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.
brycewang-stanfordamann-editor-strategy
Use when working with the Associate Editor and Editor of an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review — scope alignment after a proposal is invited, what review-article referees…
brycewang-stanfordamann-organizing-framework
Use when building the novel integrative framework that an Academy of Management Annals (Annals) review must deliver — the theory-advancing "new way of seeing the field" that is the…
brycewang-stanfordamann-review-process
Use when planning around the two-step proposal→invited-review process of the Academy of Management Annals (Annals) — the twice-yearly proposal cadence, double-blind proposal review, the…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aiattention-variants-from-papers
Implement paper-defined attention variants by extracting mechanism invariants, mapping tensor shapes, preserving module interfaces, validating numerical behavior, and integrating the custom…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aicomp3-packed-decimal
Reference for COBOL COMP-3 (packed decimal / BCD) numeric storage -- layout on disk, declaring it in the FD, and pitfalls when carrying the decoded value through working storage and into…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQemail-metrics-benchmarks
Email metrics to track, 2X levers, and structure checklist for cold outreach. Use when analyzing campaign performance, setting benchmarks, or optimizing email metrics.
kerpopulejev-compaction
Use when a transcript has to be cut to a fixed size and you must choose which turns go. Jev marks each turn keep, summarize or drop. Measured: it does not make a handoff better.
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aimodal-gpu
Run Python code on cloud GPUs using Modal serverless platform. Use when you need A100/T4/A10G GPU access for training ML models. Covers Modal app setup, GPU selection, data downloading…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aitriangulated-fx-rates
Reference for multi-hop / triangulated currency conversion on batch rate tapes. When a rate row carries an explicit "via" currency, the row's rate is only one leg of the conversion, and the…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-review-process
Use when explaining or planning around AAAI's two-phase review process, Phase 1 rejection risk, Phase 2 additional reviews, AI-assisted review pilot, author feedback, SPC/AC discussion, and…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-workflow
Use when planning an AAAI project timeline from topic selection through abstract, OpenReview submission, two-phase review, rebuttal, decision, camera-ready, registration, presentation, and…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-artifact-evaluation
Use when packaging AAMAS multiagent code, environments, opponent and population sets, random seeds, game definitions, and logs as anonymous supplementary evidence or a public…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-author-response
Use when drafting an AAMAS rebuttal to preliminary OpenReview reviews, covering the double-blind constraint, the no-new-results and no-revised-paper norms, how to answer game-theory, MARL…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-camera-ready
Use when preparing an accepted AAMAS paper for the IFAAMAS open-access camera-ready, covering author de-anonymization, proceedings metadata, two-column reflow of game figures and learning…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-experiments
Use when designing or auditing AAMAS experiments - self-play and population-based training, opponent selection, equilibrium and regret metrics, game-theoretic simulations, ablations, seeds…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-related-work
Use when positioning an AAMAS submission against multiagent, game-theory, and reinforcement-learning literature spread across AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, EC, and JAAMAS, including…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project is a strong AAMAS fit, comparing AAMAS with AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, EC, and the JAAMAS journal, identifying whether the agents are truly the research…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-workflow
Use when planning an AAMAS project timeline from venue fit through abstract, full-paper or extended-abstract upload, supplementary material, the double-blind rebuttal, decision, IFAAMAS…
Ootto-AIaudience-personas
Build evidence-led social audience personas from customer interviews, comments, reviews, or CRM notes.
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-epics-and-stories
Solutioning flagship — shards a PRD + architecture into epics.md and individual {epic}.{story}.{slug}.story.md context objects, the LAST planning artifact before external dev handoff. Each…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-parallel-plan
Turns a sequential, ready-for-dev story backlog into conflict-free CONCURRENT WAVES. Builds a dependency DAG from epic order, per-story dependency maps, and Owned File/Module Scope…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-prd
PRD facilitator (John the PM). Authors and maintains the Product Requirements Document — functional requirements (FR-###), non-functional requirements (NFR-###), an epics outline, user…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-product-brief
Lean facilitator for creating, updating, and validating a product brief — the Analysis-phase foundation of the BMAD Method. Captures problem statement, target users, core features, goals…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-readiness-check
SOLUTIONING GATE — validates cohesion across planning artifacts before any implementation begins. Cross-references PRD (or tech-spec), architecture document, and epics/stories for coverage…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-research
Conducts market, competitive, domain, and technical research using live web sources, producing a cited research-report.md to inform BMAD planning decisions. Use when the user says: -…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-sprint-planning
Orchestration handoff bridge: emits and maintains sprint-status.yaml as the project's sequencing system-of-record. Orders stories by epic then dependency, assigns parallel-set (wave)…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-ux
Solutioning-phase UX planning skill (optional; activate when the project has a UI). Produces TWO planning documents: DESIGN.md (the visual system — design tokens, color palette, typography…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQbridgebound-history-16
16 history-based Bridgebound triggers from Flip The Script - Demo Pipeline, Closed-Lost, Executive Churn, Email Engagement, and Reciprocity. Use when re-engaging past prospects…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQcold-email-4-sequence
Standard 4-email cold outreach sequence framework. Use when building cold email campaigns, creating outreach sequences, or structuring multi-touch email cadences for B2B prospecting.
Ootto-AIcontent-calendar
Turn a batch of ideas (or your content pillars) into a 2-week reel posting calendar with hooks, formats, and a daily plan. Use when the user says "content calendar", "posting schedule"…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aiebcdic-overpunch-decoding
Reference for the EBCDIC "overpunch" / zoned-decimal sign convention where the units position of a numeric field is replaced with a letter that encodes both a digit and a sign. Useful when…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQemail-1-variations-7
7 Email 1 variations from ColdIQ core framework plus Email 2 and Email 3 templates. Use when crafting the first email in a sequence, testing different opening structures, or building…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQemail-writing-frameworks
5 proven email writing frameworks for cold outreach - Do the Maths, Short-Trigger, Challenge of Similar Companies, Neutral Insight, and Leader Responsibilities. Use when writing cold…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aifragmentation-aware-packing
Choose placements that preserve useful residual capacity. Use for bin packing, GPU sharing, accelerator placement, and multi-resource scheduling where stranded capacity hurts future fit.
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aimulti-resource-allocation-validation
Validate and repair proposed resource allocations by replaying them against temporary capacity. Use when actions consume several resource dimensions such as CPU, memory, GPUs, or…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-artifact-evaluation
Use when packaging AAAI code, data, multimedia appendices, technical appendices, reproducibility evidence, and post-acceptance artifact releases without violating double-blind or…
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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