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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gaelic-ghost Skill Choose Project Shape 2Choose the right .NET project shape before implementation, including F# versus C# language choice, solution layout, validation commands, package boundaries, and documentation updates.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 3Verify the github plugin's prerequisites (gh CLI present and authenticated, credential-modality picture, consumer config layers) and write the consumer's .claude/github/ config (change routing + conventions stub). Actions: check (report-only) and apply (idempotent, interview-driven).
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 5Configure the ai-slop plugin for a consumer repository: exemption paths for documents that legitimately need em dashes, excluded paths, AI-vocabulary word-list tuning, and per-rule thresholds, written to the team layer .claude/ai-slop.json with the user's confirmation. Use when: 'set up ai-slop', 'configure slop detection', 'exempt this doc from the em-dash rule', 'tune the slop thresholds'.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 15Configure the toolchain plugin for this repository. check (read-only): report which ecosystems are configured and each one's resolved build/test/lint command surface, validating the tracked files against the contract schema. apply: interview the user, infer per-ecosystem commands from the repo layout, and write the tracked .claude/ecosystems/<ecosystem>.yaml files that /toolchain:check and /toolchain:lint resolve first. Use when: 'set up toolchain', 'configure build/lint commands', 'toolchain setup', /toolchain:check or /toolchain:lint reports it is falling back to bundled defaults, or a toolchain change needs recording. Actions: check (read-only verification, default) | apply (write the ecosystem command config). Re-runnable and safe.
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melodic-software Bundle Update 2Maintainer-facing drift-check and upstream sync for the playbooks plugin's vendored packs (boris, skill-authoring). Run only from a working-tree checkout. Actions: --check (default, read-only drift report) and --apply (refresh vendored baselines). Not for consumers, consumers update via /plugin marketplace update.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 32Verify the computer-use plugin's prerequisites and report the environment settings that end a screen-control session mid-run. Use when: 'set up computer use', 'is computer use working', 'why did my computer use session die', 'check computer use', 'computer use preflight', or before a long unattended screen-control run. Action: check (read-only, default) — probes the surface, the tool availability, and the idle/screensaver/sleep timeouts that no amount of Claude activity can hold off, then reports PASS/FAIL/INFO with one remediation line each. Check-only by contract: every prerequisite is external or a system setting this plugin must not write.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 35Verify repo-hygiene's external prerequisites on this machine — `git`, which the scan, git, stash, and tree tiers and the tracked-file guarantee all rest on, and the optional `ghq` the fleet batch actions enumerate repositories from — and report the effective destructive-guard toggle and the scope it actually applies at. Use when: 'set up repo-hygiene', 'configure repo-hygiene', 'is repo-hygiene working', 'is the destructive guard on', 'why did tree-batch find no repos', or before a first clean on a new machine. Check-only: verifies, reports, and points at each remediation; installs nothing and there is nothing setup may write here. Re-runnable and safe.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 38Verify or configure where verification artifacts land in this repository: report the effective topic-docs concern, or persist it to the tracked .claude/topic-docs.yaml. Use when: 'set up verification', 'configure the verification plugin', 'is verification configured', 'verification setup', 'where do verification manifests / baselines land', or a verification skill reports missing or thin config. Actions: check (read-only, default) | apply (persist the concern file). Re-runnable. Safe to invoke again.
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melodic-software Bundle Generate 2Build a source-backed AI industry briefing from official vendor publications, configured RSS feeds, GitHub releases, reputable secondary reporting, and user-supplied URLs. Use when: 'ai briefing', 'ai news', 'what's new in AI', 'catch me up on AI', 'prep for AI meeting', 'AI roundup', or 'generate AI slides'.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 46Configure the source-control plugin. check (read-only, default) reports the effective commit-subject / PR-title convention merged across the user-global, team, and personal-overlay layers plus the babysit-prs userConfig surface; apply interviews the repo, writes the convention config to a chosen layer, and walks the sanctioned babysit reconfigure paths. Use when setting up or inspecting this plugin's configuration, choosing or overriding a commit convention at any layer, configuring or checking babysit, or when /commit, /pull-request, or /babysit-prs report missing configuration. Re-runnable and safe.
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melodic-software Bundle Setup 48Verify the markdown-format hook's runtime prerequisites and configuration for this repository. Use when: 'set up markdown-format', 'configure markdown-format', 'is markdown-format working', formatting silently isn't happening, or the hook reported a missing prerequisite. Actions: check (read-only verification, default) | apply (resolve what check found). Re-runnable and safe.
