Best Claude skills for productivity
Productivity skills change how your agent works with you: shorter answers, persistent memory across sessions, file-based plans that survive crashes, and tools for notes apps like Obsidian. Caveman, which cuts output tokens dramatically, is one of the most installed skills anywhere.
624 productivity skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
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Matt Pocock
Writing For Agents
Writing documents for agents. Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md.
Pack321k33MScore 95 - 3#3
affaan-m
Agent Self Evaluation
Use after completing any non-trivial task. The agent self-rates its output on 5 axes — accuracy, completeness, clarity, actionability, conciseness — with concrete evidence per criterion…
Pack301k1.7MScore 93 - 4#4
Chief Of Staff
Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.
Pack321k33MScore 93 - 5#5
JuliusBrussee
Caveman Learn
Act on a Caveman learn report - review the ranked token sinks, apply cost-lowering fixes with per-edit consent, and report what those fixes returned. Use when asked to lower an agent's…
Pack119k4.8MScore 90 - 6#6
Agent Architecture Audit
Full-stack diagnostic for agent and LLM applications. Audits the 12-layer agent stack for wrapper regression, memory pollution, tool discipline failures, hidden repair loops, and rendering…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 7#7
Agent Payment X402
Add x402 payment execution to AI agents with per-task budgets, spending controls, and non-custodial wallets. Supports Base through agentwallet-sdk, X Layer through OKX Payments / OKX Agent…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 8#8
Caveman Compress
Compress a memory file such as CLAUDE.md or a todo list into caveman format to save input tokens, keeping a readable backup. Sends the file's text to the configured model provider. Trigger…
Pack119k4.8MScore 89 - 9#9
Caveman Setup
Wire a repository through the Caveman Cloud gateway so every LLM request is measured, with no behavior change. Use for "set up caveman" or adding LLM spend observability.
Pack119k4.8MScore 88 - 10#10
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Haines
Cold Email
When the user wants to write or run B2B cold outbound, or asks whether an opener, reason to reach out, or email works or why nobody replies: cold emails, follow-ups, sending domains…
Pack60k6.3MScore 88
What makes a great productivity skill.
Measurable savings (tokens, time) rather than vague promises.
Plain files you own (Markdown) instead of lock-in.
Easy to turn off when you need detail.
All 624 productivity skills.
davila7planning
Create and manage persistent markdown planning files for structured task execution. Use when the user asks to "create a plan", "track progress", "start a research project", or when a task…
davila7agent-memory-mcp
A hybrid memory system that provides persistent, searchable knowledge management for AI agents (Architecture, Patterns, Decisions).
davila7agent-memory-systems
Memory is the cornerstone of intelligent agents. Without it, every interaction starts from zero. This skill covers the architecture of agent memory: short-term (context window), long-term…
davila7ai-agents-architect
Expert in designing and building autonomous AI agents. Masters tool use, memory systems, planning strategies, and multi-agent orchestration. Use when: build agent, AI agent, autonomous…
alchaincyfhuashu-nuwa
女娲造人：输入人名/主题/甚至只是模糊需求，自动深度调研→思维框架提炼→生成可运行的人物Skill。 两种入口：(1)明确人名→直接蒸馏 (2)模糊需求→诊断推荐→再蒸馏。 触发词：「造skill」「蒸馏XX」「女娲」「造人」「XX的思维方式」「做个XX视角」「更新XX的skill」「升级XX的skill」。 模糊需求也触发：「我想提升决…
Steph Ango
Obsidian Skills
Steph Angoknap
Render Markdown from templates and structured data using Knap CLI. Use when the user asks to apply a Knap template, turn JSON or CSV data into notes, batch-generate Markdown files, or…
davila7memory-search
Search conversation history and semantic memory to recall previous discussions, decisions, and context. Use when the user asks to "search memory", "what did we discuss", "remember when"…
davila7context-window-management
Strategies for managing LLM context windows including summarization, trimming, routing, and avoiding context rot Use when: context window, token limit, context management, context…
davila7conversation-memory
Persistent memory systems for LLM conversations including short-term, long-term, and entity-based memory Use when: conversation memory, remember, memory persistence, long-term memory, chat…
Steph Ango
Obsidian Skills
Steph Angoobsidian-cli
Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. Also supports plugin and theme development with commands to…
muratcankoylancontext-fundamentals
This skill should be used to explain or reason about the foundational concepts of context engineering: what context is, the anatomy of a context window, how attention mechanics work, the…
muratcankoylancontext-optimization
This skill should be used for improving context efficiency: context budgeting, observation masking, prefix or KV-cache strategy, partitioning, token-cost reduction, retrieval scoping, and…
muratcankoylandigital-brain
This skill should be used for personal operating-system workflows: content creation, voice consistency, relationship lookup, meeting preparation, weekly review, goal tracking, personal…
muratcankoylanevaluation
