Claude Skills

Personally curated, self-tested skills for Claude Code — an experimental attempt to make vibe coding actually useful.

Every skill here is a top-level directory containing a SKILL.md. That's the whole convention. Drop a folder in, follow that shape, and the installer below picks it up automatically — no list to update, no manifest to edit.

Install everything (one command)

Run from inside this repo. Both commands install every top-level directory that contains a SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills/. Re-running upgrades in place. Add a new skill tomorrow that follows the same structure → re-run the same command, it just works.

Linux / macOS (bash, zsh):

mkdir -p "$HOME/.claude/skills" && for d in */; do [ -f "${d}SKILL.md" ] || continue; rm -rf "$HOME/.claude/skills/${d%/}"; cp -R "$d" "$HOME/.claude/skills/"; done

Windows (PowerShell):

$dst = "$HOME\.claude\skills"; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $dst | Out-Null; Get-ChildItem -Directory | Where-Object { Test-Path (Join-Path $_.FullName 'SKILL.md') } | ForEach-Object { $t = Join-Path $dst $_.Name; if (Test-Path $t) { Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $t }; Copy-Item -Recurse -Force -Path $_.FullName -Destination $dst }

Want one skill instead of all of them? Just cp -R <skill-name>/ ~/.claude/skills/.

What each skill does

Skill	One-liner
deslop	Audit and harden AI-generated codebases. Two-phase workflow: structured multi-pass AUDIT.md, then safety-tiered fixes. Never touches business logic.
autonomous-research	Reads files in your active directory, runs exhaustive multi-round literature research, self-critiques in loops, and produces a publication-quality PDF. Built for "find the gap, write the thing."
people-sourcer	Builds real prospect / candidate / outreach lists. Iterative scraping across LinkedIn, Reddit, X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, GitHub. Per-person commentary, not generic blurbs. Outputs a multi-sheet xlsx.
pro-graphic-designer	End-to-end graphic design — posters, carousels, banners, thumbnails, decks, ad creatives. Audience research → reference mining (Behance / Pinterest / Dribbble) → copy → output as Canva / HTML / SVG / PDF.
worldbuilder-writing	Treats writing as applied psychology, not self-expression. The reusable engine for any blog post, email, pitch, script, landing page, or sales copy.
academic-paper	Format text as a publication-ready PDF using reportlab — title block, sectioning, tables, figures, references. White-papers, preprints, lit reviews.
consolidate-memory	Reflective pass over your CLAUDE.md / memory directory — merges duplicates, prunes stale facts, fixes the index.
docx	Read / edit / create Word documents. Tables of contents, headings, page numbers, tracked changes, comments, image insertion, find-replace.
pdf	Read text + tables, merge / split, rotate, watermark, fill forms, encrypt / decrypt, OCR scanned pages, extract images.
pptx	Read / edit / create PowerPoint decks. Templates, layouts, speaker notes, comments, combine / split.
xlsx	Read / edit / create spreadsheets. Formulas, formatting, charts, cleanup of malformed tabular data.
schedule	Create a scheduled task that runs on demand or on an interval.

How they connect

Some skills explicitly read another skill's SKILL.md mid-run. If you cherry-pick rather than installing the whole set, install the dependencies too — those skills degrade silently without them.

autonomous-research ──▶ academic-paper

people-sourcer ─┬─▶ worldbuilder-writing
                ├─▶ xlsx
                └─▶ pro-graphic-designer ──▶ worldbuilder-writing

Skill	Depends on	Why
autonomous-research	academic-paper	Final deliverable is a formatted PDF. autonomous-research literally Reads academic-paper before writing, then follows its reportlab workflow.
people-sourcer	worldbuilder-writing	Phase 0 (audience modeling) and the per-person commentary step both delegate to it. The skill explicitly states "this skill depends on it."
people-sourcer	xlsx	Phase 6 output is a multi-sheet xlsx. Read before generating.
people-sourcer	pro-graphic-designer	Architectural sibling — same scratchpad-driven, iterative-scraping shape. Cross-referenced for shared patterns.
pro-graphic-designer	worldbuilder-writing	Phase 0 (audience model) and Phase 4 (copy) both run through it.

worldbuilder-writing is the most-depended-on node — install it first if you're picking and choosing. The installer above grabs everything in one shot, so this only matters for cherry-pickers.

Why a BrightData token is required (for three of the skills)

Three skills are not "search the web a couple of times" skills — they are scraping pipelines:

• autonomous-research — multi-round structured scraping of search engines, papers, and arbitrary websites for its literature sweep.
• people-sourcer — ~40 calls per run across LinkedIn / Reddit / X / Instagram / TikTok / YouTube / GitHub to discover, dedupe, and enrich named individuals.
• pro-graphic-designer — Reddit / LinkedIn / Facebook / Instagram / research papers for audience signal, plus Behance / Pinterest / Dribbble for visual references.

All three load BrightData MCP tools at runtime via tool_search — search_engine, scrape_as_markdown, scrape_batch, and the platform-specific web_data_* extractors (web_data_linkedin_person_profile, web_data_reddit_posts, etc.). Those tools authenticate against your BrightData account using an API token.

Without the token:

• The tool_search calls return tools that fail at first invocation.
• Plain WebSearch + WebFetch cannot substitute. Most target platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, paywalled news, Behance) either block direct fetches, return JS-only shells, or rate-limit aggressively. BrightData's residential / unblocker layer is exactly what gets you past that — and the structured web_data_* endpoints return clean JSON instead of a brittle DOM scrape.
• The skills' iteration loops (round 1 broad → round 2 deep → enrichment) collapse to round 1 and the output is shallow.

The other nine skills don't need it. If you only run docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx, worldbuilder-writing, academic-paper, consolidate-memory, schedule, or deslop, you can skip BrightData entirely.

Setup: add the BrightData MCP server to your Claude config with your API token. The token belongs to you — never paste it into a SKILL.md or commit it to this repo.

Adding your own skill

1. Create a top-level folder: my-skill/.
2. Inside it, write a SKILL.md with frontmatter (name, description) and the body.
3. Add any scripts/, references/, assets/, examples/ it needs alongside SKILL.md.
4. Re-run the install one-liner. Done.

The installer detects skills by the presence of SKILL.md, so anything in this repo without one (LICENSE, README.md, .git/) is left alone.

Contributing

Open PRs welcome — new skills, improvements, fixes.

License

MIT

Contact

Karan Prasad — hello@KaranPrasad.com