Skills you install once
A prompt is something you paste every time. A skill is a small file you drop in once, and then Claude picks it up on its own whenever that job comes round.
Every one of these is finished. Copy the file or grab the zip, put it where Claude looks, and the next time you paste a pile of meeting notes you get a memo without asking for one.
Work
Reports, notes and the weekly grind
Turn a long document into the decision it's asking for
Paste the report, the deck, the forty-page proposal. Get the bit you have to decide.
- Someone sent you a forty-page deck before a meeting
- You say "what does this actually want me to do"
- You have to approve something you haven't read
- A proposal arrives and a decision is due
Turn my meeting notes into a memo
Paste the mess you typed during the call. Get something you can send.
- You paste notes from a call
- You say "write this up"
- You drop in a transcript
Write my weekly update from the week's notes
Paste the week's scraps. Get the update your manager reads in ten seconds.
- You paste a week of notes
- You say "write my weekly update"
- It's Friday and the report is due
- Someone asks what you've been doing
Writing
Keep your voice, lose the effort
Draft my replies so they all sound the same
Paste the message you got. Get a reply in the tone you set once.
- You paste an email and say "reply to this"
- You answer the same kind of message all day
- A customer complaint needs answering carefully
- You want your replies to sound consistent
Fix the mistakes, leave my writing alone
Spelling, grammar and the sentence that doesn't parse. Nothing else touched.
- You say "check this before I send it"
- You want typos gone and the voice kept
- A cover letter or an application is going out
- Someone else's edit made it sound worse
Write it in my voice, not the robot's
Paste a few things you've written. Everything after that sounds like you.
- You paste old emails or posts of yours
- You say "make it sound like me"
- A draft comes back sounding like a press release
- You write the same kind of thing every week
Home & life
Food, money and everything else
Add up my receipts and tell me where the money went
Paste receipts, a card export, a pile of numbers. Get totals that add up.
- You paste a month of card transactions
- You say "where did it all go"
- Expenses are due and the receipts are in a pile
- You're splitting a trip's costs with someone
Clean up a recipe I found online
Paste the recipe, childhood memoir and all. Get ingredients, then method, then nothing.
- You paste a recipe with a life story on top
- You say "just give me the recipe"
- A recipe arrives as one long paragraph
- You're printing something for the kitchen wall
Keep track of what happened in a long series
Twelve books in and lost. Get a running record of who did what, without spoilers.
- A new season starts and you've forgotten book four
- You say "who is this character again"
- You're 60 chapters into something and losing threads
- You come back to a series after a year away
Study
Notes in, understanding out
Quiz me until I actually know it
One question at a time, and the ones you get wrong come back.
- You say "test me on this"
- An exam is close and re-reading isn't working
- You want questions, not a summary
- You're revising in ten-minute gaps
Turn my notes into flashcards
Paste the notes. Get cards you can import into Anki tonight.
- You paste a chapter of notes before an exam
- You say "make me flashcards"
- You need something to import into Anki
- A lecture handout needs turning into revision
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