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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sawyer-middeleer Bundle Deep ResearchConducts comprehensive multi-source research on a topic - clarifies scope, plans research angles, spawns parallel analyst subagents to study each source in depth, and synthesizes findings into cited documentation. Use when the user wants thorough research, a literature review, a competitive scan, or says "deep research", "research this properly", "build me a research doc".
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sawyer-middeleer Skill Organizing NotesKeeps a markdown knowledge base consistent - frontmatter on every note, controlled tags, links between related notes and entities. Use whenever creating or editing notes in a knowledge base, and when asked to clean up, normalize, or reorganize notes. Reads the knowledge base's conventions.md as the authority.
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sawyer-middeleer Skill Managing Daily NotesManages daily notes in a second-brain markdown knowledge base (a folder with a conventions.md or KB-declaring CLAUDE.md) - finding, creating, reading, and updating them, including task carryover with provenance. Trigger on "my daily note", "create today's daily note", "carry over my tasks", "close out the day" when working in such a knowledge base.
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sawyer-middeleer Bundle Setting Up Knowledge BaseInitializes a plain-markdown knowledge base Claude can maintain - folder structure, a conventions file, and a CLAUDE.md so every future session knows the rules. Use when the user wants to start a second brain, notes vault, or knowledge base, or wants Claude to take over maintaining an existing folder of notes. Works with Obsidian or any markdown editor.
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valuecodes Skill Docs SyncSynchronize and update documentation across the monorepo. Use when you need to "update docs", "propagate" changes, run "pnpm test" docs validation, or modify "README", "AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md", or ".codex" files consistently.
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agentconfig Bundle Add ProviderAdd a new AI provider to agentconfig.org's comparison system. Use when integrating a new coding assistant (e.g., Cursor, Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot alternative) with proper type system updates, implementation data, UI components, tests, and documentation.
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mystenlabs Skill Cherry PickCherry-pick a commit from main to a Sui release branch, create the release PR, and report the PR URL.
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getaero-io Bundle Deepline FeedbackSend feedback or bug reports to the Deepline team. Use when the user asks to report feedback or share a session, and proactively when a Deepline Play is disproportionately slow, appears stuck, or an ordinary outcome requires avoidable product steps.
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guoqiao Bundle Url2pdfConvert URL to PDF suitable for mobile reading.
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dianel555 Bundle ExaHigh-precision semantic search and content retrieval via Exa API. Use when: (1) Deep research requiring semantic understanding, (2) Code documentation and examples lookup, (3) Company/professional research, (4) AI-powered comprehensive research tasks, (5) URL content extraction with structured output. Triggers: "research", "find papers", "code examples", "company info", "LinkedIn profiles", "deep analysis". Differentiator: Exa excels at semantic/neural search while grok-search is better for real-time news and general web content.
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peterkrueck Skill Update DocsUpdate project documentation after code changes. Maintains the 4 core ai-context files (spec, project-structure, progress, deployment-infrastructure) and CLAUDE.md. Use after completing features, refactors, or any changes that affect project structure, capabilities, or status. Also creates initial documentation if files don't exist yet.
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dianel555 Skill Grill MeGrill the user about a requirement, decision, or idea before implementation, then produce an actionable planning report without writing code. Use when the user wants to clarify requirements, stress-test an idea, compare approaches, or plan before coding.
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dianel555 Bundle Grok SearchEnhanced web search and real-time content retrieval via Grok API with forced tool routing. Use when: (1) Web search / information retrieval / fact-checking, (2) Webpage content extraction / URL parsing, (3) Breaking knowledge cutoff limits for current information, (4) Real-time news and technical documentation, (5) Multi-source information aggregation. Triggers: "search for", "find information about", "latest news", "current", "fetch webpage", "get content from URL". IMPORTANT: This skill REPLACES built-in WebSearch/WebFetch with Grok Search tools.
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microsoft Bundle Doc WriterGuidelines for producing accurate and maintainable documentation for the Aspire documentation site. Use when writing or updating user guides, integration docs, tutorials, custom components used by docs, or documentation-related tests and validation on aspire.dev.
