Claude writing skills for drafting, editing and style

24 skills and skill packs reviewed. Sorted by verdict, then depth — how much real expertise ships with the skill — not by popularity.

Our picks

Drama Skills

zenstory-ai/drama-skills

Eleven skills that take an idea or novel through script, character assets, storyboard, image and video prompts and a rough cut for AI short dramas.

Recommended Check first Depth 5/5

copywriting (marketingskills)

skill in coreyhaines31/marketingskills

A conversion-copywriting skill that diagnoses your input first, then drafts page copy under strict rules against AI-sounding phrasing and unsupported claims.

Recommended No issues Depth 4/5

Humanize KR (im-not-ai)

epoko77-ai/im-not-ai

A Korean-language humanizer that detects and rewrites AI-sounding text (translationese, mechanical parallelism) while preserving facts, with deterministic gates.

Recommended Check first Depth 4/5

All 24 reviewed

How we review
Skill Verdict Security Depth Stars Installs
Drama Skills zenstory-ai/drama-skills Eleven skills that take an idea or novel through script, character assets, storyboard, image and video prompts and a rough cut for AI short dramas.
Recommended Check first 5/5 3.5K —
copywriting (marketingskills) skill in coreyhaines31/marketingskills A conversion-copywriting skill that diagnoses your input first, then drafts page copy under strict rules against AI-sounding phrasing and unsupported claims.
Recommended No issues 4/5 57K 239K
Humanize KR (im-not-ai) epoko77-ai/im-not-ai A Korean-language humanizer that detects and rewrites AI-sounding text (translationese, mechanical parallelism) while preserving facts, with deterministic gates.
Recommended Check first 4/5 6.3K —
claude-blog AgriciDaniel/claude-blog A Claude Code skill suite for writing, auditing and refreshing blog posts, with a five-gate delivery contract, 30 /blog commands, 5 agents and a bundled Obsidian brain.
Recommended Check first 4/5 2.6K —
writing-for-agents skill in mattpocock/skills A guide to writing skills, AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md and other agent-read docs: context pointers, progressive disclosure, completion criteria.
Recommended No issues 3/5 306K 488K
Answer me with HTML QingYunA/answer-me-with-html Turns complex answers into a one-page HTML explainer: the model writes a short Markdown draft, and a bundled CLI generates layout, diagrams and dark mode.
Recommended Check first 3/5 4.6K —
Journalism agent skills (jamditis) jamditis/claude-skills-journalism Plugin packages of skills for journalists and researchers (verification, FOIA, AP style) plus dev, newsroom-ops and security toolkits for Claude Code and Codex.
Recommended Check first 3/5 438 —
Family History Planning Skill emaynard/claude-family-history-research-skill Genealogy skill that plans research before searching, then covers citations, conflicting evidence and logs under the GPS.
Recommended No issues 3/5 124 —
to-questionnaire skill in mattpocock/skills Interviews you only about who the recipient is and what you need back, then writes a markdown questionnaire for someone else to fill in.
Recommended No issues 2/5 306K 517K
i-have-adhd ayghri/i-have-adhd A single output-style skill that makes a coding agent lead with the next action, number steps, drop preamble and keep lists short.
Recommended Check first 2/5 59K —
caveman skill in JuliusBrussee/caveman A one-file output-style skill that makes the agent answer first, drop filler and keep code, paths and errors verbatim to save tokens.
Recommended Check first 1/5 116K 598K
Academic Research Skills (ARS) Imbad0202/academic-research-skills Five very detailed Claude Code skills for the academic pipeline: deep research, paper writing, peer review, revision and systematic-review screening.
With caveats Check first 5/5 54K —
baoyu-skills JimLiu/baoyu-skills Twenty-two skills from Baoyu for content work: illustrated articles, comics, infographics, translation, URL-to-markdown and posting drafts to WeChat, Weibo and X.
With caveats Broad access 4/5 27K —
Oh Story zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode 13 skills for writing Chinese web novels: ranking scans, teardown of hit books, long and short drafting with file-based continuity tracking, de-AI editing and covers.
With caveats Broad access 4/5 8.1K —
dbskill dontbesilent2025/dbskill A Chinese business-diagnosis skill toolbox of 35 skills, led by a dispatcher that routes problems to execution, pricing or AI-writing-detection skills.
With caveats Broad access 3/5 11K —
LinkedIn Marketing Skills sergebulaev/linkedin-skills 12 skills that draft LinkedIn posts, comments, replies and profile copy in your voice, read engagement data via Apify, and publish through Publora after you approve.
With caveats Check first 3/5 5.3K —
md2wechat geekjourneyx/md2wechat-skill A CLI plus agent skill that converts Markdown into WeChat Official Account HTML, makes covers and images, and pushes drafts to the WeChat draft box.
With caveats Check first 3/5 3.8K —
jezweb claude-skills jezweb/claude-skills A marketplace of Claude Code plugins for web builders: Cloudflare apps, design assets, frontend, dev tools, writing, Shopify and WordPress.
With caveats Broad access 3/5 1.1K —
writing-beats skill in mattpocock/skills Builds an article from a pile of raw notes one 'beat' at a time, offering 2-3 next options and tracking which concepts the reader already knows.
With caveats No issues 2/5 306K 496K
writing-shape skill in mattpocock/skills Shapes a pile of raw notes into an article paragraph by paragraph, starting from competing openings and arguing about each block's form.
With caveats No issues 2/5 306K 496K
writing-fragments skill in mattpocock/skills Runs an interview that collects raw writing fragments into one markdown file, with no outline or structure, as the exploration step before drafting.
With caveats No issues 2/5 306K 495K
Stop Slop hardikpandya/stop-slop A single writing skill that tells the agent to strip common AI tells from prose and score the result on five dimensions before delivering it.
With caveats No issues 2/5 18K —
Anti-Defensive Writing Adkid-Zephyr/anti-defensive-writing-Skill A lightweight CN/EN academic-writing skill that restructures paper drafts around one strongest claim instead of hedged, evenly-weighted self-critique.
With caveats No issues 2/5 4.4K —
wait-what skill in mattpocock/skills A corrective command: when the agent's last message was unclear, it re-pitches it with context, in simplified technical English, using your project glossary.
With caveats No issues 1/5 306K 468K

