SkillHub

Skills anthropics skills

internal-comms

Use it when:
You need a team status update, a company newsletter, an FAQ or another internal message.
It does:
Picks the matching format from its example files and gathers facts from Slack, email, Drive or calendar when connected.
You get:
A draft in a fixed format, such as a 3P update: Progress, Plans and Problems, one to three sentences each.
Formats:
3P team updates, company-wide newsletters and FAQ roundups, plus general advice for anything else.

TL;DR

The SKILL.md only works out what kind of message you want and loads one of four guides. A 3P update covers a team's week in three short lines, Progress, Plans and Problems, with metrics where possible, so leadership can read it in under a minute. A newsletter is about 20 to 25 short bullets for the whole company, written as "we", grouped into sections and full of links to the docs, announcements and threads that drew the most attention. An FAQ collects the questions many employees are asking and answers each in a sentence or two, flagging any that need an executive. Anything else, from incident reports to leadership updates, gets general advice: ask about audience, purpose and tone, and lead with what matters most. Where it can, the agent pulls material from Slack, email, Google Drive and calendar, favouring posts with many reactions and widely attended meetings; otherwise it asks you. The formats are Anthropic's, written down in four Markdown files in the skill; to match how your company writes, you edit those files.

Summarizes the skill at dbd4588.

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill internal-comms

skills.sh pageSource on GitHubAll skills from anthropics/skills

Total Downloads
84,641 on skills.sh, Nov 9, 2026
Repo stars
189,830 anthropics/skills
First seen
Jan 19, 2026 on skills.sh
Weekly Downloads
2K
+54% over the 8 weeks to Nov 9
Weekly values
Week toInstalls
Sep 211,312
Sep 281,249
Oct 51,328
Oct 121,412
Oct 191,623
Oct 261,946
Nov 22,225
Nov 92,022
Category
category:writing

Articles, docs, internal comms, research write-ups and prose that doesn't read as generated.
Type
type:guidelines

Knowledge and rules the agent applies while it works: best practices, design principles, API references.
Effect
effect:none

Adds no side effects of its own. It shapes how the agent thinks, writes or reviews. Guidelines and routers are always effect:none, even when the task they support edits code.
Needs
needs:none

Instructions only. Works in any agent that supports skills.
Publisher
by:official

A verified publisher on skills.sh, or the company or maintainer behind the product the skill operates.
Topics
writing

SKILL.md

From anthropics/skills at dbd4588. Checked daily, last changed Oct 20, 2026.

Frontmatter
name: internal-comms
description: A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, project updates, etc.).
license: Complete terms in LICENSE.txt

When to use this skill

To write internal communications, use this skill for:

  • 3P updates (Progress, Plans, Problems)
  • Company newsletters
  • FAQ responses
  • Status reports
  • Leadership updates
  • Project updates
  • Incident reports

How to use this skill

To write any internal communication:

  1. Identify the communication type from the request
  2. Load the appropriate guideline file from the examples/ directory:
    • examples/3p-updates.md - For Progress/Plans/Problems team updates
    • examples/company-newsletter.md - For company-wide newsletters
    • examples/faq-answers.md - For answering frequently asked questions
    • examples/general-comms.md - For anything else that doesn't explicitly match one of the above
  3. Follow the specific instructions in that file for formatting, tone, and content gathering

If the communication type doesn't match any existing guideline, ask for clarification or more context about the desired format.

Keywords

3P updates, company newsletter, company comms, weekly update, faqs, common questions, updates, internal comms