Writing Skills

by TechDufus

Writing Skills is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by TechDufus in oh-my-claude.

176 stars9 forkson TechDufus/oh-my-claudeAdded 2026/09/07Repository updated 2026/07/13

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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/TechDufus/oh-my-claude/tree/main/plugins/oh-my-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/TechDufus/oh-my-claude.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/oh-my-claude/skills/writing-skills/SKILL.md in TechDufus/oh-my-claude
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1328 skills

What Writing Skills does

Writing Skills applies TDD to skill authoring and plugin components. Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or reviewing skill quality, especially for prompts like "create skill" or "skill authoring".

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Creating new skills
Editing existing skills
Reviewing skill quality
Authoring plugin components

TDD Mapping

TDD Concept	Skill Equivalent
Test case	Pressure scenario (situation where agent fails without skill)
Production code	SKILL.md content
Failing test	Agent demonstrably fails the scenario
Passing test	Agent handles scenario correctly with skill loaded
Refactor	Trim to minimum effective content

RED-GREEN-REFACTOR for Skills

RED: Identify Failure Scenarios

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

Frequently asked about Writing Skills

What else does TechDufus publish alongside Writing Skills?
Writing Skills is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from TechDufus/oh-my-claude, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Debugger, Git Commit Validator and Init Deep. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Skills does, and is maintained by TechDufus in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the TechDufus/oh-my-claude page.
How does Writing Skills compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Skills ranks #1154 by stars among the 1328 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.