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Skill Writing

by xintaofei

Skill Writing is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by xintaofei in codeg.

2.8K stars345 forkson xintaofei/codegAdded 2026/08/17+3% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/17
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Install Skill Writing
Copy Skill Writing 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/xintaofei/codeg/tree/main/src-tauri/experts/skills/writing-skills ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills

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/xintaofei/codeg.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
src-tauri/experts/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md in xintaofei/codeg
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/writing-skills
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Skill Writing does

Skill Writing applies test-driven development to creating and refining AI agent skills. Use it when creating new skills, editing existing ones, or verifying skills work before deployment.

Skill Writing is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Skill Writing comes from a repository tagged acp, agent, claude-code, cline and code-generation.

Documentation

README

Writing Skills

Overview

Writing skills IS Test-Driven Development applied to process documentation.

Personal skills live in your runtime's skills directory (~/.claude/skills/ on Claude Code) — see codex-tools.md or gemini-tools.md for the path on those runtimes. Codex, Copilot CLI, and Gemini CLI all also recognize ~/.agents/skills/ as a cross-runtime alias.

You write test cases (pressure scenarios with subagents), watch them fail (baseline behavior), write the skill (documentation), watch tests pass (agents comply), and refactor (close loopholes).

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

Frequently asked about Skill Writing

  • What else does xintaofei publish alongside Skill Writing?

    Skill Writing is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from xintaofei/codeg, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brainstorming, Citation Management and Code Review Reception. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Writing does, and is maintained by xintaofei in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the xintaofei/codeg page.

  • How does Skill Writing compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Skill Writing ranks #746 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Skill Writing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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