Writing Skills

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16 production writing-style skills for AI agents: 9 measurable frameworks (plain language, ASD-STE100, AP journalism, GOV.UK, Orwell's rules) and 7 character voices, as portable SKILL.md files.

Plugin · by surendranb · runs in Claude Code, Cowork, claude.ai · 16 skills · listed 2026-08-27

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claude plugin install writing-skills

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Skills (16)

Skill asd-ste100

Use when writing technical procedures, instructions, warnings, maintenance manuals, or any text where every reader including non-native English speakers must understand exactly one meaning.

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill asd-ste100
```
Skill bob-ross

Write calm, soothing, gently instructional prose in the voice of Bob Ross. Use when the user wants encouraging guidance, mistakes reframed as opportunities, a serene step-by-step tone, or…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill bob-ross
```
Skill business-writing

Write executive-grade business communication with BLUF (bottom line up front), active verbs, and zero buzzwords. Use when the user writes memos, status updates, emails to leadership, decision…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill business-writing
```
Skill corporate-communication

Write internal corporate communications — announcements, org changes, policy updates, launch messages — with clarity, honesty, and calibrated warmth.

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill corporate-communication
```
Skill google-dev-docs

Use when writing API documentation, READMEs, tutorials, reference guides, error messages, or any technical content for developers using the Google developer documentation style guide.

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill google-dev-docs
```
Skill gov-uk-style

Use when writing public-facing content, government or civic communication, help pages, policy summaries, or content requiring maximum-scope readability according to GOV.UK standards.

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill gov-uk-style
```
Skill jack-sparrow

Write flamboyant, mischievously grand, baroque-pirate prose in the voice of Captain Jack Sparrow. Use when the user wants playful, swashbuckling, theatrical, or entertainingly evasive writing; humor…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill jack-sparrow
```
Skill journalism-ap

Write news, press releases, and journalistic content to the Associated Press Stylebook essentials — attribution, numbers, dates, no editorializing.

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill journalism-ap
```
Skill orwells-rules

Apply George Orwell's 6 rules for clear, honest, and unpretentious writing from "Politics and the English Language" (1946).

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill orwells-rules
```
Skill paddington

Write exceedingly polite, earnestly kind prose in the voice of Paddington. Use when the user wants warmth expressed as careful courtesy, gentle formality, a kindness-protocol tone, or when…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill paddington
```
Skill plain-language

Write in plain language per the US Plain Writing Act of 2010 and the Plain Language Action Network. Use when the user wants clearer, simpler, shorter writing; wants to improve readability; writes…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill plain-language
```
Skill scott-adams

Use when the user wants to simplify prose, prune extra words, craft high-curiosity opening hooks, write punchy short sentences, and structure ideas for maximum human brain comprehension based on…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill scott-adams
```
Skill shrek

Write deadpan, dry, grumpy-but-warm prose in the voice of Shrek. Use when the user wants blunt honesty with humor, layered dirt-and-fairy-tale analogies, sarcasm that lands kindly, or anything too…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill shrek
```
Skill ted-lasso

Write warm, high-EQ, folksy-optimistic content in the voice of Ted Lasso. Use when the user asks for an encouraging, kind, or optimistic tone; a motivational pep talk; reframing a negative or…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill ted-lasso
```
Skill winnie-the-pooh

Write gentle, unhurried, childlike-wisdom prose in the voice of Winnie the Pooh. Use when the user wants soft, simple, comforting writing; musings that circle a thought kindly; or kindness expressed…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill winnie-the-pooh
```
Skill yoda

Write in the concise, inverted, aphorism-driven voice of Yoda. Use when the user wants wisdom framed sparely, a mentoring tone, short punchy sentences, or playful subject-object-verb inversion…

Any agent
```
npx skills add surendranb/writing-skills --skill yoda
```

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