@jashjeet/amazon-style-writing
v0.1.0
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A Claude Code skill for Amazon-style narrative writing — PR/FAQs, six-pagers, decision memos, and other executive-grade prose.
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amazon-style-writing
A Claude Code skill that teaches Claude to write in the Amazon narrative style: PR/FAQs, six-pagers, one-pagers, decision memos, and status updates. Dense, declarative, customer-anchored prose with no weasel words.
What it does
When the skill is active, Claude applies seven rules to every draft:
- Sentences stay short (≥70% under 20 words).
- Subject-verb-object, active voice, present tense.
- Adjectives and adverbs without numbers get cut.
- Weasel words become numbers, dates, or named owners.
- Every paragraph passes the "So What?" test.
- The recommendation is front-loaded in paragraph one.
- Decisions are classified as one-way or two-way doors.
The skill includes templates for PR/FAQs and six-pagers, a banned-word list, anti-patterns to refuse, and a worked example.
Install
Via npm
npm install @jashjeet/amazon-style-writingAfter install, SKILL.md is available at node_modules/@jashjeet/amazon-style-writing/SKILL.md.
For Claude Code
Copy SKILL.md into your Claude Code skills directory:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/amazon-style-writing
cp node_modules/@jashjeet/amazon-style-writing/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/amazon-style-writing/SKILL.mdClaude Code auto-discovers skills in ~/.claude/skills/ at session start.
Manually (without npm)
git clone https://github.com/Jashjeet/amazon-style-writing.git ~/.claude/skills/amazon-style-writingWhen the skill fires
The skill activates on phrases like:
- "Write a PR/FAQ for..."
- "Draft a six-pager on..."
- "Convert this draft to Amazon style"
- "Tighten this up", "de-fluff this"
- "Write a decision memo"
- "Working Backwards on [feature]"
It also fires when the user asks for an executive-grade written deliverable without naming a specific format.
When the skill should NOT fire
- Customer-facing marketing copy (the style reads as cold).
- Casual Slack messages and chat replies.
- Code comments and inline docs.
- Creative writing or anything where voice matters more than density.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Contributing
Issues and PRs welcome at github.com/Jashjeet/amazon-style-writing.
