Productivity
Productivity agent skills automate everyday work: task management, email drafting, calendars, note-taking systems, and personal workflows. Each is a small SKILL.md file your AI agent applies automatically when your request matches what the skill does.
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ferroxlabs Skill Executive Function Coach 2Practical strategies for planning, task initiation, working memory, task switching, emotional regulation, and building executive function support systems. Use when the user asks about executive function coach, related techniques, best practices, or needs guidance in this domain. Do NOT use when the request is outside the scope of executive function coach or requires a different specialized skill.
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ferroxlabs Skill Vegetable Garden Planning 2Creates a vegetable garden plan with bed sizing, crop selection based on USDA hardiness zone, companion planting guidelines, and a zone-aware planting calendar. Produces a complete garden layout with planting schedule and expected harvest windows. Use when the user asks about starting a vegetable garden, planning garden beds, choosing vegetables to grow, companion planting, or creating a planting schedule based on their location. Do NOT use for ornamental garden design, indoor gardening (use indoor-plant-care), commercial farming, or flower garden planning.
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ferroxlabs Skill Context Switching Reduction 2Designs a personal work context system that minimizes cognitive switching costs. Groups tasks by context, assigns time blocks, sets transition rules, and produces a context-optimized schedule. Use when the user asks about reducing context switching, batching similar work, minimizing distractions, or improving focus by grouping related tasks. Do NOT use for general time blocking (use time-blocking), email-specific management (use inbox-zero), or team workflow optimization (use business operations skills).
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ferroxlabs Skill Retrospective Facilitation 2Creates agile retrospective agendas and facilitation guides with question sets, activity structures, action item formats, and follow-up tracking for team improvement. Use when the user asks about retrospectives, sprint retrospectives, team retros, post-mortems, or agile improvement ceremonies. Do NOT use for incident post-mortems (different format), project status updates (use status-update), or meeting agendas unrelated to team improvement (use meeting-agenda).
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ferroxlabs Skill Behavioral Interview Prep 2Takes any behavioral interview question and the user's relevant experience, then writes a complete STAR-format answer (Situation, Task, Action, Result) ready to deliver in an interview. Produces polished, natural-sounding answers with specific details and quantified results. Use when the user is preparing for a behavioral interview, wants to practice STAR answers, needs help structuring their experience into interview responses, or is asked "Tell me about a time when..." questions. Do NOT use for technical interview preparation (use technical-interview-prep), case interview preparation (use case-interview-prep), or general interview question prediction (use interview-question-anticipator).
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ferroxlabs Skill Networking Message Writer 2Writes professional networking messages for three scenarios: informational interview requests, reconnecting with dormant contacts, and introduction requests. Produces complete, ready-to-send message text optimized for response rate on LinkedIn or email. Use when the user wants to request an informational interview, reconnect with a former colleague, ask for an introduction, or write a professional networking message. Do NOT use for cold emails to hiring managers (use cold-outreach-email), recruiter messages (use recruiter-outreach), or post-interview follow-ups (use thank-you-email-writer).
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ferroxlabs Skill Accountability System Design 2Designs personalized accountability systems for habit and goal maintenance, including accountability partner structures, check-in formats, commitment contracts, and progress reporting templates. Gathers the user's goals and social context, then produces a complete accountability framework with partner selection criteria, meeting agendas, and escalation protocols. Use when the user asks about accountability partners, staying accountable to goals, creating check-in systems, commitment devices, or building social support for habit change. Do NOT use for clinical supervision structures, addiction recovery sponsorship, or group therapy facilitation.
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ferroxlabs Skill Portfolio Rebalancing Coach 2Portfolio rebalancing education covering target allocation setting, drift threshold strategies, calendar vs threshold triggers, tax-efficient rebalancing methods, rebalancing across multiple account types, and behavioral coaching to maintain discipline through market volatility. Use when the user asks about portfolio rebalancing coach, related techniques, best practices, or needs guidance in this domain. Do NOT use when the request is outside the scope of portfolio rebalancing coach or requires a different specialized skill.
