Writing Skills

Writing Skills is a skill for creating, installing or managing agent skills and plugins, published by obra in the superpowers repository. It ships with code the agent may run.

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Third-party skill. Review the source before installing.
Includes scripts that run code on your machine.

Install in 30 Seconds

Claude Code

Copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/writing-skills/ in your project, or ~/.claude/skills/writing-skills/ for all projects.

Codex

Copy the skill folder into .agents/skills/writing-skills/ in your repo, or ~/.agents/skills/writing-skills/ for personal use.

Gemini CLI

Copy the skill folder into .gemini/skills/writing-skills/ or .agents/skills/writing-skills/, or install from Git with: gemini skills install <repo-url>

Antigravity

Copy the skill folder into .agents/skills/writing-skills/ in your workspace.

Cursor

Copy the skill folder into .cursor/skills/writing-skills/ (Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/).

Any Agent Skills Client

npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill writing-skills

These are the standard install paths for each tool. Check the source README for anything specific to this item.

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Category	Skill Authoring Skills
Format	Agent Skills (SKILL.md Format)
Author	obra
License	MIT
Platforms Listed by the Source	Claude Code Codex Gemini CLI Antigravity Cursor GitHub Copilot OpenCode
Operating System	Any OS (general or cross-platform)
Runtime Needs	node
Scripts	Includes Scripts. Script or code files found in the skill folder (1 code file).
Spec Check	Passes our basic SKILL.md check (name matches folder, name and description present and within limits).
Source	obra/superpowers · skills/writing-skills
Source Status	HTTP 200 on 2026-10-18
Listing Type	Third-Party