Docs & Writing
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.
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terrylica Bundle Terminal PrintPrint iTerm2 terminal output to network printer. Also documents AirPrint blank-page workaround for HP LaserJet Pro MFP 3101/3108 family. TRIGGERS - print terminal, terminal PDF, print session output, AirPrint blank page, printer prints blank, lpr no output, HP LaserJet driverless blank, IPP-Everywhere blank page.
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terrylica Bundle Link ValidatorValidate markdown link portability in skills. TRIGGERS - check links, validate portability, fix broken links, relative paths.
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terrylica Bundle Academic PDF To GfmConvert academic PDF papers to GitHub-renderable GFM markdown with math equations. TRIGGERS - PDF, GitHub markdown, math
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terrylica Bundle Pandoc PDF GenerationPDF generation from markdown via Pandoc/XeLaTeX. TRIGGERS - markdown for PDF, print document, pandoc
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terrylica Skill Loop BriefingNotify the user via Pushover when an autonomous Claude Code /loop is BLOCKED and needs human input/decision, or has FINISHED with no meaningful work remaining. Renders a full monospace incident-report PNG (session/project/branch/git-status/commits/details, iPhone-13-mini tuned) and sends a short action-focused message - emergency+receipt for blocked, high-priority for done. Use this proactively during a /loop at the moment you must stop and ask, or when you are about to stop scheduling further wakeups. Do NOT use for routine progress. TRIGGERS - loop blocked, loop done, loop needs input, notify when blocked, loop finished, stop the loop and notify, autonomous loop briefing.
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terrylica Bundle Ascii Diagram ValidatorValidate ASCII diagram alignment in markdown. TRIGGERS - diagram alignment, ASCII art, box-drawing diagrams.
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terrylica Bundle Plotext Financial ChartASCII financial line charts for markdown using plotext dot marker. TRIGGERS - financial chart, line chart, plotext
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terrylica Bundle Diagnose Hid KeycodesFind out what an unknown USB/Bluetooth HID button actually emits without assuming the label or documentation. Uses Karabiner's.
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terrylica Skill Send NotificationSend a Pushover push notification to the user's devices, optionally with an image attachment. Use when the user wants to send/push a notification, alert, or message via Pushover, or programmatically notify their phone. For repeating-alarm emergency alerts that require acknowledgement use emergency-priority2-receipt instead; for rendering a verbose incident-report image use render-incident-report-image. TRIGGERS - send pushover, push notification, notify my phone, pushover alert.
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terrylica Skill Unlimited Ocr Batch FolderBatch parse a folder of PDFs and images to markdown with LaTeX, tables, and layout boxes using baidu/Unlimited-OCR locally — with checkpoint/resume, incremental writes, and per-file repetition detection. Use when processing a large folder of scanned documents or research papers, when you need results written incrementally to survive interruption, or when extracting equations and tables from a document collection. TRIGGERS - batch ocr, ocr a folder, batch parse documents, parse multiple pdfs, folder to markdown, extract formulas from folder, ocr multiple files, batch document extraction, document collection parsing, checkpoint resume.
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terrylica Skill Render Incident Report ImageRender a verbose monospace "incident report" PNG tuned for reading on an iPhone 13 mini in a Pushover notification (72-column wrap, dark theme, green headings, no horizontal cut-off, unlimited scrollable height). Use when the user wants a detailed text briefing/report rendered as an image to attach to a push notification, or asks for a Pushover-friendly report image. TRIGGERS - render report, incident report image, pushover briefing image, report png.
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terrylica Bundle Arxiv Source First Paper IngestRead an arXiv paper faithfully by fetching the authors' own LaTeX source instead of OCR-ing the PDF. Extracts every display equation with its label, environment and enclosing proposition, renders each to MathML, and proves usability by compiling each formula with a real TeX engine. Use when you need a paper's formulas exactly — to replicate a method, implement a loss function or custom objective, verify a quoted number, or check a claim against what the authors actually wrote. TRIGGERS - read this paper, get the paper, arxiv paper, extract formulas from a paper, replicate a method, implement the loss from, verify the paper's numbers, machine-readable paper, latex source, mathml, e-print.
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lyndonkl Bundle Skill CreatorTransforms documents containing theoretical knowledge or frameworks (PDFs, markdown, book notes, research papers, methodology guides) into actionable, reusable Claude Code skills using systematic reading methodology. Use when user mentions "create a skill from this document", "turn this into a skill", "extract a skill from this file", or when analyzing documents with methodologies, frameworks, or processes that could be made actionable.
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lyndonkl Skill Markdown To PDFRenders a markdown report to a PDF using pandoc with xelatex (11pt serif body, 1-inch margins, numbered footnotes, formal heading hierarchy). Requires a one-time install of pandoc and a LaTeX engine on the user's machine — basictex on macOS or texlive-xetex on Linux. Does not attempt automatic install. Fails loudly with the exact install commands if pandoc or xelatex is missing on the user's PATH. Use when producing a finished strategist or analyst report PDF from a polished markdown source.
