9 Claude Skills I Can’t Live Without (steal them)

Plugged co-work can be extremely powerful, but only if you equip it with the right skills. I personally use 50 skills every single day to run my business with no employees. And today, I'm giving away nine of them completely for free. And the best part is that most of these are paired with scheduled tasks, which means they run while I'm not even on my computer. And if you stay to the end of this video, I'm going to show you my Instagram carousel skill that generates Instagram posts on autopilot for me, as well as I'm going to break down each of these nine skills individually. and they're all packaged as a plug-in. So you could upload them to Claude in seconds. So let's get into it. First of all, if you're not familiar with what a skill is, let me break it down very simply so you can understand the rest of this video. So a skill is a plain markdown file that is stored inside of Claude that you can trigger that basically explains exactly how to do a specific workflow or automation. Then in order to trigger it, all we have to do is give it a keyword. It will invoke that entire set of instructions and perform that task for you the same every single time that you run it. Think of this like training an employee one time on how to do something and they do it correctly every single time without you needing to explain it to them. Before I walk you guys through all of these skills one by one. I do want to say that these are packaged as a plugin that you guys can download and upload into Claude. I'm going to show you exactly how to do that later in this video. It's completely free. you're able to take all these skills and just plug them into your system. One thing I do want to mention before you guys install and begin using these skills yourself is that all of these I created for myself personally. So, you might need to customize them to your liking. Change the style, change the outputs, etc. But luckily, since skills are just markdown files, it's very easy for you to change them. And luckily for you, I created a custom skill that is called customize that will actually help tailor these towards your use cases. So, it will walk you through exactly how to customize these as well as it's even going to take you through a couple of different questions in order to tailor them to you. Starting off with one of the skills that I use genuinely every single day and that is my dashboard style skill. So, let me break this down right now. Every single HTML output that I get inside of Claude Co-work always looks the same and it's in my specific brand guidelines that I've set up for it. So, personally, this is what it looks like for me. It's matching this kind of anthropic style. I think that this looks super super clean. I went ahead and crafted this in this style. But now, whenever I generate any HTML dashboard, it's going to look exactly like this. This is another example. This is my skills dashboard, which I'm going to show later in this video. But any graphic or any HTML that it generates for me is always in this style without me having to prompt it. To show you exactly what this looks like, I'm going to come over to Claude and click on this skill. It's called dashboard style. And if you download this, you can obviously customize this however you like. This is just a specific one that I wanted. I really like the kind of clawed aesthetic here. I think it looks super clean and matches my brand. But you could see that it breaks down all of the colors, the specific typography, different design elements and user interface components. All these different things are basically hardcoded into this markdown file, which is basically the set of instructions. So that way, whenever I use any of my skills that actually generate HTML dashboards, it will use this as a brand style guide automatically without me even having to mention it. Real quick, if you guys want all 50 plus skills that I'm using every single day, as well as new ones that I add every single week, you can grab these in my school community. There is a link in the description to join it. All right, so skill number two is a find skills skill. We can describe what we need and Claude will pull from a specific directory that is a list of thousands of different communitybuilt skills. So we could just describe what our problem is and it will install a specific skill that somebody already created for that use case. This is using this directory called skills.sh. What we could do is go through all of the different skills. There's actually a leaderboard here. We could see how many installs of each of theirs there are. A key thing to note here is we could see who the uploader of all these skills are. You could see this one says Verscell, Remotion, Microsoft. So I would say stick to the skills that have a lot of downloads and that a vetted company has created because you don't want to be downloading a random skill from some random person because that could potentially install malware. So you want to be really careful about what it is you install. But this is a great directory to automatically pull from. Next up, we have a visual explainer skill. And this one is great for breaking down complex topics. Whether that is something you're trying to learn personally, or for example, myself, I like to sometimes use this to see a visual of how my entire clawed system is working. So, I can see all the skills that are running, all the different workflows I have, all of those different things. So, this is a great skill in order to visualize kind of anything that you would like. to show you what I mean. Inside of Claude, I just said visualize how Claude Co-works in order to explain it and I could click on the HTML site. You could see that this is obviously in the brand style that I configured earlier on in this video. So, if you create that brand style guideline for yourself and customize it, you could automatically have this HTML site in that same style. But I could go ahead and open this up and this basically breaks down how exactly Claude works. three core pillars, six-step workflow, 200 plus skills, bunch of different connectors, breaks down the big idea. So, it's very bite-sized. You could see that it breaks down the three pillars. There's memory, skills, and connectors, how a request flows. So, it's a visual explainer instead of just like reading text that Claude gives you as an output. It's really nice sometimes to just have it broken down in a more digestible way, just like this. Maybe that's how my brain works. I function better this way, but I know a lot of other people could probably find