5 Skills That Fix Claude's Writing

Claude is a great writer in the abstract and a generic one by default — it hedges, it over-explains, it reaches for "it's not just X, it's Y," and it never sounds like you. These five Claude Code skills fix that, one failure mode at a time.

They chain like a story: simple → boring → no hook → sounds like AI → not you.

Skills 1–4 are downloadable folders. Skill 5 is a 2-minute build from your own content (the guide is in voice-dna/README.md).

What a skill is

A skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md inside — a set of writing instructions. Claude reads the description: line and applies the skill automatically when it's relevant; you don't call it by name. You don't need to be technical, and you don't need Claude Code. Pick whichever way below fits you — easiest first.

How to use them

1. Paste it in — works on any plan, even free (10 seconds)

The no-setup way. Open a skill's SKILL.md (unzip a download, or view it here on GitHub), copy everything, and paste it into a normal Claude chat with your draft:

Use the writing rules below to rewrite my draft. Then list what you changed and why.

[PASTE THE SKILL HERE]

My draft:
[PASTE YOUR CAPTION / SCRIPT / POST HERE]

Want to stack a few? Paste dumbify, then storytelling, then anti-ai-writing one after another in the same chat.

2. Install once in the Claude app — then it's automatic (Pro / Max)

Upload a skill once and Claude uses it on its own whenever you ask it to write, in any chat:

1. In Claude, go to Settings → Capabilities and turn on Code execution and file creation.
2. Go to Settings → Customize → Skills → Upload and drop in a skill folder, zipped (upload one at a time — zip dumbify/ so the folder is at the root of the zip, then storytelling/, and so on).
3. Ask Claude to write or fix something. It reads the skill's description and applies it automatically.

Custom-skill upload needs a Pro or Max plan with code execution enabled.

3. Claude Code (for the technical crowd)

In Claude Code, paste:

Install the writing skills from this repo into my Claude Code skills directory
(~/.claude/skills/): https://github.com/artemnovitckii/content-skills
Then tell me how to restart so they're picked up.

Or copy dumbify/, storytelling/, viral-hooks/, and anti-ai-writing/ into ~/.claude/skills/ manually and start a fresh session.

Then build voice-dna: follow voice-dna/README.md — paste ~20 of your posts, then reuse the result by pasting it in a chat (method 1) or uploading it as a skill (method 2).

How they work together

Each skill has a writing mode (drafting) and an audit mode (scoring an existing draft), so you can run them on something Claude already wrote. They're designed not to fight each other:

• dumbify keeps words plain but never flattens the rhythm storytelling builds.
• storytelling hands the opening line off to viral-hooks.
• viral-hooks uses A-vs-B contrast on purpose; anti-ai-writing allows it only when the payoff is concrete (the "hollow vs earned" test).
• voice-dna gives the other three a real voice to match instead of falling back to mechanics.

A natural full pass: draft → storytelling/viral-hooks for structure and opener → dumbify for load → anti-ai-writing as the final filter → all of it in voice-dna.

License

MIT — use them, fork them, ship them. See LICENSE.

Built by Artem Novitckii. If a skill breaks or you want one added, ping me on Instagram or join the Skool.