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writing-beatsby Matt PocockWritingGitHub stars: 274k

Writing Beats skill: what it does and how to install it

Guides a beat-by-beat journey through fixed Markdown source material, grounding concepts before each new turn and letting the writer choose the next path.

Summary generated from the skill's documentation.

Install

$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill writing-beats

Run it in a terminal. If your agent is already running, start a new session so it picks the skill up.

About this skill

What it does. Takes a fixed Markdown file of raw material, establishes what the audience already knows, then presents 2–3 possible starting beats. After each chosen beat it appends only that move, rereads the article from disk, and offers reachable next beats while tracking newly grounded concepts.

When to use it. Use for exploratory writing when the source material is already collected and the article should be assembled interactively, one beat at a time. It is manually invoked and asks where to save the article if no path is provided.

History

Repo stars

274kAbout +68.8k since 9 Jul 2026

Before 1 Oct 2026 the curve is estimated from public event data.

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1 Oct 2026273,476
24 Sept 2026 (estimated)271,731
17 Sept 2026 (estimated)269,723
10 Sept 2026 (estimated)256,747
3 Sept 2026 (estimated)212,350
27 Aug 2026 (estimated)210,582
20 Aug 2026 (estimated)209,353
13 Aug 2026 (estimated)208,784
6 Aug 2026 (estimated)207,241
30 Jul 2026 (estimated)206,866
23 Jul 2026 (estimated)206,222
16 Jul 2026 (estimated)205,518
9 Jul 2026 (estimated)204,678

Installs

403k

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Installs via skills.sh

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