drafting-documents

The drafting-documents skill writes business documents from a prompt, an outline or reference material you point it to. It covers proposals, reports, briefs, memos and general business correspondence, and it reads your company files so the draft sounds like your organisation.

When Claude Uses It

Claude loads the skill when you say “Draft a” or “Write a proposal for” followed by the subject. You can also type /drafting-documents to start it directly.

How It Works

1. Claude clarifies the request. It asks for the document type, the audience, the key points, the length and format you want, and any reference material or template to follow.
2. Claude reviews the context. It looks for templates in Documentation/Templates/, reads any source material you named, and notes the terminology of the client or project.
3. Claude drafts the document. It sets the tone for the audience, structures the document with clear headings, and adds an executive summary to longer documents.
4. Claude presents the draft. You review it, Claude applies your changes, and it saves the document once you approve.

Note

The skill drafts and saves. It does not send anything. Under the Autonomy Levels rule, anything sent to a client, and any change to financial figures or contracts, waits for your approval.

Where Documents Are Saved

Claude saves documents as markdown.

Document	Location
Project document	The project’s folder, as recorded in the project register, which is Domains/NN Domain/{ID} {Project Name}/
Client document	Domains/01 Clients/[Client-Name]/
New template	Documentation/Templates/

For example, a proposal for project P012 “Spring Workshop” in the Education and Training domain goes to Domains/15 Education & Training/P012 Spring Workshop/.

Where It Takes Its Context

Source	What it gives the skill
.claude/company/voice.md	Tone and language preferences
.claude/company/brand.md	Brand guidelines and template locations
.claude/company/audiences.md	Who your documents are for
.claude/company/industry.md	Your industry’s terminology
.claude/rules/content-defaults.md	English variant, formality and formatting
.claude/rules/file-conventions.md	Where to save and how to name files
Documentation/Templates/	Your document templates

The more of these files you fill in, the closer the first draft is to what you want. See Company Context Files and Templates.

Customising the Skill

The skill file is .claude/skills/drafting-documents/SKILL.md. It is a customisable engine file, so your edits survive /update through a three-way merge.

To give the skill your own examples, follow these steps.

1. Create a references/ folder inside .claude/skills/drafting-documents/.
2. Add sample documents you consider high quality.
3. Add boilerplate sections such as disclaimers, signatures and standard terms.
4. Add any document structures specific to your industry, and a house style guide if voice.md does not cover it.

Claude reads the references/ folder when it drafts.