This skill should be used when building agent evaluation systems: deterministic checks, regression suites, multi-dimensional rubrics, quality gates, production monitoring, baseline…
muratcankoylanfilesystem-context
This skill should be used when agent work needs file-backed context: durable scratchpads, tool-output offloading, just-in-time discovery, cross-agent handoff files, filesystem memory, or…
muratcankoylanmemory-systems
This skill should be used for persistent semantic memory in agent systems: cross-session knowledge retention, entity tracking, temporal validity, graph or vector retrieval, memory…
muratcankoylanmulti-agent-patterns
This skill should be used when designing multi-agent systems that need context isolation, supervisor or swarm coordination, explicit handoffs, parallel execution, or a decision on whether…
muratcankoylanproject-development
This skill should be used for project-level decisions about LLM-powered systems: whether an LLM is the right primitive for the task at hand, the shape of a multi-stage batch or agent…
muratcankoylanreasoning-trace-optimizer
Debug and optimize AI agents by analyzing reasoning traces, context degradation, tool confusion, instruction drift, repeated task failures, and performance regressions.
Steph Ango
Obsidian Skills
Steph Angodefuddle
Extract clean Markdown from HTML pages with Defuddle CLI.
muratcankoylanbdi-mental-states
This skill should be used when modeling agent mental states with BDI concepts: beliefs, desires, intentions, RDF-to-belief transformations, rational agency traces, cognitive agents, BDI…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdycline-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Cline coding agent CLI (`cline`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to delegate…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdycodex-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the OpenAI Codex CLI as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Codex…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdycommandcode-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Command Code CLI (`cmd`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work…
muratcankoylancomprehensive-research-agent
Ensure thorough validation, error recovery, and transparent reasoning in research tasks with multiple tool calls
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdycopilot-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the GitHub Copilot CLI (`copilot`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to delegate…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdycursor-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Cursor Agent CLI (`cursor-agent`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdygrok-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Grok Build CLI as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Grok —…
aaron-he-zhu
Aaron Marketing Skills
aaron-he-zhuinbox-placement-monitor
Use when the user asks to "track where my emails are actually landing after I send", "read my seed-list inbox vs spam vs promotions results", "trend my Gmail Postmaster / Microsoft SNDS…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdykimi-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Kimi Code CLI (`kimi`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to…
muratcankoylanlatent-briefing
This skill should be used when the user asks to "share memory between agents", "KV cache compaction for multi-agent", "orchestrator worker context", "latent briefing", "reduce worker…
muratcankoylanlong-horizon-prompting
This skill should be used when writing, enhancing, or evaluating the launch prompt for a long-running autonomous agent or a parallel multi-agent orchestration attacking a hard problem…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdymcode-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the MiniMax Code CLI (`mcode`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work…
aaron-he-zhu
Aaron Marketing Skills
aaron-he-zhumemory-management
Use when the user asks to "remember project context", review saved findings, initialize runtime memory, archive stale work, reconcile notes, or erase a subject; manages authorized…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdymuse-delegate
Delegate a coding task to Muse Code (`muse`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Muse —…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyomp-delegate
Delegate a coding task to Oh My Pi (`omp`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to delegate implementation work to Oh My…
Productivity skills, explained.
Also searched as: productivity skills, obsidian skills, planning skill, memory skill claude, caveman skill.
What are the best Claude skills for productivity?
Right now the top-ranked productivity skills on Alyn are Teach (Matt Pocock), Writing For Agents (Matt Pocock), Agent Self Evaluation (affaan-m). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
What is the Caveman skill?
A viral skill and proxy by JuliusBrussee that makes coding agents answer in far fewer tokens. Its motto: "why use many token when few token do trick."
Are there official Obsidian skills?
kepano/obsidian-skills is published by Obsidian's CEO and covers Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas and the Obsidian CLI.
How do I install a productivity skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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