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ferroxlabs Skill Distributed Meeting Facilitator 2Design and facilitate effective meetings for distributed teams by choosing between async and synchronous formats, maximizing engagement across time zones, leveraging collaboration tools, and building meeting cultures that respect everyone's time Use when the user asks about distributed meeting facilitator, related techniques, best practices, or needs guidance in this domain. Do NOT use when the request is outside the scope of distributed meeting facilitator or requires a different specialized skill.
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ferroxlabs Skill Photography Style Development 2Identifies a user's visual preferences from described examples, extracts the defining characteristics including color treatment, contrast, subject selection, and composition, and produces a personal photography style guide with specific settings targets. Applicable to any camera and processor. Use when the user asks to develop a photography style, create visual consistency, define their aesthetic, or build a cohesive portfolio look. Do NOT use for single-photo composition (use composition-guide), camera settings for a specific shot (use exposure-triangle), or photo editing steps (use photo-editing-workflow).
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ferroxlabs Skill Family Meeting Framework 2Provides a structured framework for regular family meetings with agenda templates, age-appropriate participation strategies, decision-making processes, and follow-through tracking. Produces complete meeting formats with time allocations, facilitation scripts, and action item systems. Use when the user asks about holding family meetings, creating a family decision-making process, or establishing regular family communication routines. Do NOT use for family therapy sessions, crisis intervention, or workplace meeting facilitation.
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ferroxlabs Skill First Contribution Guide 2Navigate your first open source contribution from finding issues through submitting pull requests with proper etiquette and workflow Use when the user asks about first contribution guide, related techniques, best practices, or needs guidance in this domain. Do NOT use when the request is outside the scope of first contribution guide or requires a different specialized skill.
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ferroxlabs Skill Adventure Activity Planner 2Plans adventure activities for travel trips including activity selection, booking sequences, gear checklists, and difficulty assessments. Produces a step-by-step booking workflow with decision criteria at each stage. Use when the user asks about planning adventure activities abroad, booking outdoor experiences, creating activity itineraries for active trips, or organizing multi-day adventure excursions. Do NOT use for general trip itinerary building (use trip-itinerary-builder), fitness training plans (use health-wellness skills), or competitive sports preparation (use hobbies-crafts skills).
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ferroxlabs Skill Family Meeting Facilitator 2Structured family meeting guide with agenda templates, age-appropriate participation strategies, conflict resolution frameworks, goal setting, calendar coordination, financial discussions, and gratitude sharing practices. Use when the user asks about family meeting facilitator, or needs help with structured family meeting guide with agenda templates, age-appropriate participation strategies, conflict resolution frameworks, goal setting, calendar coordination, financial discussions, and gratitude sharing practices. Do NOT use when the request requires professional specialized advice or falls outside the scope of family meeting facilitator.
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nota-america Bundle Playwright 2Use when the task requires automating a real browser from the terminal (navigation, form filling, snapshots, screenshots, data extraction, UI-flow debugging) via `playwright-cli` or the bundled wrapper script.
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nota-america Skill Ralph Loop 2Start a Ralph Loop for iterative self-referential development. Use when the user asks to run a ralph loop, start an iterative loop, or wants repeated autonomous iteration on a task until completion.
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nota-america Skill Gws Gmail 2Gmail: Send, read, and manage email.
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nota-america Skill Gws Tasks 2Google Tasks: Manage task lists and tasks.
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nota-america Skill Gws Calendar 2Google Calendar: Manage calendars and events.
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nota-america Skill Gws Workflow 2Google Workflow: Cross-service productivity workflows.
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ferroxlabs Skill Thank You Email Writer 2Writes a post-interview thank-you email that reinforces the user's candidacy, references a specific conversation moment from the interview, and includes a natural follow-up question. Produces a complete email with subject line ready to send within 24 hours of the interview. Use when the user just finished an interview and wants to send a thank-you email, needs help writing a follow-up after an interview, or wants to reinforce their candidacy. Do NOT use for cold outreach emails (use cold-outreach-email), recruiter messages (use recruiter-outreach), or networking messages (use networking-message-writer).
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ferroxlabs Skill Moving With Children 2Produces child-specific task layers for household moves including age-appropriate conversation guides, school transition checklists, emotional preparation strategies, and child-focused moving day plans. Supplements the general moving-checklist with tasks specific to relocating with children of different developmental stages. Use when the user asks about moving with kids, helping children adjust to a move, or child-specific moving logistics. Do NOT use for general moving logistics without children (use moving-checklist), international relocation, or child custody and relocation legal issues (consult an attorney).
