Docs & Writing Agent Skills

Docs & writing agent skills turn AI agents into dependable technical writers: READMEs, API references, PDFs and Word documents, changelogs, and style-guide enforcement. Install one and your agent produces the same structure and tone every time it writes.

Docs & Writing

1,294 skills
salacoste
bmad-shard-doc
Splits large markdown documents into smaller, organized files based on level 2 (default) sections. Use if the user says perform shard document
1
salacoste
deepinit
Deep codebase initialization with hierarchical AGENTS.md documentation
1
salacoste
autoresearch
Stateful single-mission improvement loop with strict evaluator contract, markdown decision logs, and max-runtime stop behavior
1
salacoste
external-context
Invoke parallel document-specialist agents for external web searches and documentation lookup
1
kintsugi-programmer
pdf
Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.
0 · bundle
kintsugi-programmer
doc-coauthoring
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
0
arustydev
lang-rust-docs-dev
Rust documentation practices for HASH codebase. Use when writing doc comments, documenting functions/types/traits/modules, creating error sections, using intra-doc links, following rustdoc conventions, or exploring crate APIs with cargo doc.
8 · bundle
arustydev
lang-go-library-dev
Go-specific library/package development patterns. Use when creating Go libraries, designing public APIs with Go idioms, configuring go.mod, managing module versioning, publishing packages, or writing package documentation. Extends meta-library-dev with Go tooling and ecosystem practices.
8
rulebase-co
cx-narrative-reporting
Use to write CX commentary that makes a number decision-ready — what moved, why (decomposed), so what, do what — separating noise from signal and stating confidence honestly. Trigger for "write the commentary", "explain this trend", "what should we say about the drop", weekly or monthly narrative, board pack prose, "why did QA fall", metric movement write-up, or when a report has charts but no story.
1
ichichuang
nano-pdf
Edit PDFs with natural-language instructions using the nano-pdf CLI. Modify text, fix typos, update titles, and make content changes to specific pages without manual editing.
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ichichuang
powerpoint
Use this skill any time a .pptx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates, layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.
0 · bundle
ichichuang
ocr-and-documents
Extract text from PDFs and scanned documents. Use web_extract for remote URLs, pymupdf for local text-based PDFs, marker-pdf for OCR/scanned docs. For DOCX use python-docx, for PPTX see the powerpoint skill.
0 · bundle
michaelschecht
pptx-editing
Use this skill any time a .pptx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates, layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.
0
michaelschecht
style-guide
Create and enforce writing style guides covering voice, tone, terminology, formatting conventions, and editorial rules for consistent documentation. Use when establishing or applying writing standards across a team or project. Also trigger for 'style guide', 'voice and tone', 'writing standards', 'editorial guidelines', 'terminology glossary', 'content standards', or 'brand voice'.
0
michaelschecht
doc-coauthoring
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
0
brycewang-stanford
slr-prisma
Guide users through writing a systematic literature review (SLR) following the PRISMA 2020 framework. Use this skill whenever the user mentions 'systematic review', 'systematic literature review', 'SLR', 'PRISMA', 'PRISMA 2020', 'PRISMA flow diagram', 'PRISMA checklist', or asks for help writing, structuring, or auditing a literature review that follows reporting guidelines. Also trigger when the user asks about inclusion/exclusion criteria for a review, search strategies for databases like Scopus/WoS/PubMed, study selection processes, risk of bias assessment, or narrative synthesis for a review paper. This skill covers the full PRISMA 2020 checklist (27 items), produces a Word document manuscript in strict journal article format, generates an annotated PRISMA flow diagram, and enforces APA 7th Edition referencing throughout. It does NOT cover meta-analysis or statistical pooling. By Chuah Kee Man.
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
arxiv
Search, download, and summarize academic papers from arXiv. Use when user says "search arxiv", "download paper", "fetch arxiv", "arxiv search", "get paper pdf", or wants to find and save papers from arXiv to the local paper library.
1k
brycewang-stanford
humanizer-academic
Remove signs of AI-generated writing from academic medical papers. Use when editing or reviewing manuscripts to make them sound more natural and professionally written. Based on Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide, adapted for medical literature. Detects and fixes patterns including: inflated significance claims, superficial -ing analyses, vague attributions, AI vocabulary words, copula avoidance, excessive hedging, generic conclusions, informal word choices (linked/beyond/via/where/yield), overly assertive causal claims, and artificially condensed expressions. Preserves legitimate academic transitions (Notably, Prior studies have shown, etc.).
