mikefluff-skills

skills

44 skills for Claude Code that make content — and refuse to let it read like a machine made it.

Prose editing that strips the tells. Prompt engineering for 40+ image, video and music models, with optional one-command execution against the real APIs. And orchestrators that carry a job the whole way: research question → carousel → published post; raw price list → a proposal styled from the client's own website.

Russian-first, English throughout. Plain markdown, MIT, no required dependencies.

What it actually does

The same cold email, before and after cold-email → writer:

Subject: Quick question

Hi Patricia,

I hope this email finds you well! My name is David Kim and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Nimbus, a B2B SaaS startup that's been disrupting the developer-tools space for the past 22 months.

I've been a longtime admirer of your work at Magnet Ventures, and I was incredibly impressed by your recent investment in DevForge. Given the synergies I see between our work and your portfolio, I wanted to reach out personally to introduce myself.

We've been growing rapidly — we now have a number of enterprise customers and significant ARR. […]

Subject: $2.1M ARR in dev tools — fit for Magnet?

Hi Patricia,

Saw the DevForge round — congrats on leading. We're in an adjacent wedge: pre-merge code-review automation for engineering teams of 20-200. $2.1M ARR over 22 months, 12 enterprise customers including Stripe, Datadog, and Cloudflare.

Raising A in Q3. Worth 20 min next week to see if Magnet would be a fit?

Happy to send the deck cold either way.

Best, David Kim Co-founder, Nimbus · nimbus.dev

Every cut is attributable to a rule, not to taste — "I hope this email finds you well" to banned-patterns.md §Ceremony openers, the 24-word bio to structure.md §Block 1. The full pair with every delta is in the repo, along with three more.

There is also an offline linter, so the same rules can gate a commit with no API call and no model in the loop:

$ python3 ~/.claude/skills/writer/scripts/lint.py draft.md
writer-lint: borderline (3 hits)
gate passed: no hard bans.

Hits:
  L1:42  [caution] GPT_FILLER   "it's important to note"
  L2:30  [caution] GPT_FILLER   "Let's dive into"
  L6:1   [caution] AI_BRIDGE    'Moreover'

Exit codes are hook-shaped, so style-check can run it on staged files and stop the commit — pre-commit walkthrough.

How it fits together

One skill does the prose work — writer — and eleven others route through it rather than restating its rules. viral-text knows about hooks and platforms; it does not know about em-dashes, because writer does. The same shape holds for media: nine skills build on image-prompt.

That is the whole architecture. 44 skills: 1 base, 22 wrappers, 3 linters, 14 orchestrators, 3 meta.

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Install

# Plugin marketplace — inside Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Mikefluff/skills
/plugin install mikefluff-skills@mikefluff

# Curl — 5 seconds, no deps
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mikefluff/skills/main/install.sh | bash

The plugin route keeps the skills updatable from inside Claude Code (/plugin marketplace update); the curl route drops them straight into ~/.claude/skills/. Either works — don't run both, or every skill appears twice.

Other methods (npm, Homebrew, Docker, local checkout, pinned version, custom prefix): docs/INSTALL.md.

Skills appear after Claude Code session restart. Discovery is automatic via the name: and description: fields in each skill's frontmatter — no ~/.claude/settings.json edits required.

API keys (for --execute mode — entirely optional): manage via /skills-keys add OPENAI_API_KEY ... inside Claude Code, or copy .env.example to ~/.skills.env. See Managing keys below.

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Documentation

The full doc hub: docs/. Most-used pages:

Page	What
QUICKSTART	5-minute first run — install → first prose edit → first AI image → first end-to-end
USER-GUIDE	The scenarios index — pick what you want to do
walkthroughs/	20 step-by-step recipes, categorized
CONTRIBUTING · CODE_OF_CONDUCT	Adding a skill, reporting a bug, house rules
SKILL-INDEX	Every skill by layer / domain / language
COMPOSING	Named workflows for chaining skills + data flow + anti-patterns
INSTALL	Install methods (curl, npm, brew, Docker, local, pinned)
FAQ · TROUBLESHOOTING	When something looks off

The bundled style libraries used by the orchestrators: carousel · video · music · visual-prompt styles (extensible, 23 entries).

