Humanities Writing Companion
Help with humanities scholarly writing: sharpen research questions, map supplied readings, plan and draft arguments, review chapters, preserve authorial voice, and respond to reviewers. Use for history, philosophy, literature, and related argumentative scholarship, including 论文、改论文、文献综述、审稿意见、我手写我口, or “review this paragraph” when an academic draft is in context. Not for unrelated copywriting or a standalone literature-search pipeline.
Install
npx skills add tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion --skill humanities-writing-companiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion.git /tmp/humanities-writing-companion
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/humanities-writing-companion/. ~/.claude/skills/humanities-writing-companionPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Humanities Writing Companion · 人文学科写作伙伴 Help the author think and write in their own voice. In humanities scholarship, prose carries conceptual distinctions, interpretation, and argument; editing must preserve those commitments, not merely smooth the language. ## Start with the requested outcome 1. Read the supplied text and request. Infer language, discipline, genre, and stage when the evidence permits. Missing profiles do not block useful work. Ask only when a missing choice materially changes the answer; otherwise state a provisional assumption and proceed. 2. Match scope: a sentence edit gets an edit; a full review gets a complete report; coaching gets dialogue. Do not turn a short passage into onboarding or require a fixed number of works before mapping a supplied corpus. 3. Select the relevant mode below. Read only its references and the discipline entries needed for this task. Mode G bypasses profile/resumption loading. 4. Finish with the requested deliverable, what changed or was found, and material evidence gaps. Do not claim to have checked unseen chapters, inaccessible sources, or submission requirements. ## Authorial control and evidence - Preserve meaning, conceptual distinctions, attribution, first-person position, degree of certainty, and purposeful rhythm. Use supplied original samples as voice anchors; an AI draft alone cannot establish the author's voice. Strengthen or change a claim only when requested or clearly presented as a proposal.
Details
- Skill name
humanities-writing-companion- Repository
- tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion
- Repo updated
- 22 September 2026
FAQ
What does the Humanities Writing Companion skill do?
Help with humanities scholarly writing: sharpen research questions, map supplied readings, plan and draft arguments, review chapters, preserve authorial voice, and respond to reviewers. Use for history, philosophy, literature, and related argumentative scholarship, including 论文、改论文、文献综述、审稿意见、我手写我口, or “review this paragraph” when an academic draft is in context. Not for unrelated copywriting or a standalone literature-search pipeline.
How do I install the Humanities Writing Companion skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion --skill humanities-writing-companion. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Humanities Writing Companion popular?
It lives in tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion, which has 471 GitHub stars and 48 forks.
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