needs guidance on hookify rule syntax and…
gamedev-skillsvisual-novel
Build a visual novel: a branching script, character and background display, a text box with choices, save/load, backlog, and skip/auto. Use for a VN, dating sim, or branching story game.
Vercel
Agent Skills
Vercelwriting-guidelines
Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my docs", "check writing style", "audit prose", "review docs voice and tone", or "check this page against the…
Composiocontent-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…
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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