Category: Productivity
Writing for Agents
Writes documents for agents: skills, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and similar.
Works with
What it does
- When the document you're writing is a skill, read
SKILL-MECHANICS.mdfor frontmatter, invocation choice, and router skills. - Front-load the leading word: the pointer is where it does its triggering work.
- One trigger per branch. Synonyms that rename a single branch are one branch written twice; collapse them and keep only genuinely distinct branches.
- Cut identity the body already carries.
When to use it
Writes documents for agents: skills, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and similar.
How to install
- Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill writing-for-agents
- To install manually, download the
writing-for-agentsskill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as~/.claude/skills/or.cursor/skills/. - Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.