For those who have used Opus 4.6 how do you think the prose compare to Sonnet 4.5? I had both write the exact same short story for me and they were different in equally good and bad ways. For me I think that, Opus 4.6 had very good and tight prose, but it was almost “telling” instead of “showing”. Lots of internal thoughts and not a lot of dialogue. I had a character show up in a small town, get a job, and get an apartment and it literally only had two lines of dialogue. With Sonnet 4.5 there’s definitely more emotion and better storytelling, but it tends to meander and add a lot of wordiness that isn’t really necessary. And a lot of reputation of internal thoughts of characters. I’ve decided that I want Sonnet and Opus to just have a baby and it’ll be the perfect writer. 😆

Skills are basically instruction sets that teach Claude best practices for specific tasks. If you think of it like cooking - sometimes we have that recipe that we know how to throw together. You eyeball the spices and measure with your heart. That's prompting in ai. You put in what you know and each time it comes out a little bit different, but generally the same overall vibe. When you get it just the way you like it, the spices are right the temperature and times are just right, you might write down the recipe. That's what Claude skills is. You can save a prompt set, or a workflow, as a skill and then call on it again the next time you need it to have it do the same thing. For this to work you must be on a paid claude plan (not free version, not using API). This also works in Antigravity (You can make them with antigravity in antigravity). I have skills for: Developmental Edits Line Edits Copy Edits Book Cover Prompts for Ideogram Name Changes Book Blurb Creator Category and Keywords (I have one for english, french, italian, german, and spanish) Etc. Making A Skill: When signed into claude: Go to Settings -> Capabilities, and you'll find the skills area (at the bottom). There you can click the "+Add" button and you'll see a menu with three options: 1) Create with claude (vibe-coding): this is where a claude chat window will open and the skill prompt is written for you and you just type in what you want it to do. You can refine it as you go so don't worry about getting it just right. 2) Write Skill Instructions: if you have something already written up select this and fill in the fields. 3) Upload a skill: if you have a markdown file that you already have you can upload it here. Optional: I name my skills so I can easily call on them. For example I could name my developmental editor skill "DevEdit" (and put that in the skill description "I will request this skill by asking for the "DevEdit" skill") Using the Skill: Let's say I have a full manuscript in md or I have a few chapters drafted. I can type into claude's chat window "Use the DevEdit skill on these chapters" and paste the chapters if claude doesn't already have them and hit enter.

Have you written a book using one of my prompts (or not!)? This is your chance to brag a little! 🎉 Drop your book in the comments 👇 and let us know: 📚 The title & pen name (bonus points if it’s a brand-new pen name!) 🤖 If you used any AI service to help with the writing process 💡 Anything else fun you’d like to share—genre, tropes, release date, or what you loved about writing it! Let’s cheer each other on and discover some amazing stories that started as sparks right here. 💕

Anyone else in AG running into errors only with Opus 4.6? I'm getting weird issues (i'd copy and paste if it would let me) and it's only with 4.6 - which I was trying to push today... but my patience has run thin with it. Thank goodness Sam's Club delivered me apple juice boxes instead of scrubbing bubbles or I'd have to really do something such as "work!"