An AA paper must be readable by an anthropologist outside its subfield, written with the craft AA prizes (strong ethnographic prose, a clear argument, reflexive voice), formatted to Chicago author-date, and disciplined to the section's word cap. AA also asks for inclusive language and citational practices that lift marginalized voices — style here is partly an ethical commitment.
Amanthro Writing Style is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the content-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/amanthro-writing-style/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when drafting or polishing an American Anthropologist (AA) manuscript so it reads across all four fields, follows AA house style (Chicago author-date; free-format submission accepted), fits the section word caps (Research Articles ≤ 8,000 words; abstract 200 words), and uses inclusive, care-ful language. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.
The Amanthro Writing Style Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/amanthro-writing-style curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/amanthro-writing-style/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/amanthro-writing-style/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/amanthro-writing-style/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/amanthro-writing-style/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\amanthro-writing-style\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/amanthro-writing-style/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Amanthro Writing Style is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{amanthro-writing-style-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Amanthro Writing Style [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/amanthro-writing-style/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (filesystem), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.
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