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-beatsRun 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.
Stars are counted for the whole repository, which holds 36 skills.
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| Date | Repo stars |
|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026 | 273,476 |
| 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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