AI agents for writers
50 AI agents and agent tools that suit writers: authors, copywriters, and journalists. Ranked by momentum this week, with setup difficulty for each.
Ranks for week 44 (Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2026). Data as of Nov 2, 2026.
In short
- Gaining the most momentum this week: story-studio, humanizer, and shuohao-skills.
- Easiest to start with (nothing to install, or adds to an AI app you already use): yomiyasu, Waza, and avoid-ai-writing.
- #1
story-studio
Story Studio is a skill that guides an AI agent through making short history and biography videos, from script and voiceover to images and a CapCut draft, for creators.
- #2
humanizer
Humanizer is a skill that rewrites AI-generated text so it reads like a person wrote it, for anyone publishing AI-drafted writing.
- #3
shuohao-skills
shuohao-skills is a set of skills that helps an AI agent produce short-drama videos, from character bibles and outlines to screenplays and storyboards, for creators making AI short dramas.
- #4
anti-slop
Anti Slop is a set of rules that stops an AI coding agent from producing generic UI, text, and code for people building websites and apps.
- #5
GenOffice
GenOffice is a free, open-source office suite that lets you edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files with an AI agent for people who work with documents.
- #6
Humanizer-zh
Humanizer-zh is a Claude Code skill that edits Chinese text to remove stock AI phrasing while keeping facts and meaning for writers and editors.
- #7
ArcReel
ArcReel is a self-hosted agent app that turns novels, scripts, or product material into consistent short videos for video creators.
- #8
Toonflow-app
Toonflow is a self-hosted AI video creation tool that turns scripts into short dramas and motion comics for creators.
- #9
drama-skills
Drama Skills is a set of skills that adds AI short drama and micro-drama creation to Claude Code or Codex, from script to storyboard to video prompts, for writers and studios.
- #10
Academic Research Skills
Academic Research Skills is a set of Claude Code skills that guides researchers through research, writing, review, and revision for a paper.
- #11
yomiyasu
yomiyasu is a skill that rewrites AI-generated Japanese into natural, easy-to-read Japanese for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor users.
- #12
Goutoujunshi
Goutoujunshi is a Codex skill that helps people sort out romantic situations and choose a next step for dating, conflict, breakups, and reconciliation.
- #13
EdgeEver
EdgeEver is a self-hosted notes and knowledge base app that lets AI agents read and write your notes through MCP, for people who want an Evernote or Obsidian alternative.
- #14
obsidian-second-brain
obsidian-second-brain is a skill plugin that gives Claude Code, Codex and other agents persistent memory stored in your Obsidian notes, for people who keep their knowledge in Obsidian.
- #15
writing-dna-skill
writing-dna-skill is a skill that distills an author's writing style from a set of full articles so an AI agent can imitate it for writers and content creators.
- #16
Oh Story
Oh Story is a skill pack that helps writers plan, draft, analyze, and polish Chinese web novels inside Claude Code, Codex, and similar coding agents.
- #17
yovoice
yovoice is an agent app that turns text into speech, cloned voices, and songs on your own computer for creators who want to avoid per-character cloud fees.
- #18
screenwriting-skills
screenwriting-skills is a set of 26 agent skills that help with writing films, TV series, and stage plays for screenwriters and writers.
- #19
dsh-adult-tension
dsh-adult-tension is a skill that runs adult interactive fiction with persistent characters and saved state for adults who want long-form roleplay.
- #20
imozuru
imozuru is a Claude Code skill that digs into an unfamiliar topic until it reaches the original sources, for people researching a field they do not know.
- #21
claude-obsidian
claude-obsidian is a set of Claude Code skills that turns sources you save into a linked Obsidian notes wiki for people who want to keep their research organized.
- #22
LocalMiniDrama
LocalMiniDrama is an open-source app that turns a written story into a short drama video on your own computer, keeping your files local.
- #23
Waza
Waza is a set of eight skills that teach Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor engineering habits like planning, debugging, and reviewing code.
