Writing Skills

by crbnos

Writing Skills is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by crbnos in carbon.

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Install Writing Skills

Copy Writing Skills 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/crbnos/carbon/tree/main/.claude/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/crbnos/carbon.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md in crbnos/carbon
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills
Collection: One of 47 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Writing Skills does

Writing Skills defines how Carbon skills are authored and reviewed in this repo. Use when creating a new skill, restructuring an existing one, or checking a skill for frontmatter, install wiring, templates, and weak-executor rules.

Writing Skills is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Writing Skills comes from a repository tagged business, erp, lean, management and manufacturing.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

writing-skills — how Carbon skills are written

Source of truth is .claude/skills/{name}/SKILL.md (tracked in git). The installer (.ai/scripts/install-skills.sh, run automatically by pnpm prepare or manually via pnpm install-skills) copies each skill directory into .codex/skills/ for the Codex harness. Never edit under .codex/ — edit .claude/skills/ only.

The prime directive: write for the weakest executor

Assume the model executing a skill is much less capable than you and has zero context. It will not infer intent, fill gaps, or exercise judgment. So:

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

Commands Writing Skills provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/check-and-commit

Frequently asked about Writing Skills

What else does crbnos publish alongside Writing Skills?
Writing Skills is one of 47 skills that DirSkills catalogs from crbnos/carbon, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Browser, Agent Browser and Browser Error Snapshot. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Skills does, and is maintained by crbnos in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the crbnos/carbon page.
How does Writing Skills compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Skills ranks #266 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 Writing Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.