How does this skill improve my workflow?

It automates formatting, ensuring consistency and clarity in your documentation. The ventilated prose style significantly improves the readability of diffs in version control systems like Git, making it easier to track changes and collaborate.

What are its main capabilities?

Its key features include enforcing ventilated prose, standardizing headers to sentence case, promoting a terse writing style, and formatting for optimal diff readability by not wrapping paragraphs.

What does the Technical Writing skill do?

This skill helps Claude enforce technical writing best practices on standalone documentation files like Markdown or AsciiDoc. It formats text using ventilated prose (one sentence per line), sentence case headers, and a concise, active voice.

When should I use this skill?

Use this skill when you are creating or editing project documentation, such as READMEs, user guides, or tutorials. It is specifically designed for standalone files and should not be used for inline code comments or docstrings.

Technical Writing

Name: Technical Writing
Author: mkobit

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Aprendizaje y Documentación

Applies clear and concise technical writing standards, including ventilated prose, to standalone documentation files.

Improve the clarity and maintainability of your technical documentation by enforcing a set of professional writing standards. This skill guides you to write in a concise, active voice using ventilated prose—one sentence per line—which dramatically improves the readability of diffs in version control. It also standardizes headers to sentence case. Ideal for authoring or editing standalone documentation files like READMEs, user guides, or articles in formats such as Markdown and AsciiDoc, but should not be used for in-code documentation.

Características Principales

01Enforces ventilated prose (one sentence per line)

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03Focuses on standalone documentation files (e.g., Markdown, AsciiDoc)

04Promotes a concise, terse writing style using active voice

05Standardizes headers and titles to sentence case

06Improves diff readability by not wrapping paragraphs

Casos de Uso

01Writing technical articles and blog posts.

02Authoring or refactoring project README files.

03Creating and maintaining user guides or knowledge base content.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add mkobit/dotfiles technical-writing

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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