Blogging Skills

Agent skills that write blog content which ranks and doesn't read like AI.

bloggingskills.com · skills.sh · Install

_{A typical model paragraph before and after humanize. The claim stays. The tells go.}

npx skills add RightBlogger/bloggingskills

A collection of Agent Skills for the full blogging pipeline: research, outline, draft, humanize, optimize, publish. Built for people who use a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and anything that supports the Agent Skills spec) to run a real content operation.

Most "write a blog post" prompts produce slop, and everyone can smell it now. This collection's whole point is the opposite: content that ranks and reads like a person wrote it. The quality bar lives in one shared rulebook, ai-tells.md, that every writing skill reads before it touches a draft.

What are skills?

Skills are markdown files that give an AI agent specialized knowledge and a workflow for a specific task. Drop them in your project and the agent recognizes when you're doing that task and applies the right method. You can also call one directly, like /article or /humanize.

The point of view

• Generating a post is a commodity. Content that ranks and reads human is the scarce thing. The anti-slop rulebook is the product.
• Blogging is a pipeline, not a prompt. Research, outline, draft, humanize, optimize, publish. The skills compose; article conducts them.
• Write for humans first, rank second.
• These run in your repo and touch your real stuff: your CMS, your Search Console, your knowledge base.

How the skills work together

Three foundation skills hold the context and rules every other skill reads first. article runs its own humanize pass; humanize also works on any draft you bring. refresh brings decaying posts back into the pipeline.

flowchart LR
    F["<b>Foundation</b><br/>blog-context<br/>brand-voice<br/>house-style"]
    P["<b>Plan</b><br/>content-plan"]
    R["<b>Research</b><br/>keyword-research<br/>serp-analysis"]
    A["<b>Write</b><br/>article"]
    Y["youtube-to-blog"]
    H["humanize"]
    O["<b>Optimize</b><br/>seo-optimize<br/>internal-links<br/>meta<br/>ai-seo"]
    C[("Your CMS")]
    RF["<b>Maintain</b><br/>refresh"]

    F -.-> P --> R --> A --> O --> C
    Y --> A
    H --> O
    C -- decays --> RF --> O

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Each skill's "Related skills" line has the full map.

Available skills (v0.5)

Skill	What it does
blog-context	Foundation. Captures niche, audience, pillars, authors, real experience, CMS, and voice into .agents/blog-context.md, read first by every other skill.
house-style	Foundation. The shared writing rulebook (ai-tells.md). Applies to every writing skill, and audits a draft on request.
brand-voice	Captures a real writing voice from samples into a reusable profile the other skills write in. The captured voice overrides the generic anti-AI rules.
content-plan	Decides what to write next: a ranked list of posts, one intent each, built on the experience only your blog has. Flags posts to merge or refresh.
keyword-research	Turns a seed topic into one primary keyword plus related terms grouped by search intent.
serp-analysis	Reads the live top results for a keyword and returns a content brief: intent, must-cover topics, the gap, and the winning angle.
article	The flagship. Runs the whole pipeline to produce a publish-ready post from a topic.
humanize	The hero. Strips AI tells and restores a human voice without flattening intentional style.
seo-optimize	Optimizes a draft that already exists against a target keyword, readability-first, no stuffing.
refresh	Diagnoses why a published post lost traffic, then updates facts, coverage, and its date honestly.
internal-links	Inserts relevant internal links using your real pages, with descriptive anchors and no invented URLs.
meta	Writes the SERP-facing meta title, description, and permalink inside the hard character limits.
ai-seo	Makes a post the source AI answers quote (AEO/GEO): front-loaded answers, self-contained sections, first-hand proof. Separates what works from myths like llms.txt.
youtube-to-blog	Turns a video or transcript into a real post, not a transcript dump, with the video embedded.

Installation

Option 1: CLI (recommended)

Use npx skills to install. The collection is listed on skills.sh.

# Install all skills
npx skills add RightBlogger/bloggingskills

# Install specific skills
npx skills add RightBlogger/bloggingskills --skill article humanize

# List available skills
npx skills add RightBlogger/bloggingskills --list

This installs to .agents/skills/ (and symlinks into .claude/skills/ for Claude Code).

Option 2: Claude Code plugin

/plugin marketplace add RightBlogger/bloggingskills
/plugin install blogging-skills

Option 3: Clone and copy

git clone https://github.com/RightBlogger/bloggingskills.git
cp -r bloggingskills/skills/* .agents/skills/

Quickstart

The first session, start to finish:

1. Set up context once. "Set up the context for my blog" runs blog-context and writes .agents/blog-context.md (niche, audience, pillars, voice). Every skill reads it, so you explain your blog once.
2. Add your proof (recommended). Fill in the "Experience and proof" section of .agents/blog-context.md: products you've used, tests you've run, numbers you can publish. The writing skills cite only what's there, so this is what lets a post carry first-hand detail without making it up.
3. Capture your voice (recommended). "Capture my writing voice, here are three posts I wrote" runs brand-voice. The profile makes every draft sound like you, and it overrides the generic anti-AI rules.
4. Write. "Write a 1,500-word post on [topic]" runs article: research, outline, draft, humanize, and a light optimize pass, in one go.
5. Polish. "This reads like AI, fix it" runs humanize. "Write the meta title and description" runs meta. "Add internal links from my sitemap" runs internal-links.
6. Connect your data (optional). With Search Console, a SERP or scraping tool, or your CMS wired in as an MCP or CLI, the research and optimization skills use your real numbers instead of estimates. See docs/data-sources.md. With nothing connected, every skill still works by reasoning from what it knows.

Usage

Once installed, just ask:

"Set up the context for my blog"        -> blog-context
"What should I write about next?"       -> content-plan
"Write a 2000-word post on cold brew"   -> article
"This draft reads like ChatGPT, fix it" -> humanize
"This old post lost its traffic"        -> refresh
"Turn this YouTube video into a post"   -> youtube-to-blog
"Write the meta title and description"  -> meta

Or call a skill directly: /article, /humanize, /seo-optimize.

Roadmap

Shipping next, in roughly this order: gsc-report (what's rising, decaying, and cannibalizing, from your Search Console data), content-type playbooks (comparison, how-to, and a listicle that refuses to self-rank), copy-edit, podcast-to-blog, and repurpose (post to social, newsletter, email). A standalone faq or schema skill is off the list: FAQ rich results are gone for most sites, and Google says AI search needs no special markup.

Credits

The anti-slop rulebook is distilled from editing a high volume of model-generated drafts in a production blog-generation system: the patterns readers reliably flag as machine-written, and the fixes that hold up at scale.

License

MIT. Use these however you want.