Top 100 Anthropic Skills Ideas Worth Building

Generate your async daily standup from yesterday's git activity, commits, and Linear ticket changes. Pastes into Slack with a single command. The single highest-leverage skill for engineering teams.

Read the merge log since the last release tag and produce a user-facing CHANGELOG.md plus a release-notes draft. Optionally posts to a Discord/Slack channel.

Walk through new bug reports, classify severity, propose owners, and write the first response. Pairs with Linear/Sentry MCPs.

Generate a personalised onboarding doc for a new hire based on the repo, team docs, and recent merged PRs. Adds week-1/week-2/week-3 milestones.

Walk through a codebase as a guided tour — pick 8-12 key files, explain their roles, and produce annotated reading order. Great for new contributors.

Daily personal journal that pulls from your calendar, terminal history, and last Claude Code session to generate a thoughtful end-of-day write-up.

Switch Claude into a mode that filters language, uses bigger fonts, and is comfortable with kids/parents asking questions. The 'show this to your mum' mode.

Turn an ingredient list (or a photo of your fridge) into 3 dinner options with shopping list and a step-by-step plan timed to finish together.

Generate today's workout from your training plan, equipment, time available, and how you're feeling. Logs to a fitness DB you control.

Plan a house move — schedule, packing list per room, utility transfers, address-change checklist, removal-company quotes. Time-stamped task list across 6 weeks.

Pull income, expenses, dividends, capital gains from connected accounts (Mercury, Stripe, brokerage) and produce a tax-prep package for your accountant.

Read a stack of receipts (photos or PDFs) and emit a reimbursement-ready CSV with categorisation and policy compliance flags.

Generate a personalised greeting per recipient based on what you talked about with them recently. Pulls from Slack DMs, iMessage, calendar history.

Help someone write a eulogy — gentle interview format, structured output, with sensitivity to grief. Inspired by community needs from the Claude Code Discord.

Walk through a structured decision document — context, options, criteria, recommendation, and a record of who-decided-when. ADR-shaped.

After an incident, gather Slack threads, on-call paging timeline, deploy history, and customer impact into a blameless postmortem template.

Survey a codebase for refactoring candidates — long functions, duplicated logic, deep import chains, files with high churn. Outputs a prioritised list.

Walk through all dependencies and identify license risks. Flags GPL/AGPL contamination in commercial code and missing NOTICE files.

Pull a website's pages, evaluate title tags, meta descriptions, schema markup, internal links, Core Web Vitals. Produces an SEO improvement plan.

Run accessibility checks across a site — colour contrast, alt text, keyboard navigation, ARIA labels — and produce a WCAG 2.2-aligned remediation plan.

Pull RSS, news, and pricing from a list of competitors weekly. Surface significant changes (pricing, hiring spikes, product launches).

Given a list of company URLs, output a research brief per company — size, recent news, tech stack, key decision-makers, opening hook.

Generate 5 cold email variants for a target lead, scoring each by likely open / reply rate based on past performance.

Research a podcast guest — recent talks, papers, controversies, evolving views — and generate 30 great interview questions plus 3 unexpected ones.

Edit a transcript: remove filler, tighten loose answers, add timestamps, generate show notes and a clip list for socials.

Generate a weekly newsletter draft from your activity (commits, reading list, conversations) plus current-affairs context. Posts to Ghost/Substack via MCP.

Take a book title or a PDF and produce a non-trivial summary — structured by argument, with disagreements and questions left over.

Given a YouTube channel or playlist, summarise the most-watched videos with structured takeaways. Pairs with vidai-yt for research workflows.

One-command: drop a video URL or audio file, get a clean transcript plus structured summary plus action items. Whisper + Claude under the hood.

Take a screenshot of any UI or error and get a clear explanation of what's happening and how to fix it. The 'what does this mean' button.

Given an OpenAPI spec or example response, spin up a mock API server with realistic-looking generated data. Great for frontend dev before backend lands.

