copywriting (marketingskills) skill

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

Our verdict Recommended

A thoughtful, MIT-licensed copy skill with explicit diagnosis steps, anti-slop rules and evals; it works best with real product context.

What the copywriting skill does

This skill, from Corey Haines' marketingskills collection, covers copy for homepages, landing, pricing, feature, about and product pages, plus taglines and CTAs. Before writing it reads a shared product-marketing context file if one exists and asks about page purpose, audience, offer and traffic source. It then classifies the job as a blank brief, a draft with a real voice that should be restored, or a point edit that should change only what you asked, and states that diagnosis with evidence. Drafting is done unit by unit (headline, subhead, CTA, each section): the agent writes two or three candidates per unit, keeps the best and locks it, and runs each line through three tests: can the reader picture it, can it be proven true or false, and could a competitor write the same sentence.

The skill bans common AI tells (the 'it's not X, it's Y' reveal, 'no X, no Y, no Z' lists, trailing comma clauses), limits punchy lines to a couple per page, and requires claims to be supportable, with [NEED: ...] markers where facts are missing. The SKILL.md is about 15.5 KB, with three references (AI tells, copy frameworks, natural transitions, about 41 KB in total) and ten eval prompts in evals.json. It outputs page copy with annotations and alternatives. It is one of 40-plus skills in the collection and refers to related skills for email, popups and copy editing.

Good for

  • Writing or rewriting landing-page, homepage and pricing copy with an agent
  • Editing marketing text that sounds machine-written without losing the author's voice
  • Founders and marketers who want claims tied to evidence

Not for

  • Email, popup or long-form blog writing (the collection has separate skills for those)
  • Pages where you cannot supply real product facts and proof points

Depth 4/5

A 15.5 KB SKILL.md with three reference files (about 41 KB) and ten eval prompts, but no scripts.

How to use the copywriting skill step by step

  1. Set up product context once. Before asking you anything, the skill looks for .agents/product-marketing.md, then .claude/product-marketing.md, then the legacy product-marketing-context.md filename used in older setups. If that file has a Learnings section, the skill reads it before drafting. It won't pitch angles or claims already tested there as new ideas, and it applies the active lessons unless you tell it not to.
  2. Answer only the gaps. If no context file exists, or the file leaves things out, the skill asks about four areas. Page purpose covers the page type and the one primary action you want visitors to take. Audience covers the ideal customer, the problem they want solved, their objections, and the words they use for that problem. Product or offer covers what you sell, how it differs from alternatives, the outcome, and proof points such as numbers, testimonials or case studies. Context covers where traffic comes from (ads, organic, email) and what visitors already know when they arrive.
  3. Check the diagnosis line. The skill states its diagnosis in one line with evidence, for example "B: the draft argues against agencies in the founder's voice, uses 'ship' and 'stuff'". The diagnosis decides how much the skill may change, so correct it before drafting starts if it is wrong.
  4. Resolve the flags. Wherever a line needs a fact you haven't supplied, you'll see a [NEED: ...] marker. Fill it with real evidence or drop the claim. If the skill declines a claim, it names the evidence that would let it make that claim.
  5. Review what changed. Before delivering, the skill runs a leave-it-alone test on each edit and reverts any change it can't justify. On a rewrite, compare the result against your first draft to confirm the lines that already worked came back untouched.

Example prompts and how the skill reads them

The skill's description lists the phrases that trigger it, including "write copy for," "improve this copy," "rewrite this page," "headline help," "CTA copy," "value proposition," "tagline," "hero section copy," "this copy is weak," "this sounds like AI," and "help me describe my product." What you include with the prompt decides which of its three situations applies:

  • A one-line ask such as "Write copy for our pricing page" is Situation A. The skill builds the argument from the brief and your context file. It can choose the angle, but it won't invent stats, customers or results.
  • A pasted draft with an opinion in it plus "this sounds like AI, rewrite this page" is Situation B. The skill keeps your argument and vocabulary and fixes the buried lead, the vague lines, the AI tells and the structure.
  • A narrow request such as "Fix this headline" or "tighten this paragraph" is Situation C. Only that piece changes, along with the minimum around it needed to make it fit.

