Out of the box Claude hedges, over-explains, reaches for "it's not just X, it's Y," and never sounds like you. These five free Claude Code skills fix that one failure mode at a time — and chain like a story: dense → boring → no hook → sounds like AI → not you.
Skills 1–4 are folders you drop in. Skill 5 you build from your own content in ~2 minutes. Each has a writing mode (drafting) and an audit mode (scoring something Claude already wrote), so you can run them on an existing draft.
Lower reading level = lower mental load = higher retention. A viral reel is just a complex idea translated into something clear, easy, and impossible to scroll past. This is the translator: it cuts jargon, breaks nested sentences, swaps fancy words for plain ones, and teaches by example. Simple language, not simple ideas.
The hook earns the first 2 seconds; this earns every second after. Built from a YouTube breakdown on engaging stories, turned into a repeatable skill: the BUT/THEREFORE "dance" between beats (never "and then"), writing the end first so the last line loops back into the hook, finding the non-obvious lens, and varied rhythm. Tension, turn, payoff — not tips in a list.
Most content dies in the first 2 seconds. A hook has one job — topic clarity plus on-target curiosity. This diagnoses the four hook killers (Delay, Confusion, Irrelevance, Disinterest), applies the fix, and carries a per-platform deadline table (reel ~2s, LinkedIn the fold, newsletter the subject line). It tells you why the best hooks work, then rewrites yours to work the same way.
Everyone can smell AI writing now — the negative parallelism ("it's not just X, it's Y"), the recycled words (delve, leverage, seamless), the em-dash pile-ups. Built from an extensive Wikipedia article on AI-writing tells plus collected patterns, it names the 5 diseases, runs a specificity ladder, bans the reframe, and carries blocklists. The goal isn't "don't sound like AI" — it's "sound like a specific person with a point."
Every other skill makes good content. This one makes it yours. Feed Claude ~20 of your real posts or video transcripts, and it extracts a voice-DNA profile — your sentence shapes, signature phrases, hooks, tics, and the things you'd never say. Save it as a skill and every other skill reads it. The one you can't download: you build it from your own content in about 2 minutes (prompt below).
These run in the normal Claude app you already use. A "skill" is just a set of writing instructions in a file — you don't need to be technical. Start with whichever row fits you. Easiest first.
The no-setup way. Open a skill's SKILL.md (unzip a download, or view it on GitHub), copy everything, and paste it into a 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]That's it. Want to run a few in a row? Paste dumbify, then storytelling, then anti-ai-writing one after another in the same chat.
Upload a skill once and Claude uses it on its own whenever you ask it to write — in any chat, forever. No pasting. Three steps:
1. In Claude, go to Settings → Capabilities and turn on "Code execution and file creation" (this is what lets skills run).
2. Go to Settings → Customize → Skills → Upload, and drop in a skill zip from above (upload one at a time — dumbify.zip, storytelling.zip, and so on).
3. Now just ask Claude to write or fix something. It reads the skill's description and applies it automatically — you never call it by name.
Already in Claude Code? Paste this and it installs all of them from GitHub:
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 browse the source on GitHub.
The other four make good content. This makes it yours. You can't download it — you build it from your own writing. Gather ~20 of your real posts (best input: spoken transcripts of your own short-form videos — how you actually talk, not just captions), paste them into Claude with the prompt below, and save what comes back.
You are building my VOICE-DNA — a reusable profile of how I actually write and talk, so you can write in my voice later.
Below are 20 of my real posts / video transcripts. Read ALL of them first. Then build a profile. Do NOT summarize what they're about — analyze HOW I express myself.
Output a single markdown file with these sections:
## How I sound
3–5 sentences on my overall register, energy, and pacing. Be specific and quote me.
## Sentence shapes
How I build sentences. Length patterns. Do I run thoughts together with "and/but/so," or write short and clipped? Punctuation habits. Quote 3–4 real examples.
## Signature phrases & tics
The exact words, openers, transitions, and verbal habits that recur. List them verbatim with the post they came from. Include filler/slang I actually use.
## How I open (hooks)
The patterns in my first lines. What kind of hook do I reach for? Quote my 5 strongest openers.
## How I close (CTAs / last lines)
How I end things. My real CTA style, word for word.
## Anti-voice (never do this)
Words, phrases, and moves that would instantly sound NOT like me. Be strict.
Rules:
- Ground every claim in a real quote from my posts. No generic adjectives.
- If I write differently when spoken vs. written, note the difference.
- Keep it tight enough to drop into a system prompt.
Here are my posts:
[PASTE 20 POSTS / TRANSCRIPTS HERE]Claude returns a voice-dna.md — a profile of how you sound. Keep it somewhere handy. The simplest way to reuse it: paste it at the top of any chat before you ask Claude to write. Want it automatic? Put it in a folder called voice-dna with this frontmatter on top, zip the folder, and upload it as a skill (same as method 2 above):
---
name: voice-dna
description: Use when writing ANY content in my voice — captions, scripts, posts, emails. Read this profile first and match my sentence shapes, signature phrases, hooks, and CTAs. Never write in a generic voice when this exists.
---
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Four skills to download, one to build. Free, MIT-licensed, and they run on anything Claude already wrote.