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A writing-skill template for defining style rules, checks, prohibitions, and before-and-after examples. Use it when prose needs repeatable guidance.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill template -a claude-code
Open on GitHub

What skill-folder-name does

This skill provides a structure for documenting a writing style. It covers frontmatter, a title, the central rule, mechanics, a verification checklist, prohibited patterns, and sample text transformations. The outline also describes a workflow that ends with a verification pass.

Its mechanics are meant to be concrete: set limits, distinguish the intended form from a bad example, and use numbers where they help. The Verify section gives an agent checks it can pass or fail. In Claude Code, the installed file is ~/.claude/skills/template/SKILL.md.

What it helps with

  • turn style guidance into a reusable skill structure
  • define text rules that an agent can check
  • document unwanted patterns
  • show how ordinary prose should change

Example prompts for the agent

  • Create a writing skill for this style using the template structure.
  • Turn these voice guidelines into named rules, checks, prohibitions, and two before-and-after examples.
  • Review this skill outline and make its constraints concrete.

How to install skill-folder-name

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill template -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/template/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/template/

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

Questions about skill-folder-name

How do I install skill-folder-name in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill template -a claude-code, then open ~/.claude/skills/template/SKILL.md.

What does skill-folder-name do?

It structures a writing-style skill around a core rule, concrete mechanics, verification checks, prohibited patterns, and text transformations.

What sections does the skill template include?

It includes frontmatter, a core rule, a workflow, mechanics, a Verify checklist, a Do not section, and Before/After examples.

Source text

SKILL.md · MIT
---
name: skill-folder-name
description: One sentence stating what this skill produces and per which standard or character. Use when the user [concrete trigger situations, the actual phrases they'd type, and the contexts where this beats default prose].
---

# Skill Title

One line: the essence of this style in a sentence fragment.

## The core rule

**The single bolded sentence that IS this skill.** One or two sentences of
sharpening — what this style is really doing and the failure it prevents.

Workflow: `first move` → `second move` → `third move` → `run the Verify checklist`.

## Mechanics

1. **Named rule.** Concrete and checkable — a cap, a ban list, a required shape.
2. **Named rule.** "X not Y" with a real example inline.
3. **Named rule.** Numbers where possible (sentence length, ratios, counts).
4. **Named rule.** For voices: include a rate-limit that prevents caricature.

## Verify

- Checkable statement (an agent can pass/fail this mechanically)
- Checkable statement
- Checkable statement

## Do not

- The tempting mistake this style invites
- The failure mode that looks like the style but isn't

## Example transformations

**Before:** "A realistic 'default prose' input."

**After:** "The same content, transformed by the mechanics above."

**Before:** "A second, different-shaped input."

**After:** "Its transformation."

© surendranb · MIT · surendranb/writing-skills

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