claude-skills

The Jobs-to-be-Done framework as applied product methodology. Job statements, struggling moments, hire and fire criteria, the difference between feature-thinking and job-thinking. Honest about where JTBD adds clarity (discovery, prioritization, positioning) and where it becomes performative ritual (job-statement workshops that do not drive decisions, persona-theater disguised as JTBD). Triggers on jobs-to-be-done, JTBD, job statements, struggling moments, hire criteria, fire criteria, switch triggers, functional emotional social jobs, outcome-driven innovation. Also triggers when a team is over-relying on feature-request lists or persona archetypes that do not drive product decisions, when a positioning conversation needs the framing JTBD provides, or when discovery is producing outputs that do not connect to product strategy.

Architecting cross-tool conversion flows that match audience and stage. Landing page to lead magnet to nurture sequence to offer to advanced funnels. Honest about silo-funnels (every tool standalone), kitchen-sink-funnels (every audience squeezed through one path), and matched-funnels (architecture matched to audience-and-stage) patterns. Triggers on funnel design, conversion architecture, marketing funnel, growth funnel, lifecycle architecture, nurture sequence design, multi-tool funnel orchestration. Also triggers when the team's growth tools are working individually but not together, when audience segments share one nurture path, or when a funnel is being architected from scratch.

How to author a content brief that actually guides a writer (human or AI) to produce a piece that ranks, converts, or both. Per-piece editorial brief: target keyword and cluster, search intent, audience and JTBD, heading structure, entity coverage for AEO/GEO, internal linking strategy, success criteria. The middle path between thin briefs (a keyword and a deadline) and thick briefs (a 4-page document nobody reads). Triggers on content brief, brief the writer, brief the article, brief authoring, content brief template, brief audit, per-piece brief, editorial brief, target keyword brief, search intent brief. Also triggers when briefing a human writer or an AI agent on a single content piece.

Audit existing content across a site to decide what to keep, update, merge, redirect, or delete. Use this skill whenever the user wants to audit existing content, fix content decay, resolve keyword cannibalization, prune underperforming pages, prioritize content updates, or apply a keep/update/merge/redirect/delete framework to a content library. Triggers on content audit, content decay, content refresh, cannibalization, keyword cannibalization, prune content, delete pages, redirect old pages, content inventory, what to keep, what to update, content scorecard, evergreen refresh. Also triggers when traffic is dropping site-wide and the cause might be content quality, even if 'audit' is not said explicitly.

Diagnose organic traffic changes (drops, stalls, or unexpected wins) using Ahrefs MCP plus Search Console data. Use this skill when traffic suddenly dropped, has been flat despite investment, after an algorithm update, after a migration or deploy, or when a competitor seems to be taking share. Triggers on traffic dropped, traffic decline, traffic stalled, organic decline, lost rankings, why is traffic down, algorithm update, post-migration traffic loss, traffic diagnosis. Also triggers when stakeholders are panicking about analytics.

Designing quizzes, personality assessments, and recommendation tools that segment users into actionable categories rather than generating clicks for clicks' sake. Question architecture, scoring algorithms, result categorization, recommendation mapping, lead capture integration. Honest about clickbait-quiz (engagement only), vanity-result (entertaining, not useful), and actionable-segmentation (genuine categorization that drives next-step recommendations) patterns. Triggers on quiz, assessment, personality test, recommendation tool, scorecard, diagnostic, fit evaluator, what-type-of-X-are-you, persona quiz. Also triggers when an audience needs a categorization-driven lead magnet, when a vanity quiz is producing engagement but no qualified leads, or when an assessment is being scoped for the first time.

Collecting and synthesizing user feedback across channels (support tickets, NPS, in-app feedback, sales calls, social mentions, customer councils) into a continuous signal that informs product decisions. The triage discipline that distinguishes loudest-voice (whoever complains most wins) from averaged-noise (every signal weighted equally) from triaged-synthesis (signal weighted by source quality, frequency, and decision relevance). Triggers on user feedback, customer feedback aggregation, NPS, support ticket analysis, customer councils, feedback synthesis, voice of customer, feedback triage, in-app feedback. Also triggers when feedback channels overflow with volume that does not produce decisions, when the loudest-voice problem is steering roadmap, or when continuous feedback streams need synthesis discipline.

Develop a content strategy covering editorial positioning, content pillars, formats, calendar, governance, and topical authority planning. Use this skill whenever the user wants to plan a content program, define content pillars, build an editorial calendar, structure topic clusters, set up content governance, or align content production with broader brand and SEO goals. Triggers on content strategy, content plan, editorial strategy, content pillars, content calendar, editorial calendar, topical authority, topic clusters, content governance, content roadmap, content production. Also triggers when the user is about to start producing content without a strategic plan.

