Natural Japanese Business Writing
coji/natural-japanese
Writes and edits Japanese business documents so they read clearly and naturally, removes AI-sounding phrasing and can score how AI-like a text reads.
Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition).
Install Write Well
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills write-well --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well .claude/skills/write-well && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "write-well" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well into .claude/skills/write-well/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-well", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-wellType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills write-well --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well .agents/skills/write-well && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "write-well" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well into .agents/skills/write-well/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-well", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills write-well --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well .cursor/skills/write-well && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "write-well" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well into .cursor/skills/write-well/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-well", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills write-well --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well .gemini/skills/write-well && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "write-well" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well into .gemini/skills/write-well/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-well", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills write-wellInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well .github/skills/write-well && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "write-well" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well into .github/skills/write-well/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-well", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills write-well --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well .opencode/skills/write-well && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "write-well" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well into .opencode/skills/write-well/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-well", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
write-well- GitHub stars
- 4.5k
- Token cost
- ~4.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 2,007 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 364
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition).
- Works in 6 steps: CLUTTER → WEAK VERBS AND OVERLOADED MODIFIERS → VOICE AND CLICHÉS → …
- Asked to improve prose quality
- SKILL.md covers Input Arguments, Scope, Zinsser's Principles — Chapter… and What to Check, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Write Well is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs, hollow qualifiers, clichés, inflated academic voice, poor leads and endings, pronoun and tense inconsistency, and unclear explanation. Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to improve prose quality, tighten writing, reduce clutter, or apply Zinsser's writing principles to a draft. For…
Its SKILL.md is about 4.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Writing & Content, covering Copy editing and proofreading and Plain language and style rules. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库，覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…
When your agent uses it
- Asked to improve prose quality
- Tighten writing
- Apply Zinssers writing principles to a draft
Example prompts
- “/write-well”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- CLUTTER
- WEAK VERBS AND OVERLOADED MODIFIERS
- VOICE AND CLICHÉS
- UNITY AND SCOPE
- LEADS AND ENDINGS
- CLARITY OF EXPLANATION
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Write Well loads about 4.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 186 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,007 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,007 words (~4,124 tokens).
“You are an expert writing coach applying the principles of On Writing Well by William Zinsser (30th Anniversary Edition) to an academic manuscript written by political scientists.”
- name
- write-well
- metadata.author
- Christopher T. Kenny
- metadata.version
- 1
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Write Well next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Write Well this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Natural Japanese Business Writingcoji/natural-japanese | 1.9k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Defensive Writing Editorlennney/stop-that-shit | 2.5k | 1 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Chinese Technical Writingleter/zh-tech-writing | 334 | — | ~656 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Oil Tone Chinese Writing Styleoil-oil/oil-tone | 230 | — | ~517 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| ISO 24495-1 Plain LanguageGaZmagik/iso-24495 | 189 | 1 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Write Well
What does Write Well do?
Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition). Write Well is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser's On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition).
When should I use Write Well?
Write Well fits situations like: asked to improve prose quality; tighten writing; apply Zinssers writing principles to a draft.
How do I install Write Well in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/write-well in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Write Well in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/write-well in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/write-well in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Write Well in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill write-well -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/write-well, .gemini/skills/write-well, .github/skills/write-well and .opencode/skills/write-well in your project.
What does Write Well need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Write Well is instructions for the agent only.
Does Write Well access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Write Well safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Write Well use?
Write Well has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Write Well use?
About 4.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 16k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Write Well?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Write Well: Natural Japanese Business Writing (coji/natural-japanese, 1.9k stars), Defensive Writing Editor (lennney/stop-that-shit, 2.5k stars), Chinese Technical Writing (leter/zh-tech-writing, 334 stars) and Oil Tone Chinese Writing Style (oil-oil/oil-tone, 230 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Write Well?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,529 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.