AI Skills for Essay Writing That Improve
Essay writing skills help an AI agent produce a short argument rather than a pile of prose. They cover the whole chain: forming a thesis the rest of the essay can support, gathering evidence a skeptical reader would accept, ordering the argument in an outline before writing sentences, drafting a complete version with a beginning and an end, citing whose ideas you used in the style the assignment named, and revising so the claim gets sharper and the path shorter. Use the ranked list by matching your current bottleneck to the sub-topic: if you have a topic but no claim, start with thesis; if you have a claim but no support, start with evidence; if the argument is sound but the prose is not, start with draft or revise. Pick one skill, run it on your actual assignment, and judge the output against the sub-topic definition.
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Start with these.
An essay is a short argument: thesis, evidence, outline, draft, cite, revise.
These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.
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clarity
Drafts, rewrites, or reviews reader-facing prose so it is specific, useful, and recognizably the author's, with co-write, rewrite, review, and lint modes for essays, articles, and newsletters without inventing facts.
850 · popularity - Rank 02View Agent SkillDirect
academic-research-writer
Writes academic research documents with verified peer-reviewed sources and IEEE-format references, covering research papers, literature reviews, theses, and proposals with scholarly structure and citation rigor.
2,117 · popularity - Rank 03View Agent SkillDirect
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。
- Rank 04View Agent SkillDirect
nature-polishing
Polishes, translates, or tightens existing academic prose while preserving facts, terminology, and evidence boundaries, with section- and journal-specific guidance. Directly supports essay revision and citation-aware editing.
15,558 · popularity - Rank 05View Agent SkillDirect
humanizer-zh
去除中文文本的 AI 味、翻译腔与机械结构,覆盖博客、专栏、书稿、评论与长文,处理句法、标点、术语与段落节奏,并保留原文事实与立场。
1,153 · popularity
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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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writing-shape
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substack-ghostwriting
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2,672 · popularity - Rank 13View Agent SkillPossible
latex-paper-en
English LaTeX assistant for existing journal/conference papers: compile repair, venue formatting, bibliography/citation checks, section writing, logic, related work, and de-AI polish. Adjacent to essay drafting and citation work.
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firecrawl-research-papers
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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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discernment-nudge
Official> After you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on — advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals, or emails, estimates or projections, analysis or interpretation of data, factual claims they may rely on, or a multi-step argument — invoke this skill BEFORE finalizing your reply and then, if it applies, append 2-3 short follow-up questions, each tied to something specific in what you just produced, that help the user check key facts, probe the reasoning or assumptions, and notice missing context. Do this at most once per conversation. Skip it when the user asked a trivial how-to or simple lookup, wants a purely educational explanation, asked you only to format, convert, or assemble a file from content they provided, is writing code they will run, is doing creative writing or casual chat, or already asked you to double-check, cite, or review — the skill file explains these boundaries and the exact output format.
- Rank 18View Agent SkillPossible
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351,303 · popularity - Rank 19View Agent SkillPossible
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brand-voice
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8,562 · popularity - Rank 21View Agent SkillPossible
keris-academic-search
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2,746 · popularity - Rank 22View Agent SkillPossible
docx
OfficialUse 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 document', '.docx', '.dotx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx or .dotx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.
What this topic covers
Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.
- Thesis
- The sentence the rest of the essay exists to support.
- Evidence
- What a skeptical reader would accept as support.
- Outline
- The order of the argument, before pretty sentences.
- Draft
- A complete version with a beginning and an end.
- Citation
- Whose ideas you used, in the style the assignment named.
- Revise
- Make the claim sharper and the path shorter.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this list ordered?
- It is ranked by observed search demand. Direct matches to the topic appear first, and there is a cap on how many skills any single publisher can occupy.
- Should I load one skill or several?
- The sub-topics map to stages of one argument, so a skill for thesis and a skill for citation solve different problems. Start with the stage where your draft is currently stuck, then add another only if that stage is handled.
- What does a citation skill need from me?
- It needs the style the assignment named, because the skill's job is to record whose ideas you used in that style. Without the named style, the output cannot match what the assignment asks for.
- Why would I use an outline skill before a draft skill?
- An outline fixes the order of the argument before pretty sentences exist. Drafting after an outline gives the agent a sequence to follow, which is the point of separating the two stages.
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 clarity into ~/.claude/skills/clarity/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/clarity/ to share it with a project.
- From the registry — run npx skills add addyosmani/clarity@clarity.
- Or download clarity 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.