Best Claude Skills for Productivity
Productivity repositories tune how Claude works rather than which domain it works in: trimming verbose output to save tokens, planning multi-step tasks in files that survive a context reset, and curating reusable prompt libraries. The payoff is fewer wasted turns and steadier behavior across long, stateful sessions.
They fit anyone who runs the agent daily and feels the friction of context limits, drift, or repetitive setup. Install these early — they compound with almost every other skill you layer on top of them.
Starter picks
Three vetted repositories to install first if you're new to Productivity.
caveman
A cross-agent skill that strips filler from Claude’s replies and answers in terse, token-lean prose while keeping code, commands, and error text byte-for-byte exact.
planning-with-files
A planning skill that keeps multi-step work in Markdown files — plans, progress, and handoffs — so an agent can survive context resets without losing the thread.
prompt-master
A ready-to-clone library of reusable prompts and prompt patterns that installs directly into your Claude skills folder.
All Productivity repositories
3 repositories, most starred first.
caveman
A cross-agent skill that strips filler from Claude’s replies and answers in terse, token-lean prose while keeping code, commands, and error text byte-for-byte exact.
planning-with-files
A planning skill that keeps multi-step work in Markdown files — plans, progress, and handoffs — so an agent can survive context resets without losing the thread.
prompt-master
A ready-to-clone library of reusable prompts and prompt patterns that installs directly into your Claude skills folder.
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Communities
Get help, share your work, and keep up with the Claude ecosystem.
- Claude Developers Discord · Discord
- r/ClaudeAI · Reddit
- Anthropic Cookbooks · GitHub Org
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