Article Idea — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Turn a raw topic or notes into a structured article brief — defines audience, angle, core argument, competitive gap, and voice.
How to install Article Idea
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/marvinrichter-clarc-article-idea/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/marvinrichter-clarc-article-idea && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marvinrichter/clarc/HEAD/commands/article-idea.md -o ~/.claude/skills/marvinrichter-clarc-article-idea/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Article Idea does
description: Turn a raw topic or notes into a structured article brief — defines audience, angle, core argument, competitive gap, and voice. First step of the article writing workflow.
Article Idea
Structure a raw idea into a brief before any writing begins.
Usage
/article-idea "why connection pooling matters"
/article-idea docs/notes/latency-post.md
/article-idea — prompts for topic interactivelySteps
- If a file path is given, r
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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