Internal Comms Skill - Status Updates & Memos with Claude

Source: Content adapted from anthropics/skills (MIT). Last synced July 8, 2026, against the April 20, 2026 upstream update.

Overview

The official description: "A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports...)."

How the skill works

This is the minimal viable pattern for a format-library skill: a tiny SKILL.md (about 1.5 KB) with three sections - when to use it, how to use it, and trigger keywords - plus a folder of example documents that carry the actual formats:

• examples/3p-updates.md - progress/plans/problems updates
• examples/company-newsletter.md
• examples/faq-answers.md
• examples/general-comms.md

Claude matches the requested document type to an example and mirrors its structure and tone.

Key takeaways for your own skills

• Examples are the spec: for writing-style skills, one good sample document beats paragraphs of style description.
• The keywords section doubles as the trigger surface - listing the exact phrases users say ("status report", "incident report") is what makes automatic skill selection reliable.
• This is the easiest official skill to fork for your own team: replace the four examples with your company's formats.

See it on GitHub

skills/internal-comms