Writing Skills

by ed3dai

Writing Skills is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by ed3dai in ed3d-plugins.

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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/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/tree/main/plugins/ed3d-extending-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/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ed3d-extending-claude/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md in ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1060 skills

What Writing Skills does

Writing Skills applies test-driven development to skill documentation and creation. Use it when creating, editing, or verifying skills so you can test pressure scenarios first and close loopholes before deployment.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Writing Skills

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Read ed3d-extending-claude:writing-claude-directives for foundational guidance on token efficiency, discovery optimization, and compliance techniques. This skill focuses on TDD methodology specific to skill creation.

Core Principle

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

Write test cases (pressure scenarios), watch them fail (baseline behavior), write the skill, watch tests pass, refactor (close loopholes).

Iron Law: No skill without a failing test first. Same as TDD for code.

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

Frequently asked about Writing Skills

What else does ed3dai publish alongside Writing Skills?
Writing Skills is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Asking Clarifying Questions, Brainstorming and Coding Effectively. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Skills does, and is maintained by ed3dai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ed3dai/ed3d-plugins page.
How does Writing Skills compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Skills ranks #870 by stars among the 1060 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.