15 Must‑Have Claude Code Skills You’ll Want to Install Today

1. Evolution Skills: Making Claude Smarter Over Time

self-improving-agent records mistakes and corrections; after you correct Claude or a task fails, it logs the event and consults the log on similar future situations, giving the AI a memory that improves with use. clawhub install self-improving-agent proactive-agent changes Claude from a passive responder to an active executor, enabling scheduled tasks and automated workflows such as daily competitor monitoring or automatic change‑log generation on each code push.

clawhub install proactive-agent

2. Development Essentials

github lets Claude operate directly on GitHub—create branches, open PRs, manage issues, and check CI status—without leaving the chat. clawhub install github superpowers (by Jesse Vincent) provides a full development workflow: requirement clarification, design confirmation, task breakdown, TDD enforcement, and code generation, reducing AI‑generated drift in larger projects.

# Install from official plugin market
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official

waza (by tw93) offers a lightweight alternative that bundles common conventions—code style, commit format, document templates—without mandatory TDD, suitable for personal or small‑scale projects. clawhub install waza GitHub repository: https://github.com/tw93/waza

3. Information‑Retrieval Skills

multi-search-engine aggregates results from multiple search engines (e.g., Google and DuckDuckGo) before Claude answers, providing richer, more reliable research data. clawhub install multi-search-engine agent-browser gives Claude real browser control via Playwright, allowing it to click links, fill forms, take screenshots, and scrape pages—useful for price monitoring, conference‑room booking, or bulk form submission. Caution: it operates a real browser with elevated permissions. clawhub install agent-browser summarize condenses content from webpages, PDFs, images, audio, or video into key points, especially handy for long technical documents.

clawhub install summarize

4. Office‑Productivity Skills

gog automates Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Docs) actions—sending emails, organizing files, batch‑processing documents—through Claude commands. clawhub install gog notion enables Claude to read and write Notion pages and databases, supporting note organization, project‑status updates, and weekly report generation. clawhub install notion obsidian lets Claude search, create, and modify local Obsidian notes, including bidirectional‑link operations, streamlining knowledge‑base updates.

clawhub install obsidian

5. Security & Maintenance

skill-vetter is the first skill to install; it scans any new skill for requested permissions, suspicious code, and known risks, filtering out obvious threats from the open‑community marketplace. clawhub install skill-vetter auto-updater automatically updates all installed skills, useful for long‑running agents, though critical skills with high permissions should still be reviewed manually before updating.

clawhub install auto-updater

6. Distillation Skills (Recent Highlights)

dot-skill (formerly colleague‑skill) creates a personalized AI replica from a person’s chat logs, documents, and emails. It supports three personas: colleague (technical work style), relationship (personal contacts), and celebrity (public figures). Data sources include Feishu, DingTalk, Slack, WeChat, PDFs, and email.

Help me install this skill: https://github.com/titanwings/colleague-skill

After installation, invoke with /dot-skill. Project URL: https://github.com/titanwings/colleague-skill.

bazi-skill is a Claude‑based BaZi (four‑pillar) astrology tool that, given a birth date‑time, outputs traditional Chinese metaphysical analysis (day‑master strength, ten‑god relations, five‑element balance, etc.). Repository: https://github.com/jinchenma94/bazi-skill.

# Manual clone install
git clone https://github.com/jinchenma94/bazi-skill ~/.claude/skills/bazi-skill

Recommended Installation Order

Start with skill-vetter for safety, then self-improving-agent to give Claude memory. Follow with github (essential for developers) and the information‑retrieval trio summarize , agent-browser , and multi-search-engine . Install the remaining skills as your workflow demands.

The value of Skills lies in consistent use, not sheer quantity; a handful of well‑chosen Skills can dramatically boost productivity.