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frichxi/zanai-writing-skill

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TLDR

A Claude Code writing skill that applies ZangAI's distinctive Chinese tech blogger voice to articles. Uses 93 published articles to extract style rules covering openings, sentence structure, emoji use, analogies, data handling, and signature phrases.

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    Voice Elements
      Quoted openings
      Short sentences
      Signature phrases
    Style Rules
      Emoji patterns
      Cross-domain analogies
      Data with comparison
    Execution
      Three personas
      Closing patterns
      Things to avoid
    Setup
      Clone repo
      Run installer
      Use slash command
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Generate tech opinion pieces in ZangAI's voice for AI industry commentary

USE CASE 2

Train Claude to write consistent multi-article series with recognizable authorial voice

USE CASE 3

Extract and apply writing styles from any prolific author to new content generation

Tech stack

Claude CodeShellYAML

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Clone the repo and run the install script to register the skill with Claude Code. Then invoke via slash command in Claude conversations. Designed to work with Claude Code's skill system.

MIT license for the skill code. Example articles are original works by ZangAI, retained under author's copyright.

In plain English

zanai-writing-skill is a writing style system for Claude Code, the AI coding assistant from Anthropic. It lets Claude write articles in the voice of ZangAI, a Chinese tech blogger known for opinionated commentary on the AI industry. The style rules were extracted from 93 published articles by that writer. The skill covers specific elements of the blogger's voice: articles always open with a quoted line inside Japanese-style quotation marks, sentences are kept short with key judgments limited to about ten characters, and fourteen recurring phrases appear often enough to be listed as signature expressions. The system also defines how to use emoji with precise tonal meaning, a principle for cross-domain analogies, rules for using data only when paired with a comparison or evaluation, and five patterns for how articles should end (ranging from a memorable closing line to a mock prediction or a verse). A list of things to avoid is included: structural patterns that break the voice, language patterns that feel out of place, and specific rules about rhetorical questions. The blogger writes under three pen names, each with a different stylistic flavor, and the skill lets you specify which persona to use. To use it, you clone the repository and run the install script, which places the skill files where Claude Code can find them. After that you call it with the slash command from inside a Claude Code conversation. You can point it at a transcript or draft file to have it write in the target style. The skill itself is MIT licensed. The example articles included for style reference are original works by ZangAI and remain under that author's copyright.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Use the zanai-writing-skill to rewrite this tech article draft in ZangAI's voice, including a quoted opening and signature phrases.
Prompt 2
Generate an AI industry opinion piece using the ZangAI persona, keeping sentences short and ending with a memorable conclusion.
Prompt 3
Apply the zanai-writing-skill with the [specific persona] variant to this transcript, extracting key judgments and adding appropriate emoji.
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