The AI Skills In
My Current Rotation

A skill is a saved set of instructions your AI pulls in when a task matches. Someone has usually already built the one you need, and it's almost always better than the prompt you'd write from scratch.

My rule: start with a task you want off your plate, then go find the skill. Never the other way around. Everything below is free, and the install steps for all of it are in the cheat sheet at the end.

1. Caveman. Makes your agent answer in as few words as possible, with the answer up front and the filler gone. I turn it on for long building sessions in Claude Code where I'm burning tokens on filler. Its own README is honest that a plain "answer concisely" gets you most of the way, so use /ultracave when you want the real savings. My full breakdown: The Caveman Skill.
2. Last 30 Days. I use it almost every day. Type /last30days and a topic, and it searches the last 30 days of Reddit, Hacker News, X, YouTube and more, ranks posts by real engagement, and hands back one summary with sources. I use it for content research, checking what customers are complaining about, and comparing tools before I pay for one. Reddit and Hacker News work with no API keys, and a 30-second setup wizard adds X, YouTube and TikTok. More here: Last 30 Days.
3. Awesome Claude Skills. A library of hundreds of skills for sales, design, competitor research and more. I browse it before I build anything myself. Two worth trying first: lead-research-assistant and competitive-ads-extractor.
4. Marketing Skills. About 50 marketing skills from Corey Haines covering copy, SEO, conversion and A/B tests. Run product-marketing first. It writes one file about your product and audience that every other skill reads. Then try copywriting, cro, ai-seo and marketing-council.
5. Superpowers. For coding agents like Claude Code. It makes the agent clarify what you actually want, write a plan, build it with tests, and review its own work. It's the difference between "it built something" and "it built the right thing."

Writing. Humanizer makes AI sound natural when it writes ads, emails or website copy for me. It's in Make AI Get To The Point, And Sound Human.

Design. UI UX Pro Max and Taste are the two I love for anything visual Claude builds, so it stops looking like every other AI website. More in 5 AI Design Skills.

Marketing and research (ones I built).

1. Competitor Ad Spy reads competitors' longest-running ads and turns them into ideas for my brands.
2. The YouTube skill watches videos for me. I use it to reverse engineer viral creators and analyze competitors.
3. Email Flows Audit reviews an entire email program and ranks the fixes.
4. Marketing Brain is ten years of my marketing experience in one file, so AI gives advice the way I would.

Decisions. The LLM Council gives me five advisers who argue with each other instead of agreeing with me.

Life. A morning briefing, a wardrobe stylist, dinner planning, a financial pulse and a home maintenance tracker. All five are in 5 Claude Skills That Run My Entire Life.

In claude.ai you upload a skill as a zip. In Claude Code you install it with two commands. Everything is below, including the checks I run before installing anything.

How to set it up. Two ways:

1. Not technical? Use the claude.ai steps. Last 30 Days and Marketing Skills both ship ready-made uploads on their Releases pages.
2. Using Claude Code? Paste the two commands for the skill you want into a session, then call it with its slash command.

Want to share your whole setup with your team in one link? That's Skill Packs.