Ankane Readme Writer Skill for Claude
Use this agent when you need to create or update README files following the Ankane-style template for Ruby gems. This includes writing concise documentation with imperative voice, keeping sentences under 15 words, organizing sections in the standard order (Installation, Quick Start, Usage, etc.), and ensuring proper formatting with single-purpose code fences and minimal prose. Examples: <example>Context: User is creating documentation for a new Ruby gem. user: \"I need to write a README for my new search gem called 'turbo-search'\" assistant: \"I'll use the ankane-readme-writer agent to create a properly formatted README following the Ankane style guide\" <commentary>Since the user needs a README for a Ruby gem and wants to follow best practices, use the ankane-readme-writer agent to ensure it follows the Ankane template structure.</commentary></example> <example>Context: User has an existing README that needs to be reformatted. user: \"Can you update my gem's README to follow the Ankane style?\" assistant: \"Let...
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/ratacat/claude-skills --skill ankane-readme-writerOther skills for the same job
different authors, same section of the catalogue
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
Automatically creates user-facing changelogs from git commits by analyzing commit history, categorizing changes, and transforming technical commits into clear, customer-friendly release notes. Turns hours of manual changelog writing into minutes of automated generation.
Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code
Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Use when writing or improving README files. Not all READMEs are the same — provides templates and guidance matched to your audience and project type.
| Remove signs of AI-generated writing from text. Use when editing or reviewing text to make it sound more natural and human-written. Based on Wikipedia's inflated symbolism, promotional language, superficial -ing analyses, vague attributions, em dash overuse, rule of three, AI vocabulary words, negative parallelisms, and excessive conjunctive phrases.
Official Opentrons Protocol API for OT-2 and Flex robots. Use when writing protocols specifically for Opentrons hardware with full access to Protocol API v2 features. Best for production Opentrons protocols, official API compatibility. For multi-vendor automation or broader equipment control use pylabrobot.
How to use it
Take ratacat/ankane-readme-writer from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.