Best Claude Skills for Writing & Docs (2026)
Writing skills fix the two things generic AI prose gets wrong: format and audience. Anthropic’s Internal Comms skill gives Claude the house formats for status updates and announcements, and its PDF and DOCX skills handle real document files — filling forms, preserving layout, editing tracked changes.
Writing Plans from obra’s Superpowers turns a vague task into a step-by-step implementation plan, and Changelog Automation keeps release notes consistent with your commit history.
One licensing note: Anthropic’s PDF and DOCX skills are source-available, not open source. We list them because they are among the most useful skills there are, but their licence forbids copying, so they run inside Claude’s own apps and cannot be imported into BusinessMCP.
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5 writing & docs skills from 3 publishers, listed alphabetically. 12 of their 15 skills.sh security audits are a pass and none is a fail; 2 ship scripts, flagged on their pages. How we vet skills
| Skill | Publisher | Licence | Audits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changelog Automation | wshobson | MIT | 3/3 pass |
| DOCX | anthropics | Source-available (not open source) | 2/3 pass |
| Internal Comms | anthropics | Apache-2.0 | 2/3 pass |
| anthropics | Source-available (not open source) | 2/3 pass | |
| Writing Plans | obra | MIT | 3/3 pass |
Internal Comms
anthropics
A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use.
anthropics
Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding…
DOCX
anthropics
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files).
Writing Plans
obra
Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code
Changelog Automation
wshobson
Automate changelog generation from commits, PRs, and releases following Keep a Changelog format. Use when setting up release workflows, generating release notes, or standardizing commit conventions.
Run writing & docs skills on your own data
Open any skill above and press “Use in BusinessMCP” to import it after a free signup.
Get started freeFrequently asked questions
Which writing skill is for engineers?
Writing Plans and Changelog Automation. Writing Plans turns a feature request into an implementation plan before any code is written; Changelog Automation builds release notes from commit history.
Why can’t I import the PDF and DOCX skills into BusinessMCP?
Their licence, not our choice. Anthropic publishes them source-available with a restriction against reproducing or redistributing them, so we link to them and show how to install them in Claude, but we never copy them into a workspace.