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The best Claude skills for writing

For most writers, start with unslop from Cursor: it needs nothing extra and edits existing text to remove patterns that read as machine-made while keeping its meaning and tone. ARIS has the top score here, 72, but it serves machine learning researchers writing papers. The list also covers no-ai-slop, humanizer, stop-slop, Academic Research Skills and a Chinese content library builder.

The 7 skills made for this job

  1. 1

    ARIS (Auto Research In Sleep)

    For ML researchers who want agents to plan experiments, review drafts with a second model and outline papers. Skip it if you don't want drafts sent to another provider.

    Score 72 19.1K GitHub stars

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  2. 2

    unslop

    For anyone who wants drafts stripped of stock AI phrasing before they publish. Skip it if you want new text written from scratch or only need a grammar checker.

    Score 69 35.1K installs Official

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  3. 3

    no-ai-slop

    For writers who want drafts that sound less machine-made while keeping their own voice. Skip it if you want an AI detector score or a full rewrite in a new style.

    Score 69 30.8K installs

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  4. 4

    humanizer

    For writers and marketers who want AI drafts to read like a person without losing any facts. Skip it if you need new content written, since it only edits.

    Score 68 12.8K installs

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  5. 5

    dbs-content-system

    For creators with 50 or more drafts, posts or course scripts who want a reusable content library. Skip it if you only want one article polished or have little material.

    Score 67 23.7K installs

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  6. 6

    Academic Research Skills

    For researchers who want a staged, checked path from research question to finished paper. Skip it if you only need a quick summary or a short essay.

    Score 63 56.6K GitHub stars High-risk warning

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  7. 7

    stop-slop

    For anyone who wants drafts from Claude to read less like AI wrote them. Skip it if you need a house style guide or grammar checks rather than cuts to stock phrasing.

    Score 58 19.6K installs

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Also useful for writing

Their main job is something else, but they help with this one.

  • Scientific Agent Skills

    For researchers who want Claude to run analyses with scientific Python tools in biology, chemistry or statistics. Skip it if your work never touches lab data or research code.

    Score 80 57K GitHub stars

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  • copywriting

    For founders and marketers who need page copy that sounds human and only makes claims they can back. Skip it if you need email or popup copy.

    Score 79 253K installs

    Get copywriting
  • obsidian-markdown

    For Obsidian users who want Claude to write notes with valid wikilinks, embeds and callouts. Skip it if your notes live in tools that ignore Obsidian syntax.

    Score 78 95.9K installs

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  • enhance-prompt

    For Stitch users who want a vague UI idea turned into a structured prompt with design tokens. Skip it if you do not generate screens with Google Stitch.

    Score 76 59.5K installs Official

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  • tavily-research

    For people who need a sourced write-up on a market, policy or technology question. Skip it if you want one quick fact or don't have Tavily's tvly CLI set up.

    Score 76 24.1K installs Official

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  • baoyu-post-to-wechat

    For creators who publish to a WeChat Official Account and want Markdown or HTML posted as drafts. Skip it if you don't run a 公众号 or can't add API credentials.

    Score 72 34.9K installs

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  • dbs-content

    For Chinese-language creators with a chosen topic who want a blunt plan for format, platform and framing. Skip it if you want the post written for you or need titles drafted.

    Score 69 31.6K installs

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  • AI Research Skills

    For ML engineers who want working code patterns for fine-tuning, serving and evaluating models. Skip it if you only call hosted model APIs and never train or host models.

    Score 68 14.5K GitHub stars High-risk warning

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  • Khazix Skills

    For Chinese-speaking users who want goal briefs for long agent runs, plus cleanup and research helpers. Skip it if you need instructions written in English.

    Score 65 22.2K GitHub stars

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  • ian-xiaohei-illustrations

    For Chinese-language writers who want quirky hand-drawn images placed through an article. Skip it if you write in English or your agent has no image tool.

    Score 58 13.2K GitHub stars

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How to choose

Four editors target AI habits, and none needs anything beyond Claude Code. unslop runs only when you call it and rewrites against numbered rules, from words like delve to forced groups of three. no-ai-slop makes the smallest fix that keeps your voice, or flags patterns without rewriting.

humanizer checks 26 patterns, adds no new facts, and can match the voice of a writing sample you give it. stop-slop sets eight rules, scores each draft out of 50 and revises when the total falls below 35.

For research papers, ARIS has 87 skills for machine learning research, from experiment plans to paper outlines, and sends outlines to a second model for review, by default OpenAI through Codex MCP. Academic Research Skills carries a paper through ten stages; at least one scanner rated it high risk.

dbs-content-system, written in Chinese, turns at least 50 local text files into a structured content library with topic maps and indexes, and needs Node.js 18. dbs-content, a secondary pick from the same publisher, plans format and platform for a topic.

Other secondary picks: copywriting writes marketing pages, Scientific Agent Skills include scientific writing and grant proposals, tavily-research writes sourced reports, obsidian-markdown writes Obsidian notes, and ian-xiaohei-illustrations draws images for Chinese articles.

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