If you want a full rewrite of a draft that has a real voice, say so directly. Otherwise the skill treats your choices as deliberate: where you spent words is your priority, what you left out is your scope, and your angle is your positioning.

How it applies familiar copywriting skills

Most guides on copywriting skills teach human writers to keep the brand's voice, be clear about the CTA, and edit hard after the first draft. This skill turns several of those habits into rules the agent has to follow.

Its principles start with clarity over cleverness: when clear and creative conflict, it picks clear. The context questions force a single primary action per page, so the CTA has one job. Voice matching is specific. With a writing sample, the agent matches average sentence length, punctuation habits, paragraph openings, and a few words you use that it wouldn't choose on its own. When the sample conflicts with the default voice, the sample wins.

The skill does its hard editing in two places. The leave-it-alone test reverts changes that are different but not better. The punch ration keeps most lines plain and declarative and allows one or two punchy moments per page, usually the headline and one section. The SKILL.md explains that when every line tries to land, none do, and the stacked devices read as AI.

Security review

No issues found

We scanned all 5 files in this skill folder and read every script. Nothing in it reaches beyond what the skill describes.

A Markdown-only copywriting skill (SKILL.md, reference files and an evals file). It contains no scripts, network access, credentials handling, hooks or tool pre-approvals.

What we checked

The skill folder (5 files) on Oct 29, 2026. We had every file and read every script.

NVIDIA SkillSpector static scan: 0 pattern hits. SkillSpector reported no hits; the credential/telemetry grep lines are copywriting examples ('the secret', 'analytics dashboard' CTA).

A review, not a certification. Skills change after we check them — read the files before installing.

License

MIT — commercial use allowed.

Can it run unattended?

Not really. It is an interactive drafting skill with a diagnose, draft and review procedure; it needs your product facts and has no unattended loop.

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FAQ

What is the copywriting skill in marketingskills?

It is a Claude Code and Codex skill from Corey Haines' marketingskills repo that writes and rewrites marketing page copy. It diagnoses whether the input is a blank brief, a draft with a real voice or a point edit, then drafts under rules against AI tells and unsupported claims.

How do I install the copywriting skill?

Install the collection with npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills and select copywriting, or copy the skills/copywriting folder into your agent's skills directory. It looks for a shared product-marketing context file before asking questions.

Does it make copy sound less like AI?

That is a stated goal: the skill forbids patterns such as 'it's not X, it's Y' reveals and stacked 'no X, no Y' lists, and a reference file catalogs AI tells. It also asks you to keep your own vocabulary and voice when you supply a draft.

copywriting skill vs humanizer: which should I use?

The marketingskills copywriting skill writes and restructures conversion copy from a brief and product facts. A humanizer rewrites existing text to remove machine-sounding patterns without adding structure. Use copywriting for page copy and a humanizer for prose cleanup.

Which marketingskills skill should I use for emails, popups or offers?

The copywriting skill hands those jobs to sibling skills in the same collection: emails for email copy, popups for popup copy, copy-editing for editing existing copy, and offers for the offer underneath the copy, such as bonuses, guarantees and value framing.

Can I give the copywriting skill a writing sample to match?

Yes. If you include a sample, the skill matches its average sentence length, punctuation habits, paragraph openings and some of your distinctive words. When the sample conflicts with its default voice, the sample takes priority.

Where does the skill's drafting method come from?

The SKILL.md says the diagnosis step, the three-question gate and the decompose-and-lock drafting were adapted from Profound's improved-copywriting skill in the skills-marketing-library repository (MIT) and rewritten for this skill.

Sources: GitHub repository; install counts from skills.sh via Best Skills (CC BY 4.0). Review based on the published SKILL.md.