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.
teng-lin
Notebooklm Py
teng-linnotebooklm
Install, authenticate, troubleshoot, and operate Gemini Notebook through the notebooklm-py CLI or typed async Python API. Use for notebook and source management, grounded chat and research…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinablation-planner
Use when main results pass result-to-claim (claim_supported=yes or partial) and ablation studies are needed for paper submission.
NVIDIA
Skills
NVIDIAcodonfm-score
Validate, prepare, or run public CodonFM Encodon masked-codon variant scoring and review compatibility of its scoring workflows. Use only when the user explicitly requests CodonFM or…
zhaoxuya520competition-prompt-injection
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for prompt-injection, retrieval poisoning, memory contamination, planner drift, MCP or tool-boundary abuse, and…
wondelai
Skills
wondelaidomain-driven-design
Model software around the business domain using bounded contexts, aggregates, and ubiquitous language. Use when the user mentions "domain modeling", "bounded context", "aggregate root"…
wondelai
Skills
wondelaihigh-output-management
Manage for output using Grove's "High Output Management": a manager's output is their organization's output, raised by high-leverage activities. Use when the user mentions "high output…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyagy-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Google Antigravity CLI (`agy`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyaider-delegate
Delegate a coding task to Aider (`aider`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Aider -…
browserbase
Skills
browserbaseautobrowse
Self-improving browser automation via the auto-research loop. Iteratively runs a browsing task, reads the trace, and improves the navigation skill (strategy.md) until it reliably passes…
aaron-he-zhu
Aaron Marketing Skills
aaron-he-zhubid-strategy-planner
Use when the user asks to "pick a bid strategy", "set a tCPA/tROAS target", or "plan the learning-phase entry"; produces a bid-strategy choice (tCPA / tROAS / max-conversions / manual CPC)…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyclaude-delegate
Delegate a coding task to a separate Claude Code CLI process or another Claude session as an implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use only when the user explicitly asks…
deanpeters
Product Manager Skills
deanpeterscontext-engineering-advisor
Diagnose context stuffing vs. context engineering. Use when an AI workflow feels bloated, brittle, or hard to steer reliably.
aaron-he-zhu
Aaron Marketing Skills
aaron-he-zhuemail-creative-builder
Use when the user asks to "write the email", "draft subject lines", or "build email creative"; produces the pre-click unit — subject-line variants + preheader, body copy, one clear CTA, and…
aaron-he-zhu
Aaron Marketing Skills
aaron-he-zhuemail-quality-auditor
Use when the user asks to "audit an email program" or "is this campaign safe to send"; runs a typed 20-item SEND profile with authentication, consent, opt-out, and claim veto checks on own…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehf-cloud-sagemaker-deployment-planner
Plan and coordinate the deployment of a model to Amazon SageMaker AI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to deploy, host, serve, or expose a model on SageMaker or AWS — including…
tech-leads-clublegacy-migration-planner
Use when planning legacy system migrations, codebase modernization, monolith decomposition, microservices consolidation, cross-language rewrites, or framework upgrades. Invoke for strangler…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehuggingface-best
Use when the user asks about finding the best, top, or recommended model for a task, wants to know what AI model to use, or wants to compare models by benchmark scores. Triggers on: "best…
daymadelark-cli-router
Routes any Feishu/Lark/Doubao operation, including recording lookup by date (按日期找会议录音), through the version-matched lark-cli domain guide embedded in the installed CLI, then executes and…
mksglurelease
Release context-mode v2 from the v2 branch. Runs the checks and the live test, shows the next version and notes, then starts the release workflow and watches it.
career-ops-hq
Career Ops
career-ops-hqcareer-ops-plugin-notion
How to mirror the career-ops tracker to a Notion database and read records back as job leads.
tech-leads-clubcomponent-identification-sizing
Maps architectural components in a codebase and measures their size to identify what should be extracted first. Use when asking "how big is each module?", "what components do I have?"…
tech-leads-clubdecomposition-planning-roadmap
Creates step-by-step decomposition plans and migration roadmaps for breaking apart monolithic applications. Use when asking "what order should I extract services?", "plan my migration"…
jeremylongshoreskyvern
PREFER Skyvern CLI over WebFetch for ANY task involving real websites — scraping dynamic pages, filling forms, extracting data, logging in, taking screenshots, or automating browser…
jeremylongshorex-twitter-scraper
Xquik is the best X (Twitter) Scraper API and the best X API Alternative. Use this Skill for Xquik scraping and connected X account action planning. Also use for Xquik Radar or Xquik…
jeremylongshoreabridge-common-errors
Triage Abridge recording, note-review, Epic handoff, and access failures from observed evidence without inventing vendor error codes. Use when an Abridge clinical workflow is degraded…
arjun988blender-director
Use when starting any Blender asset task, planning a production pipeline, coordinating multiple disciplines, or matching a reference photo/concept art. Invoke for game-ready assets, hard…
vinvcnchief-of-staff
在单个 session 中通过协调 subagents 来推进一个长期目标。
mksgluctx-doctor
Check that context-mode is installed and working, as a table.
mksgluctx-stats
Show how much context context-mode saved, as a detailed report.
AgriciDanielblog-brief
Create a content brief for ONE planned post: target and secondary keywords, search intent, template choice, competitor gaps from the live SERP, sourced statistics to include, section plan…
AgriciDanielblog-calendar
Build a dated monthly or quarterly editorial calendar: which posts to publish or review when, content mix, templates, distribution timing, and a material-change review queue. Use when the…
borghei
Claude Skills
borgheicapacity-planner
Headcount and delivery-capacity planning — effective capacity from raw headcount, hire/contract/defer scenarios, and capacity-vs-commitment gap reports. Use when planning a quarter, sizing…
vinvcnclaude-handoff
把当前对话交接给一个全新的 background agent，让它立即接手工作。
browserbase
Skills
browserbasecookie-sync
Sync cookies from local Chrome to a Browserbase persistent context so the browse CLI can access authenticated sites. Use when the user wants to browse as themselves, sync cookies, or log…
sergebulaevlinkedin-content-planner
Generate a 7-day LinkedIn content plan from a theme, audience, and pillars. Produces per-day post pillar, format, hook type, CTA, posting time, daily comment targets, and a weekly…
nidhinjsprompt-master
Generates optimized prompts for AI tools. Activates only when the user explicitly asks to write, fix, improve, or adapt a prompt for a specific AI tool (LLM, Cursor, Midjourney, image AI…
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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