Installation

Cody Article Writer is an Agent Skill. There are two ways to install it. Use whichever your AI coding environment supports.

Option 1: The .skill file

Use this option for Claude.ai (desktop or web) and any other app that installs skills from a file.

1. Download cody-article-writer.skill from the GitHub repository, or grab it from the Get Skill menu in this site’s top bar.
2. Upload the file in your app’s skill settings. In Claude.ai, this is done from your skills settings. For other apps, follow that app’s process for adding a .skill file.

Option 2: The skill folder

Use this option for coding agents that load skills from a folder, such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Codex.

1. Clone or download the repository from github.com/ibuildwith-ai/cody-article-writer, or download the .zip from the Get Skill menu in this site’s top bar.
2. Copy the source/cody-article-writer/ folder into your agent’s skills directory, keeping the folder name cody-article-writer:

Agent	Path
Claude Code	.claude/skills/cody-article-writer/
Cursor	.cursor/skills/cody-article-writer/
GitHub Copilot	.github/skills/cody-article-writer/

A skills directory inside a project makes Cody Article Writer available for that project only. A skills directory in your home folder makes it available across all your projects. Check your agent’s documentation for the exact supported locations.

Activating

Cody Article Writer has no :cody-prefixed commands. You activate it with plain-language requests:

• Topical — “I want to write an article about AI in healthcare”, “help me write a blog post on remote work”, “let’s draft an essay about pricing strategy.”
• Resumption — “continue my article”, “continue the X article.”
• Management — “show my drafts”, “list my writing styles”, “create a new article style.”

Your agent invokes the skill automatically. See the Triggers & Commands reference for the full list.

What gets created in your project

The first time you run Cody Article Writer in a project (or in your home directory, depending on where you installed the skill), it creates this folder structure:

cody-projects/
└── article-writer/
    ├── .cody-version           # Tracks installed version for migrations
    ├── styles/                 # Saved writing styles (JSON)
    ├── drafts/                 # In-progress articles (JSON + working markdown)
    ├── articles/               # Finished, exported articles (markdown)
    └── archive/                # Completed drafts (JSON, preserves research)

Styles are reusable across articles. Drafts move to articles/ on export, with their JSON state archived to archive/ so you can re-export any article later using its preserved research and sources.

See Storage & Data for the full folder reference and the draft state JSON schema.

Next

With Cody Article Writer installed, walk through the Quick Start to write your first article end-to-end.