creative-writing-skills/cw-router/SKILL.md
Quick guide to choosing the right creative writing skill. Use when you need help deciding which creative writing skill to use for a specific task - brainstorming vs documentation, critique vs writing, etc.
npx skillsauth add haowjy/creative-writing-skills cw-routerInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Quick guide to choosing the right skill for your task.
Use for: Exploring ideas, figuring things out, thinking through options
Creates: Skeletal working notes with [TBD] markers and source tags
Handles:
Key trait: Multiple options coexist, preserves vagueness, exploratory
Use for: Documenting finalized decisions, creating canonical reference (wiki pages)
Creates: Polished, reader-ready wiki/documentation pages with citations
Handles:
Key trait: Single version, no [TBD], encyclopedic/wiki tone
Use for: Getting feedback on written chapters/scenes
Analyzes:
Key trait: Feedback on existing writing, not creating content
Use for: Actually writing story prose in your style
Writes:
Key trait: Creates actual story text, matches your voice
Use for: Creating custom style skills for prose writing
Creates: Skills that teach Claude your specific writing style
Key trait: Meta-skill for building other skills
This is the most common confusion:
Still figuring it out? → cw-brainstorming
You've decided and it's ready to show someone? → cw-official-docs
→ cw-brainstorming (exploring, not finalized yet)
→ cw-official-docs (decided and ready to document)
→ cw-brainstorming (planning/exploring)
→ cw-prose-writing (actually writing)
→ cw-story-critique (getting feedback)
→ cw-official-docs if finalized, cw-brainstorming if still exploring
→ cw-official-docs (creating wiki/documentation)
→ cw-brainstorming (exploring)
→ cw-official-docs (documenting finalized)
→ cw-brainstorming (working through chronology)
→ cw-style-skill-creator first (create style skill), then cw-prose-writing
Are you writing story prose?
└─ Yes → cw-prose-writing
└─ No ↓
Do you want feedback on something written?
└─ Yes → cw-story-critique
└─ No ↓
Are you figuring things out or have you decided?
└─ Figuring out → cw-brainstorming
└─ Decided → cw-official-docs
Need a custom writing style?
└─ Yes → cw-style-skill-creator
You can use multiple skills in combination:
Skills are composable - use whatever combination helps.
Default rules:
When in doubt, start with brainstorming. You can always move to docs later when things are decided.
data-ai
Use before acting on the author's instructions — separate what they said from what they meant.
testing
Use when challenging a plan — grills the author against documented decisions and sharpens terminology.
testing
Creative-writing session lead and entry point. Activate this to get a creative partner that brainstorms, drafts, critiques, revises, and maintains your story's knowledge base. Built for Claude.ai, where there are no subagents: it runs every mode of the work in one conversation. Load alongside the craft skills (writing-principles, prose-writing, scene-construction, prose-critique). Use at the start of any story session.
testing
Shared vocabulary for creative writing projects. Load when establishing canonical story terms, resolving ambiguous names, checking term consistency, or deciding where vocabulary belongs in kb/.