š¤¹ What Can Claude Skills Automate?
I recently saw a reel where a girl was recording a Skill with Claude to find newly posted real-estate apartments every day.
She had specific filters - location, price, etc. and Claude would go through the new listings, find the ones that matched, collect all the relevant information, and create a spreadsheet with the results every day.
As someone who is not really very tech-savvy, I thought: this could be really useful for setting up small automations in an easy way =)
And now I want to brainstorm.
What else can we do with Claude Skills?
What repetitive things do you do every day that could be recorded as a Skill and then handled by Claude?
Maybe finding new opportunities, monitoring competitors, researching potential customers, collecting specific information, preparing reportsā¦?
Iām sure there are many more interesting use cases I havenāt even thought of.
Have you actually used Claude Skills for something like this? What did you record?
Letās brainstorm. š
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Most of my day is handing work over rather than doing it, and almost none of it needs you to be a developer.
Slide decks. I say what the deck has to argue and who's in the room, and it comes back written and laid out. I edit instead of building.
The contact forms on my sites. Every message that comes in gets read, sorted, and a reply drafted in the right tone for whichever product it came from. I read the drafts and press send.
Meeting recordings. The video goes in, the transcript comes back, and with it a note of what was decided and what I agreed to do.
Paper. I scan it, it gets read, renamed to the date and the title, and filed where it belongs. I haven't named a file by hand in months. Same with turning a document into something the copy shop down the road can print.
The morning numbers. One instruction, and how many people came to my sites yesterday, where from and what they read, arrives as a single page I read with coffee.
Writing. For one site it looks up what's already winning on a topic, then writes something better than all of it, all day.
And the developer half, which I'll keep short since most people here aren't: the same idea applied to building and shipping the software itself.
What makes any of it work isn't technical skill. It's being able to say exactly what a finished piece of work looks like. If you could explain it to a new assistant on their first day, you can record it.
The part people find strange: nine tenths of my working hours are now spent with agents, one tenth with people. It isn't lonely. It's the most satisfying my work has been in 22 years, because the hours that went into repeating myself now go into deciding what to make.
@hisashispaceĀ Cool! So much work is handled by the agents!
I liked that it doesnāt feel lonely for you - being surrounded by AI agents =)
@adanaĀ Yes, and they answer me straight away even in the middle of the night. The more you raise them the more loyal they get, so there's no stress in it at all!
The one I actually kept is the boring one. Every month I used to rebuild the same marketing report by hand out of four exports, and now that whole thing is a recorded set of steps I just run. My test is whether the task repeats and I already know the exact steps, because anything fuzzier than that I still end up redoing myself.
@yelyzaveta_kibetsĀ Yes, I think the steps need to be very clear for the automation to work well.
@adanaĀ Exactly that. The moment I have to explain a step twice it is not ready to hand over yet. Thanks for the thread, it made me go back and prune my own list.
@yelyzaveta_kibetsĀ Thank you too for always sharing your experience with us <3
I built a Claude plugin for āfinding relevant conversations" - Claude browses social sites in your own Chrome, saves relevant thread urls, and drafts replies for you using your existing Claude subscription.
I have to rewrite almost everything it drafts but at least it's finding conversations like this one.
@everydaylentilsĀ Oh, great!
I made a Chrome extension that gives you a quick summary of the person youāre replying to.
When youāre talking to a lot of people, sometimes itās hard to remember what product they made, what you talked about before, or which other threads you interacted in.
With the extension, you get a short summary of your previous interactions and their product, so you can have the context right there before replying.
Iāve seen someone made a skill that can generate the cover and title that suits each platform and upload them automatically. For me, I'm trying to automate the process of choosing a topic for SEO content. Technology changes life indeed. :D
@mindyorziĀ Do you try to do that automation using Claude Skills?
@adanaĀ I'm using GLM, because that's cheaper haha, but the result is not very satisfying for now.
@mindyorziĀ I seeā¦ Which part is the least successful in that process?
The apartment-hunting one is a great example because it's boring and repetitive, which is exactly where skills shine. On my side I've been using them for the same kind of thing at work: pulling competitor pricing pages into a comparison table each week, and turning messy meeting notes into a follow-up list. The trick I've learned is to keep each skill doing one narrow job. The moment you try to make one skill do five things, it gets flaky.
@tony_tan10086Ā Good one with pricing pages =) Taking it !