Talk to an unfamiliar API in natural language — Claude reads the OpenAPI spec, formulates a correct request, and shows the response.

Take a SQL query (especially one you wrote 6 months ago) and explain what it does, plus suggest performance improvements.

Generate SQL from natural language against your real schema (introspected live via the Postgres MCP). Includes safety rails — no DELETE without confirmation.

Generate a new dbt model from a description, propose tests, propose schema.yml. Knows your dbt project conventions.

Generate a new Airflow DAG from a workflow description. Knows your operator preferences and import patterns.

Investigate a misbehaving Kubernetes cluster — describe the symptoms, Claude pulls events, logs, pod status, and proposes fixes.

Read a `terraform plan` output and explain what's actually changing, with risk flags for resource recreations and IAM changes.

Pull last month's AWS bill, segment by service and account, flag the biggest movers, and propose cuts. Same pattern works for GCP/Azure.

Survey your cloud accounts for security misconfigurations — public S3 buckets, missing MFA, over-broad IAM. Produces a prioritised fix list.

Walk through outdated dependencies, propose updates with risk scores, and prepare a single PR (or series of PRs) for safe upgrades.

Triage CVE alerts in a repo — assess actual exploitability in your code, generate fix PRs for real risks, dismiss false positives with rationale.

Rotate a secret across every environment — find usages in code, env vars, k8s secrets, third-party services. Coordinates the cutover carefully.

Plan a non-trivial DB migration with downtime estimates, rollback strategy, monitoring hooks, and a runbook for the on-call team.

Set up a k6 or Locust load test for a new endpoint, run it against staging, and analyse results with a written report.

Generate regression tests from a bug report — the test that would have caught this bug. Adds it to the test suite and runs it.

Detect breaking API changes between two versions of an OpenAPI spec and produce a public-facing migration guide.

Watch the repo for changes that need documentation updates — new env vars, changed API responses, renamed config keys — and propose doc patches.

Crawl the codebase and produce a single architecture diagram (SVG) plus a summary of components, key interfaces, and data flows.

Generate a weekly health report — PR throughput, code-review latency, deploy frequency, test coverage trends, lines of code by directory.

Drive your email to zero — Claude classifies, drafts responses, and proposes archive/delete. You only confirm. Pairs with Gmail MCP.

Pull every doc, email, and Slack thread relevant to your next meeting and produce a one-pager with key questions to raise.

Post-meeting: extract decisions, owners, deadlines from the transcript. Distribute action items to the right Slack / Linear / email recipients.

Friday-afternoon review — pull the week's accomplishments from git, calendar, Linear; surface what got dropped; plan next week.

Translate annual goals into weekly check-ins. Reads progress signals (commits, KPI dashboards) and asks the right reflection questions.

Run a book club — set the reading schedule, generate discussion questions per chapter, summarise after each session, track member positions.

Given a learning goal (cert, language, instrument), generate a daily study plan with checkpoints. Adjusts based on your actual completion data.

Real-time cooking assistance — drop in mid-recipe, Claude knows the recipe and helps with the next step. Voice-mode-friendly.

Plan a trip — flights, lodging, daily itinerary, restaurants, hidden gems. Adjusts to your party size, budget, and preferences (e.g. 'no museums').

Brief on a city/country before you arrive — culture, etiquette, common scams, basic phrases, dietary considerations, current political climate.

Walk through a complex insurance claim — document evidence, fill forms, anticipate objections, draft escalation letters.

Prepare for a medical appointment — symptom diary, family history, current meds, list of questions. Outputs a one-pager to bring to the doctor.

Translate medical reports into plain English with context — but explicitly NOT diagnose. Always recommends discussing with a doctor.

Walk through a separation — emotional triage first, then practical: documents to gather, accounts to separate, kids' logistics, legal-counsel intake.

Coach on parenting moments — handling tantrums, sibling fights, screen-time conversations. Evidence-based; cautious about giving specific advice.

Coordinate care for an aging parent — schedules, medications, sibling coordination, appointment summaries shared with family.