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sparkling Bundle Markdown EditorMarkdown formatting rules and validation. Use when editing or creating .md files to ensure correct blank line placement around blocks, lists, and headings.
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microsoft Skill Update IntegrationsUpdate integration documentation links and API reference data by synchronizing NuGet package names with their documentation URLs and generating per-package API schemas. Use when adding new integrations, refreshing package data, ensuring integration-docs.json stays in sync with aspire-integrations.json, or regenerating API reference JSON files.
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hanhuark Bundle Research Slide DesignDesign clean, graphics-first technical presentations and posters with logical slide progression, visual hierarchy, purposeful motion, and complementary speaker notes. Use for research talks, conference slides, seminars, defenses, posters, or figure-focused presentations.
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legalopsconsulting Bundle Daily BriefingProduces a portfolio-level morning briefing for an LPM running two or more active matters. Reads email, call notes and matter state across the portfolio and produces a triage surface structured around meetings (today and this week), deliverables (what is due, when, to whom), issues (current problems requiring action), and risks (plausible future problems requiring monitoring). Also reads Outlook Calendar to surface upcoming matter-relevant meetings and to flag past meetings where no follow-up correspondence has been identified. Use when the user asks "run my daily briefing", "portfolio briefing", "what do I need to know today", "what's landed overnight", "Monday sweep", "pre-09:00 briefing", "weekend catchup", or pastes correspondence spanning two or more matters. Not for single-matter briefings (use matter-drill-down) or for audience-facing status reports (use status-report-drafter). Produces a .docx working surface for the LPM's own consumption, not distribution.
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legalopsconsulting Bundle Matter Drill DownProduces an LPM working view on a single matter — a focused zoom-in for the LPM's own operational use, not for distribution. Structured around deliverables (what is due, when, to whom), issues (current problems requiring action), and risks (plausible future problems requiring monitoring). Use when the user asks "drill into [matter]", "brief me on [matter]", "focus on [matter]", "zoom into [matter]", "prep me for [partner] call on [matter]", "I'm handing [matter] to [name]", "leave cover on [matter]", "taking over [matter]", or pastes single-matter correspondence asking for a working view. Four modes: standard drill-down, decision-first, partner prep, handoff briefing. Not for status reports for distribution (use status-report-drafter) or portfolio views across multiple matters (use daily-briefing). Produces a .docx working view saved to the matter folder.
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legalopsconsulting Bundle Risk And Issues ManagerRAID log methodology with decision extraction from emails and meeting notes. Use when asked to identify risks, log assumptions, track issues, extract decisions from correspondence, create or update a RAID log, escalate a risk to an issue, assess project risks, validate or challenge assumptions, or capture scope-relevant decisions. Also triggers when the user pastes email chains and asks what decisions were made, or needs to find buried decisions and untested assumptions in correspondence. Trigger on: 'risk report', 'RAID log', 'what are the risks', 'what decisions were made', 'update the risk register', 'what assumptions are we making', 'what could go wrong', 'flag any issues', 'extract decisions from these emails'.
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legalopsconsulting Bundle Scope Change ControllerScope management for legal matters — baseline capture, in-flight change control, OOS documentation, and scope retrospective. Use when asked to review scoping assumptions, assess whether work is in or out of scope, draft a scope change notice, track scope changes, prepare an OOS justification, run an OOS report, prepare a scope call agenda, or review what changed on a matter. Trigger on: 'scope change', 'out of scope', 'OOS', 'scope creep', 'is this in scope', 'the client wants us to also', 'additional work', 'scope review', 'what changed from the original scope', 'we need to revisit the quote', 'the budget assumed', 'OOS report', 'scope call with the client', 'run a scope report'.
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gullitmiranda Skill WorkflowLanguage, terminal, workspace, branch, commit, PR, planning, and documentation workflow rules. Use when writing in English, committing, creating PRs, or creating plans in .cursor/plans/.
