9 Claude Skills I use daily
What each skill does & when to use them
Edition #27
This week’s selection:
Resource: 9 Claude Skills I use daily - full guide
Free Live Workshop: How I Use Claude Skills to Automate My Newsletter (Live Demo)
Free Live Workshop 2: Get Started with Claude Code for Non-Techies (0 -> 1)
Free Live Workshop 3: Master Claude MCPs and SKILLs (for non-techies) - with Jacob Bank
Paid Course: Claude for Non-Technical Operators - new cohort May 25
9 Claude Skills I use daily
After the Skills 2.0 guide (9K people used it last month), the most common question was: “Which skills do you actually use?”
Skills value lies in personalisation to your processes and to your business. Nevertheless, there are few skills that make sense for 99% of businesses with little to no personalisation.
I packaged the 9 I use every day into a single plugin you can install in about 2 minutes.
These are meta skills. They sit on top of Claude’s general knowledge and make it better at tasks you already do: writing, proofreading, deciding, organizing files, building prompts. Most are ready to use out of the box. A few need small tweaks, like adding your brand tone to the humanizer.
Let me walk you through the key concepts in this newsletter, or you can access the full free guide directly
What are meta skills?
A regular skill handles one task: “write a LinkedIn post,” “make a chart.” A meta skill works across tasks. It changes how Claude approaches work regardless of what it’s working on.
Example: Sound Like a Human. It audits anything Claude wrote and strips the AI patterns out. You can use it on a LinkedIn post, a newsletter, a client email, a slide deck. The skill stays the same, the context changes.
Fact Checker works the same way. It verifies claims, scores sources, flags problems. Use it on a blog draft, a pitch deck, a research summary. Different contexts, same skill.
That portability is why meta skills are worth installing first.
The 9 meta skills
They’re ordered by how broadly useful they are. The Notion guide has the full descriptions, trigger phrases, and credits for each one.
1. Sound Like a Human Strips the telltale signs of AI writing out of any text and injects real personality, so the result reads like a person actually wrote it. Works on LinkedIn posts, newsletters, client emails, decks.
→ Trigger: “humanize this,” “make this sound like a human,” “remove AI writing”
2. Proofreader Reads your Canva slides through the connector, catches typos, brand inconsistencies (Claude vs claude, MCP capitalization), punctuation problems, and casing issues. Then commits the fixes directly in the design. Also works on Word, PDFs, and Notion.
→ Trigger: “proofread this deck,” “check this for typos,” “fix punctuation in this doc”
3. File Organizer Audits your folders, finds duplicates, proposes a logical structure, and renames files with a consistent pattern like YYYY-MM-DD-description.ext. A must if you work inside Cowork.
→ Trigger: “organize my Downloads,” “find duplicates,” “clean up files I haven’t touched in 6 months”
4. Fact Checker Verifies claims with evidence, scores source credibility, flags misinformation. I run it on any draft where accuracy matters before publishing.
→ Trigger: “fact check this,” “verify,” “is this true?”
5. HTML Presentation Builder Builds animation-rich HTML decks that run in the browser, one self-contained .html file. Three modes: build from scratch, convert a PowerPoint, or enhance an existing deck. Generates three preview slides first so you pick a direction visually before committing.
→ Trigger: “build a deck,” “convert this PowerPoint to HTML,” “make a web presentation”
6. Key Decision Taker Generates structured decision tools: interactive guides, bias checkers, scenario explorers, dashboards. It guides, you decide.
→ Trigger: “help me decide between X and Y,” “I need to think through this,” “what should I prioritize”
7. Meta Skill Finder Connects to the open skills marketplace at skills.sh and helps you discover community-built skills. Why build a skill from scratch when someone made one last week?
→ Trigger: “find a skill for X,” “is there a skill that can...,” “how do I do X”
8. Skill Opportunity Mapper Walks through your work process and silently identifies every task that could become a skill. Outputs a prioritized build queue scored on impact vs effort. I use it with clients to show them where skills would save the most time.
→ Trigger: “what skills should I build,” “map my process,” “audit my workflow”
9. Prompt Master You give it a rough idea, it figures out which AI tool you’re targeting and outputs a production-grade prompt tuned for that tool. Covers Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and 30+ more systems.
→ Trigger: “write a prompt for X,” “turn this idea into a prompt,” “Midjourney prompt for...”
What’s inside the guide
The Notion guide has the full table with descriptions, trigger phrases, and author credits for each skill. Plus two bonus LinkedIn-specific skills (Hook Creator and Performance Analyser) that ship in the same plugin.
Below the table: a 4-step install walkthrough with screenshots.
How to install the 9 skills
→ Download the .zip file from the guide
→ Open Cowork and click Customize
→ Create a new plugin and choose Upload
→ Drop the .zip
No code, no configuration, about 2 minutes total. Every skill in the list above is now available inside Cowork.
Claude for Non-Technical Operators - New Cohort May 25 (#3 Best seller of Maven, marketing section)
If you want to go deeper into the Claude ecosystem, the next cohort of my Maven course starts May 25.
Go from casual Claude user to advanced operator in 5 hours. Two intensive sessions covering CoWork, Skills, Plugins, MCP connectors, Computer Control, and Dispatch. Each session is followed by an optional office hour for hands-on help.
$399. 5.0 rating. Small cohorts, 100% live.
FREE Live Workshops This Week
How I Use Claude Skills to Automate My Newsletter (Live Demo)
I'll show how I use a Skill + Cowork combo to automate my newsletter performance review, audit my Substack profile, and write editions in my voice. You leave with the skill templates.
When: Thursday, May 14 - 3:00 PM UTC
Workshop 2 - Get Started with Claude Code for Non-Techies (0 -> 1)
I am hosting this one with Davide Rovera, AI educator and former product management professor at Esade. Davide built Esade’s first PM course in 2018 and has run 50+ AI workshops for senior professionals.
Claude Cowork, Claude Code, and AI Agents each solve different problems. You’ll get a simple framework to pick the right tool and leave with working templates.
When: Tuesday, May 19 - 4:30 PM UTC
Workshop 3 - Master Claude MCPs and SKILLs (for non techies)
You'll learn which types of connectors exist, 5 methods to build great skills, and how to combine MCPs and skills to automate your operations. 120 signed up so far.
When: Friday, May 22 - 4:00 PM UTC
What’s coming out next week on LinkedIn and YouTube?
→ Claude Artifacts (Claude design is postponed till easier to use)
That’s all for edition #27 - any feedback is welcome, if you have any questions, you can respond to this email directly!
Thank you so much. I'm going to try it and see how it works for me. I appreciate you sharing this great resource.
The skill-as-personalization-layer-on-top-of-Claude framing is the right way to think about these. The general model can do most things; what skills actually buy you is your idiosyncratic preferences encoded once and reused. I've been organizing mine around "things I correct in every output" instead of "things the model can't do." Different cut, similar destination.