Writing Rules

Writing Rules is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by PromptPartner in agentsmith.

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Install Writing Rules

Copy Writing Rules 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/PromptPartner/agentsmith/tree/master/skills/writing-rules ~/.claude/skills/writing-rules

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/PromptPartner/agentsmith.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/writing-rules/SKILL.md in PromptPartner/agentsmith
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-rules
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1279 skills

What Writing Rules does

Writing Rules helps you write or review text an agent will read, such as instructions, handoff notes, prompts, and validation labels. It is used when wording needs to change agent behavior with minimal token cost.

Writing Rules is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Writing Rules comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-tools and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Writing rules — and anything else an agent reads

You are writing for a reader who has already read everything. Explanation is waste; precision is the whole job. Left alone, a model writing instructions for a model spends most of its words restating what it already knows — every one of those lines is a no-op: paid every turn, changing nothing.

The packaging differs (a core/ rule, a profile gate, a SKILL.md, a subagent prompt, a handoff note) but the writing does not. The same levers make each one predictable, so the agent takes the same process every run rather than producing the same output.

When the document is a harness surface — a core/ rule, a profile, a skill, a hook — read HARNESS-SURFACES.md for where it goes and what it costs.

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

Frequently asked about Writing Rules

What else does PromptPartner publish alongside Writing Rules?
Writing Rules is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from PromptPartner/agentsmith, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Autonomous Run, Design Review and Example Skill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Rules does, and is maintained by PromptPartner in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the PromptPartner/agentsmith page.
How does Writing Rules compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Rules ranks #1106 by stars among the 1279 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 Writing Rules against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.