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.
gooseworks-aiemail-lifecycle-offer-math
Prices one discount, free-shipping threshold or referral reward against contribution margin: cost per order, share of margin used, break-even lift, code leakage risks, and one recommended…
sanjay3290
AI Skills
sanjay3290google-calendar
Interact with Google Calendar - list calendars, view events, create/update/delete events, and find free time. Use when user asks to: check calendar, schedule a meeting, create an event…
sanjay3290
AI Skills
sanjay3290jules
Delegate coding tasks to Google Jules AI agent for asynchronous execution. Use when user says: 'have Jules fix', 'delegate to Jules', 'send to Jules', 'ask Jules to', 'check Jules…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskilist-quality-scorecard
Pre-send quality scorecard for any lead list. Grades duplicate rate, title diversity, bad-title patterns, catch-all domain density, ICP fit, email verification coverage. Outputs a letter…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aiPDF manipulation toolkit. Extract text/tables, create PDFs, merge/split, fill forms, for programmatic document processing and analysis.
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskipersonalization-subagent-pattern
Reusable approval-loop pattern for fanning out lead personalization across parallel Claude Code Task sub-agents. Shows the user 1 sample personalization, collects feedback, runs 10 more…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskipositive-reply-scoring
Pulls replies from a Smartlead campaign, classifies each as positive/neutral/negative/OOO/bounce/unsubscribe using Claude, and reports the positive reply rate — the north-star metric for…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskismartlead-inbox-manager
Programmatic inbox management for Smartlead. Enable/disable warmup with correct ramp settings, set signatures in bulk, tag inboxes (active vs insurance), and pull inbox health dashboards…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aiaudiobook
Create audiobooks from web content or text files. Handles content fetching, text processing, and TTS conversion with automatic fallback between ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, and gTTS.
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskicampaign-strategy
Generates 15-25+ cold outbound campaign ideas with targeting strategies, AI personalization approaches, and value propositions. Use when planning campaign experiments for a client, given…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskicold-email-weekly-rhythm
Operational playbook for running cold email continuously. Prescribes what to do on Monday / Wednesday / Friday / biweekly / monthly / quarterly. Use this as your ongoing cadence once your…
HughYauconcentrate-forces
集中兵力：多件事同时争抢时间、注意力或预算时，列出全部待办，选定唯一主攻目标并公开锁定，彻底解决、验证后再转向下一个。当待办过多、推进分散、"每件都做了一点但都没做完"、需要决定先做什么时触发；只有一个任务、任务彼此独立可并行、用户明确要求同时推进时不触发。 English: Concentrate forces. When several tasks compete for…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aicontract-playbook-review
Methodology for clause-by-clause review of a contract against a structured deviation policy ("playbook"). Covers how to walk a playbook, locate the matching provision in the contract, apply…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aigemini-count-in-video
Analyze and count objects in videos using Google Gemini API (object counting, pedestrian detection, vehicle tracking, and surveillance video analysis).
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aigemini-video-understanding
Analyze videos with Google Gemini API (summaries, Q&A, transcription with timestamps + visual context, scene/timeline detection, video clipping, FPS control, multi-video comparison, and…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aigh-cli
The gh CLI is GitHub's official command line tool for interacting with GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, and more. When needs to interact with GitHub repositories, issues, pull…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aigpt-multimodal
Analyze images and multi-frame sequences using OpenAI GPT series
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-ainda-clause-taxonomy
Reference for the standard clauses found in commercial non-disclosure agreements (mutual and one-way) — what each clause does, the surface forms it appears in, and how to recognise it in…
HughYauoverall-planning
统筹兼顾：当多个目标、指标或利益方相互制约、优化一项会伤害另一项时，识别全部辩证关系对，检查片面性，为每对关系定出当前阶段的侧重与底线，评估系统性影响，并设失衡预警。触发信号包括 trade-off、目标冲突、速度 vs 质量、短期 vs 长期、"顾此失彼"；只有单一目标、用户已定取舍、或属硬性二选一时不触发。 English: Overall planning. When…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskismartlead-api
Smartlead API endpoint reference and patterns. Use for any Smartlead campaign, lead, email account, analytics, or inbox operation. Covers auth, rate limiting, and all commonly used…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskismartlead-spintax
Adds Smartlead-compatible spintax to cold email sequences for deliverability. Use this skill whenever the user asks to add spintax, spin text, add variations, or improve deliverability of…
iflytektime-blocking-scheduler
Draft flexible daily or weekly schedules around a user's priorities, availability, energy patterns, and fixed commitments. Use for day planning, deadline reverse-planning, focus protection…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aivideo-frame-extraction
Extract frames from video files and save them as images using OpenCV
brycewang-stanfordamann-literature-synthesis
Use when systematically gathering, coding, and synthesizing a management/organization literature for an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — the search-and-coverage methodology…
brycewang-stanfordamann-proposal-framing
Use when writing the short proposal that gates an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — the ≤5-page, four-heading proposal submitted under the twice-yearly deadlines before any…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQcold-email-templates-34
Complete library of 34 cold email templates - 23 First Touch, 4 Follow-Up, 4 Re-Engagement, plus key principles. Use when building email campaigns, looking for proven templates, or…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskideliverability-test-public
Compare reply rates, bounce rates, and positive reply rates broken down by inbox type (SMTP / Gmail / Outlook) for a Smartlead account. Use when you want to know "which inbox type delivers…
jamditis
Claude Skills Journalism
jamditisdirector
Directs the current request through configured lower-tier agents. Use only when the user explicitly invokes it.
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aimhc-algorithm
Implement mHC (Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections) for stabilizing deep network training. Use when implementing residual connection improvements with doubly stochastic matrices via…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-ainanogpt-training
Train GPT-2 scale models (~124M parameters) efficiently on a single GPU. Covers GPT-124M architecture, tokenized dataset loading (e.g., HuggingFace Hub shards), modern optimizers (Muon…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aipaired-reversal-cancellation
Reference for paired-reversal handling on GL batch tapes: an RV row whose ref-trace points at an earlier row cancels BOTH legs (the RV and the row it references) — but ONLY when the two…
jamditis
Claude Skills Journalism
jamditisponytail-dev
Use to implement or review software with minimal code and proportional checks.
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aixlsx-parsing
Read Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) files robustly with `openpyxl` (or `pandas`). Covers multi-sheet workbooks, header rows, empty cells, merged cells, comma-separated list cells, and converting a…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-experiments
Use when designing or auditing AAAI experiments for the broad-AI program committee, including baselines, ablations, statistical significance, robustness, human evaluation…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project is a strong AAAI submission across its broad AI scope, should be reframed or routed to a dedicated track such as AI for Social Impact or AI Alignment, or…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-submission
Use when auditing an AAMAS main-track submission for OpenReview readiness, the 8-page-plus-references limit, the full-paper versus 2-page extended-abstract choice, double-blind anonymity…
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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