Writing Skills

Writing Skills is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by LerianStudio in ring.

210 stars27 forkson LerianStudio/ringAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/08/19

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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/LerianStudio/ring/tree/main/default/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/LerianStudio/ring.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: default/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md in LerianStudio/ring
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1144 skills

What Writing Skills does

Writing Skills defines how to create or revise a Ring skill with correct SKILL.md structure, ASO rules, token-efficiency targets, and rationalization-resistant safeguards. Use it when writing skills that need to withstand pressure and excuses.

Writing Skills is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Writing Skills comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-coding, claude-code, code-quality and code-review.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Writing Skills

When to use

Creating a new skill
Editing an existing skill
Skill needs to resist rationalization under pressure

Skip when

Writing pure reference skill (API docs) → no rules to test
Skill has no compliance costs → no rationalization risk

Complementary: ring:testing-skills-with-subagents

Writing skills IS TDD applied to process documentation.

Same Iron Law: No skill without failing test first.
Same cycle: RED (baseline) → GREEN (write skill) → REFACTOR (close loopholes).

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: Understand ring:test-driven-development before using this skill.

What is a Skill?

A reusable reference guide for proven techniques, patterns, or tools. Not a narrative about how you solved something once.

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

Frequently asked about Writing Skills

What else does LerianStudio publish alongside Writing Skills?
Writing Skills is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from LerianStudio/ring, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt The Huma OpenAPI Wrapper, Analyzing Options and Cleaning Comments. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Skills does, and is maintained by LerianStudio in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the LerianStudio/ring page.
How does Writing Skills compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Skills ranks #964 by stars among the 1144 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.