Minto — Development skill for Claude Code

Minto

Minto is an installable skill for Claude Code and Codex that applies the [Minto Pyramid Principle](https://www.barbaraminto.com/) to business writing and thinking.

**Website:** [welltraum.github.io/minto](https://welltraum.github.io/minto/)

It turns a topic into the reader's question, puts one answer at the top, groups supporting ideas by kind, checks the logic for overlaps and gaps, and makes the result easy to scan. The instructions are written in English, but the skill answers in the language of the source material or request, including Russian.

What it does

Minto routes a request into one of five modes:

• intent: interview the author and turn a vague goal into a reader question, one-sentence answer, and provisional key line.
• audit: diagnose pyramid-logic defects without rewriting the document.
• write: draft or restructure an answer-first memo, email, one-pager, decision note, chat update, or deck storyline.
• digest: report on read sources answer-first in chat, with source references and cross-source synthesis; for one long source (a talk, a transcript) the digest shows three levels — the claim, its conclusions, and the concrete supports with locators.
• viz: render the pyramid and SCQ flow in Mermaid, with an optional self-contained HTML view when explicitly requested.

The skill preserves source facts, marks unsupported gaps instead of inventing evidence, and adapts directness and context to the document's reader and genre.

Install

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add welltraum/minto
claude plugin install minto@minto

Restart Claude Code or run `/reload-plugins`, then invoke the skill explicitly:

/minto:minto

Claude can also invoke the skill automatically when a request matches its description. See the official [Claude Code plugin](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins) and [marketplace](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-marketplaces) documentation for scopes and update b