Best skills for: Productivity

Boost your development productivity with AI skills that cut through busywork and streamline task management. The most effective picks—like Worklog Task Management for automated time tracking and Email Summary — Gmail & Exchange for digesting inbox overload—directly reduce context switching. When evaluating such skills, prioritize reliability and deep integration with your existing tools (IDE, email client). Watch out for common pitfalls: overly aggressive automation that misses important nuances, or summaries that strip critical details. A good productivity skill should feel like a smart assistant, not a black box. Test on real workflows to ensure the output matches your standards before full adoption.

24 skills selected

Task board for AI agents

Productivity

A structured task board for AI agents, inspired by Trello. Create, move, update, and organize cards across lists (backlog, todo, in_progress, blocked, done) with priorities and labels. Helps track multi-step work across sessions.

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Project Todo Management

Productivity

Manage project tasks using the `todo.md` file as the source of truth. This skill helps track pending and completed items, maintain a focused list (only the last 10 completed), and ensures continuity across work sessions by always referencing the file.

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Next - Pick Your Next Task

Productivity

Shows ready tasks that are unblocked, ranked by priority, type, and recency. Helps you pick the next task to work on when starting a session or finishing a task. Supports manual selection or auto-pick for the most suitable or quickest task.

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Prompt Creator

Productivity

Refines and improves draft prompts before execution. Takes a raw idea and turns it into a clear, complete, and actionable prompt.

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Session Handoff

Productivity

Generate or update a session handoff document to ensure continuity between work sessions.

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Worklog Task Management

Productivity

Updates worklog files by moving tasks between todo/doing/done states. Helps track progress, start new work, or mark tasks complete. Requires explicit arguments: state and description.

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Telegram Assistant

Productivity

Telegram automation assistant that digests unread messages, analyzes writing style from channel posts, drafts and publishes posts, and searches/replies to messages. Useful for streamlining Telegram workflows and maintaining consistent tone across channels.

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Skill Router

Productivity

Helps users who are unsure which skill to use by interviewing them with targeted questions and recommending the best skill(s) from the installed library.

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Chat context transfer

Productivity

Generates a structured context transfer summary including decisions made, files modified, and current state, so you can continue the conversation in a fresh chat session. Helps when token limits are near or performance degrades, ensuring no important context is lost.

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Web Form Fill

Productivity

Comprehensive workflow for filling web forms from information collection to browser input, ensuring correct writes, saving before page switches, and user-confirmed submission.

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Sign Off Session

Productivity

Ends a Claude Code session by updating session history, handoff note (PROJECT.md), and HISTORY.md. Also checks for uncommitted Git changes and offers to commit them. Helps maintain session continuity and prevent loss of work.

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Vault Context

Productivity

Provides awareness of the vault's directory structure, weekly writing pipeline (Monday to Sunday stages), file conventions for blog posts, daily notes, and projects, and Make commands for content creation, export, search, quality, and Git integration. Use when working with vault files, daily notes, blog posts, projects, or referencing vault structure and workflows.

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Apple Mail Search

Productivity

Search Apple Mail across all synced accounts using keywords, subject, sender, or time filters. Helps quickly find specific emails without manually browsing through folders. Supports advanced queries like 'from:user@domain.com last 30 days'.

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SkillForge - Intelligent Skill Router

Productivity

Analyzes any user input (prompts, errors, tasks) to either recommend an existing skill, enhance an existing one, or create a new skill from scratch. Uses a multi-phase triage and analysis process to ensure no duplicate efforts and to produce high-quality skill definitions. Ideal for quickly finding the right tool or building a custom skill to automate a task.

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Skills and Agents Customization

Productivity

Creates customized skills and agents for automating user-specific workflows. Use when users ask to personalize their setup, create a skill or agent, or when repetitive patterns are noticed.

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Notion Daily Note Creator

Productivity

Creates a daily note in Notion with a structured template including focus, tasks, schedule, notes, and wins. Helps you plan your day efficiently by automating the creation of a consistent daily journal.

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Think Ahead

Productivity

Reads the current work state (git status, diff, recent commits) and checks alignment with the plan. Spots dependencies, blockers, and suggests next moves in priority order. Useful between work cycles for strategic planning.

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Timer Tool

Productivity

Set one-time delayed timers that trigger actions after a specified duration. Supports units from seconds to days. Useful for reminders, rate-limiting API calls, or scheduling delayed notifications.

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Notify Web UI

Productivity

Sends toast notifications to the web UI when AI creates content that needs user review. Use it to alert users to new documents, projects, workstreams, or meeting notes requiring attention.

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Session Skill Extraction Workflow

Productivity

Extract non-obvious discoveries from sessions into persistent reusable skills. Used to document debugging solutions, workarounds, and multi-step workflows for future sessions.

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Collaboration Session Management

Productivity

Handles collaborative session lifecycle: checks Mermaid server health, lists existing sessions, creates new sessions with auto-generated or custom names, and resumes sessions with snapshot restoration. Helps when starting or rejoining a collaborative workflow without manually managing state transitions.

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Suggest Project Tasks

Productivity

Analyzes the current project for actionable tasks including Git status, TODOs, test coverage, outdated dependencies, missing documentation, security issues, and framework-specific concerns (Rails, Node.js, Python, Rust). It runs a set of analyzers and creates task entries for each discovered item, presenting a categorized summary.

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Obsidian TaskNotes Manager

Productivity

Manage tasks, to-dos, and projects in Obsidian using the TaskNotes plugin. Create, update, track time, and run pomodoro timers directly from Claude Code.

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Conductor Status

Productivity

Displays the overall progress, active tracks, and next actions for a Conductor project. Helps track work on conductor-related tasks and workflows, providing guidance and checklists when needed.

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How to choose

How are these skills selected?
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