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lyndonkl Bundle Adr ArchitectureDocuments significant architectural and technical decisions with full context, alternatives considered, trade-offs analyzed, and consequences understood. Creates a decision trail that helps teams understand why decisions were made. Use when choosing between technology options, making infrastructure decisions, establishing standards, migrating systems, or when user mentions ADR, architecture decision, technical decision record, or decision documentation.
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lyndonkl Bundle Strategist VoiceProvides the house style for analyst-grade strategist writing — third-person register with sparing first-person, no em dashes, no "not X, not Y, not Z" negation cascades, numbered footnote citations rather than inline source parentheticals, specific opinion-signaling phrases, and topic-forward paragraph structure modeled on voice patterns observed in Damodaran's Musings on Markets and Thompson's Stratechery. Use when consolidating working notes into a finished long-form strategist or analyst report that must read as written by a senior human analyst rather than an AI assistant.
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lyndonkl Bundle Writing RevisionApplies a systematic three-pass revision system (Zinsser, King, Pinker, Clark) to existing drafts — Pass 1 cuts clutter, Pass 2 reduces cognitive load, Pass 3 improves rhythm. Use when revising, editing, or polishing drafts, cutting word count, tightening prose, improving readability, or fixing flow, or when user mentions revision, editing, cut clutter, too wordy, improve readability, fix the flow, reduce word count.
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lyndonkl Skill Ingest Inbox ItemIngests a single file from the substacker inbox/ into corpus/seeds/ as a normalized markdown seed with full frontmatter. Orchestrates format normalization, topic tagging, intuition-density scoring, dedupe, changelog, ledger update, and inbox-file move to .processed/. Use when the user drops raw material into inbox/ and runs /ingest, at session start, or whenever a single inbox file needs to become an indexed seed. Trigger keywords — ingest, inbox, new note, new transcript, new highlight, index this, add to corpus.
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lyndonkl Bundle Readability CheckScores prose with Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, SMOG, Gunning Fog, and Dale-Chall, reports every score on one shared grade-band scale, and rewrites the sentences that fail. Runs on markdown files or on piped draft text before it is sent, and can run automatically through Claude Code hooks. Use before delivering any substantial written output, when a draft reads as convoluted or bloated, when a document must hit a reading-level target, or when checking a folder of documents for prose quality. Trigger keywords — readability, reading level, Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, Gunning Fog, Dale-Chall, grade level, hard to read, convoluted, dense prose, plain language, reading ease.
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lyndonkl Skill Term InterrogationWalks a finished document line by line, finds every word and phrase standing in for a concept, and breaks each one down until a reader with no background can follow it. Targets the assumed-knowledge phrase, the kind that sounds ordinary while hiding everything that matters ("moat", "flywheel", "product-market fit", "at scale"), not merely the rare word. Explains each term where it is used, then re-reads its own explanation and unpacks any new term that explanation introduced, repeating until every word bottoms out in ordinary language. Produces a term ledger recording what was flagged, how it was handled, where each explanation came from, and how many passes it took. Use after drafting any report, explainer or analysis for a non-expert audience, or when asked to explain something from first principles, assume the reader knows nothing, cross-question the jargon, define every term, or make a document readable by a beginner.
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lyndonkl Bundle Valuation ReportingAssembles a finished company analysis into the deliverable a decision-maker reads — the executive summary, the value bridge, the assumptions that matter, the sensitivity range, and the recommendation with its catalysts and risks. Use when writing up a valuation, DCF, acquisition, IPO, restructuring or corporate finance analysis, when drafting REPORT.md or the verdict, or when deciding what belongs in the report.
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lyndonkl Skill PDF Statement ParserParses a single financial statement PDF (checking, savings, credit card, brokerage, 401k, HSA, mortgage, tax form) and emits a normalized JSON record with institution, account mask, statement period, opening/closing balances, line-item transactions or holdings, and a confidence score. Use when extracting structured data from a bank, brokerage, retirement, or HSA PDF statement, when ingesting a drop of household finance documents, or when user mentions parsing a statement, extracting transactions from a PDF, or normalizing statement data.
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lyndonkl Skill Statement ReconcilerVerifies that an extracted statement is internally consistent by checking that opening_balance + sum(transactions) = closing_balance within a small tolerance, and produces a reconciliation report flagging missing rows, double-counted rows, sign errors, and rounding diffs. Use as the gate between PDF extraction and committing transactions to the data store, when reconciling a statement that does not balance, or when user mentions reconcile, balance check, or statement does not tie out.
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lyndonkl Skill Cross Reference ClaimFinds and cites a primary source for each substacker draft claim — original arXiv paper, official documentation, RFC, canonical textbook. Source hierarchy enforced — primary > secondary > tertiary > not-a-source. Records URL, title, passage/result that settles the claim. Use after classify-claim; runs once per claim unless classification is simplified-correct with high confidence on standard undergrad material. Trigger keywords — cross-reference, primary source, citation, arXiv, RFC, paper lookup, source hierarchy.
