Claude skills for productivity and automation

8 Claude skills for productivity and automation: 2 official from Anthropic and 6 from the community (obra, addyosmani, OthmanAdi). Each is a folder of instructions Claude loads when a task calls for it; the most-starred repository here is obra/superpowers (301,989 stars).

8 skills · 2 official · checked against each skill’s own SKILL.md

8 skills, official first

PDF

Claude skill · Official · Anthropic

The PDF skill lets an AI assistant read, merge, divide, and modify PDF documents.

Proprietary (source available)★ 182,168

PowerPoint (PPTX)

Claude skill · Official · Anthropic

The PowerPoint (PPTX) skill helps an AI assistant create, edit, read, and check .pptx and .potx presentation files.

Proprietary (source available)★ 182,168

Brainstorming (Superpowers)

Claude skill · Community · obra

The Brainstorming (Superpowers) skill helps an AI assistant talk through ideas with a user before any new feature, component, or plan is built.

MIT★ 301,989

Writing plans (Superpowers)

Claude skill · Community · obra

The Writing plans (Superpowers) skill lets an AI assistant draft a plan for a multi-step job from its specification before any coding begins.

MIT★ 301,989

Idea refine

Claude skill · Community · addyosmani

The Idea refine skill helps an AI assistant turn vague ideas into sharper, actionable concepts by expanding and then narrowing options.

MIT★ 108,506

Interview me

Claude skill · Community · addyosmani

The Interview me skill helps an AI assistant draw out what a user actually wants when a request is vague or underspecified.

MIT★ 108,506

Planning and task breakdown

Claude skill · Community · addyosmani

The Planning and task breakdown skill helps an AI assistant turn a spec or set of requirements into small tasks, each with clear acceptance criteria.

MIT★ 108,506

Planning with files

Claude skill · Community · OthmanAdi

The Planning with files skill helps an AI assistant store task plans, findings, and progress as files on disk during lengthy research or multi-step work.

MIT★ 27,531

Side by side

Who made each one, its licence, and how its own documentation says to install it.

SkillMade byLicenceInstall
PDFAnthropic (official)Proprietary (source available)Claude Code plugin
PowerPoint (PPTX)Anthropic (official)Proprietary (source available)Claude Code plugin
Brainstorming (Superpowers)obraMITClaude Code plugin
Writing plans (Superpowers)obraMITClaude Code plugin
Idea refineaddyosmaniMITClaude Code plugin
Interview meaddyosmaniMITClaude Code plugin, Skills CLI or manual
Planning and task breakdownaddyosmaniMITClaude Code plugin
Planning with filesOthmanAdiMITClaude Code plugin, Skills CLI or manual

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