use in this skill. All right, so next up number five, we have another visual HTML skill. I really love being able to visualize things. So this is super helpful to me and I think this one will be very interesting to quite a few of you guys. Since we are curating and compiling a bunch of different skills inside of Claude, it can become very overwhelming. For me personally, I forget a lot of the ones I even have downloaded. So this honestly solves that problem for me. All right, so here is this skill. I basically just said skill dashboard and it automatically generated this for me. It's a directory of all of the skills that I have installed into Claude. I could open this up. I could see this in my browser. I mean, this is super solid. It's obviously in my brand style here. Breaks down all the skills that I have, different commands, categories, and it even breaks down my system, which I'm going to talk about here in a little bit. And then down here are all the different skills categorized. You can see I have all these different ones for content creation, all these ones for research and strategy, design and visuals. And I could click on any of them and it will even instruct me on how to use it. So I could tell Claude use the animated website skill and breaks down exactly what it does. So this one converts video files into scroll animated websites. That's pretty cool. And again, I could go through and click on any of these and it basically just breaks down all these different skills that I've compiled. But that is not even the coolest part about this entire system. The best part about this skill is this is running as a scheduled task. So every single week this automatically updates without me needing to go and ask it to look through all of my new skills. So in order to show you how to do that, you come over to scheduled tasks. I have one that is called refresh skills dashboard and this runs every single Friday at 900 a.m. I could look at the instructions. It basically just says refresh Brock's personal claude co-work skills dashboard. I could click on run this now and it will begin triggering this. I can configure this however frequently I would like. So let's say I want this to run daily or hourly. We can configure that right there. So it could run at whatever frequency you would like. Next, moving on to skill number six. And this one builds on top of that skill dashboard that I just showed you. And this one is our skills audit. This gives us a 0 to 100 health score based on our directory that we have created. So let me show you exactly what I mean by that. If I come over to my dashboard, you can see that it says 84% healthy. Basically, this breaks down whether or not there are different duplicates of skills that might overlap. It breaks down any of the ones that are broken. And for example, it's giving me a couple of suggestions here based on my directory. So, it says pick one workflow system visualizer skill because right now I have five that are kind of overlapping and that can cause confusion. So honestly, this dashboard is kind of my skills operating system, and this allows me to juggle more and more skills without it becoming too overwhelming for myself. I also have a scheduled task running for this one, so I don't need to touch it and update this myself. This scheduled task is called refresh skills audit. And all this does is goes through my entire skill. What this does, it goes through all of my different skills, sees if any of them are overlapping, and will automatically update that dashboard for me. And personally, I have this one running every single Friday at 9:30 a.m. Moving on to skill number four. And again, this is one of my favorites that I crafted. I'm pretty proud of this one. This one automatically creates PDF guides that I could either share with my team or even use as lead magnets for marketing material and they're basically explainer PDF guides breaking down things in depth. So, let me show you exactly what I mean. All right, so let's take a look at the output of this skill. This is PDF guide. If I open this up on the right hand side, we now have this PDF that is in this editorial style. And if you've ever read the book, The Almanac of Naval Rabicant, it's kind of in this similar style that the book is written in. And I kind of did this on purpose. I think this looks really solid. And honestly, this is a great skill to generate either PDFs that are explaining certain things like SOPs to your team or even giving these away as lead magnets to whatever your offer is. Imagine coming here and just basically typing in PDF guide and then breaking down some complex topic. Maybe Claude has context on your business and you do SEO. You could then create a guide like this on SEO. An idea for you is you could even run an automation that is like comment SEO and I will send you a full guide on how to set it up. We could then send this as a lead magnet for them to potentially sign up as a client of your SEO agency. For example, if I click on show in finder, it pulls up the actual PDF guide and I could go ahead and send this with my team. But this is one of my favorite skills. I've been using this every single day to create guides like this and it's genuinely been a gamecher for me. To show you exactly how I'm using this, let's head over to my Instagram. Right here, I have these Instagram reels and a lot of these are showing free resources. So, for example, this one right here is breaking down all the new features inside of Claude. And it always ends with comment X and I will send you it. And I have a many chat automation set up that will automatically DM this person, respond to their comment, and we'll send them the actual setup guide. And I'm using this right here as a setup guide that we are sending people. It's a very easy byite-sized way for people to set up the specific things that I talk about in the videos. Moving on to skill number seven. This is our end of day summary and this essentially gives us a visual report of everything that both us and Claude co-work did throughout the day. And I also have this running as a scheduled task. So every single day at 6 p.m. it will send me this visual report breaking down everything that it did throughout the day. To show you exactly what I mean. This is the end of day for today, Saturday, April 18th. And right here you could see this is obviously in my design style that I created earlier in this video. So, whatever your style is, it could replicate that easily. It shows every single thing that it shipped. So, it made these Instagram carousels for me with six cinematic slides. It created the Claude Skills