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ferroxlabs Skill Preventive Care Scheduler 2Age-based screening recommendations, vaccine schedules, routine checkup planning, and health tracking calendar templates for proactive preventive healthcare management Use when the user asks about preventive care scheduler, related techniques, best practices, or needs guidance in this domain. Do NOT use when the request is outside the scope of preventive care scheduler or requires a different specialized skill.
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ferroxlabs Skill Seasonal Planting Calendar 2Creates a zone-aware planting calendar based on USDA hardiness zone and frost dates, with planting windows for vegetables, herbs, and cool/warm-season crops. Includes succession planting schedules and seed-starting timelines. Use when the user asks when to plant specific crops, needs a planting schedule for their zone, wants to know seed-starting dates, or asks about succession planting for extended harvests. Do NOT use for full garden design and layout (use vegetable-garden-planning), plant problem diagnosis (use plant-care-troubleshooting), or indoor houseplant schedules (use indoor-plant-care).
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nota-america Bundle Tzst 2Use when the user needs to create, extract, flatten, list, test, install, script, or troubleshoot `tzst` CLI workflows for `.tzst` or `.tar.zst` archives, including compression levels, streaming mode, extraction filters, conflict resolution, JSON output, or standalone binary setup, even if they describe the archive task without naming `tzst`.
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nota-america Skill Ponytail 2Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. Channels a senior dev who has seen everything: question whether the task needs to exist at all (YAGNI), reach for the standard library before custom code, native platform features before dependencies, one line before fifty. Supports intensity levels: lite, full (default), ultra. Use whenever the user says "ponytail", "be lazy", "lazy mode", "simplest solution", "minimal solution", "yagni", "do less", or "shortest path", and whenever they complain about over-engineering, bloat, boilerplate, or unnecessary dependencies.
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nota-america Bundle Social 2When the user wants help creating, scheduling, or optimizing social media content for LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, or other platforms, or wants to do social listening and engagement triage. Also use when the user mentions 'LinkedIn post,' 'Twitter thread,' 'social media,' 'content calendar,' 'social scheduling,' 'engagement,' 'viral content,' 'what should I post,' 'repurpose this content,' 'tweet ideas,' 'LinkedIn carousel,' 'social media strategy,' 'grow my following,' 'TikTok video,' 'Reels,' 'Shorts,' 'video script,' 'video hook,' 'short-form video,' 'create a reel,' 'social listening,' 'brand mentions,' 'competitor monitoring,' 'top posts to comment on,' or 'find people asking for.' Use this for social media content creation, repurposing, scheduling, short-form video scripting, and social listening. For broader content strategy, see content-strategy. For paid ads, see ad-creative. For earned media, see public-relations.
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nota-america Skill Gws Gmail Send 2Gmail: Send an email.
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nota-america Skill Gws Calendar Agenda 2Google Calendar: Show upcoming events across all calendars.
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nota-america Skill Gws Calendar Insert 2Google Calendar: Create a new event.
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nota-america Skill Recipe Find Free Time 2Query Google Calendar free/busy status for multiple users to find a meeting slot.
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nota-america Skill Recipe Block Focus Time 2Create recurring focus time blocks on Google Calendar to protect deep work hours.
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nota-america Skill Recipe Create Task List 2Set up a new Google Tasks list with initial tasks.
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nota-america Skill Recipe Email Drive Link 2Share a Google Drive file and email the link with a message to recipients.
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nota-america Skill Recipe Create Meet Space 2Create a Google Meet meeting space and share the join link.
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nota-america Skill Recipe Post Mortem Setup 2Create a Google Docs post-mortem, schedule a Google Calendar review, and notify via Chat.
Frequently asked questions
What are Productivity agent skills?
Productivity agent skills automate everyday work: task management, email drafting, calendars, note-taking systems, and personal workflows. Each is a small SKILL.md file your AI agent applies automatically when your request matches what the skill does.
Which Productivity skills are most installed?
Popular Productivity skills on SkillMD right now include executive-function-coach, vegetable-garden-planning, context-switching-reduction. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" for the live list.
Do Productivity skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?
Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.