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writing-instructions

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By oaustegard/claude-skills (GitHub) · coding · 158 stars · scanned at commit 487272b

Sentence-level and section-level craft for instructions Claude will actually follow, in any container — project instructions, a standalone prompt, or skill body text. Use when the text exists or is being drafted and the question is quality: "why is Claude ignoring this instruction", "rewrite this prompt so it works", "improve my project instructions", "make this instruction stick", "is this too prescriptive", "how much structure does Sonnet need versus Opus". Covers imperative construction, pos…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

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• plugins/skill-development/skills/writing-instructions 100/100 · Low risk

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'writing-instructions' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'writing-instructions' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named writing-instructions already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'writing-instructions' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'writing-instructions' ~/.agents/skills/'writing-instructions' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'writing-instructions' ~/.claude/skills/'writing-instructions' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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