Writing Skills

by rsmdt

Writing Skills is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

508 stars58 forkson rsmdt/the-startupAdded 2026/08/26+29% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/03

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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/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/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/rsmdt/the-startup.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Writing Skills does

Writing Skills helps create, audit, convert, and verify Claude Code skills against repository conventions. Use it when authoring a new skill, reviewing an existing one, or checking a skill before deployment.

Writing Skills is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Writing Skills comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Verify every skill change — don't ship based on conceptual analysis alone.
Search for duplicates before creating any new skill.
Follow the gold-standard conventions in reference/conventions.md.
Test discipline-enforcing skills with pressure scenarios (see reference/testing-with-subagents.md).

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

Frequently asked about Writing Skills

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Writing Skills?
Writing Skills is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Skills does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Writing Skills compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Skills ranks #812 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.