claude-skills

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.

Designing conversational flows for website chatbots and AI agents. Intent recognition architecture, branching logic, fallback handling, escalation to human, conversation analytics. Honest about scripted-bot (rigid trees, fail edge cases), hallucinating-bot (LLM without structure, makes things up), and structured-guided-conversation (LLM-powered with intent architecture and fallback discipline) patterns. Distinguishes chatbot DESIGN (this skill) from chatbot IMPLEMENTATION (engineering and platform work). Triggers on chatbot, conversational AI, AI agent, chat widget, intent design, conversational flow, bot escalation, LLM grounding. Also triggers when a chatbot is hallucinating, when a scripted bot is failing edge cases, or when a chatbot is being scoped for the first time.

Review web application code for bugs, security issues, performance problems, and stack-specific anti-patterns. Use this skill whenever the user wants to review code, debug a production issue, investigate a build failure, audit security, or check a PR before merging. Triggers on code review, review my code, debug, build error, broken, not working, why is X failing, check this code, security check, PR review, audit code, refactor. Also triggers when investigating 4xx or 5xx errors, deploy failures, environment variable issues, and CMS integration problems.

Designing side-by-side comparison tools (plan-compare, product-compare, alternative-compare) that help users decide rather than just listing features. Axis selection, default-comparison logic, recommendation discipline. Honest about feature-list-dump (every feature in a row, no decision support), hidden-recommendation (biased comparison pretending to be neutral), and honest-comparison-with-guidance (genuine comparison plus opinionated recommendation) patterns. Triggers on comparison tool, plan compare, product compare, alternative compare, vs page, decision support tool. Also triggers when conversion through comparison stages is poor, when users are abandoning at the comparison step, or when a comparison tool 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.

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.

Content distribution as a discipline. Owned channels (newsletter, blog, social), earned channels (PR, syndication, mentions), paid channels (boosted posts, syndication networks), and the channel-fit decisions that distinguish strategic distribution from spam-everywhere. Audience-channel matching, content-channel matching, distribution cadence. Triggers on content distribution, channel strategy for content, owned earned paid channels, content amplification, content promotion, audience-channel matching, content-channel matching, distribution cadence, syndication strategy, organic distribution. Also triggers when content is publishing but reach is low, when the team is distributing on every channel without strategy, or when the content program needs a distribution discipline rather than just publication.

Move content between platforms, domains, or URL structures while preserving SEO equity, user bookmarks, and integrations. Use this skill when planning a CMS migration, replatforming, consolidating sites, changing URL structures, or merging content from multiple sources. Triggers on content migration, replatform, CMS migration, domain migration, URL restructure, redirect map, site merge, content consolidation, migration plan, post-migration drop. Also triggers when planning a launch that involves moving existing content.

Systematic content refresh discipline. Quarterly audits, refresh prioritization (which pieces, when, how deep), refresh-vs-merge-vs-delete decisions, the lifecycle that distinguishes intentional refresh from set-and-forget decay. Builds on the refresh sections of pillar-content-architecture and editorial-qa with a program-level discipline. Triggers on content refresh, content decay, content audit, refresh prioritization, content lifecycle, refresh strategy, traffic decay, ranking drop, content freshness, evergreen content, content maintenance. Also triggers when traffic is eroding silently across an aging content library, when teams cannot decide which pieces to refresh, or when refresh work is happening but the impact is unclear.

Cross-format content adaptation. Turning one substantial piece into many derivative formats (blog series, email sequences, social posts, webinars, podcasts, video shorts) without losing the original's value or producing AI-slop variants. The discipline of adaptation per medium rather than mass-blast distribution. Triggers on content repurposing, content adaptation, cross-format content, content atomization, content multiplication, content distribution across formats, source-piece-to-derivative, video shorts from blog, email from whitepaper, podcast from article, blog series from research. Also triggers when a flagship piece is shipping but the team has not planned how to extend it across formats, when repurposing is happening but the derivatives feel mass-produced, or when AI-assisted repurposing is producing slop variants of strong source pieces.

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.

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.

Create or refine a creative brief that bridges discovery and execution. Use this skill whenever the user is starting a new project, kicking off a website, beginning a brand build or redesign, briefing a designer or developer or AI agent, or trying to align a team before building. Triggers on creative brief, design brief, brand brief, project kickoff, kicking off, briefing the team, project intake, design direction, brief the designer, brief the dev, where do we start, how do we start, write a brief, project overview, scope this project, align on direction. Also triggers when the user has a vague idea and needs to make it concrete enough to hand off, even if they do not say 'brief' explicitly.

Walk the user through four directional axes (tone register, aesthetic philosophy, audience relationship, sensory ambition) and produce a structured aesthetic brief that downstream content, copy, design, and art-direction skills consume as required input. The aesthetic depth layer, distinct from `creative-brief` (operational kickoff: scope, audience, deliverables, constraints). Use when a project needs aesthetic coherence across many small decisions and the user has only a vague feeling, or when multiple downstream aesthetic-producing skills need a shared brief. Triggers on creative direction, aesthetic direction, set the aesthetic, define the visual direction, what's the vibe, what's the tone, the four axes. Does NOT fire for a general kickoff brief (use `creative-brief`), tactical single-piece work, already-documented direction, purely functional output, or locked production-stage work.

Run conversion rate optimization through hypothesis-driven testing including audit, hypothesis generation, test design, statistical analysis, and rollout decisions. Use this skill whenever the user wants to optimize conversion, run A/B tests, audit a funnel, generate test hypotheses, design experiments, or analyze test results. Triggers on conversion optimization, CRO, A/B test, split test, multivariate test, hypothesis, conversion funnel, funnel audit, experiment design, statistical significance, lift, optimization. Also triggers when the user has a conversion problem and isn't sure where to start, or when test results are ambiguous and need interpretation.

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.

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.

Apply production-grade design standards when building or reviewing pages, components, or UI. Use this skill whenever the user asks to build a page, design a component, lay out a section, review the UI, fix the layout, or check design quality. Triggers on build a page, create a component, design a section, hero, card, CTA, layout, review the UI, fix the design, design system, design tokens, spacing, typography scale, button standards, mobile design. Also triggers for any production design decision where contrast, accessibility, spacing, or visual hierarchy matters.

Build or audit a design system including component library, design tokens, naming conventions, contribution model, and documentation. Use this skill whenever the user wants to build a design system, audit an existing system, define design tokens at the system level, structure a component library, or set up design system governance. Triggers on design system, component library, design tokens, atomic design, atoms, molecules, organisms, design system documentation, Storybook, Figma library, system governance, design contribution model. Also triggers when teams are inconsistent across products and a system is the answer.

Turning research artifacts into actionable PM insight. Customer interviews, user research notes, support ticket reviews, sales call transcripts, survey data, in-app feedback, all synthesized into the decisions they are meant to inform. The discipline of moving from raw discovery data to clear product direction without losing signal in the synthesis or fabricating insight that was not actually there. Triggers on research synthesis, customer interview synthesis, user research analysis, discovery readout, research insights, sales call analysis, support ticket analysis, qualitative data analysis. Also triggers when a team has done research but cannot turn it into decisions, when synthesis is producing pretty decks but no roadmap movement, or when an upcoming PM decision needs to be grounded in research already conducted.