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lyndonkl Skill Dedupe Against CorpusChecks a candidate seed against the existing substacker corpus (seeds, drafts, published) for exact duplicates (sha256 fingerprint) and near-duplicates (title Jaccard, first-200-word Jaccard, shared topic cluster). Exact match exits as SKIPPED. Near-match links via related_seeds rather than creating a duplicate. Use after topic tagging and density scoring, before writing the seed. Trigger keywords — dedupe, duplicate, already thought, near-match, related seed, fingerprint.
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lyndonkl Bundle Narrative Form TriageDecides which narrative form a body of researched material can actually support, before any structure is imposed. Runs a six-question form-triage gate producing STORY NARRATIVE, EXPLANATORY NARRATIVE, MULTI-NODE GATHERING, or DO NOT NARRATE; runs the ABT (And/But/Therefore) spine diagnostic; selects a spine from a thirteen-structure table covering Truby arc, layer cake, pyramid/SCQA, OCAR, PR/FAQ, sparkline, Raskin five-slot, martini glass, drill-down, inverted pyramid and braided/mosaic; and writes an immutable spine contract with a boredom budget. Use before outlining or drafting any long-form nonfiction, report, post-mortem, market history, research writeup or case study, or when user mentions find the narrative, what's the story here, narrative arc, story structure, how should I structure this, does this have a story, or storytelling with data.
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lyndonkl Skill Paper Cluster By ThemeGroups a set of kept papers into 2-5 thematic clusters before synthesis, using abstract semantics + matched-keyword overlap. Names each cluster with a short noun phrase that describes what the cluster argues, not just the topic. Surfaces an "outliers" bucket for single-paper themes that don't fit. Domain-neutral - usable for any literature-scan workflow. Use after relevance filtering and before writing the synthesis report. Trigger keywords - cluster papers, group by theme, thematic clusters, paper themes, organize papers.
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lyndonkl Bundle Abstraction Concrete ExamplesBuilds structured abstraction ladders that translate high-level principles into concrete, actionable examples across 3-5 levels. Bridges communication gaps, reveals hidden assumptions, and tests whether abstract ideas work in practice. Use when explaining concepts at different expertise levels, moving between abstract principles and concrete implementation, identifying edge cases by testing ideas against scenarios, designing layered documentation, decomposing complex problems into actionable steps, or bridging strategy-execution gaps.
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lyndonkl Bundle Visualization Choice ReportingMatches visualization types to data questions and creates narrated reports that highlight insights and recommend actions. Covers chart selection (comparison, trend, distribution, relationship, composition, geographic), perceptual best practices, and narrative reporting (headline, pattern, context, meaning, action). Use when analyzing data for patterns, building dashboards, presenting metrics, monitoring KPIs, or when user mentions "visualize this", "what chart should I use", "create a dashboard", "analyze this data", "show trends", "report on".
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rysweet Bundle PDFComprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.
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rysweet Bundle DOCXCreate, edit, and analyze Word documents with tracked changes support
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rysweet Bundle PPTXPresentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with layouts, (4) Adding comments or speaker notes, or any other presentation tasks
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rysweet Bundle Gh Work ReportGenerates comprehensive GitHub activity reports across all authenticated accounts. Gathers repos, PRs, features, and themes for configurable time periods (1/5/7/30/90 days). Produces shareable markdown with tables, mermaid charts, and executive summaries. Can create a private repo with GitHub Actions automation and GitHub Pages aggregation site. Use when: "github report", "work report", "activity summary", "what did I work on", "gh-work-report", "show my github activity".
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posthog-skills Bundle Exploring ScoutsHow to explore and make sense of PostHog Signals scouts — the scheduled agents that scan a project and write reports into the Signals inbox. Use when a user wants to understand what scouts they have, how each one is behaving, and whether the fleet is actually working. Covers surveying the fleet and its schedules, reading recent scout runs and drilling into a single run's reasoning, inspecting the durable scratchpad memory the fleet has built up, tracing a run to the reports it wrote or edited, and assessing a scout's health and performance over time (cadence, success rate, report rate, signal-to-noise). Read-only and exploratory — to write or tune a scout, use `authoring-scouts` instead. Trigger on "what are my scouts doing", "how is my <x> scout performing", "show me recent scout runs", "why did this scout find/report nothing", "what has the fleet learned", "explore scout run <id>", "is my scout working".
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ovachiever Bundle Scientific SlidesBuild slide decks and presentations for research talks. Use this for making PowerPoint slides, conference presentations, seminar talks, research presentations, thesis defense slides, or any scientific talk. Provides slide structure, design templates, timing guidance, and visual validation. Works with PowerPoint and LaTeX Beamer.
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thelobbi Skill Vision MultimodalVision and multimodal capabilities for Claude including image analysis, PDF processing, and document understanding. Activate for image input, base64 encoding, multiple images, and visual analysis.
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 send-notification, academic-pdf-to-gfm, terminal-print. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" 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@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.