Prepare for a legal interaction — outline of the issue, relevant case law lookup, list of questions for the lawyer, document checklist.

Read a contract and flag unusual or one-sided clauses. NOT legal advice; produces a 'questions to ask your lawyer' document.

Adjust the tone of a draft email — softer, firmer, more formal, more direct. Optionally compare two versions side-by-side.

Translate content into multiple languages and culturally localize — not just word-for-word, but adapting idioms, examples, and conventions.

Find the source of a remembered quote — even a half-remembered fragment. Outputs the verified citation with surrounding context.

Drop a CSV/Parquet and get a structured exploratory analysis — schema, distributions, missing-data patterns, outliers, suggested next analyses.

Walk through a dashboard you didn't build — Looker, Tableau, Mixpanel — and explain what each chart means and what to look for.

Take a messy CSV (mixed types, inconsistent dates, smart quotes, BOMs) and produce a clean version plus a cleaning log.

Merge multiple CSVs across slightly mismatched schemas. Handles fuzzy column matching, type coercion, and produces a reconciliation report.

Walk through a photo folder (or Apple Photos) and propose albums, batch renames, duplicate detection. Privacy-preserving where possible.

Generate alt-text and captions for photos. Useful for accessibility, social media, and family-archive metadata.

Pull structured data from PDFs — invoices, receipts, contracts, reports — into typed JSON. Better than commercial OCR for common formats.

Take a stack of screenshots (eg meeting whiteboards) and produce a clean, searchable archive with OCR'd text and topic tags.

Drop a voice memo, get back a structured note — bullets, action items, follow-ups — filed into the right Notion/Obsidian folder.

Take a photo of a meeting whiteboard and produce a clean digital version — boxes labelled, arrows preserved, text re-flowed.

Send yourself a daily quote relevant to a topic you're learning or building. Pulls from books you've read or follows-on from yesterday's quote.

Build a fictional character with depth — backstory, voice, conflicts, motivations. Pairs with /persona for systematic character management.

Diagnose problems in a story draft — sagging middle, character motivations, payoff/setup imbalance. Doesn't write for you; helps you see what's broken.

Take a writing sample and learn the author's voice — sentence length, lexicon, rhythm. Used carefully (with attribution) to draft in a consistent voice.

Help draft poetry without being too cute about it. Reads what you have, suggests specific edits, references prior craft choices.

Co-write song lyrics — handles syllable count, internal rhyme, story arc across verses, hook structure.

Take prose or notes and convert to proper Final Draft / Fountain screenplay format. Reasoning about scene economy and dialogue rhythm.

Generate a one-page game design doc from a pitch — core loop, progression, target player, references, scope budget.

Plan a garden — given climate zone, sun, soil, and goals, output a planting calendar and weekly task list.

Walk through a DIY project — bookshelf, shed, deck repair. Tools, materials, steps, safety warnings, time estimates. Photo input mid-project to debug.

Plan an event — birthday, wedding, conference. Venue, guest list, vendor budget, RSVP tracking, day-of run-sheet.

Specifically for weddings — heavy on vendor coordination, family politics, vows-and-toasts coaching. Sensitive defaults.

Run a D&D session — generate encounters, NPC dialogue, dungeon rooms, treasure tables. Pairs with /persona for recurring NPCs.

Look up a tabletop RPG rule from any of the major systems — D&D, Pathfinder, Cyberpunk, Blades — with proper citation.

Practice a target language with conversation, error correction, vocabulary spaced repetition. Adapts to your current level.

Coach for a specific exam — CCA, AWS Solutions Architect, GMAT, LSAT. Walks the syllabus, generates practice questions, simulates the test environment.

Recommend new skills to build based on your usage patterns. 'You spend a lot of time doing X — here's a skill that would do it for you.'

Diagnose why a skill isn't triggering. Reads the description, runs trigger eval queries, suggests description edits.

A 'newsletter for your terminal' — pick one skill from your install (or this Top 100) and explain it in detail, with an example invocation.