Substack Writer

by getnao

Substack Writer is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by getnao in sylph.

195 stars57 forkson getnao/sylphAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/05/21

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Install Substack Writer

Copy Substack Writer 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/getnao/sylph/tree/main/.claude/skills/substack-writer ~/.claude/skills/substack-writer

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/getnao/sylph.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/substack-writer/SKILL.md in getnao/sylph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/substack-writer
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Substack Writer does

Substack Writer drafts and refines long-form Substack articles like explainers, benchmarks, and opinion pieces. Use it to create new posts, improve drafts, generate titles, or review article performance.

Substack Writer is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Substack Writer comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, automation, claude-code, codex and company-brain.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Substack Article Writer

name: substack-writer
description: >
  Writes long-form Substack articles - benchmarks, how-tos, opinion pieces, explainers,
  product-led content, and personal essays. Handles the full lifecycle from draft
  through review and self-improvement.
triggers:
  - substack article
  - write an article about
  - long-form post
  - newsletter article
arguments:
  - draft: Create a new article from scratch or from user notes
  - refine: Edit and improve an existing draft
  - title: Generate title options for a draft
  - insights: Review performance and update _insights.md

MCP connectors

Connector	Purpose
Substack	Publish articles (via browser or API)

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

Frequently asked about Substack Writer

What else does getnao publish alongside Substack Writer?
Substack Writer is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from getnao/sylph, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Blog Article Writer, Brand Designer and Brand Guidelines. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Substack Writer does, and is maintained by getnao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the getnao/sylph page.
How does Substack Writer compare to other Writing skills?
Substack Writer ranks #1053 by stars among the 1227 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 Substack Writer against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.