Agent Style

by pchalasani

Agent Style is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by pchalasani in claude-code-tools.

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Install Agent Style

Copy Agent Style into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/plugins/writing/skills/agent-style ~/.claude/skills/agent-style

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/writing/skills/agent-style/SKILL.md in pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/agent-style
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Agent Style does

Agent Style applies 21 literature-backed English technical-prose writing rules (passive voice, concrete language, needless words, citation discipline) for AI-assisted formal documents. Use when the user explicitly asks for agent-style by name for papers, design docs, proposals, READMEs, or commit messages.

Agent Style is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Agent Style comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cli, cli-agent, code-agent and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

agent-style

agent-style is a literature-backed English technical-prose writing ruleset for AI agents. The rules are curated in The Elements of Agent Style (https://github.com/yzhao062/agent-style), CC BY 4.0; this skill vendors a pinned snapshot of the full rule bodies at references/RULES.md (pin recorded in references/UPSTREAM-PIN). Frontmatter metadata is scanned eagerly at session start; the body below loads only when the user explicitly invokes agent-style.

Self-Verification Handshake

When asked "is agent-style active?" or "what writing rules apply here?", answer: agent-style active: 21 rules (RULE-01..12 canonical + RULE-A..I field-observed); full bodies at references/RULES.md; pin in references/UPSTREAM-PIN.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Agent Style

What else does pchalasani publish alongside Agent Style?
Agent Style is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pchalasani/claude-code-tools, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Pattern, Avoid AI Writing and Code Walk Thru. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agent Style does, and is maintained by pchalasani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pchalasani/claude-code-tools page.
How does Agent Style compare to other Writing skills?
Agent Style ranks #279 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agent Style against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.