4 Maximizing productivity with skills and schedules

All the work you’ve done so far with Claude has been a conversation which started with you telling Claude what you wanted. You can be brief, and Claude usually makes good assumptions and inferences for the bits you miss out, but if you put more time into your prompts you get better results. Which gets a bit tedious the next time you want to do the same sort of work. You either start from scratch and keep refining the goal on your turns, going through the same evolution you’ve already done. Or you search for the previous conversation and copy and paste the best prompt. That very quickly turns your delight at Claude’s capabilities into frustration that you need to keep repeating yourself.

4.1 The skills behind the deliverables

4.2 Try it now — produce a stakeholder project pack

4.3 Creating custom skills for your workflow

4.4 Try it now — write a custom skill to generate ADRs

4.5 Try it now — use your skill to generate an ADR

4.6 Producing consistent outputs with skills

4.7 Scheduled tasks: Recurring and on-demand automation

4.8 Try it now — schedule a daily repo digest

4.9 Plugins: Bundling skills, connectors, and agents

4.10 Try it now — install my plugin and create a GitHub issue

4.11 Designing automation workflows

4.12 Your turn: Put your project on a maintenance schedule

4.13 Summary