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creative-writing-craft — Claude Code skill: install & overview

Q: How to install creative-writing-craft in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a claude-code` in your terminal.

Reference craft skill for fiction writing. It guides the model through prose techniques, scene mechanics, style analysis, and genre requirements.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓

npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a claude-code

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What creative-writing-craft does

The skill provides craft guidance for narrative fiction. Instead of acting as a continuous drafting engine, it acts as a technical reference layer. The resources/prose-writing.md guide covers psychic distance, free indirect discourse, rhythm, sensory grounding, and point of view.

Structural guidance comes from resources/scene-construction.md, which covers scene entry, dialogue pacing, and transitions. It also includes resources/style-analysis.md for analyzing prose samples and resources/genre/ for genre-specific promises.

It lacks the failure diagnostics and reader-reward models found in /writing-principles, functioning as a craft reference rather than a revision auditor.

What it helps with

structure scene entry points and transition mechanics
calibrate psychic distance and free indirect discourse
extract style reference profiles from sample prose
balance sensory grounding, dialogue, and narrative pacing

Example prompts for the agent

Review this chapter using resources/prose-writing.md to check psychic distance and interiority.
Apply resources/scene-construction.md to adjust dialogue pacing and refine the scene entry.
Analyze the writing style of this text with resources/style-analysis.md and draft a style reference file.

How to install creative-writing-craft

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/creative-writing-craft/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/creative-writing-craft/

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a codex

2Manually: put the files in place

.agents/skills/creative-writing-craft/SKILL.md

For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a cursor

2Manually: put the files in place

.cursor/skills/creative-writing-craft/SKILL.md

Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

1GitHub CLI

gh skill install haowjy/creative-writing-skills creative-writing-craft

2Manually: put the files in place

.github/skills/creative-writing-craft/SKILL.md

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a gemini-cli

2Platform CLI

gemini skills install https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills --path skills/creative-writing-craft

Manually: put the files in place

.devin/skills/creative-writing-craft/SKILL.md

The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a opencode

Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways

Questions about creative-writing-craft

How to install creative-writing-craft in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill creative-writing-craft -a claude-code in your terminal.

What does creative-writing-craft do?

It equips the agent with fiction craft references, covering prose rhythm, scene mechanics, style analysis, and genre conventions.

How does this skill differ from writing-principles?

It focuses on sentence- and scene-level craft mechanics, while /writing-principles handles reader expectation models and narrative diagnostics.

Source text

SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

---
name: creative-writing-craft
type: reference
description: >
  Craft references for writing fiction well: prose, scenes, style, voice, and genre/page-level technique. Load when a writer, critic, or muse needs how-to-write guidance rather than a production mode.
model-invocable: true
---

# Creative Writing Craft

How fiction works on the page: prose technique, scene mechanics, and style
analysis. This is the how-to-write layer. `/writing-principles` carries the
reader-reward model and failure-mode diagnostics; `/creative-writing-modes`
carries the production modes for putting prose on the page.

Load only the resource needed for the task:

- `resources/prose-writing.md` — psychic distance, free indirect discourse, rhythm, sensory grounding, interiority, POV.
- `resources/scene-construction.md` — scene entry, dialogue, pacing, transitions.
- `resources/style-analysis.md` — analyzing prose samples and producing style reference files.
- `resources/genre/` — genre-specific craft guidance when genre promise shapes the page.

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