Human Writing Skills for AI Agents
Human Writing skills help an AI agent support the parts of writing that are craft rather than generation: identifying the reader, settling on a single point, giving the piece a structure someone can follow without the author present, producing a complete draft before polishing, revising by removing what a careful reader does not need, and keeping a consistent voice. These are beginner-level skills, so they assume you want help thinking and cutting, not a finished essay dropped in your lap. Use the ranked list by reading each entry against your actual bottleneck. If you cannot state your point in one sentence, start with the point. If the draft is thin, start with drafting. If it reads like a machine wrote it, start with voice. Pick the skill that addresses the step you are stuck on, not the one with the broadest description.
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Writing as a human craft: know the reader, say one thing, draft, then cut — tools can help, they cannot choose the point.
These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.
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human-writing
Notable通用中文创作与改稿 Skill。用于知乎回答、论坛长帖、公众号文章、博客、评论、人物故事、历史叙事、新闻与行业解读、科普、教程、评测、个人叙事、小说、故事、对白、口播和演讲稿。默认写成一个见过事、查过材料、愿意把来龙去脉讲清楚的人在说话，重点保留中文互联网长回答与长帖的活人感和自然中文韵律，避免空泛的机构腔、喊口号式演说腔、营销腔和模型腔。非虚构长文先检查材料够不够，材料不足时研究、追问或缩短，绝不用重复解释灌字数。现实内容额外核验事实、引语、数据与用户亲历，虚构内容可以创造人物、场景、对白、心理与情节。成稿正文严禁冒号、破折号、“不是……而是……”及同类翻案句，并清除商业黑话和模型惯用黑话。不创建作者画像、个人规则库或个人写作 Skill。
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humanizer
NotableRewrite AI-sounding text so it reads like the writer without changing what it says. Use when editing or reviewing prose for AI tells: not-X-but-Y contrasts, one-line closers, staged openers, forced triads, dashes everywhere, inflated claims, sales language, stock AI words, bold labels, or filler. Based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing."
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sepia
NotableMake AI-generated writing read as human-written, in fiction and in professional prose. Repairs the narrative architecture of fiction and stories (based on StoryScope, arXiv:2604.03136); routes professional text through domain rules for release notes, announcements, PR and issue replies, code-review comments, incident postmortems, tickets, work orders, technical articles, blog posts, and long-form journalism. Four operations - write, review (diagnose AI tells without editing), refactor (minimal in-place edits), recreate (full rewrite). Use when asked to humanize, de-AI, unslop, or strip AI flavor from any text; when writing or revising any of these document types; or whenever output must not read as machine-written.
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humanizer-zh
Chinese skill that removes AI writing traces based on Wikipedia's AI-writing signs, rewriting text to sound more natural and human.
51,683 · popularity - Rank 05View Agent SkillDirect
no-ai-slop
NotableEdit drafts into sharper, more human writing while preserving the writer's personal voice, or detect AI-slop patterns without rewriting. Use when the user wants a draft clearer, more direct, more opinionated, or less AI-sounding, or asks whether writing reads as AI.
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writing-beats
NotableWriting, exploit; assemble raw material into a journey of beats, grounding each term before a beat leans on it.
351,944 · popularity - Rank 07View Agent SkillDirect
writing-shape
NotableWriting, exploit: shape raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.
351,444 · popularity - Rank 08View Agent SkillDirect
writing-fragments
NotableWriting, explore: mine raw fragments, no structure yet.
351,303 · popularity
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writing-guidelines
OfficialReview 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 writing handbook".
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copy-editing
Edits and improves existing marketing copy through seven focused sweeps, preserving the core message.
138,021 · popularity - Rank 11View Agent SkillPossible
ux-writing
NotableWrite or review UI copy (buttons, errors, empty states, microcopy) with a voice and tone system.
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doc-coauthoring
OfficialGuide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
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internal-comms
OfficialA set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, project updates, etc.).
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github-issue-creator
OfficialConvert raw notes, error logs, voice dictation, or screenshots into crisp GitHub-flavored markdown issue reports. Use when the user pastes bug info, error messages, or informal descriptions and wants a structured GitHub issue. Supports images/GIFs for visual evidence.
What this topic covers
Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.
- Reader
- The person who will read this, not the person who asked for it.
- The point
- A piece that tries to say three things usually says none.
- Structure
- Order the reader can follow without you in the room.
- Draft
- Make a complete version before you polish.
- Revise
- Remove what a careful reader does not need.
- Voice
- Sound like a person, with a consistent register.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the difference between a Human Writing skill and a general writing skill?
- Human Writing skills treat writing as a human craft: the agent helps you know the reader, say one thing, draft, then cut. The tool can assist at each step, but it cannot choose the point for you.
- How is the list ordered?
- The list is ranked by observed search demand, with direct matches to the topic placed first and a cap on how many entries any single publisher can occupy.
- Where should a beginner start?
- Start with the sub-topic you are actually stuck on: reader, point, structure, draft, revise, or voice. A skill aimed at your bottleneck will do more for you than one that claims to cover all six.
- Can these skills write the whole piece for me?
- They can help at every stage, including producing a complete draft before you polish. What they cannot do is decide what the piece is trying to say — that choice stays with you.
How to install an Agent Skill
Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:
- Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for human-writing into ~/.claude/skills/human-writing/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/human-writing/ to share it with a project.
- From the registry — run npx skills add KKKKhazix/human-writing@human-writing.
- Or download human-writing from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.
How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.