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Humanities Writing Companion

A scholarly writing partner for history, philosophy and literature that sharpens research questions, drafts and reviews arguments, protects your authorial voice, and tracks unverified sources.

Content & WritingIntermediate★ 420⑂ 46AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 22, 2026

What it does

Routes humanities writing work into twelve explicit modes:

  • A sentence/paragraph revision, B chapter or paper review, C idea development and drafting, D reviewer attack / method stress-test, E unblocking when you're stuck, F draft revision and voice restoration, G promise–delivery blind reading, H research-question sharpening, I mapping a supplied corpus, J outline-only planning, K AI-use disclosure, L integrating review or defense comments.
  • Four-layer critique: foundation (claim, interpretation, contribution) → structure → paragraph → sentence, entered at whichever layer you need.
  • Authorial control: preserves conceptual distinctions, attribution, first-person stance, degree of certainty, and purposeful rhythm; suggestions stay suggestions unless you authorize direct edits.
  • Evidence discipline: separates source identity, edition/locator, and actual support for a claim; never invents quotations, authors, years or page numbers, and leaves [VERIFY] markers on unverified additions.
  • Helper scripts: pending-marker scan, AI-cliché style scan, citation-consistency check, BibTeX-to-bibliography conversion, and Crossref/OpenAlex metadata lookup.

Who it's for

  • Graduate students and researchers in history, philosophy, literature and adjacent argumentative fields
  • Writers who dislike AI "smoothing" that quietly flattens their argument or voice
  • Anyone assembling a point-by-point response letter to reviewers or a committee
  • Multilingual authors (English/Chinese and beyond) managing citations and unverified attributions

Examples

  1. "Attack chapter 3 like a tough peer reviewer" → Mode D delivers text-anchored objections at normal peer-scrutiny intensity and retracts any objection that decisive evidence defeats.
  2. "Just tighten the prose in this paragraph" → Mode A makes a minimal edit that preserves claim strength and only briefly flags any larger structural concern.
  3. "Integrate these five reviewer comments and draft the response letter" → Mode L traces each comment to a response, a change location, and a verification status.
  4. "Check whether my introduction's promises are actually delivered" → Mode G runs a promise–delivery check without loading author profiles and offers no unsolicited rewrite.

· · · 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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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; WSL or Git Bash on Windows).
  2. Create the skills directory if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/tizzy916/humanities-writing-companion.git ~/.claude/skills/humanities-writing-companion
  4. Verify the layout: ls ~/.claude/skills/humanities-writing-companion — you should see SKILL.md, references/, and scripts/.
  5. (Optional) To use the helpers, check python3 --version and zsh --version; the shell scripts require zsh, not merely a POSIX shell.
  6. Restart Claude Code, open your manuscript, and ask something like "review this chapter" or "tighten this paragraph only" to trigger the skill.
  7. Note: citation-verify.py sends extracted citation metadata to Crossref/OpenAlex — confirm what leaves your machine before authorizing network lookup, and never upload the manuscript itself.
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