Claude starter pack

Install these 8 skills to give your Claude superpowers

Six of the eight work in a plain Claude window with nothing installed — download one and upload it in your settings. In Claude Code, copy the pack and paste it, and it fetches all eight.

In Claude, or Cowork

  1. Download a skill from the grid below. Keep the .zip as it is — do not unzip it.
  2. Once, at claude.ai: open Settings → Capabilities and turn on code execution and file creation. Skills do nothing without it, and they fail quietly rather than telling you.
  3. Go to Customize → Skills, hit +, then Create skill → Upload a skill, and choose the .zip.
  4. Start a chat and ask for it by name, or just describe the job.

Six of the eight install this way, and skills work on any Claude plan, free included — with step 2 switched on. The two that do not are marked on their cards: they need a filesystem or your own machine, so a chat window has nowhere to run them.

In Claude Code

Then paste it into Claude Code. It downloads all eight into ~/.claude/skills/ and tells you what each one does.

A Claude thread rewriting a launch email so it does not read as AI-written — Writing

Humanizer

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— blader/humanizer

Strip the tells that give AI writing away

It knows the patterns — em dash pile-ups, rule of three, the vocabulary— and takes them out. Built on Wikipedia’s signs-of-AI-writing guide.

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A Claude thread drafting a pricing page hero and three benefit blocks — Writing

Copywriting

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— ours

Copy you can send without rewriting it first

Show it a few things you have written and it matches your voice, not a house style. Every number traces to something you supplied; the gaps come back as questions.

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A Claude thread reviewing a dashboard and listing why it looks AI-made — Design

Design taste

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— Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Stop everything you make looking AI-made

It knows the fonts, colours and layouts that give a machine away, and refuses them by name.

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A Claude thread turning an onboarding process into a flowchart — Explaining

Diagramming

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— nicobailon/visual-explainer

Turn the explanation into a picture people get

It works out what shape the idea needs, then draws it straight into the chat. Nothing to install, nothing to open.

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— Data

Ask my spreadsheet

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— anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Get a straight answer out of your own numbers

Ask in plain words. It finds the data, does the work, then checks the answer against the ways a number usually goes wrong — and tells you the caveats rather than burying them.

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A Claude thread reading calendar and inbox to rank the day — Your day

Daily Brief

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— anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

Five minutes, and you know what today actually is

Connect your mail, calendar and wherever work gets tracked, and it hands back one digest of what moved — action items first, grouped by project rather than by which app it came from. Nothing to install: paste it into Claude and ask.

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A Claude thread building a static export and publishing it to a live URL — Publishing

Host Anything

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— ours, on here.now

A live URL in about sixty seconds

Ask it to publish the page Claude just built. It goes live at a real address you can send someone, and it checks the page loads before handing you the link.

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A Claude thread transcribing a video and timestamping its chapters — Learning

Watch a video

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— bradautomates/claude-video

Let Claude watch a video and tell you what is in it

It downloads the video, pulls the frames and the real transcript, and hands the lot to Claude. Point it at a tutorial and ask for the steps. Installs yt-dlp and ffmpeg on your machine the first time you run it.

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