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kasperjunge Skill ReadmeGenerate beautiful, comprehensive README.md files for any codebase. Use when asked to create a README, improve documentation, or when the user says "readme", "/readme", or wants help documenting their project. Analyzes the codebase structure, dependencies, and code to produce professional documentation.
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rohunj Skill DOCXComprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When Claude needs to work with professional documents (.docx files) for: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks
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est7 Bundle Docs SystemOrganizes and persists project documentation into the appropriate docs/ categories using existing conversation and repository context. Use when the user asks to record work, sync docs, update design/research/implementation/reference/user/context docs, maintain postmortems, archive superseded material, or refresh documentation indexes.
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eins78 Bundle DossierUse when asked to research, survey, compare, evaluate, or investigate any topic. Research triggers: research this, brief me on, state of the art, market research, survey the landscape, what's out there, how does X work, background on. Decision triggers: compare options, evaluate alternatives, find the best, product comparison, technology evaluation, which should I use, pros and cons, recommendation report, what are my options. Also: dossier.
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eins78 Bundle Apple NotesUse when asked to check, search or read Apple Notes, or to find a document, PDF, scan or image attached to a note. READ ONLY — no creating or modifying notes.
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eins78 Bundle Paprika RecipesUse when working with a Paprika Recipe Manager 3 library on macOS — looking up, searching, listing or exporting saved recipes, or turning any text source into a real recipe: a web page the clipper failed on, prose, a PDF, a note, a photo of a cookbook page. Triggers: Paprika, recipe library, add a recipe, import recipe, paprikarecipe, recipe collection, cookbook.
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viktor-ferenczi Skill Consistency CheckFinds and fixes internal inconsistencies in a software project — code vs configuration vs documentation drift, plus linter findings. Use after a larger change or refactoring, before a release, or when the user asks to check/clean up the consistency of the project.
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viktor-ferenczi Skill Godot DocumentationInstalls and serves an offline copy of the official Godot Engine documentation (getting started guides, tutorials, API class reference, engine details). Use when working on a Godot project or GDScript code and you need authoritative API or engine reference. On first use it downloads the docs by cloning godotengine/godot-docs (requires network access and a few hundred MB of disk).
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viktor-ferenczi Skill Structured DocumentationGenerate a verified, modular handbook from a large source-code or document tree, then keep it cheap to refresh as the inputs change. Use when the documents are numerous, relate to each other in intricate ways, or their total size exceeds the context window — and you need a navigable TOC/Index with verified cross-references rather than an ad-hoc summary.
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openai Bundle Openai KnowledgeRetrieve authoritative OpenAI API and platform documentation when an integration or claim needs current external evidence.
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aakash-dhar Skill Document CodeGenerates documentation for code including function/class docstrings, module READMEs, API documentation, inline comments, and architecture overviews. Use when the user says "document this", "add docs", "add comments", "generate README", "what does this code do?", "write API docs", or "this needs documentation".
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aakash-dhar Skill Impact AnalysisAnalyzes how a proposed change affects existing systems, services, teams, APIs, databases, infrastructure, and workflows. Maps blast radius, identifies dependencies, flags breaking changes, and produces a detailed impact report. Saves output to project-decisions/ folder. Use when the user says "what would break if", "impact analysis", "blast radius", "what does this affect", "who is impacted", "dependency check", "what breaks if we change", "ripple effects", or "change impact".
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aakash-dhar Skill Incident ReportGenerates structured incident postmortem reports by analyzing git history, recent deployments, code changes, logs, and error patterns. Produces a blameless postmortem with timeline, root cause analysis, impact assessment, remediation actions, and prevention measures. Saves output to project-decisions/ folder. Use when the user says "incident report", "postmortem", "what went wrong", "outage report", "root cause analysis", "RCA", "write a post-mortem", "incident review", "we had an incident", "production issue", or "site went down".
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qvvvvvvq Bundle DOCXComprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When GLM needs to work with professional documents (.docx files) for: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks
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 add-provider, openai-knowledge, document-code. 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.