How to read experiment results without fooling yourself. Confidence intervals, p-values, multiple testing, sequential testing, CUPED, heterogeneous treatment effects, ratio metrics, network effects, dashboard reconciliation, and the interpretation failures that produce confidently wrong shipping decisions.

Plan and run backups, set recovery objectives, and run disaster recovery drills. Use this skill when defining RPO/RTO targets, designing backup architecture, deciding what to back up and how often, planning for full-region or platform outages, or running a restoration drill. Triggers on backup, restore, RPO, RTO, disaster recovery, DR, business continuity, what if the database is gone, what if our hosting goes down, recovery drill, ransomware planning. Also triggers when an incident reveals a gap in restoration capability.

Master orchestrator for a full SEO audit suite powered by the Ahrefs MCP. Use this skill when running a comprehensive SEO audit, scoping a quarterly health check, doing pre-acquisition SEO due diligence, or post-migration verification. Triggers on full SEO audit, comprehensive SEO review, SEO health check, audit my site, SEO due diligence, audit suite, comprehensive audit, end-to-end SEO. Also triggers when a stakeholder wants the complete picture rather than a single-dimension audit.

Audit and reduce infrastructure and tooling costs without sacrificing reliability or velocity. Use this skill when reviewing monthly cloud or SaaS spend, finding unused resources, rightsizing infrastructure, negotiating vendor contracts, deciding what to consolidate, or planning for budget cuts. Triggers on cost optimization, cloud spend, SaaS spend, rightsizing, unused resources, FinOps, infrastructure audit, vendor consolidation, budget cut, cost review. Also triggers when finance flags rising costs or when a contract renewal is up.

Designing free-to-paid conversion flows for SaaS products. Trigger moments, paywall design, value demonstration, upsell vs downsell, win-back flows, churn prevention. Honest about paywall-everywhere (gates everything aggressively), free-forever-trap (no upgrade path surfaces), and value-triggered-upgrade (paywall surfaces at moments of demonstrated value) patterns. Triggers on upgrade flow, paywall, free-to-paid, freemium conversion, trial conversion, plan upgrade, subscription upgrade, win-back flow, churn prevention. Also triggers when free-to-paid conversion is low, when paywalls are blocking the wrong moments, or when upgrade flows are being scoped for the first time.

Operational discipline for feature flags as production infrastructure. Flag types, naming, targeting rules, rollout strategy, lifecycle, governance, stale flag management, and the technical debt patterns that bite teams who weren't deliberate about it.

Audit a backlink profile using Ahrefs MCP data: profile health, anchor text distribution, toxic link identification, lost link reclamation, and gap analysis against competitors. Use this skill when reviewing backlink health, scoping a disavow project, recovering from a manual action, planning link building, or doing M&A due diligence on a property's link equity. Triggers on backlink audit, link profile, toxic links, disavow, anchor text analysis, lost links, link reclamation, referring domains, link gap. Also triggers when traffic decline correlates with link loss or when an unnatural link warning appears in Search Console.

Manage third-party libraries, runtimes, and SaaS dependencies. Use this skill when setting an update cadence, responding to security advisories, dealing with deprecated dependencies, evaluating new dependencies, auditing what's installed, or unblocking a dependency upgrade. Triggers on dependency, package update, security patch, lockfile, deprecated, breaking change, supply chain, dependency audit, npm audit, dependabot, renovate. Also triggers when a build breaks after an update or when an advisory is published for a used package.

Designing interactive calculators (ROI calculators, pricing estimators, savings projections, mortgage calculators, custom assessments) that deliver real decision-support value while serving as lead magnets and qualified-traffic generators. Honest about vanity-calculator (no real value), lead-trap (hides the answer behind email), and transparent-decision-tool (gives the result and earns the email through tiered value) patterns. Triggers on calculator, ROI calculator, pricing estimator, savings calculator, custom calculator, interactive tool, decision tool, financial calculator. Also triggers when an audience needs a calculation-driven lead magnet, when a vanity calculator is producing leads but no qualified ones, or when a calculator is being scoped for the first time.

Write or edit website copy, blog content, and editorial pieces with attention to voice, structure, and goal. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write an article, draft website copy, edit existing content for clarity or voice, write a blog post, or produce general editorial content. Triggers on write a blog post, draft an article, write copy for, edit this, rewrite this, write content, write a guide, draft a how-to, write web copy. Also triggers when content has been outlined and now needs to be written, or when existing content needs voice or clarity edits.

