Writing Craft Skill
Teaches agents to write well: classic copy craft plus an AI-tell checklist.
About
A writing skill with two halves: craft principles drawn from Ogilvy, Sugarman and Zinsser (word choice, sentence rhythm, loss framing) and a 24-pattern AI-detection checklist covering vocabulary, structure, formatting and rhythm tells. It has write and edit modes, ships as a plugin plus a plain SKILL.md, and installs into 50+ agents via the skills CLI. At 1 star it is still early, and its generative voice leans marketing-craft rather than neutral technical prose. As an anti-AI-tell layer paired with Neuricon's own humanizer rule, it is unusually on-theme.
What it can do
- Drafting with classic copywriting craft
- Editing passes with 24-pattern AI-tell removal
- Voice calibration and tone guidance
- Grammar-and-clarity-only edit mode
Setup
Run: npx skills add vidanov/writing-craft-skill
Manual: copy SKILL.md to ~/.claude/skills/writing-craft/SKILL.md (or .kiro/skills/writing-craft/)
ChatGPT/Claude Projects: paste chatgpt/PROMPT.md into custom instructions
Start a new task so the agent refreshes its skill inventory
Prerequisites
Any SKILL.md-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Kiro); or any chat assistant for the PROMPT.md variant.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 5/10
Scored 5/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 1 star, 13 commits, 1 release — early single-author skill with skills.sh manifest.; Install via skills CLI verified; manual single-file and ChatGPT PROMPT.md paths documented.; 24-pattern AI-tell checklist pairs naturally with humanizer-style editing.. License: MIT verified via GitHub license field..
★ 1 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 5.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 7.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 1 star, 13 commits, 1 release — early single-author skill with skills.sh manifest.
- · Install via skills CLI verified; manual single-file and ChatGPT PROMPT.md paths documented.
- · 24-pattern AI-tell checklist pairs naturally with humanizer-style editing.
Sources
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