Field notes from the skill economy
Guides, playbooks, and honest write-ups on buying and selling Claude Skills & Agents — pricing, packaging, discovery, and the workflows people actually use.
Use Cases
8 postsSeven Claude Skills That Killed the Tasks Nobody on My Team Wanted
Not a sponsored list. A two-week audit of what our six-person team stopped doing by hand, with honest hours — and the one skill we returned.
Five Writing Skills Every Content Team Should Own
Most of a content team's day isn't writing. It's the chores around writing. These five Claude skills clear the chores so the human spends time where a human is actually needed.
How Researchers Are Using Claude Agents to Read 100 Papers a Week
Literature reviews used to eat the first month of a project. Here's how research teams use agents to triage and summarize the pile — and why the agent compresses the search but never does the thinking.
Best Claude Skills for Designers in 2026
Spec generators that read a screen, accessibility auditors, UX copy partners, research synthesizers, design-system housekeepers. None of them does the design. They do everything around it — and that's the point.
I Automated My Month-End Close — Except the Part That Matters
A finance lead cut her two-day month-end reporting slog to an afternoon with a single Claude Skill. The speed was nice. The guardrails are why she still trusts the numbers.
Stop Signing Small Contracts Blind: Contract-Review Skills for Small Teams
Small companies sign the contracts they can't afford to have a lawyer read, then find out what they agreed to later. Here's where a contract-review skill earns its keep — and the exact line where a human lawyer still has to take over.
Marketing Teams Are Quietly Replacing Five Copy Tools With One Claude Agent
The creation layer of the marketing stack got bloated with single-purpose copy tools that each do 10% of a job. Some teams are collapsing that layer into one agent that takes a brief and ships every asset in one voice. Here's what that actually looks like.
Data Cleaning Is Boring. The Right Claude Skill Makes It Bearable
Eighty percent of data work is cleaning, and all of it is tedious. Here's how a careful data-prep skill handles the drudgery — with a real messy dataset and what it flagged — without quietly corrupting the numbers you ship.