writing-beats
writing-beats is a user-invoked skill from Matt Pocock's skills collection for turning a Markdown file of raw notes into an article one step at a time.
What the skill teaches
writing-beats is a user-invoked skill from Matt Pocock's skills collection for turning a Markdown file of raw notes into an article one step at a time. The agent first agrees with the user what the audience already knows, then offers two or three possible opening beats drawn from the notes. After the user picks one, it writes only that beat to the article file, re-reads the file from disk to keep the user's edits, and offers the next set of options. Each option must rely only on ideas the reader has already met, and the agent tracks which concepts each beat introduces. It sits in the repository's in-progress folder.
Capabilities
- Offer alternative next sections for an article drawn from raw notes
- Append one chosen section at a time to an article file
- Track which concepts the reader has met before using them
Install
What's inside
- agents/openai.yaml
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Writing and editing | |
| Publisher | Matt Pocock | source |
| Official status | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | MIT | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Nov 9, 2026321,493 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository Website |
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Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/mattpocock/skillsNov 10, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/mattpocock/skills · Backs: Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/mattpocock/skills · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- Folder in the repository (writing-beats)github.com/mattpocock/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026