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Writing workflow Bundle of 3 skills

Use it when:
You want to write an essay or article from your own ideas, with the agent as interviewer and editor.
It does:
First interviews you into a file of raw notes, then turns the notes into an article with you.
You get:
A notes file and, in a separate file, an article built one section at a time.
Then pick:
writing-beats to choose each next section, or writing-shape to commit to an angle first.
Runs:
Only when you call each skill.

TL;DR

Matt Pocock's writing skills split writing into exploring and committing. writing-fragments is the exploring step: the agent interviews you and saves every usable line, anecdote and idea to one Markdown file, with no outline. The committing step takes that file, or any pile of notes, and turns it into an article in a separate file, in one of two ways. writing-beats drafts two or three possible openings, then after each section offers the next possible ones, so you steer the piece one choice at a time. writing-shape has you pick an angle up front, then builds the article block by block, debating with you whether each should be prose, a list, a table or a quote. Both refuse to let a section lean on an idea the reader hasn't met yet. The skills sit in the repo's in-progress folder, so expect them to change.

Summarizes the repo at 5beb35b.

Any agent, with the skills CLI

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill writing-fragments --skill writing-beats --skill writing-shape

Source on GitHubAll skills from mattpocock/skills

Total Downloads
528,373 of writing-beats, its most installed skill, on skills.sh, Nov 9, 2026
Repo stars
318,714 mattpocock/skills
First seen
May 6, 2026 on skills.sh, its first skill

Its skills, in the order they're used

Each also works alone.

  1. writing-fragments

    527K total downloads

    Interviews you to mine raw fragments before any structure exists.

  2. writing-beats

    528K total downloads

    Assembles raw material into an article as a journey of beats.

  3. writing-shape

    528K total downloads

    Shapes raw material into an article, paragraph by paragraph.