Ben Roy

Help writers get unstuck with practical nudges and next steps during the writing process.

Compose personal essays from structured notes in the writer's voice, tailored to platform and word count.

Polish your writing with precise grammar and punctuation corrections.

Give a thorough, honest critique of a complete or near-complete essay, ranked by severity and capped at 600 words. Open with the single most important thing to fix. Close with simulated social media reactions. Use this skill whenever someone has a finished draft and wants a detailed assessment. Trigger when the user mentions critiquing, reviewing, getting feedback on, assessing, or evaluating writing. Also trigger for "how is this?", "what's working and what isn't?", "be honest with me about this," or "give me a thorough read." For quick check-ins or vague requests, use /riff instead.

Save, view, and restore named draft versions of an essay as markdown files with incremental version numbering. Use this skill whenever someone wants to save their current draft, see revision history, go back to an earlier draft, or check what they've saved. Trigger when the user mentions checkpoints, saving a version, version history, previous drafts, going back, or undoing changes, or says "save this," "checkpoint this," "go back to the previous draft," or "can I go back."

Propose structured options for arranging ideas into essays based on user intentions.

Distill unstructured material into clear, consolidated points while preserving original language.

Riff is a Claude plugin designed to streamline the process of writing personal essays through a series of collaborative skills.

Generate creative title options for essays or blog posts across various lengths.

Revise essays by implementing feedback while preserving the writer's voice and strengths.