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.
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdydelegate-setup
Configure delegation fleet lanes: which implementer CLI handles which kind of work, with optional model and effort (or variant) dials. Discovers installed CLIs, proposes a lane map for user…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdygrok-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Grok Build CLI as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Grok —…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdykimi-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Kimi Code CLI (`kimi`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdymcode-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the MiniMax Code CLI (`mcode`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdymuse-delegate
Delegate a coding task to Muse Code (`muse`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Muse —…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyomp-delegate
Delegate a coding task to Oh My Pi (`omp`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to delegate implementation work to Oh My…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyopencode-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the OpenCode CLI as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to OpenCode —…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdypi-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Pi coding agent CLI (`pi`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to delegate implementation…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyqoder-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Qoder CLI (`qodercli`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user asks to have Qoder implement, fix…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyvibe-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Mistral Vibe CLI (`vibe`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdywarp-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Warp Agent CLI (`oz`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to…
amElnagdy
Delegate Skills
amElnagdyzcode-delegate
Delegate a coding task to the Z.AI ZCode CLI as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to ZCode —…
mksgluctx-upgrade
Update context-mode to the latest release.
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehf-cloud-aws-context-discovery
Discover the user's local AWS context (active profile, region, account ID, caller identity) at the start of any AWS task. Use this skill before any other AWS work — deploying to SageMaker…
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManningdiscipline-specific-critical-thinking-task-designer
Design discipline-specific critical thinking tasks grounded in knowledge-contingent reasoning rather than generic skills. Use when embedding higher-order thinking into subject content.
GarethManning
Education Agent Skills
GarethManninglanguage-demand-analyser
Analyse the language demands of a classroom task to identify barriers for EAL and multilingual learners. Use when adapting tasks, planning support, or assessing linguistic accessibility.
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiinbox-lifecycle-manager
The weekly keep/cancel/promote/buy loop for a cold email sending fleet. Decides which domains are burned and should be cancelled, which warmed reserves to promote into campaigns, which…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiblitz-list-builder
Use the Blitz API to find decision-makers at specific companies when you already have a list of company domains. Best for SMB owner-finding, domain-to-people lookup, or supplementing…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskicold-email-kickoff
Single "start here" orchestrator for new cold email operators. Asks infrastructure-status questions first, then runs /icp-onboarding → /lead-magnet-brainstorm → /campaign-strategy in…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskidisco-like
Find lookalike companies via DiscoLike's 65M+ business domain database. Search by seed domains ("find companies like clay.com and apollo.io") or natural-language ICP text ("B2B cold email…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskilist-quality-scorecard
Pre-send quality scorecard for any lead list. Grades duplicate rate, title diversity, bad-title patterns, catch-all domain density, ICP fit, email verification coverage. Outputs a letter…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskipersonalization-subagent-pattern
Reusable approval-loop pattern for fanning out lead personalization across parallel Claude Code Task sub-agents. Shows the user 1 sample personalization, collects feedback, runs 10 more…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskipositive-reply-scoring
Pulls replies from a Smartlead campaign, classifies each as positive/neutral/negative/OOO/bounce/unsubscribe using Claude, and reports the positive reply rate — the north-star metric for…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskismartlead-inbox-manager
Programmatic inbox management for Smartlead. Enable/disable warmup with correct ramp settings, set signatures in bulk, tag inboxes (active vs insurance), and pull inbox health dashboards…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskicampaign-strategy
Generates 15-25+ cold outbound campaign ideas with targeting strategies, AI personalization approaches, and value propositions. Use when planning campaign experiments for a client, given…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskicold-email-weekly-rhythm
Operational playbook for running cold email continuously. Prescribes what to do on Monday / Wednesday / Friday / biweekly / monthly / quarterly. Use this as your ongoing cadence once your…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiicp-prompt-builder
Interactive loop that builds and tunes an AI prompt for evaluating whether a company fits a client's ICP. Run after any list-building skill (disco-like, blitz-list-builder…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiplaybook-case-study-page
Finds a prospect company's own case-study or customer-stories page and pulls one named customer off it, so email 1 can open with "saw your work with Intercom". Triggers on "case study"…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiplaybook-company-name-cleaning
Turns the raw company-name string on a lead row into the short human form a person would say out loud, so it can be dropped into email copy. Triggers on "clean these company names"…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiplaybook-creative-ideas
The 3-bullet creative ideas email. Produces three per-company bullets that each sit in a slot the operator defined up front, so the model fills in the company detail and never invents a new…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskiplaybook-first-name-cleaning
Turns the raw first-name field on a lead row into the name a person would actually be greeted by, so it can open an email. Triggers on "clean these first names", "first name variable", "the…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskismartlead-api
Smartlead API endpoint reference and patterns. Use for any Smartlead campaign, lead, email account, analytics, or inbox operation. Covers auth, rate limiting, and all commonly used…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskismartlead-spintax
Adds Smartlead-compatible spintax to cold email sequences for deliverability. Use this skill whenever the user asks to add spintax, spin text, add variations, or improve deliverability of…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskispam-word-checker
Always-on spam and deliverability guardrails for cold email copy. Apply these rules whenever writing, reviewing, or QA-ing subject lines, openers, follow-ups, CTAs, or any cold outreach…
growthenginenowoslawski
Coldoutboundskills
growthenginenowoslawskizapmail-domain-setup-public
Public guide: Generate short domain names, check availability, purchase on Dynadot, switch nameservers, set up on Zapmail, create inboxes, and export to your email sending platform…
Cold-IQ
ColdIQ S GTM Skills
Cold-IQcold-email-templates-34
Complete library of 34 cold email templates - 23 First Touch, 4 Follow-Up, 4 Re-Engagement, plus key principles. Use when building email campaigns, looking for proven templates, 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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