Claude writing skills change how an agent drafts, edits and formats text. Some set an output style, such as shorter replies. Some give a procedure for a kind of document, such as sales copy or a questionnaire. A few edit existing prose to remove machine-sounding patterns. We reviewed 23: 11 get an install verdict and 12 come with caveats.

Most are short prompts, so judge them by their rules. A 3 KB skill you could write yourself has to earn its place there.

What to look for in Claude writing skills

Look at the rules. Specific instructions beat taste words: “state one claim per paragraph” or “diagnose the input before drafting” can be followed and checked, while “write engagingly” cannot. Then look at whether the skill needs input from you. The better copy skills ask for real product facts first and say what they will not invent.

Next comes scope. Some skills cover a single language or a single format. Others bundle dozens of unrelated skills, and installing everything crowds the list of skill descriptions the agent keeps in context.

On security, writing skills are mostly low risk because they are Markdown. Of the 23, 9 are clean, 10 are marked “review” and 4 have broad access. The “review” label often reflects partial coverage of a large repository, not a specific problem; the security page explains how we assign labels. Watch for installers that write into your agent folders and for skills that call paid APIs.

  • copywriting from Corey Haines’ marketing pack is clean and the deepest of the clean picks: a 15.5 KB SKILL.md, three reference files and ten eval prompts. It diagnoses your input first, then drafts under rules against AI-sounding phrasing. It cannot work without real product facts.
  • writing-for-agents is clean too. It is a guide to writing skills, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and other documents that agents read, covering context pointers and completion criteria. It targets text for agents, not for human readers.
  • to-questionnaire interviews you about the recipient and what you need back, then writes one Markdown questionnaire. It is clean and small, and our review notes it is simple enough to reproduce yourself.
  • caveman is an output-style skill: a 4.7 KB file that makes replies terse and keeps code, paths and errors verbatim. It is Apache-2.0 and has no scripts. It also has about 598,000 recorded installs, so it is a popular way to save tokens. It tells the agent to use plain prose for commit messages and documentation.
  • claude-blog is the heavyweight: 65 skills for writing, auditing and refreshing blog posts, with a five gate delivery contract and a pytest suite. An optional installer copies files into your agent skill folders, so read it before running it. Its quality scores are the author’s heuristics, not search-engine data.

Two narrower options deserve a mention. Humanize KR rewrites AI-sounding Korean text with local checker scripts and is useful only if you write Korean. Anti-Defensive Writing is clean but restructures academic papers around the strongest claim, which can hide limitations that reviewers expect to see.

Writing for search overlaps with SEO skills and marketing skills. The category page lists all 23, and how we review covers depth scores.