- #24
Ian Xiaohei Illustrations
Ian Xiaohei Illustrations is a skill that guides an AI agent to make hand-drawn 16:9 illustrations for Chinese articles.
- #25
avoid-ai-writing
Avoid-ai-writing is a skill that audits and rewrites text to remove common AI writing patterns for writers and marketers.
- #26
academic-pptx-skill
Academic-pptx-skill is a skill that helps Claude build academic slide decks for conference talks, seminars, thesis defenses, and grant briefings.
- #27
Oh Story DSH
Oh Story DSH is a plugin that adds writing workspaces for novels, short dramas, games and video recaps for writers.
- #28
html-anything
html-anything is an agent app that turns notes, data, or Markdown into a ready-to-share HTML page for people who want clean web-style output without writing HTML.
- #29
baoyu-skills
baoyu-skills is a set of skills that adds content creation and publishing abilities to Claude Code and Codex for daily writing and image work.
- #30
human-writing
human-writing is a skill that makes AI-written Chinese read like a specific person wrote it, for essays, posts, stories, and scripts.
- #31
EasyRead
EasyRead is an app that translates English research papers into readable Chinese for people who read PDFs locally.
- #32
sepia
sepia is a skill that removes AI-sounding patterns from fiction and professional writing for writers and marketers who want text that reads as human.
- #33
SimpleEnglish
SimpleEnglish is a skill that makes AI agents write plain, direct technical documentation for readers who need to understand it quickly.
- #34
im-not-ai
Humanize KR is a Claude skill that rewrites AI-generated Korean text into natural Korean prose for writers and marketers.
- #35
InkOS
InkOS is a story creation agent that drafts, reviews, and revises novels, scripts, and translations for writers and content creators.
- #36
Frametell
Frametell is an agent app that turns an idea or your notes into a narrated explainer video for knowledge creators.
- #37
OpenKnowledge
OpenKnowledge is a markdown editor that lets you edit notes and wikis with Claude, Codex, and other AI tools, stored privately on your computer.
- #38
SurfSense
SurfSense is a desktop app that researches, transforms, and edits your private documents on your own machine, as an open-source alternative to NotebookLM.
- #39
gzh-design-skill
gzh-design-skill is a skill that turns Markdown articles into formatted HTML ready to paste into WeChat Official Accounts for writers and marketers.
- #40
Kun
Kun is a desktop agent app that runs coding, writing, design, and research tasks on your own computer for developers and writers who want local control.
- #41
Claudian
Claudian is an Obsidian plugin that puts AI coding agents like Claude Code inside your notes vault for working on your notes.
- #42
SiYuan
SiYuan is a self-hosted knowledge workspace that lets people and AI agents work on notes together, for people who want private, local-first notes.
- #43
NoteGen
NoteGen is a desktop and mobile Markdown note app that uses AI to turn scattered captures into organized notes for personal knowledge work.
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Obsidian Local REST API
Obsidian Local REST API is an MCP server and REST API that lets AI apps and scripts read and edit your Obsidian notes for people who keep their notes in Obsidian.
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natural-japanese
natural-japanese is an Agent Skill that rewrites AI-written Japanese work documents so they read naturally for people who write them.
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Muesli
Muesli is a native Mac app that transcribes meetings and dictation locally, with optional AI notes and agent access, for people who need meeting notes without a bot.
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Lexora
Lexora is a desktop AI agent that works toward a goal you describe, using your files and a model you connect, for people who want help beyond coding.
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clarity
Clarity is a skill that makes drafts clearer by applying a set of writing rules when you rewrite or review prose with a coding agent.
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gongwen-skills
gongwen-skills is a set of skill files that helps government, public institution, and state enterprise staff draft official documents without inventing facts and format them to GB/T 9704.
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Best-Paper-Writing-Skill
Best-Paper-Writing-Skill is a skill that drafts research paper abstracts, introductions, methods and experiments in the style of award-winning CVPR, ICCV and NeurIPS papers for researchers writing submissions.