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Humanities Writing Companion

An end-to-end thinking partner for humanities papers — from sharpening the research question to four-layer critique and integrating reviewer comments, while preserving your voice.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 357⑂ 42AI score 9/10Last updated: Jul 13, 2026

What it does

  • Turns a vague interest into a sharp research question, then maps the literature you have already read.
  • Runs a four-layer critique — foundation, structure, paragraph, sentence — strictly top-down, refusing to polish sentences while the underlying argument is broken.
  • Simulates an adversarial reviewer (calibratable devil's advocate) so the paper meets its strongest objection before submission.
  • Revises drafts with voice preservation as a core value rather than flattening prose into "standard academic English."
  • Audits in-draft citations for hallucination and format consistency, and drafts AI-use disclosures for journal submission.
  • Routes critique by discipline (literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, art studies, religious studies) plus cross-disciplinary overlays.

Who it's for

  • Graduate students and scholars writing dissertation chapters, journal articles, or monograph sections.
  • Authors who must systematically respond to defense or external-review comments.
  • Anyone who wants AI help without losing their own authorial voice.

Example uses

  1. "This chapter doesn't read smoothly" → structure-layer critique of chapter order and cumulative argument.
  2. "How would reviewers attack this?" → adversarial review tuned to your target-reader profile.
  3. "The review report came back" → revision-dossier workflow mapping each comment to a concrete change.
  4. "I'll talk, you write it up" → oral-first drafting that follows your saved style profile.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the SKILL.m folder from the GitHub repo tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion into my ~/.claude/skills/humanities-writing-companion/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion.git ~/.claude/skills/humanities-writing-companion

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal (Terminal on macOS/Linux, PowerShell or WSL on Windows).
  2. Create the skills directory if it doesn't exist: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repository into it: git clone https://github.com/tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion.git ~/.claude/skills/humanities-writing-companion
  4. Confirm that SKILL.md plus the references/ and scripts/ folders came along — several modes depend on those reference files.
  5. Restart Claude Code and trigger it with something like "take a look at this paragraph of my paper."
  6. On first use, state your discipline, citation style, and target reader; the skill writes config profiles so later sessions resume seamlessly.
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