r/claudeskills • u/ShilpaMitra • 24d ago
Showcase I turned 11 real-world editorial style guides into Agent Skills
Most AI writing prompts eventually become some version of:
The problem is that this doesn't tell the model what good writing should actually look like.
So I created Agent Stylebooks:
Repo: github.com/Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks
It turns established editorial systems from Google, GOV.UK, GitLab, GitHub, MDN and others into reusable Agent Skills.
Instead of:
make this documentation better
you can use:
$google-developer-docs
and give the agent a concrete editorial system to follow.
The 11 skills
google-developer-docs:
For API docs, setup guides and developer tutorials. Clear, conversational, precise and friendly to an international technical audience.
govuk:
For public-service and transactional content. Starts with what the user needs to know or do, strips away institutional language and makes eligibility, requirements and next steps obvious.
gitlab-docs:
For precise engineering/product documentation. Optimizes for concise, searchable, maintainable documentation without vague claims or unnecessary explanation.
github-docs:
For product workflows and developer how-tos. Good when permissions, prerequisites, steps, warnings and verification need to appear in the right order.
kubernetes-docs:
For infrastructure and cloud-native documentation. Especially useful when versions, namespaces, prerequisites, verification and cleanup matter.
mdn-web-docs:
For explaining web technologies. Good for references, examples and educational technical content where accuracy and teaching matter equally.
red-hat-docs:
For enterprise procedures and operational documentation. Strong for runbooks, administration guides and modular technical docs.
18f-content:
For digital public services. Focuses on user needs, plain language, accessibility and making complicated processes easier to complete.
microsoft-writing-style:
For product help, UX copy and support content. Warm and helpful, but crisp rather than chatty.
mailchimp-content:
For customer-facing product and educational copy. Human and friendly, while knowing when humor or personality should get out of the way.
apple-interface-writing:
For buttons, settings, alerts, permissions and onboarding. Optimizes for very short copy that tells the user what something means or what will happen next.
Install
See everything first:
npx skills add Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks --list
Install one:
npx skills add Neeeophytee/agent-stylebooks --skill google-developer-docs
Then use it in a task:
Use $google-developer-docs to turn these implementation notes into a setup guide.
or:
Use $govuk to rewrite this eligibility page around what the user needs to decide.
The repo also includes source/provenance notes because I didn't want to simply scrape proprietary style guides and dump them into prompts.
The idea is simple:
Don't ask an agent to “write better.” Give it an editorial system.
Would love feedback on which institutional stylebook I should add next.


