Reply Writing includes explicit scope boundaries (an explicit 'when not to use' or 'out of scope' section). The SKILL.md runs to about 1,088 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.
Reply Writing sits in the General category under the general-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.
A lightweight skill for ad-hoc reply drafting, refinement, and editing. Loads the lab's voice, reply-format, manuscript-format, research-integrity, and sentence conventions, then helps draft or edit reply text and matching manuscript inserts in markdown.
Reply Writing is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/reply-writing/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use whenever the user wants to draft a reply to a single reviewer comment, refine an existing reply, improve tone or push-back wording, check voice on a reply, write a manuscript insert prompted by a comment, or apply the lab's reply conventions. Trigger phrases: "draft a reply to this comment", "help me respond to R1-C3", "refine this reply", "check the voice on this reply", "edit my reviewer response", "tighten this reply".
The Reply Writing Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/reply-writing curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/reply-writing/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/reply-writing/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/reply-writing/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/reply-writing/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\reply-writing\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/reply-writing/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. Reply Writing is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General 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{reply-writing-2026,
author = {jakebrownscombe},
title = {Reply Writing [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/reply-writing/}
}Browse all General skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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