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lidge-jun Skill Customs Trade ComplianceCustoms documentation, tariff classification, duty optimization, restricted party screening, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Includes HS classification logic, Incoterms application, FTA utilization, and penalty mitigation. Use when handling customs clearance, tariff classification, trade compliance, import/export documentation, or duty optimization.
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hmbown Skill Enthrall 2Enthrall makes an audience hang on every word. The real-world version is structural engagement: opening hooks that stop the scroll, narrative arcs that sustain attention, and pacing that makes people stay until the end. This is presentation design, content structure, and the craft of making something worth finishing.
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hmbown Skill Healing Word 2In D&D, Healing Word heals at range with a bonus action — fast, remote, and efficient but less powerful than Cure Wounds. The real-world version is the remote quick fix: a one-liner command, a config change pushed through a dashboard, a quick Slack instruction to the person on-call, or an automated rollback trigger. You do not need to be deep in the system to apply this fix.
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hmbown Skill Shatter 2Shatter is proactive, controlled destruction for learning. You are the attacker against your own system. The goal is a brittleness report with remediation priorities.
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hmbown Skill Arcana 2In D&D, Arcana is knowledge of magic, its traditions, symbols, and mechanisms. The real-world version is deep technical literacy: understanding how software architectures work, what protocols do at the wire level, how APIs behave beyond their documentation, and what the actual mechanisms are behind the abstractions everyone else takes on faith.
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hmbown Skill Vicious Mockery 2The bard's cantrip that deals psychic damage through insults. In practice this is adversarial review — the art of finding and articulating exactly what is wrong with something in a way that is impossible to ignore. Unlike polite feedback that gets filed and forgotten, vicious mockery lands. It is the red-team report that makes the PM cancel the launch, the code review that makes the author delete the PR, the roast that makes the founder pivot. The damage is the point.
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hmbown Skill Magic Mouth 2Magic Mouth is trigger → message. The entire craft is specifying the trigger boundary, the message payload, and the suppression/escalation rules. It is NOT: - One-time messages: "Send a Slack message now saying X" (no trigger, no automation) - Full chatbots: "Build a conversational AI that understands context and handles open-ended questions" (requires NLU, dialogue management) - Monitoring dashboards: "Set up Grafana with real-time graphs and trend analysis" (visualization, not message routing) - Silent traps/wards: "Revert changes silently and log who tried" (defensive code manipulation, not messaging) - Encryption: "Encrypt a message so only the recipient can read it" (cryptography, not event-driven delivery) - Multimedia presentations: "Play a 20-slide deck with animations and narration" (media playback, not conditional messaging)
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hmbown Skill Power Word Kill 2In D&D, Power Word Kill instantly destroys any creature below a hit-point threshold — no saving throw, no resistance, just death. The real-world version is kill -9: the unconditional termination signal. Emergency circuit breakers. Hard account terminations. The nuclear option that exists because sometimes graceful shutdown is not available and the cost of continuing is worse than the cost of data loss. Power Word Kill is not elegant. It is not kind. It is the thing you reach for when everything else has already failed.
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hmbown Skill Power Word Stun 2In D&D, Power Word Stun locks a creature in place — alive but unable to act. The real-world version is SIGSTOP: a hard freeze that preserves state but halts all activity. Account lockouts, emergency process suspension, administrative holds. Unlike Power Word Kill, the target can be unfrozen. The spell is for situations where something must stop right now but destruction is not warranted — you need the process alive for investigation, for later resumption, or because killing it would cause worse problems than freezing it.
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shengdabai Bundle QA 2Systematically QA test a web application and fix bugs found. Runs QA testing, then iteratively fixes bugs in source code, committing each fix atomically and re-verifying. Use when asked to "qa", "QA", "test this site", "find bugs", "test and fix", or "fix what's broken". Proactively suggest when the user says a feature is ready for testing or asks "does this work?". Three tiers: Quick (critical/high only), Standard (+ medium), Exhaustive (+ cosmetic). Produces before/after health scores, fix evidence, and a ship-readiness summary. For report-only mode, use /qa-only.
