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Skills that do the job with you

A playbook shows you how to do a task with AI. These go one step further. CoworkOS gives your assistant a memory of how you work, and each skill teaches Claude a method so it can do a task with you from a single request. All free, open source, and built for people who have never opened a terminal.

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CoworkOS

A structured home for your AI assistant.

Instead of starting every chat from scratch, CoworkOS gives your AI assistant a small set of plain text files that remember who you are, what you are working on and how you like things done. Each area of your work or life gets its own folder, so the right context loads for the right task. It is the same kind of setup I use every day.

What's inside

  • A routing system that sends each task to the right area of your work or life
  • A memory that carries across sessions and only saves what you approve
  • A starter list of 15 common life areas, so setup begins from a menu, not a blank page
  • An end-of-session check that catches corrections and decisions before they are forgotten
  • A filled-in example, so you can see how it works before building your own

Made for: Anyone who uses an AI assistant across several parts of their work or life and is tired of re-explaining themselves. Built for Claude Cowork, and works with other AI tools that can read and write files.

Adapted from Jeff Su's Claude Cowork tutorials.

Skill for Claude

meeting-design

Design the meeting before you run it.

Describe the meeting you are about to call and it gives you back a ready-to-send agenda: the decision named, how it will be made, who actually needs to be there, and a plan for what happens if the room cannot agree.

What's inside

  • A straight answer on whether it needs to be a meeting at all
  • One sentence naming the decision
  • The attendee list cut to the people who matter
  • A timed agenda and a plan for deadlock
  • Two fill-in templates you can paste into a calendar invite

Made for: Anyone who chairs meetings without "facilitator" in their job title: ops leads, account managers, project managers, agency leads, community organisers.

Skill for Claude

work-design

Design the work before you do it.

Nine skills for the moments where one deliberate decision saves the rework later: whether to install a tool, whether to keep paying for one, what to hand to AI and what to keep, and how to scope a piece of work before it grows.

What's inside

  • before-you-install: vets a tool's privacy policy and terms before you sign up
  • stack-audit: finds the subscriptions you can cancel
  • switch-cost: what breaks before you leave a tool
  • scope-the-work: writes the in list, the out list and when it counts as done
  • delegate: decides what to hand to AI and what to keep
  • Four more for estimating, choosing a channel and carrying context between chats

Made for: Anyone who uses Claude at work and wants it to make a decision with them, not just produce text.

Each one's GitHub page has step-by-step setup instructions, and none of them need a terminal. All three are MIT licensed, so you can use, copy and adapt them freely.

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