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.
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-american-case-studies
Case studies of American screenwriting (美国电影剧作案例) — Mei Feng's readings of the Hollywood Western (value pairs, four oppositions), screwball comedy (strong heroine, buddy vs adversary…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-character-conflict
Character creation, protagonist/antagonist design and dramatic conflict for scripts (人物/对手/冲突) — merged from Lajos Egri (three-dimensional character, orchestration, unity of opposites…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-banqiang
Playwriting for banqiang-system Chinese opera (板腔体：京剧、豫剧、越剧、秦腔、评剧、沪剧、淮剧、川剧弹戏), where sung passages are paired seven- or ten-character lines varied by metre (板式) rather than filled into…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-banqiang-cases
Worked full-length scripts of banqiang-system Chinese opera with their creation records (板腔体全本语料库). Primary texts; 翁偶虹《锁麟囊》 (the revised score edition, 65 arias, 15 self-account-vs-score…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-qupai
Chinese opera playwriting for the qupai (曲牌体) system — 元杂剧, 明清传奇, 昆曲, 川剧高腔, where sung text is filled into fixed tune patterns (填词) rather than built from paired lines varied by metre…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-opera-qupai-cases
Worked qupai-system (曲牌体) opera scripts, act by act. Guan Hanqing's three surviving zaju (窦娥冤／救风尘／金线池 — twelve acts, 126 tunes, one mode and one rhyme per act, sung/spoken ratios); Tang…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-chinese-series-practice
Mainland-Chinese TV-series craft, documents and production chain (国产剧创作体系与制片链) — the China layer parallel to the Japanese and Korean/French skills. Distilled from Yao Kougen…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-dialogue
Dialogue writing and revision for screen and stage (对白/台词/潜台词) — merged from Robert McKee's Dialogue (dialogue as action, said/unsaid/unsayable, exposition as ammunition, beat =…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-format-adaptation
Screenplay format, page craft, the writing process and adaptation (剧本格式/写作流程/改编) — merged from Wendy Henson (spec format rules), Richard Walter (page craft, revision), Neill Hicks (selling…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-genre-anatomy
Genre anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Genres (类型解剖 / 类型节拍 / 混合类型 / 超越类型) — genres as beat systems with a life philosophy underneath; three rules (hit every beat of your genre, mix…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-industry-business
The screenwriting business and career (编剧行业与生意经) — merged from Diamond & Weissman's Bulletproof (buyer's-eye workflow, three Cs, one-page nine-step, set pieces, submission, notes…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-japanese-screenwriting
Japanese (and other non-Hollywood) screenwriting methods (日本编剧方法/原创剧本实战) — distilled from ten Japanese directors and writers in ゼロからの脚本術; Kosawa Ryota (three acts as 起承转合, speed by…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-korean-french-screenwriting
Korean and French screenwriting practice (韩国/法国编剧方法) — from the international masterclass; Oh Seung-uk (Christmas in August, The Shameless; field research in disguise, "write the emotion"…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-premise-theme
Premise, theme, controlling idea, subject selection and logline for scripts (前提/主题/立意/选材/戏核) — merged from Lajos Egri's premise-as-tyrant and dialectic, Robert McKee's controlling idea…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-scene-craft
Scene and sequence craft (场景/段落/细节/道具/悬念/情趣) — merged from Robert McKee's scene design and five-step scene analysis (value turn, beats, text/subtext, turning points, pacing, image systems)…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-series-case-studies
Case studies of television series writing (剧集案例库) from primary texts; Sorkin's six West Wing teleplays (act-page tables, eight act-out types); Chase's five Sopranos scripts (the 35-beat…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-series-engine-bible
From an idea to a sellable series design; series engine / franchise, story pattern, character webs that keep generating conflict, pilot types, and the documents that sell them…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-series-structure
Episode and season structure for TV series (剧集单集与季的结构) — teasers and cold opens, broadcast four/five/six-act grids with page anchors, three tests for finding the invisible acts in streaming…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-sitcom-comedy
Half-hour television comedy craft (半小时情景喜剧/笑点力学/困境机器/多机位单机位格式) — merged from Evan S. Smith's Writing Television Sitcoms (premise-driven comedy in three levels, nine predicaments, six…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-story-structure
Story structure for screenplays and stage plays (故事结构) — merged from Syd Field's paradigm and plot points, Blake Snyder's Save the Cat beat sheet and board, Robert McKee's Story…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-truby-anatomy
Organic story anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Story (有机结构/设计原则/22步骤/道德议题/四角对立/幽灵/场景编排) — the designing principle (story process plus original execution), the seven key steps as the…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-workflow
Project orchestrator for the screenwriting skill set (剧本项目主线调度 / 状态存档 / story bible) — a meta-skill that adds no new craft knowledge but routes a screenplay or stage-play project through…
jtydhr88
Screenwriting Skills
jtydhr88sw-writers-room
How episodic television actually gets made by a group (编剧室与制作现实) — merged from Goldberg & Rabkin (pitch as audition, leave-behind, cracking the story, beat sheet, notes discipline…
nowork-studio
Notfair Plugin
nowork-studiogoogle-ads-copy
Generate and A/B test Google Ads copy. Use when asked to write ad copy, headlines, descriptions, create ad variants, test ad messaging, improve CTR, or generate RSA (Responsive Search Ad)…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochgrant-specific-aims-writer
Writes Specific Aims pages for grant applications. Use when drafting or revising the Specific Aims page (NIH R01/R21/R03), NSF Project Summary, or equivalent for any major funding agency…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochlimitation-and-risk-writer
Acknowledges limitations in sample, design, measurement, and validation in a professional way that improves credibility without undermining the whole paper. Use when writing the limitations…
Nanako0129
Sepia
Nanako0129sepia-refactor
Use when a user explicitly requests Sepia refactor for minimal in-place prose revision.
Nanako0129
Sepia
Nanako0129sepia-review
Use when a user explicitly requests Sepia review to diagnose prose without editing.
Nanako0129
Sepia
Nanako0129sepia-write
Use when a user explicitly requests Sepia write to create new prose.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochfigure-legend-writer
Writes complete, publication-grade figure legends that can stand on their own. Use when writing or revising figure legends for any scientific figure — bar charts, line graphs, scatter…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochauthor-response-builder
Turns reviewer comments into structured, professional point-by-point responses linked to manuscript revisions, clarifications, rebuttals, and additional analyses.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochclaim-strength-calibrator
Calibrates manuscript claim strength so wording matches the actual evidence level, study design, and validation status.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochconsistency-checker-across-manuscript
Checks consistency across title, abstract, methods, results, figures, tables, and supplements to identify internal contradictions and version drift in biomedical manuscripts.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochgraphical-abstract-generator
Converts a biomedical study storyline into a graphical abstract and, when direct image capability is available, generates the graphical abstract directly; otherwise it falls back to…
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochintroduction-logic-builder
Builds background-gap-objective logic for biomedical manuscript introductions with clear study positioning and disciplined narrative structure.
aipoch
Medical Research Skills
aipochintroduction-section-writer
Writes the full Introduction section of a biomedical manuscript based on an approved or sufficiently clear study logic, while preserving evidence boundaries and introduction discipline.
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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