Skills Most People Haven't Heard Of
Everyone installs the same handful of Claude skills. This field guide covers five lesser-known ones that each do something surprising: run a team of agents, draw machines you can take apart, tutor you, build persuasion into your pages, and read the last month of the internet on any topic.
1. Chief of Staff — Runs a Team of Agents
Give Claude one high-level goal and Chief of Staff orchestrates a background team of specialized agents — research, writing, design and coding — delegating and coordinating the work instead of you micromanaging a single chat.
2. Anatomy — An Interactive Machine, On Screen
Ask Anatomy to explain a complex mechanism and it builds an interactive machine on screen, in SVG and WebGL, that you can pull apart, drag and watch run. It's well suited to docs and explainers. Install it with npx skills add wheresryan22/anatomy -g, then run /anatomy <idea>.
3. Teach — Your Personal Tutor
Teach turns Claude into a personal tutor: it writes customized lesson plans, makes cheat sheets, and remembers exactly where you left off mid-lesson so you can pick back up.
4. Marketing Psychology — Persuasion, Built In
From the marketingskills collection, this skill gives Claude more than 50 psychological principles — loss aversion, framing, anchoring, charm pricing — and shows how to turn them into concrete, testable changes to your sales pages, pricing and copy. Applied ethically, not by name-dropping biases.
5. Last 30 Days — What People Actually Said
Feed it any topic and Last 30 Days mines Reddit, X, YouTube and TikTok, plus Hacker News and the web, then summarizes what real people actually said about it over the last month — grounded, with sources. Install with npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g and run /last30days <topic>.
What's in the Guide
What each of the five skills does, when it's worth reaching for, and the install commands and links where the guide provides them.
The full field guide is in the PDF.
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