claude-skills

A collection of Claude skills for serious writing and editing tasks. Each skill lives in its own folder with a SKILL.md file plus any references it needs.

Skills

Skill

What it does

line-and-copy-editor

Combined line + copy editing for nonfiction manuscripts in a single sweep: sentence-level prose work plus grammar, consistency, and factual cross-checks. Built for manuscripts that have been through AI-assisted drafting or "humanizer" passes. Produces real Word track changes, a running style sheet, and an editorial cover letter. Ships with a 36-pattern catalog of machine-drafting tells and a pre-delivery checklist.

Each skill in this repo is self-contained; install only the ones you need.

How to use a skill

There are several ways to load a skill into Claude depending on the surface you're using.

Claude.ai (web / desktop / mobile): upload the skill folder (e.g. line-and-copy-editor/) from the skills interface in supported plans, then describe your task and Claude will follow the workflow. For up-to-date instructions, see Anthropic's documentation at https://support.claude.com.

Claude Code: copy the skill folder into your Claude Code skills directory:

# Clone this repo, then copy or symlink the skill you want
git clone https://github.com/ghanemzadeh/claude-skills.git
cp -r claude-skills/line-and-copy-editor ~/.claude/skills/

# Or symlink, so updates flow through
ln -s "$(pwd)/claude-skills/line-and-copy-editor" ~/.claude/skills/line-and-copy-editor

As context in any Claude conversation: paste the contents of a skill's SKILL.md into your conversation as context. Less elegant, but it works anywhere Claude is available.

Repository layout

.
├── README.md                              # this file
├── LICENSE                                # MIT
└── line-and-copy-editor/
    ├── SKILL.md                           # the skill itself
    ├── README.md                          # skill-specific docs
    └── references/
        ├── style-guide-template.md        # running style sheet template
        ├── ai-prose-patterns.md           # 36-pattern machine-drafting catalog
        └── pre-delivery-checklist.md      # per-chunk pass/fail self-check

Acknowledgments

The line-and-copy-editor skill was adapted from prior projects, all used under MIT license:

@lfurze/claude-skills: provided the docx XML editing technical reference and the multi-pass editing workflow structure.

@felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4: provided framing for the editor's role definition, scope boundaries, AI-prose artifact awareness, and quality-bar conventions.

@blader/humanizer (v2.11.2): provided the AI-writing pattern set adapted into references/ai-prose-patterns.md, itself based on Wikipedia's Signs of AI writing guide.

@petergyang/no-ai-slop (v1.0.6): provided editing principles (minimum effective edits, proportionality, the portability test), word lists, and the eval-checklist approach adapted into references/pre-delivery-checklist.md.

The skill's "Editing toward human prose" section also draws on published research from Pangram Labs (pangram.com/blog and the Pangram substack) about document-level differences between human and AI prose. This is a research citation, not reused code or text, so it sits outside the MIT notices below.

All four are released under the MIT License. The required copyright notice and permission text:

MIT License

Copyright (c) lfurze
Copyright (c) Felipe Lobo Motta
Copyright (c) 2025 Siqi Chen (blader/humanizer)
Copyright (c) 2026 Peter Yang (petergyang/no-ai-slop)

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License

MIT: see LICENSE for the full text. Each skill in this repo is released under the same license unless otherwise noted in the skill's own folder.

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. If you have a skill you'd like to add, open an issue first to discuss whether it fits the scope of this collection.