writing-brainstorm
This skill should be used when the user asks to "find something to write about", "brainstorm topics", "what should I write about", "find writing ideas", "gather sources for", "pull references on", or needs help discovering topics from their reading highlights. Leverages Readwise MCP to surface patterns and gather references.
writing-econ
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write an economics paper", "draft a working paper", "edit finance writing", "review my econ paper", "write for a journal", or needs guidance on economics and finance writing. Based on McCloskey's "Economical Writing" with discipline-specific word lists and examples.
writing
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write an article", "draft a blog post", "edit prose", "review my writing", "check style", "improve clarity", or needs general writing guidance. Provides Strunk & White's Elements of Style for foundational grammar, usage, and composition principles.
writing-legal
This skill should be used when the user asks to "write a law review article", "draft a legal paper", "edit legal writing", "review my legal article", "write for a journal", "format footnotes", or needs guidance on academic legal writing. Based on Volokh's "Academic Legal Writing" with law-review-specific structure and evidence handling.
writing-clearly-and-concisely
Apply Strunk's timeless writing rules to ANY prose humans will read—documentation, commit messages, error messages, explanations, reports, or UI text. Makes your writing clearer, stronger, and more professional.
writing-skills
Guide for creating effective Claude Code skills. Use when creating new skills, refactoring existing skills, or validating skill structure. Covers YAML frontmatter, progressive disclosure, naming conventions, and best practices.
emotional-stakes
Use when writing subagent prompts, skill instructions, or any high-stakes task requiring accuracy and truthfulness
prose
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editing-assistant
Text editing assistant with specialized modes for typos, grammar, flow, headings, citations, and more. Use when editing, proofreading, or improving written content including documentation and markdown files.
academic-writing-cs
Comprehensive toolkit for writing high-quality computer science research papers (conference, journal, thesis). Provides narrative construction guidance, sentence-level clarity principles (Gopen & Swan), academic phrasebank, CS-specific conventions, and section-by-section quality checklists. Use when assisting with academic paper writing, revision, or structure planning across all stages from drafting to submission.
grammar
Comprehensive proofreading and editing for biblical, pastoral, and theological writing. Use when the user requests grammar checking, spelling correction, proofreading, or style improvement for sermons, sermonettes, devotionals, blogs, academic papers, or book chapters. Specializes in US English, pastoral tone, academic theological writing, and creative devotional styles.
latex-writing
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firecrawl-research
This skill should be used when the user requests to research topics using FireCrawl, enrich notes with web sources, search and scrape information, or write scientific/academic papers. It extracts research topics from markdown files, creates research documents with scraped sources, generates BibTeX bibliographies from research results, and provides Pandoc/MyST templates for academic writing with citation management.
content-research-writer
Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.
translation-reframing-audience-shift
Use when content must be translated between audiences with different expertise, context, or goals while preserving accuracy but adapting presentation. Invoke when technical content needs business framing (engineering decisions → executive summary), strategic vision needs tactical translation (board presentation → team OKRs), expert knowledge needs simplification (academic paper → blog post, medical diagnosis → patient explanation), formal content needs casual tone (annual report → social media post), long-form needs summarization (50-page doc → 1-page brief), internal content needs external framing (roadmap → public updates, bug tracking → known issues), cross-cultural adaptation (US idioms → international clarity, Gen Z → Boomer messaging), medium shifts (written report → presentation script, detailed spec → action checklist), or when user mentions "explain to", "reframe for", "translate this for [audience]", "make this more [accessible/formal/technical]", "adapt for [executives/engineers/customers]", "simplify without losing accuracy", or "same content, different audience". Apply to technical communication (code → business value), organizational translation (strategy → execution), education (expert → novice), customer communication (internal → external), cross-cultural messaging, and anywhere same core message needs different presentation for different stakeholders while maintaining correctness.
scientific-email-polishing
Use when writing or polishing professional scientific emails, journal cover letters, or responses to reviewers. Invoke when user mentions email to collaborator, cover letter to editor, reviewer response, professional correspondence, or needs help with professional tone, clear asks, or diplomatic communication in academic/scientific contexts.
communication-storytelling
Use when transforming analysis/data into persuasive narratives—presenting to executives, explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences, creating customer-facing communications, writing investor updates, announcing changes, turning research into insights, or when user mentions "write this for", "explain to", "present findings", "make this compelling", "audience is". Invoke when information needs to become a story tailored to specific stakeholders.
academic-letter-architect
Use when writing recommendation letters, reference letters, or award nominations for students, postdocs, or colleagues. Invoke when user mentions recommendation letter, reference, nomination, letter of support, endorsement, or needs help with strong advocacy, comparative statements, or evidence-based character assessment.
career-document-architect
Use when writing or reviewing career documents including research statements, teaching statements, diversity statements, CVs, or biosketches. Invoke when user mentions research statement, teaching philosophy, diversity statement, biosketch, academic CV, faculty application, or needs help with career narrative, positioning, or professional documents for academic advancement.
Writing Mentor
Guide users writing new pieces, revising drafts, planning structure, improving organization, making messages memorable, or applying expert writing techniques from McPhee, Zinsser, King, Pinker, Clark, Klinkenborg, Lamott, and Heath