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
anti-hallucination
ALWAYS activate this skill. Apply these rules to every task regardless of domain. This skill governs how Claude Code verifies information, writes code, references documentation, and avoids fabricating functions, arguments, APIs, file paths, data structures, or facts. These rules override any inclination to guess.
1k
brycewang-stanford
paper-writer
Automatically write empirical sections of academic papers in LaTeX by reading tables/figures from a PDF. Trigger when user wants to write a paper from empirical results, has tables/figures in PDF, or says "write paper" / "paper-writer" / "写论文".
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
china-cf-study
根据研究者提供的**研究计划书(Research Proposal)**执行基于中国制度环境的公司金融类实证研究全流程。**启动后第一件事:根据计划书的主题、识别策略、贡献边际与样本范围,从中国-context 英文顶级期刊池(JF/JFE/RFS/JFQA/MS/JCF/JBF/JAR/JAE/TAR/CAR/JIBS/China Economic Review/PBFJ 等 25+ 期刊)中推荐 5 本最匹配的目标期刊([J1]–[J5]),等待研究者明确选定一本;该期刊决定 main.tex 的 bibliographystyle、Section 骨架、Introduction 风格与表注规范**。然后用 Python 完成数据清洗、描述性统计、基准回归、内生性检验(IV/2SLS、DML)、平行趋势、异质性、机制、稳健性检验与图表绘制。LaTeX 表格和图像严格遵循 template/ 示例格式,研究逻辑与排版严格遵循 rule/ 下的《通用实证研究逻辑与规范总结》与《回归表写作规范总结》。数据集与政策集从 asset/ 中按计划书中的关键词检索。**当计划书预期的实证结果无法实现时(系数不显著、平行趋势不通过、IV 弱工具、机制不成立等),skill 自动切换备选方案直至完成研究项目**。最终交付物:Python 代码 + LaTeX 表格 + 图像(.pdf/.png)。触发条件:研究者提交研究计划书(含 X→Y 假设、识别策略、样本、政策冲击等)。
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
compile-latex
Use when compiling a LaTeX paper, debugging LaTeX errors, building a paper PDF, or when a .tex file fails to produce output. Handles engine detection (xelatex vs pdflatex), bibliography systems (biber vs bibtex), and multi-pass compilation.
1k · bundle
brycewang-stanford
paper-self-revise
Revise an academic paper based on internal review comments. Reads review report or annotated manuscript, then applies revisions one by one with user approval. Trigger when user says "self revise" / "paper-selfrevise" / "内部修改" / "根据审稿意见修改".
1k
anthropic
internal-comms
Writes internal communications using company-specific formats for status reports, leadership updates, newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, and project updates.
158k · bundle
addyosmani
documentation-and-adrs
Records architectural decisions and documentation to capture the context, constraints, and trade-offs behind codebase choices.
69.5k
addyosmani
test-driven-development
Drive development with tests by writing a failing test before implementing code, and reproduce bugs with tests before fixing them.
69.5k
addyosmani
source-driven-development
Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation, ensuring authoritative, source-cited code free from outdated patterns.
69.5k
adobe
handover-admin
Generate comprehensive admin documentation for AEM Edge Delivery Services project handover, covering Config Service setup, permissions, Admin API operations, and troubleshooting.
142 · bundle
adobe
block-inventory
Surveys available blocks from a local AEM Edge Delivery Services project and Block Collection to understand the block palette available for authoring, returning a block inventory with purposes to inform content modeling decisions.
142 · bundle
orchestra-research
academic-plotting
Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers, including architecture diagrams via Gemini and data-driven charts via matplotlib/seaborn.
10.4k · bundle
orchestra-research
ara-research-manager
Records research provenance as a post-task epilogue, scanning conversation history to extract decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, and pivots, and writing them into the ara/ directory with provenance tags.
10.4k · bundle
thedotmack
wowerpoint
Converts a single document into a kawaii-themed slide-deck PDF using NotebookLM, with an optional share link via the WOWerpoint Server.
heygen
slideshow
Author a HyperFrames slideshow — a presentation, pitch deck, or interactive deck with discrete slides, fragment reveals, branching, hotspot navigation, and built-in presenter mode with speaker notes; also converts an existing page into a deck.
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heygen
cut-the-curve
Provides a catalog of cinematic transition techniques (zoom-through, cut-the-curve, waterfall cut, etc.) with GSAP parameters for velocity-matched seams and in-scene motion.
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dontbesilent2025
dbs-report
Merges multiple diagnosis snapshots from dbs-save into a single, timestamped Markdown report organized by topic.
dontbesilent2025
dbs-ai-check
Scans copy for AI-generated writing patterns and outputs a diagnostic report. Diagnosis only by default.

Frequently asked questions

What are Docs & Writing agent skills?

Docs & writing agent skills turn AI agents into dependable technical writers: READMEs, API references, PDFs and Word documents, changelogs, and style-guide enforcement. Install one and your agent produces the same structure and tone every time it writes.

Which Docs & Writing skills are most installed?

Popular Docs & Writing skills on SkillMD right now include slideshow, handover-admin, block-inventory. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most downloaded" for the live list.

Do Docs & Writing skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?

Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.