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.
265 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.
321k33MScore 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…
301k1.7MScore 93 - 4#4
Chief Of Staff
Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.
321k33MScore 93 - 5#5
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropic
Claude API
Reference for the Claude API / Anthropic SDK — model ids, pricing, params, streaming, tool use, MCP, agents, caching, token counting, model migration. TRIGGER — read BEFORE opening the…
192k3.8MScore 91 - 6#6
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…
119k4.8MScore 90 - 7#7
Ck
Persistent per-project memory for Claude Code (Context Keeper) driven by deterministic Node.js /ck commands: init, save, resume, info, list, forget, and v1-to-v2 migrate, plus a…
301k1.7MScore 90 - 8#8
Anthropic
Skills
Academy Guide
Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy…
192k3.8MScore 89 - 9#9
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…
301k1.7MScore 89 - 10#10
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…
119k4.8MScore 89
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 265 productivity skills.
JuliusBrusseecaveman-evidence-review
Read-only review of Caveman Cloud evidence: cost, Cave Score, workflows, traces, latency, errors, routing, savings. Use when asked what Caveman found or where LLM spend goes.
JuliusBrusseecaveman-explore
Read-only repository explorer for cold-start orientation, broad cross-file localization, or when a direct search failed. Skip it when the exact file or symbol is already named. Returns…
JuliusBrusseecaveman-manage
Inspect Caveman Cloud's experiment lifecycle and block unsafe execution. Use when asked to start, approve, cancel, promote or roll back a Caveman experiment.
JuliusBrusseecaveman-commit
Write a Conventional Commits message compressed to intent only. Use for "write a commit", "commit message", /commit or /caveman-commit.
JuliusBrusseecaveman-help
Quick-reference card for the three caveman skills and their commands. Trigger: /caveman-help or "caveman help".
JuliusBrusseecaveman-review
Compressed code review - one line per finding with location, problem and fix. Use for /caveman-review, "review this PR", or "review the diff".
JuliusBrusseemegacave
Caveman in Classical Chinese: 文言文 register, far fewer characters, technical terms verbatim. Invoke only with /megacave or /caveman wenyan. Stays on until "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
JuliusBrusseeultracave
Caveman at maximum compression: fragments, one word when one word is enough, each fact once. Invoke only with /ultracave or /caveman ultra. Stays on until "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
JuliusBrusseecaveman-stats
Show recorded output and cache-read token usage and mode attribution for the current Claude Code session, or locate the host's native usage report. Trigger: /caveman-stats.
JuliusBrusseelean-build
Build feature work with high overbuilding risk. Use for new behavior, product slices, or integrations where repository reuse, strict scope, and an explicit stop condition matter.
thedotmackowner-goals
Map what the owner wants from the prompts they typed themselves (prompts an agent wrote are left out), then sort it into focus areas, asks and rules, each with dated quotes, and save them…
thedotmackrequest-progress
Group recent conversations into overall requests, review each one's progress from memory, sort each into one of the owner's focus areas, and write the build story, so My Work shows progress…
thedotmackstandup
Facilitate a read-only standup across git worktrees, branches, or PRs to compare changes and produce one consolidation plan.
JuliusBrusseeinvestigate-first
Diagnose ambiguous failures before editing. Use for unknown causes, intermittent behavior, performance regressions, or investigations needing evidence-ranked hypotheses.
JuliusBrusseemigration
Implement reversible compatibility-safe transitions. Use for schema, data, API, protocol, configuration, or dependency migrations requiring rollback and preservation proof.
JuliusBrusseesafe-refactor
Restructure code while preserving behavior. Use for extraction, consolidation, ownership moves, or cleanup where verification must bracket structural edits.
JuliusBrusseesurgical-patch
Fix bugs and small behavior changes at the narrowest responsible layer. Use when regression proof, preserved surrounding behavior, and task-relevant tests matter.
JuliusBrusseeverify-and-stop
Prove existing work meets acceptance conditions without expanding scope. Use for validation-only tasks, completion checks, focused gate runs, and last-mile proof.
thedotmackccs-align
Run the CCS Align seat's hourly breathing cycle — prove the local claude-mem worker is healthy, pull needle observations through search → timeline → get_observations, land them in a…
thedotmackchildhood
Babysit a shipped release after merge, publication, or deployment. Verify published packages, production behavior, installed plugins, and late CI or user reports until the observation…
thedotmackcommunity-sweep
Land community pull requests as the contributor and answer community issues on thedotmack/claude-mem. Takes stock of every open PR (the owner's own included, except the ones the owner…
thedotmackdesign-is
Audit a design against Dieter Rams' ten "Good design is..." principles, then hand off a /make-plan prompt for one of three outcomes — new design, refine design, or redesign. Use when the…
thedotmackoh-my-issues
Cluster a GitHub issue backlog by root cause into a small set of plan-master issues, redirect children with a standardized comment, and bundle architectural-fix PRs that close clusters…
thedotmacksmart-explore
Token-optimized structural code search using tree-sitter AST parsing. Use instead of reading full files when you need to understand code structure, find functions, or explore a codebase…
thedotmacktimeline-report
Generate a "Journey Into [Project]" narrative report analyzing a project's entire development history from claude-mem's timeline. Use when asked for a timeline report, project history…
thedotmackhandoff
Generate a HANDOFF.md that captures goal, current state, files touched, failed attempts, and next steps — so a fresh Claude session can continue exactly where this one left off. Use when…
thedotmackpathfinder
Map a codebase into feature-grouped flowcharts, identify duplicated concerns across features, and propose a unified architecture. Use when asked to "find the ideal path," unify duplicated…
thedotmackscreenpipe
Search screen and audio history recorded by Screenpipe and optionally save selected context into claude-mem. Use when the user asks to recall desktop activity, a meeting, or something seen…
thedotmackbabysit
Watch a pull request or review cycle until it is ready to merge. Use when asked to babysit, monitor, or keep checking PR comments, reviews, and CI until all actionable issues are resolved.
thedotmackbackup-setup
Set up, check, or restore local claude-mem database snapshots. Use when the user says "set up backups", "back up my memories", "backup status", or "restore my database".
thedotmackcloud-sync
Set up or check claude-mem cloud sync with cmem.ai Pro. Use when the user says "set up cloud sync", "sync my memories", "cmem pro", "cloud backup", "sync status", or wants their memory…
thedotmackknowledge-agent
Build and query AI-powered knowledge bases from claude-mem observations. Use when users want to create focused "brains" from their observation history, ask questions about past work…
thedotmackmem-setup
This skill should be used when the user asks to "set up claude-mem", "pair claude-mem", "connect cmem", "add my cmem key", "set up cloud sync in Cowork" or in the Claude app, or provides…
thedotmackclaude-mem-install
Use this when setting up claude-mem on Cursor: local or remote worker, local host-login observer or remote cmem.ai inference.
alchaincyffeynman-perspective
理查德·费曼的思维框架与表达方式。基于40+个一手来源的深度调研， 提炼5个核心心智模型、8条决策启发式和完整的表达DNA。 用途：作为思维顾问，用费曼的视角分析问题、审视决策、提供反馈。 当用户提到「用费曼的视角」「费曼会怎么看」「费曼模式」「feynman perspective」「费曼学习法」时使用。 即使用户只是说「这是不是cargo…
thedotmackhow-it-works
Explain how claude-mem captures observations, when memory injection kicks in, and where data lives. Use when the user asks "how does claude-mem work?" or "what is this thing doing?".
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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