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substack-ghostwriting
Write, optimize, and grow Substack content — both newsletter issues (email-first) and web posts (web-first articles/essays). Covers ghostwriting with voice matching, Substack algorithm optimization, Notes strategy, email formatting, SEO, growth tactics, and monetization planning. Use when the user mentions Substack, newsletters, write a newsletter issue, Substack post, Substack article, web post on Substack, evergreen content, SEO for Substack, newsletter growth, Notes strategy, ghostwrite for, match someone's voice, write in the style of, newsletter monetization, paid subscribers, or any task involving Substack as a platform. Also trigger for general article/newsletter writing even if Substack isn't named explicitly, or when the user wants to adapt existing content (blog post, talk, thread) into newsletter or web post format. Do NOT use for generic blog post writing without a newsletter/Substack context (-> See samber/cc-skills@technical-article-writer skill).
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/substack-ghostwriting/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/substack-ghostwriting/SKILL.md # every project
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Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

