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.
- 1#1
- 2#2
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.
cookjohncnki-parse-results
Parse current CNKI search results page into structured paper data (title, authors, journal, date, citations). Use after a search has been performed and you need to extract the results.
explorium-ai
GTM Skills
explorium-aienrich-contact
Contact enrichment skill for Claude Code and Codex: look up a B2B prospect's full professional profile including work email, phone number, LinkedIn profile, title, seniority, department…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
Neeeophyteeinterview-me
Interview the user one question at a time to resolve remaining ambiguity before implementation. Use when planning or brainstorming is done but unknowns remain, or when the user asks to be…
sno-aisno-cli
Operate the `sno` command-line tool: install, update, check, and uninstall Sno products, read the exact commands and flags of the installed version, and run the account, skills, onboarding…
ArtemXTech
Personal Os Skills
ArtemXTechsync-claude-sessions
Sync Claude Code sessions to Obsidian markdown. Export, resume, add notes, close sessions. USE WHEN user says "sync sessions", "export sessions", "resume session", "add session note"…
cookjohncnki-journal-search
Search for journals/publications on CNKI by name, ISSN, CN, or sponsor. Use when the user wants to find a specific journal or browse publications.
sno-aie2e-red-triage
Classify one unexpected end-to-end test failure as a product defect or an environment fault needing a new preflight check. MANUAL-ONLY: load when the suite runner names a specific failure…
sno-aiaway-brief
Give the owner one page when they come back from sleep, a meeting or a long run: what got done, what is stuck, what waits for their answer, and what it cost in quota. Use when the owner…
rohitg00task-decomposition
Breaks down complex software, writing, or research tasks into small, atomic, independently completable units with dependency graphs and milestone breakdowns. Use when the user asks to plan…
zubair-trabzada
AI Marketing Claude
zubair-trabzadamarket-social
You are the social media engine for /market social <topic/url. You generate a complete 30-day content calendar with platform-specific posts, hooks, hashtags, and a content repurposing…
zubair-trabzada
AI Sales Team Claude
zubair-trabzadasales-outreach
You are the cold outreach engine for /sales outreach <prospect. You generate complete, personalized, ready-to-send cold email sequences with integrated LinkedIn touchpoints. Every email is…
zubair-trabzada
AI Sales Team Claude
zubair-trabzadasales-prep
You generate comprehensive meeting preparation briefs that give salespeople everything they need before walking into a prospect meeting. The brief combines company research, attendee…
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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