The shared LLM prompt chains behind the visual skills: image chain (carousel / cover / quote / meme / banner / logo — typographic template + style fields + orientation lock) and video chain (reel shots / carousel animation — overlay-heavy i2v discipline, lock_first_last + negative_prompt text-stability). Saved brand profiles for proposal-maker: proposal-maker/brands/.

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What you can do

Write & edit prose

Scenario	Skill(s)	Walkthrough
Clean an LLM-shaped draft	writer	USER-GUIDE
Viral social post (RU + EN)	viral-text → writer	RU · EN
Edit a fiction chapter (Pelevin/Manson voice)	prose-edit → writer	fiction-chapter
Draft a long-form essay (RU)	essay-write → writer	non-fiction
Verify a trilingual translation (RU/EN/PT-BR)	translation-sync	translation-parity
Audit a chapter against your story bible	canon-check	canon-check-audit
Insert a Pelevin-style digression	pelevin-digression	digression-insertion
Rewrite in a different register (formal↔casual…)	tone-shifter → writer	tone-shift
Write a cold outreach email	cold-email → writer	cold-email-pitch
Write UX microcopy (errors / empty states / tooltips)	microcopy → writer	microcopy-error-states
Write release notes / changelog	release-notes → writer	release-notes-saas
Write an RFC / ADR / design doc	rfc-writer → writer	rfc-architecture
Write landing / SEO / ad copy	landing-copy → writer	landing-launch

Generate AI media (prompt-first, execute optional)

Scenario	Skill(s)	Walkthrough
Generate an image prompt for 14+ models (Midjourney V8.1, Flux 2, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana Pro, gpt-image-2, Ideogram 3, Seedream 5.0, …)	image-prompt	image-prompt-cover
Generate a video prompt for 20+ models (Veo 3.1 + audio, Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Runway Gen-4 / Aleph V2V, Luma Ray 3, Pika, Hailuo, Hunyuan, Wan 2.2, Seedance, …)	video-prompt	video-prompt-reel
Generate a music prompt for 10+ models (Suno v5.5, Udio v4, Lyria 3 Pro, ElevenLabs Music, Stable Audio 2.5, MusicGen, …)	music-prompt	USER-GUIDE
Voiceover / narration via TTS (ElevenLabs multilingual + OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-tts)	voiceover-maker	skills/voiceover-maker/examples/before-after.md
Burn captions onto an existing video (SRT / VTT / plain text + ffmpeg)	subtitle-burner	skills/subtitle-burner/examples/before-after.md
Actually run the prompt through the vendor API and save a real PNG / MP4 / MP3	any of the prompt skills + --execute	execute-end-to-end

Orchestrate end-to-end

Scenario	Skill(s)	Walkthrough
Research a topic with cited sources (WebSearch + WebFetch + optional Firecrawl/Exa MCP)	research-brief	research-to-carousel-reel
Turn topic / research into an N-slide Instagram / LinkedIn / TikTok carousel (24 visual styles, batch execute)	carousel-builder	research-to-carousel-reel
Turn topic / research / script into a vertical reel (12 directorial styles + 12 music genres + ffmpeg stitch)	reel-builder	research-to-carousel-reel
Make a flyer / event poster / promo graphic (title + date + location + optional photo, multi-aspect)	flyer-maker	skills/flyer-maker/examples/before-after.md
Turn a raw offer / price list into a beautiful commercial proposal (КП) styled from a website — real product photos, exact prices, print-to-PDF	proposal-maker	skills/proposal-maker/examples/before-after.md
Headshot / profile-pic / avatar variants from a photo (identity-preserve via Nano Banana Pro, multi-aspect)	avatar-maker	skills/avatar-maker/examples/before-after.md

Manage the collection

Scenario	Skill	Walkthrough
Manage API keys (add / remove / update / verify / enable gate flags)	skills-keys	skills/skills-keys/examples/before-after.md
Manage the style library (add / edit / validate / submit upstream)	skills-styles	skills/skills-styles/examples/before-after.md