Editorial Illustrations

Editorial Illustrations is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by huytieu in COG-second-brain.

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Install Editorial Illustrations

Copy Editorial Illustrations 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/huytieu/COG-second-brain/tree/main/skills/editorial-illustrations ~/.claude/skills/editorial-illustrations

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/huytieu/COG-second-brain.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/editorial-illustrations/SKILL.md in huytieu/COG-second-brain
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/editorial-illustrations
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Editorial Illustrations does

Editorial Illustrations generates thesis-driven data illustrations in a monochrome house style with one accent. Use it when a post, essay, spec, or slide needs a chart or diagram that proves a claim rather than decorating the page.

Editorial Illustrations is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Editorial Illustrations comes from a repository tagged agent-loop, agent-plugins, agent-skills, agentic and ai-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Editorial illustrations — claim → geometry

The look you want (monotykamary.com, linear.app/now) is not a chart library. It is a discipline: every figure is a single argument rendered as geometry, framed in a hairline box, captioned in mono uppercase with the meaning, drawn in grayscale with exactly one accent. Get the discipline right and any shape reads as "house." Copy templates blindly and it reads as slop.

Do not reach for a fixed set of charts. Reach for the method below and build the figure this specific sentence needs. The six worked examples in references/worked-examples.md are proof the method generalizes, not a menu.

The core move

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

Frequently asked about Editorial Illustrations

What else does huytieu publish alongside Editorial Illustrations?
Editorial Illustrations is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from huytieu/COG-second-brain, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auto Research, Braindump and Closed-Loop Execute. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Editorial Illustrations does, and is maintained by huytieu in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the huytieu/COG-second-brain page.
How does Editorial Illustrations compare to other Writing skills?
Editorial Illustrations ranks #500 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 Editorial Illustrations against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.