Claude Skills Playground

A collection of custom skills for Claude Code that extend Claude’s capabilities with specialized workflows and tools.

What Are Claude Skills?

Claude skills are packages that provide Claude with specialized knowledge and workflows for specific tasks. Each skill contains instructions, scripts, and assets that enable Claude to perform complex multi-step operations autonomously.

Available Skills

🍕 Family Menu Generator (family-menu)

Creates beautiful, protein-focused weekly dinner menus for families with research capabilities.

Key Features:

• Protein-focused meal planning
• Leftover detection and planning
• Local restaurant recommendations
• Seasonal ingredient research
• Random beautiful PDF designs (5 styles)
• Homemade Pizza Fridays
• Print-ready 8.5x11 PDFs

Use when: Planning weekly family dinners, creating refrigerator menus, or meal planning assistance.

💡 Brainstorming (brainstorm-it)

Refines rough ideas into fully-formed designs through structured Socratic questioning and alternative exploration.

Key Features:

• Structured 4-phase ideation process
• Current state assessment
• Alternative approach exploration
• Incremental design validation
• Git worktree workflow integration
• Implementation planning

Use when: Creating or developing anything before writing code or implementation plans - transforms ideas into actionable designs.

📄 Resume Builder (resume-builder)

Generate beautiful, professionally designed resumes as 1-2 page PDFs.

Key Features:

• Clean, sophisticated layouts
• Job-specific tailoring
• Address verification workflow
• Optional cover letter generation
• Custom typography from included fonts
• ATS-friendly formatting

Use when: Creating professional resumes, tailoring applications to specific job postings, or generating matching cover letters.

📊 Quarterly Connection Assistant (quarterly-connect)

Strategic AI partner that guides employees through comprehensive quarterly performance reflections aligned with company values.

Key Features:

• Automatic company core values research via web search
• Structured 6-phase reflection process (wins, strengths, challenges, focus, career, feedback)
• Evidence-based, outcome-focused narrative building
• External success factor weighting (client impact, certifications, external learning)
• Executive-ready quarterly connection reports
• Quarter-aware date filtering (Q1-Q4)
• Iterative refinement through Socratic questioning

Use when: Preparing quarterly performance reviews, career development planning, manager 1:1 preparation, or tracking professional growth aligned with company values.

📊 Template Slide Deck (template-slide-deck)

Generate professional presentations by applying content to company-provided PowerPoint templates.

Key Features:

• Brand-consistent slide generation
• Template layout analysis and mapping
• Multiple content source support (text, documents, outlines)
• Intelligent content-to-slide mapping
• Visual validation workflow

Use when: Creating presentations using company templates, generating branded slide decks, or building presentations that match organizational design standards.

🔄 AutoClaude Task Converter (autoclaude-task-converter)

Convert single-file task backlogs (TASKS.md format) to AutoClaude’s multi-file spec structure.

Key Features:

• Parse markdown task files (TASKS.md, TODO.md)
• Generate structured spec directories with requirements.json, context.json, implementation_plan.json
• Status and priority mapping to AutoClaude conventions
• Automatic complexity assessment based on subtasks
• New project initialization with template structure
• Support for both detailed task blocks and simple checkbox tasks

Use when: Migrating existing task backlogs to AutoClaude, setting up new projects with AutoClaude-compatible task structure, or converting simple markdown todos to structured specs.

🧠 Thinking Frameworks (thinking-frameworks)

Multi-agent thinking frameworks for rigorous problem-solving and decision-making.

Key Features:

• Dialectical framework (thesis-antithesis-synthesis)
• Six Thinking Hats (parallel perspectives)
• First Principles (strip to fundamentals and rebuild)
• Composition Patterns for chaining frameworks together
• Automatic triage to select the best framework for a given problem

Use when: Evaluating competing approaches, making architecture decisions, challenging assumptions, comparing technologies, running post-mortems, writing RFP responses, or any task requiring multi-perspective analysis.

Installation

Each skill directory contains a pre-built .skill file ready for installation.

1. Find the .skill file inside the skill directory you want to install (e.g., family-menu/family-menu.skill)

2. Add to Claude Code:

   • Open Claude Code Settings
   • Navigate to the Skills section
   • Click “Add Skill”
   • Select the .skill file from the skill directory
   • Claude will automatically extract and load the skill

Skill Structure

Each skill directory follows this structure:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md              # Main instructions for Claude
├── scripts/              # Python/bash scripts (if needed)
├── assets/               # Fonts, images, templates (if needed)
├── references/           # Documentation, examples (if needed)
└── LICENSE.txt           # License information (if applicable)

The SKILL.md file contains:

• Frontmatter: Name, description, and metadata
• Instructions: Detailed workflow and guidelines for Claude
• Resources: Information about included scripts and assets

Usage

Once installed, skills are automatically available to Claude. Claude will recognize when to use each skill based on:

• The skill’s description in the frontmatter
• Context clues in your conversation
• Explicit requests (e.g., “Use the brainstorming skill to help me design this feature”)

Development

Creating New Skills

1. Create a new directory with your skill name
2. Add a SKILL.md file with frontmatter and instructions
3. Include any necessary scripts in a scripts/ directory
4. Add assets (fonts, templates, etc.) to an assets/ directory
5. Test the skill with Claude
6. Zip the directory for distribution

Modifying Existing Skills

1. Edit the appropriate SKILL.md or script files
2. Re-zip the skill directory
3. Re-upload to Claude Code (may need to remove old version first)

Requirements

Skills may have different dependencies:

• Family Menu Generator: Requires Python with reportlab library
• Brainstorm-it: No external dependencies
• Resume Builder: Requires Python with PDF generation libraries (e.g., reportlab)
• Quarterly Connection Assistant: No external dependencies (uses built-in web search)
• Template Slide Deck: Requires access to pptx skill and Python-based PowerPoint tools
• AutoClaude Task Converter: Requires Python 3.x (standard library only)
• Thinking Frameworks: No external dependencies

Check each skill’s SKILL.md or README.md for specific requirements.

Contributing

Feel free to:

• Report issues or suggest improvements
• Create new skills following the existing patterns
• Share your modified versions
• Submit pull requests with enhancements

License

Each skill may have its own license. Check the individual skill directories for license information.

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Note: These skills are designed for Claude Code and require the Claude interface to function. The zip files should contain all directory contents including the SKILL.md file, scripts, and assets.