Mastery Guide PDF, which you guys actually saw earlier in this video. It ran the weekly skill audit. It ran an expense report and it even did this carousel notification automation. It shows every single thing that it created. It shows everything that it updated. You could see I made some changes to some of my skills here. shows different things that are still in progress at the end of the day. And then it would even show right here the different blockers I have if there's something bottlenecking my entire workflow process. And it even shows the three top priorities that I have for tomorrow based on conversations I had with Claude today. So for me, it's instructing that I need to post the Claude design Instagram carousel that it generated for me. I need to publish the school resource for the week and I need to generate the thumbnail for this video. Actually, if I come back to my task where I ran this, I just gave it the command end of day summary and it went through this entire process. But again, you could easily schedule this as a scheduled task. So, in order to do that, you'd come to scheduled. From here, we would just click add new task. We'd give this a name. So, I'd just call this end of day summary. Give it a description, summarize everything that Claude did for me throughout the day. Then, I just like give it a more detailed description, basically explaining what I wanted to do. choose which model we want to run the frequency. So, I'm going to say daily at 6:00 p.m. I need to select which folder this will work inside of. And from there, I can just click save. And any of the scheduled tasks that we have set up, we could see in our menu right here. I personally have about 10 or 12 different scheduled tasks that are running every single day. So, these are automations that are running my skills while I'm not touching my computer. Next up, we have skill number eight. This is Obsidian Daily Note, and this is where I'm essentially building out my second brain. So, if you don't know what Obsidian is, this is a platform that helps you organize all the markdown files you have inside of your folders that we can access inside of co-work. And as you can see here, it literally looks like a brain. We could see all these different files we have, the different connections. And each of these right here are different notes that we could open up. And it functions very similar to notion. I personally have Claude Co-work referencing this since it's working inside of the same folder. And every single day I have a note breaking down exactly what it is that I'm working on, key decisions that were made, different action items that I have at the end of the day, and it even breaks down all the different videos that I have in the pipeline in order for in order for Claude to have context on everything that's going on inside my business or my personal life. I know that you do probably have some questions right now, and I'm not diving super deep into this, but if you want to dive deep, I break it down in this 20inut video that I will link in the description for you to check out. I personally set this up as a scheduled task. So, this runs every day for me at 6 PM. To show you exactly what I mean, I could open up this scheduled task that ran on April 16th, and it creates this markdown file breaking down exactly everything that was on my calendar, what I'm working on, different action items, etc. And then that is carried over to Obsidian, which is what you're looking at right now. And I could always switch to this view whenever I would like. TLDDR if you're confused. This is basically just where I'm storing all of my context for Claude to keep it organized. All right, so skill number nine, and this is one that I'm super proud of. I've absolutely been loving playing with this. This is my Instagram carousel skill that will automatically research content ideas for me to create Instagram carousels about and then automatically create the graphics for me and I could even post them directly in Clawude without me having to touch my computer. To show you exactly what I mean, here's three different versions of Instagram carousels that I generated with this skill. And I didn't even have to give it a prompt. It just ran the skill automatically after researching different trending topics. So, this one is five claude code skills that I can't live without. Breaks down all of these. Here's another one it created for the new Claude Opus 4.7 release. And then this one it created for me today about the anthropic design that just released. I mean, these are insane if you really think about it. It looks like a professional designer designed these. And I could even autoschedu this so that way it posts for me and I don't even need to check it. And to give you proof on this working, I have been testing this on my Instagram. We have a couple of different carousels. This one right here has over like 60,000 views. It has it has 1,800 likes. It's got 2,200 comments. And again, this was all created with Claude. I didn't even have to touch it and it automatically posts for me. All right, so let's head back to Claude. I'm going to show you exactly how to do this now. And I do want to preface and say this one is a bit more complex than all the other ones. So there's a couple things here that I need to mention in order for you to set this up. It's not going to be as smooth sailing as just downloading this and having this run perfectly because we need to give it enough context in order to generate this in our style, but we also need to use an API in order to generate these images because I am generating these with the nano banana API which is the Gemini image model. So first things first, we have to toggle on code mode. So, if we're in the cloud desktop app, we open up code. And if you've never used this before and you've only used co-work, let me break down very simply what we're going to do. We're going to open up the exact same working folder that we're going to work inside of inside of Co-work. Or you can create a new one. But personally, I'm just using the same one I always use. And we have access to all of the skills that we have inside of Claude. So, we should have this already loaded. Next, the first thing I did is ask if we have the Instagram carousel test skill. I created a test one to make sure that this skill starts from zero for you guys to actually customize it instead of it being tailored to, you know, my brand and my style, etc. So, it says that I do have this skill created and I basically said run it. Then, it's going to go through a series of different questions for me. So, I added this to the