writing
Essay writing skill. Triggers on: essay, draft, write, outline
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Writing Skill is a sophisticated Claude agent capability designed for structured, high-quality content creation. Moving beyond simple one-shot generation, it implements a rigorous multi-stage workflow—including idea capture, outlining, AI-driven critique, and iterative drafting—to ensure logical consistency, evidence-based arguments, and a refined final voice that aligns with specific writing policies.
Use Cases
- Academic and Professional Essay Drafting: Systematically building complex arguments through a structured outline and multi-pass review process to ensure academic rigor.
- Long-form Content Creation: Developing detailed articles or reports where human oversight is required at every stage to maintain brand voice and factual accuracy.
- Collaborative Writing Workflows: Streamlining the transition from raw brainstorming (Inbox) to final polish (Passes) with built-in quality checks and policy validation using the 'atris review' command.
| name | writing |
|---|---|
| description | Essay writing skill. Triggers on: essay, draft, write, outline |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep |
Writing Skill
Structured writing process with approval gates.
Process
INBOX → OUTLINE → PANEL → WRITE → PASSES
- Inbox — Capture raw ideas, no structure
- Outline — Topic skeleton with evidence underneath
- Panel — AI pokes holes, human approves
- Write — Section by section, approval each step
- Passes — Argument (AI), out loud (human), sanity (both)
Key Rules
- No one-shotting drafts
- Thinking time between sessions
- AI structures and polishes, human provides voice
- Review against
atris/policies/writing.md
Atris Commands
atris review # validate against writing policy