Claude Skills by davekilleen

Use when technical debt needs linked code or operational evidence, deduplication, first-seen provenance, or impact, effort, confidence, and cost-of-delay prioritization.

Use when preparing a finance draft for a board or leadership review from dated actuals, budgets, forecasts, cash data, and decision context. Not for detailed line-item variance analysis; use variance-analysis.

Use when reporting the evidence-backed status of a named month-end or quarter-end close, its blockers, counted completion, and dependency path. Not for explaining budget variances; use variance-analysis.

Use when explaining a dated actual-versus-budget or actual-versus-forecast variance for a comparable finance period. Not for tracking close checklist completion; use close-status.

Document major decisions made

Review what should be delegated

Weekly synthesis of progress and priorities

Use when synthesizing dated customer conversations, feedback, or behavior evidence into audience or persona insight, especially when sources are numerous, repeated, time-bounded, or disagree.

Use when a completed or in-flight marketing campaign needs an evidence-backed review of its goal, baseline, targets, actuals, or learnings.

Use when inventorying content commitments, ideas, and schedule coverage for a specified period and timezone.

Use when comparing product or campaign messaging across content against a cited canonical baseline and its supporting evidence.

Use when a business or operational metric needs definition and source provenance checked, freshness and comparability validated, or an anomaly reviewed against a baseline and target.

Use when an operational process needs its start, end, owner, outcome, representative sample, measured queues or handoffs, bottleneck evidence, or controlled improvement experiment made explicit.

Synthesize recent customer feedback and pain points

Framework for making feature prioritization decisions

Review roadmap status, evidence freshness, blockers, and alignment

Create or update strategic account plan

Prepare a sourced, read-only brief for a person or account call

Review active deals from canonical activity evidence and surface unknowns

Analyze pipeline coverage and forecast confidence from configured sales definitions

Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow fields, or particle systems. Create original algorithmic art rather than copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.

Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.

Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When Claude needs to work with professional documents (.docx files) for: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, project updates, etc.).

Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with layouts, (4) Adding comments or speaker notes, or any other presentation tasks

Knowledge and utilities for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack. Provides constraints, validation tools, and animation concepts. Use when users request animated GIFs for Slack like "make me a GIF of X doing Y for Slack."

Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc. There are 10 pre-set themes with colors/fonts that you can apply to any artifact that has been creating, or can generate a new theme on-the-fly.

Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies (React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui). Use for complex artifacts requiring state management, routing, or shadcn/ui components - not for simple single-file HTML/JSX artifacts.

Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser logs.

Comprehensive spreadsheet creation, editing, and analysis with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization. When Claude needs to work with spreadsheets (.xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, .tsv, etc) for: (1) Creating new spreadsheets with formulas and formatting, (2) Reading or analyzing data, (3) Modify existing spreadsheets while preserving formulas, (4) Data analysis and visualization in spreadsheets, or (5) Recalculating formulas

Connect Jira and Confluence for project tracking and knowledge search. Use when the user says 'connect Jira', 'hook up Confluence', 'my tickets/board'. Not for a personal task app like Todoist/Things/Trello; use `todoist-setup`/`things-setup`/`trello-setup`.

Run a vault backup right now and report the verified result. Use when the user says 'back up now', 'take a backup before I do this', or is about to make a big change. Not for scheduling or changing where backups go (`backup-setup`); not for getting files back (`backup-restore`).

Verify a vault backup, prove it restores, or restore it to a folder of the user's choosing. Use when the user says 'restore my backup', 'test my backups', 'are my backups any good', or after data loss. Never overwrites the live vault. Not for taking a backup (`backup-now`); not for scheduling (`backup-setup`).

Set up automatic vault backups to a synced folder or a cloud provider, with verified archives and tiered retention. Use when the user says 'back up my vault', 'set up backups', 'where are my backups going', or asks about losing their notes. Not for restoring or testing a restore (`backup-restore`); not for a one-off backup right now (`backup-now`).

Grant Python calendar access for ~30x faster calendar queries. Use when the user says 'connect my calendar', 'calendar is slow', 'set up calendar access'. Not for connecting Google Workspace as a whole; use `google-workspace-setup`.

Reconcile the promises you made and the asks you received across meetings and notes into a clear owner/due/source list, then — only with your confirmation — turn the real ones into tracked tasks. Use when the user says 'what did I promise', 'what am I on the hook for', 'anything I owe people', 'loose ends', or after a run of meetings. Also use proactively during daily-plan/daily-review when uncaptured commitments surface. Not for tracking work you handed off to others; use `delegate-check`. N...

Build a brand-new MCP integration from scratch with a guided wizard. Use when the user wants Dex to talk to a tool that has no existing server — 'build an integration for X', 'Dex can't connect to Y yet'. Not for installing an MCP that already exists; use `integrate-mcp`. Not for a prompt-only workflow with no external tool; use `create-skill`.

Build today's plan from calendar, tasks, priorities and commitments, with smart scheduling suggestions. Use when the user says 'plan my day', 'what's on today', 'help me focus', or starts the morning. Also use proactively at the first session of the day. Not for reviewing a finished day; use `daily-review`.

Close out the day: what got done vs planned, meeting follow-ups, learnings, and tomorrow's focus. Use when the user says 'review my day', 'wrap up', 'end of day', or it's evening. Also use proactively when the day's work is clearly done. Not for setting up the morning; use `daily-plan`.

Capture an important decision with its context, options, rationale, and review date, then find it again when it matters.

Review open delegations — what you handed off, to whom, its status, and the next useful nudge. Use when the user says 'what did I delegate', 'who owes me', 'check my handoffs', 'follow up with someone'. Not for prepping a meeting; use meeting-prep.

Show the AI-ranked backlog of Dex system-improvement ideas. Use when the user says 'show my Dex ideas', 'what's in the backlog', 'what should we build next'. Not for workshopping one idea into a plan; use `dex-improve`. Not for discovering existing features; use `dex-level-up`.

Whole-system checkup: verifies every Dex feature honestly (working/off/broken/couldn't-check), self-heals what's provably safe, guides the rest. Use when the user says 'is Dex healthy', 'something's broken', 'check my setup', 'run diagnostics'. Not for discovering unused *features*; use `dex-level-up`. Not for applying an update; use `dex-update`.

Workshop one improvement idea into an implementation plan. Use when the user says 'let's flesh out idea-X', 'turn this into a plan', 'improve Dex's Y'. Not for ranking the whole backlog; use `dex-backlog`. Not for a PRD for the user's own product; use `product-brief`.

Turn on Obsidian mode and migrate the vault to wiki links. Use when the user says 'I use Obsidian', 'enable wiki links', 'make this work in Obsidian'. Not for connecting an external tool/API; use `create-mcp`/`integrate-mcp`.

Rewind one receipt-backed Dex adoption through the frozen lifecycle service. Use when the user says 'undo the update', 'go back', 'that broke something after updating'. Not for applying an update; use `dex-update`.

Preview and safely adopt a Dex update through the receipt-backed lifecycle (look → back up → apply → verify → rewindable). Use when the user says 'update Dex', 'install the new version', or a release notice appeared. Not for undoing an update; use `dex-rollback`. Not just seeing what changed; use `dex-whats-new`.