Generate logo variants for a brand, producing multiple production-grade marks across different architectures (wordmark, lockup, symbol-only, letterform-as-symbol, monogram) with rationale, application specs, and decision-ready presentation. Distinct from `brand-identity`, which produces the complete system (logo plus color, type, voice, applications). Goes deep on the logo specifically: typographic register, symbol approach, application-context discipline (16px favicon, embroidery, signage, motion), and production specs (SVG-ready, single-color, reverse). Triggers on logo design, design a logo, wordmark, monogram, lockup, mark variants, logo iterations, redesign or refine the logo, logo refresh, letterform-as-symbol, and exploring mark variants for an established brand. Does NOT fire for full brand identity (use `brand-identity`), positioning or strategy (use `brand-discovery`), project-wide creative direction (use `creative-direction`), or one-off illustration.

Design and write email campaigns and sequences including onboarding flows, lifecycle campaigns, transactional emails, newsletters, broadcast sends, and launch and announcement emails. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write email copy, plan an email sequence, design an onboarding drip, or set up lifecycle email campaigns. Triggers on email sequence, drip campaign, onboarding email, lifecycle email, welcome email, transactional email, newsletter, email broadcast, launch email, announcement email, nurture sequence, abandoned cart, re-engagement, win-back. Also triggers when planning email automation flows or writing email subject lines for campaigns.

Design or evaluate a brand visual identity system covering logo, color, typography, imagery direction, iconography, and motion principles. Use this skill whenever the user wants to design a logo, build a visual identity, define brand colors, choose brand typography, develop iconography, plan brand imagery, or evaluate an existing identity for cohesion. Triggers on logo design, brand identity, visual identity, brand mark, wordmark, monogram, color palette, brand colors, brand typography, type system, iconography, brand imagery, motion design, brand system, identity system. Also triggers when the user has a brand direction approved and now needs the visual artifacts that express it.

Running experiments out of the data warehouse instead of via dedicated experiment platforms. SQL-based assignment, exposure logging discipline, metric definitions in dbt models, statistical analysis in SQL or Python, variance reduction with CUPED, sequential testing, and the operational tradeoffs vs platforms like Statsig and Optimizely. Triggers on warehouse-native experimentation, run experiments in BigQuery, run experiments in Snowflake, dbt experiments, SQL t-test, CUPED variance reduction, exposure log, sample ratio mismatch, sequential testing, mSPRT, doubly robust estimation, build vs buy experimentation. Also triggers when the team is choosing between platform and warehouse, building warehouse-native experiment infrastructure, auditing one, or running an experiment with a custom metric the platform cannot handle.

Run a comprehensive on-page SEO audit or optimization pass covering title tags, meta descriptions, header structure, content quality, internal links, image optimization, URL hygiene, and on-page schema. Use this skill whenever the user asks to optimize a page, audit on-page SEO, fix titles or meta tags, review header structure, check internal linking, improve a single URL's search performance, or write SEO-friendly copy. Triggers on on-page SEO, page audit, title tag, meta description, H1, header structure, internal links, image alt, URL slug, page optimization, optimize this page, SEO this page. Also triggers for any single-page review where ranking, click-through, or relevance signal quality is the goal, even if the user does not say 'SEO' explicitly.

Designing build-your-own product configurators (Tesla-style, custom-pricing, plan-builders) with constraint logic, real-time pricing, validation, and save-and-share mechanics. Honest about infinite-options (decision paralysis), canned-bundles-only (no real customization), and guided-configuration (smart defaults plus meaningful constraints plus escape hatches) patterns. Triggers on configurator design, build-your-own, custom configuration, plan builder, product customizer, configuration tool. Also triggers when users abandon mid-configuration, when configurator conversion is poor, or when a configurator is being scoped for the first time.

Run a comprehensive technical SEO audit covering crawlability, indexability, rendering, site architecture, structured data, page experience, security, and internationalization. Use this skill whenever the user asks about technical SEO, crawl issues, indexing problems, sitemaps, robots.txt, canonical tags, schema markup, page speed, Core Web Vitals, hreflang, redirects, or site-wide search performance. Triggers on technical SEO, site audit, crawlability, indexability, sitemap, robots.txt, canonical, redirect chain, schema, JSON-LD, Core Web Vitals, page speed, hreflang, mobile usability, HTTPS, security headers, render-blocking, JavaScript SEO. Also triggers when a site has indexing problems, traffic drops, or migration concerns, even if 'technical SEO' is not said explicitly.