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-stanfordaaai-author-response
Use when drafting an AAAI author response (rebuttal) under the single short character-limited author-feedback window, the no-URL rule, no-new-results guidance, AI-generated-review handling…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-camera-ready
Use when preparing an accepted AAAI paper for camera-ready source submission to AAAI Press, including proceedings page limits, two-column template compliance, copyright transfer, purchased…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-related-work
Use when positioning an AAAI paper's novelty against archival work, contemporaneous arXiv or workshop papers, and AAAI/IJCAI/NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR neighbors across the broad AI scope, while…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-supplementary
Use when organizing AAAI supplementary material, including the technical appendix, multimedia appendix, and code/data ZIPs, while respecting that AAAI supplements are due with the paper…
brycewang-stanfordaaai-writing-style
Use when revising an AAAI manuscript for broad-AI-audience fit, a first-page contribution statement legible to non-specialist Phase-1 reviewers, two-column readability, concise novelty…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-reproducibility
Use when strengthening AAMAS reproducibility evidence for interaction claims, including proofs and game definitions, opponent and population sets, self-play protocols, random seeds…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-review-process
Use when explaining or planning around AAMAS peer review, covering OpenReview review release, the double-blind rebuttal on preliminary reviews, area-chair discussion, the mixed game-theory…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-supplementary
Use when preparing AAMAS supplementary material - proofs, extended game and mechanism definitions, extra multiagent experiments, opponent-set details, and the anonymized artifact zip -…
brycewang-stanfordaamas-writing-style
Use when revising an AAMAS paper so the interaction contribution leads the first page, the solution concept or incentive property is named, the game and agents are legible, claims are…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-init
Initialize a BMAD planning workspace: pick a scale-adaptive TRACK (Quick Flow / BMad Method / Enterprise) interactively, then scaffold the output folder, a config file, an empty…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aionline-resource-scheduling
Design deterministic online scheduling policies from current observations. Use when assigning arriving work to limited resources without seeing future requests.
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-correct-course
CROSS-PHASE mid-stream scope correction. Re-enters planning when requirements, features, architecture, or constraints change after planning has started. Re-shards affected epics/stories…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-document-project
BROWNFIELD planning input. Scans an existing codebase READ-ONLY and writes project-documentation.md — ground truth for stack, structure, key flows, conventions, and integration points — so…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-handoff
Emits a dev-tool-agnostic handoff manifest from ready-for-dev stories so an external dev plugin or runner can pick up and execute the work. Use when the user says "generate a handoff"…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-help
Orchestration spine and "what do I do next?" router for the BMAD Planning & Orchestrator plugin. Detects current planning state by scanning the output folder for which artifacts exist…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-investigate
Forensic bug and issue triage. Produces a graded investigation case file: symptoms, evidence (graded A/B/C by confidence), ranked hypotheses, suspected components, and a recommended…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-prfaq
Amazon-style Working-Backwards PRFAQ: a future press release plus internal and external FAQs that stress-test a product concept before any building begins. Produces prfaq.md in the…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-spec
Distills ANY messy input — brain dump, transcript, long PRD, stakeholder notes, feature request, voice memo — into a tight five-field SPEC.md kernel that any downstream planning skill can…
Prat011file-organizer
Intelligently organizes your files and folders across your computer by understanding context, finding duplicates, suggesting better structures, and automating cleanup tasks. Reduces…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aigl-posting-codes
Background on general-ledger batch posting codes (HD/DR/CR/RV plus signed "other" rows). Reference only -- follow the task instruction for the exact rules, which may differ per account type.
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aignucobol-mainframe-batch
GnuCOBOL toolchain pointers for mainframe-style batch programs (LINE/RECORD SEQUENTIAL files, PIC clauses, cobc build flags).
Prat011meeting-insights-analyzer
Analyzes meeting transcripts and recordings to uncover behavioral patterns, communication insights, and actionable feedback. Identifies when you avoid conflict, use filler words, dominate…
Prat011notion-research-documentation
Searches across your Notion workspace, synthesizes findings from multiple pages, and creates comprehensive research documentation saved as new Notion pages. Turns scattered information into…
benchflow-ai
Skillsbench
benchflow-aiskillsbench
SkillsBench contribution workflow. Use when: (1) Creating benchmark tasks, (2) Understanding repo structure, (3) Preparing PRs for task submission.
ArtemXTech
Personal Os Skills
ArtemXTechwispr-flow
Analyze Wispr Flow voice dictation data. Stats, search, export, visualizations. Use when user says "dictation history", "word counts", "voice analytics", "how much did I dictate", "search…
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-memory-manager
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-memory-manager-adaptationio-skrillz-3
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-tech-spec
Quick Flow lightweight technical specification for small-scope work (1-15 stories). Replaces the full PRD + architecture pair when scope is small and requirements are clear. Produces…
explorium-ai
GTM Skills
explorium-aipersonalize-email
Cold email personalization skill for Claude Code and Codex: assemble an intent and firmographic signal pack for one prospect so a downstream LLM can compose a truly personalized outbound…
ArtemXTech
Personal Os Skills
ArtemXTechtasknotes
Manage tasks in Obsidian via TaskNotes plugin API. Use when user wants to create tasks, list tasks, query by status or project, update task status, delete tasks, or check what they need to…
explorium-ai
GTM Skills
explorium-aiaccount-contact-shortlist
Contact data skill for Claude Code and Codex: build a ranked shortlist of decision-makers and contacts at a target company for outbound prospecting, deal acceleration, or renewal/expansion…
ArtemXTech
Personal Os Skills
ArtemXTechchief-of-ai
Coordinate authorized work across persistent AI agents and existing tasks. Use when the user asks to route work, hand off a task, check agent status, or manage several ongoing…
mhattingpetecode-auditor
Performs comprehensive codebase analysis covering architecture, code quality, security, performance, testing, and maintainability. Use when user wants to audit code quality, identify…
mhattingpetecodebase-documenter
Generates comprehensive documentation explaining how a codebase works, including architecture, key components, data flow, and development guidelines. Use when user wants to understand…
ArtemXTech
Personal Os Skills
ArtemXTechrecall
Load context from vault memory. Temporal queries (yesterday, last week, session history) use native JSONL timeline. Topic queries use QMD BM25 search. "recall graph" generates interactive…
Microckagile-product-owner
Agile product ownership toolkit for Senior Product Owner including INVEST-compliant user story generation, sprint planning, backlog management, and velocity tracking. Use for story writing…
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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