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Writing Skills
Six skills that teach your AI to read like an editor.
A skill is a set of instructions you install once. After that, Claude or ChatGPT follows it whenever the work calls for it — reading your pages as evidence instead of rewriting them into smooth, anonymous prose. Free, no account, yours to edit.
Works in Claude and ChatGPT · Plain text you can read first
Find What's Alive
Reads rough notes and fragments for the material still carrying energy, and tells you what to cut.
- Reach for it when
- You have messy pages, false starts, or flat AI output and want to salvage rather than polish.
- You get back
- A salvage sheet: quoted live fragments, what may be underneath them, and three ways back in.
Read the Draft
Diagnoses what a draft is actually doing before anyone starts changing sentences.
- Reach for it when
- A draft is complete enough to assess and you want the real problems, not a line edit.
- You get back
- A diagnosis memo: the draft's current center, where the reading changes, and three ranked revision problems.
Keep the Voice
Builds a voice guide from your own strongest pages, then checks a revision for flattening.
- Reach for it when
- You are revising with AI and want your sentence habits protected rather than sanded down.
- You get back
- A voice guide drawn from your anchors, plus a flattening audit of the revision.
Read It Two Ways
Gives one passage two independent readings — a craft read and a resistant first-reader read — then maps the gap.
- Reach for it when
- Feedback is contradictory, or you need both how it is built and how it lands before deciding.
- You get back
- Two separate readings and an agreement-and-disagreement map, with the disagreement kept intact.
Give Useful Feedback
Helps you respond to someone else's pages specifically, without rewriting their draft for them.
- Reach for it when
- You are workshopping, beta reading, or answering a critique partner and want to be genuinely useful.
- You get back
- A reader letter: what held, where your reading changed, and the questions you are left with.
Sort the Feedback
Turns a pile of conflicting notes into revision decisions you actually chose.
- Reach for it when
- You have comments from several readers and cannot tell signal from noise.
- You get back
- A decision sheet: what to take now, what to test, what to set aside, and the calls only you can make.
New to skills?
The tutorial covers what a skill actually is, what a .md file is, and the exact steps to install one in Claude or ChatGPT — including what to do when the upload is rejected.
Before you install anything
A skill gives an AI new instructions, so only install ones you trust. Every file in these is plain text — no scripts, nothing that reaches the internet — and you can read each one in full before downloading. Apply the same standard to skills you find elsewhere.