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shengdabai Skill QA 3Systematically QA test a web application and fix bugs found. Runs QA testing, then iteratively fixes bugs in source code, committing each fix atomically and re-verifying. Use when asked to "qa", "QA", "test this site", "find bugs", "test and fix", or "fix what's broken". Proactively suggest when the user says a feature is ready for testing or asks "does this work?". Three tiers: Quick (critical/high only), Standard (+ medium), Exhaustive (+ cosmetic). Produces before/after health scores, fix evidence, and a ship-readiness summary. For report-only mode, use /qa-only.
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shengdabai Bundle QA Only 2Report-only QA testing. Systematically tests a web application and produces a structured report with health score, screenshots, and repro steps — but never fixes anything. Use when asked to "just report bugs", "qa report only", or "test but don't fix". For the full test-fix-verify loop, use /qa instead. Proactively suggest when the user wants a bug report without any code changes.
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shengdabai Skill QA Only 3Report-only QA testing. Systematically tests a web application and produces a structured report with health score, screenshots, and repro steps — but never fixes anything. Use when asked to "just report bugs", "qa report only", or "test but don't fix". For the full test-fix-verify loop, use /qa instead. Proactively suggest when the user wants a bug report without any code changes.
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shengdabai Bundle Document Release 2Post-ship documentation update. Reads all project docs, cross-references the diff, updates README/ARCHITECTURE/CONTRIBUTING/CLAUDE.md to match what shipped, polishes CHANGELOG voice, cleans up TODOS, and optionally bumps VERSION. Use when asked to "update the docs", "sync documentation", or "post-ship docs". Proactively suggest after a PR is merged or code is shipped.
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shengdabai Skill Document Release 3Post-ship documentation update. Reads all project docs, cross-references the diff, updates README/ARCHITECTURE/CONTRIBUTING/CLAUDE.md to match what shipped, polishes CHANGELOG voice, cleans up TODOS, and optionally bumps VERSION. Use when asked to "update the docs", "sync documentation", or "post-ship docs". Proactively suggest after a PR is merged or code is shipped.
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shengdabai Bundle Code Documenter 2Automatically detect and add comprehensive documentation to code files across multiple languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++, Dart/Flutter). Generate language-appropriate docstrings, comments, and examples following industry standards. Use when code files lack documentation, after implementing new features, or when requested to document code. Support single files and batch documentation.
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richfrem Bundle Rsvp Reading 2Converts an input document (.txt, .md, .pdf, .docx) into a structured RSVP token stream with ORP alignment and configurable WPM. Use when a user wants to speed-read a document, prepare a reading session, or generate a token stream for a speed-reading UI.
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richfrem Bundle Zip Bundling 2Create technical ZIP bundles of code, design, and documentation for external review or context sharing. Use when you need to package multiple project files into a portable `.zip` archive instead of a single Markdown file.
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richfrem Bundle Adr Management 2ADR management skill. Auto-invoked for generating architecture decisions, documenting design rationale, and maintaining the decision record log. Uses native read/write tools to scaffold and update ADR markdown files.
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richfrem Skill Plugin Maintenance 2Audits and maintains the health of the plugin ecosystem. Verifies directory structure compliance, generates documentation, and flags legacy artifacts. Trigger when validating new plugins or performing routine ecosystem health checks.
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richfrem Bundle Obsidian Markdown Mastery 2Core markdown syntax skill for Obsidian. Enforces strict parsing and authoring of Obsidian proprietary syntax (Wikilinks, Blocks, Headings, Aliases, Embeds, Callouts). Use when reading, writing, or validating Obsidian-flavored markdown.
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richfrem Bundle Markdown To Msword Converter 2Converts Markdown files to one MS Word document per file using plugin-local scripts. V2 includes L5 Delegated Constraint Verification for strict binary artifact linting.
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richfrem Bundle Markdown To Msword Converter 3Converts Markdown files to one MS Word document per file using plugin-local scripts and a folder-allowlist JSON.
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garyld1962 Skill Vault 3Search, read, create or organize Markdown notes in a configured Obsidian vault, including wiki links and backlinks. Use when the user names their vault or Obsidian notes; do not assume a personal filesystem path or use it for ordinary repository docs.
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garyld1962 Bundle Drawio 3Create or edit editable draw.io diagrams, optionally export PNG/SVG/PDF with embedded diagram data, or produce a diagrams.net URL. Use when draw.io format is requested; use native text diagrams for simple explanations that need no draw.io artifact.
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 choose-project-shape, setup, setup. 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.