Writing With Agents

10 Skills · 35 References · 5 Workflows

Why this exists

Most AI writing tools mix brainstorming, structuring, and editing into a single prompt. The result is flat, mediocre output that sounds like everything else. Betty Flowers identified in 1981 that writing requires four distinct cognitive modes. Mixing them produces internal conflict: your inner critic shuts down your inner generator before it can produce anything worth editing.

This plugin gives each mode its own skill, workflow, and quality gates. The AI and human trade leadership at every phase: AI generates raw volume when quantity matters, human decides structure when judgment matters.

What this is

A Claude Code plugin that separates the writing process into five phases, each with a defined lead and support role:

This project calls the lead and support split the collaborative oscillation model.

Installation

Option 1: From the Claude plugin directory

Writing With Agents is listed in the Claude plugin directory for Claude Code, Cowork, and the Claude apps.

- claude.ai (Cowork and the Claude apps): open Customize, then Plugins, and search for "Writing With Agents". You can also open the directory listing directly; it requires a claude.ai sign-in.
- Claude Code: run /plugin, open Discover, search for "Writing With Agents" (Anthropic Directory), and install it at user, project, or local scope.

Directory installs receive a new version after Anthropic reviews it, so they can trail the GitHub release by a few days.

Option 2: Claude Code plugin marketplace (native)

Inside Claude Code, add this repo as a plugin marketplace and install the plugin:

If you're already in a session, run /reload-plugins to activate.

Option 3: skills.sh via npx

Add -g to install globally across all projects.

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