skill so that way it could help you customize it. So, question number one, what's your Instagram handle? So, go ahead and add that. From there, it's asking what's your call to action line for the final slide? So add whatever you want it to be. Next, question three is a short phrase for a call to action. Question number four is breaking down different colors that we want to use. For me, I'm using orange because it's kind of that claw theme, but you could make it blue, purple, green, whatever you want. And then next up, it's going to ask us about our API key. We do need to generate this over on Google AI Studio. So, it's going to walk you through exactly how to do this. So, you would come to your dashboard and create a new API key. Copy that API key. And then we come back to Claude code, paste in our API key, and it's going to give you each individual step on how to set this up. I personally had Claude walk me through step by step how to set this up because I wasn't able to figure out myself, but it's really good at just explaining it and breaking it down to you step by step. Next up, it's going to ask you what style you want to go for. So, what I would do is I'd find a couple of different Instagram carousels that you want to kind of recreate that similar vibe and style. take screenshots, upload that as a reference, and then it will use that as a starting point and you could begin customizing from there. To show you this Instagram carousel that I generated, I came here and I basically said IG carousel and I said claude design which just dropped yesterday. It went and did the research for all this. It generated all these slides in parallel and it went ahead and created each of these. It broke them down here and it even opened up the images. So, let me show you the outputs. It added all of these to a folder on my desktop. So you can see it says anthropic just dropped claw design in Figma is sweating. What it does, it break downs all the key features here. I mean, this is really solid. And again, guys, this is because I gave it proper reference images of different Instagram carousels that I wanted to generate. So you could come and just customize a style however you like. It's really good at recreating from a screenshot. So make sure you give it enough reference images. Next up, you're probably asking, how can we schedule these to be posted? So, let me show you that right now. First, we're going to come over to customize and then click on connectors. And we need to add a new connector here. And then from here, I'm going to show you what we're going to do. Click on add custom connector. And I'm personally using this third-party platform called potato that helps me automatically post this content for me and build that functionality directly into Claude. You don't have to do this. If you want to post these by yourself, you can do that as well, but I just want to automate this end to end, so I'm using Blotato. Next, once we're inside of our account, click on settings, and we need to configure Instagram. I already have mine connected, but it's as simple as just clicking on this, and it will walk you through step by step on how to do it. It'll just like send you to Instagram. You click approve, then it will be connected to Plotato. And you could add any of your different social media platforms here. So, you could crossost across all of these at the same time. Next, we're going to come to API, and it walks you through right here. Sabrina has a good video breaking down exactly how to set this up, but we just copy this URL. Come back to our custom connector here. Give it a name. So, I'm just going to call it potato. Paste in our MCP URL, and then click on connect. From here, all we have to do is approve access. Click open and claude. It will bring us back. And now our custom connector is saved, and we have access to all these tools. It can create posts for us. It can create a visual, delete a schedule, all these different things Claude can now do for us. So now we have all of these images that were generated using this Instagram carousel skill. And I'm going to say schedule this to go live tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. Chicago time. Now it's going to automatically use Plot and should schedule this automatically. So inside of Cloud Code, it's now saying that this was scheduled tomorrow with all of our five slides. So, if I come back over to Blato and click on calendar, we can see that this is indeed scheduled and this will go live tomorrow at 8 a.m. We can see our entire weekly schedule here of different upcoming posts as well as I could see all of my published posts right here. And last pro tip I want to give you guys is you could connect all the different apps you use. So, if you want to pull from your email, your Google calendar, Slack, Google Drive, any of these different apps you use, this will instantly level up the power of any of the skills that you use and begin creating inside of Claude. As I showed you, we created a custom connector with potato inside of here, but there's tons of different apps you can connect to natively inside of Claude. You could scroll through right here. And if there's ever one that you can't connect to, Zap Your MCP probably allows you to. This connects Claude to 9,000 plus different applications. So, if there is an app you want to connect to, this might help you out. So, let me show you exactly how to set this up very simply. Once we sign into our account, we're going to see this new MCP server button. We're going to click on claude co-work. Personally, I have this MCP server set up with Stripe, HubSpot, Google Calendar, School, all these different apps in order to add different app we want to use. We come here, search across any of these apps. Click on this, select all these different actions we want to use. So, I'm just going to collect connect all of them. We would then click connect, add our app, and once we add all of our apps to our MCP server, we're going to come over here, click on connect, click add to claude, and just hit connect. and then we'll be able to access any of these different applications. And there you have it, guys. Those are the nine clawed skills that I can't live without at this point. If you want all 50 that I'm using, as well as stay up to date with all the different skills that I'm adding every single week, make sure to join my school community. There is a link in the description to do so. But with that being said, guys, if you want more free content like this, make sure to subscribe to this channel. With that being said, thank you for saying the end, and I'll see you in the next