I Tried 317 Claude Skills. These 7 Run My Life.

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]There's 317 Claude skills in this skills testing folder. I've just literally counted them all up. These are all skills from demo script writers, Instagram bio generators, carousel builders, YouTube overnight success, quit your job coaching skill, MVP, ICP builders. There are so many skills in here that I've either built or tried over say the last two months. And some of them are awesome. Some of these are absolute junk. And today I want to show you the seven that I use daily that basically run my life. Now, this first one is called my search and rescue skill. And it's quite simple on the face of it, but it actually helps me not lose all of my best ideas that are buried through transcripts and conversations and general work throughout the day. Now, I actually run this in Claude Co-work, and it runs on top of my main file vault, which has an inbox and a transcript section, which is perfect for this. Let me show you how it works. Can you go through my recent transcripts in my inbox and find all of the best ideas in there? And that's all I'm going to have to actually prompt because Search and Rescue is going to do the rest for me based on how I've trained it. So, you'll see it's going through my recent transcripts in my inbox. My inbox is where all of my fresh stuff from a day lands before it gets filed away into my bigger business brain. And this includes things from calls I've had, sessions I've attended, Instagram reels I'm posting. I've just started firing up my Instagram as well. So, if you like what I do, there's a little bit more of my day-to-day life with AI and Cornwall if you want to go check out that on Instagram. Now, this first one that comes out is actually really interesting. This isn't my quote. This is a session that I actually attended uh from David Gam and he tells a story about how he used a $20 dollar Canva logo to build his billion dollar brand and the point behind it is don't overthink, start executing, start taking action. Now, I'm not going to tell that story as my personal story, but I can use it to tell David's story through my content and things I've learned what I see in my own life through that story as well. before I used my search and rescue skill to actually find this golden nugget of a story in my inbox, I would have just thought, "Oh, that's interesting. That's cool." and probably completely forgotten about it. I've also got another one that comes out here as well. Fear is the most powerful motivator in AI right now. This is a really like key insight that was actually probably from a throwaway comment that I had when I was just chatting with people recently and my followup of like FOMO. You see one guy flicking on social media with a Claude code thing. he's done a million ads and you're like, "Wait, what's that? I need to be doing that." This is all great spark lines for my content, whether that's on LinkedIn, Instagram, presentations, I'm giving, YouTube videos, these are all being unearthed by my search and rescue skill here. And to give you a little idea of what that looks like on the back end, if I go into my skills area here, you'll see my search and rescue searches, long form content, transcripts, recording, and voice notes. So anytime I say search this transcript for gold, find the lost ideas, it's going to invoke this search and rescue skill which goes and finds points of tension, contrarian takes, uncomfortable truths, surprising data or results and actually pulls them out for me to use in my content. Now, before I go into some deeper business skills I'm running, I actually want to show you another great social media hook skill I've got, which is called trend hooks, which researches trending topics in your niche using web search and some ampify scrapers and things to find trending short form hooks that I can pair with my content directions. So, I'm going to activate this trend hooks skill here and say, can you help me find trending hooks to do with Claude co-work that have been hot over the last 30 days? Again, you'll see here that the beauty of using skills is I barely have to write prompts anymore. The top AI operators now aren't writing prompts cuz they've got their SOPs, their tasks, their step-by-step frameworks, and everything built into their architecture. So, they just have to activate them with a tiny bit of context. Now, what this skill will actually do is actually go and use some of my connectors that I'm running. So, in my connectors area, you'll see I've got this one called Appify. And Appify is basically platform that has hundreds if not thousands of different web scrapers built into it. And this skill, I'll give you a little look at Appify here. We can actually probably see it running. If I what you'll see it running at the moment, you'll see it's running our Instagram real scraper here, which is going to cost about two pound $260 to scrape a,000 reels. You can see it's already succeeded. And the beauty of this scraper is it hooks straight into Claude really easily if you just set up that connector. But you also get $5 free every month. And you can see this month I've actually only spent 87 cents using this scraper. But because I've actually built a connector into my clawed skill, it's easily able to go and actually not just search the web, but actually scrape very particular areas of the web for detailed content and information. And so what I can actually do with my search and rescue skill to find topic ideas and hook ideas there, I can pair that with my trend hook skill to go and actually find trending hooks that are related to that topic that I'm talking about to build out my content architecture even further. So we're actually pairing these skills nicely and starting to link them together, which is a level up. A lot of people are just using skills one at a time. When you actually start linking them together in workflows, I mean, you can do it across six, seven, eight skills. I've got a whole SEO skill chain which has seven different skills that link one to another to another to another to actually audit and produce SEO content. So, here we go. Our report is actually finished from Trend Hooks.

[00:05:45]We've got our sources at the bottom here. Let's see what it's come up with.

[00:05:48]We've got Claude Co-work Trend Hooks.

[00:05:50]What's hot in that infrastructure in the last 30 days? We've got stats and data.

[00:05:54]So, we've actually broken it down by stats, data, curiosity, gap, earned controversy, transformation before and after, how-to builds, and then we've got our top five hooks, which is actually put this first one. It's actually picked this first one here. 6 hours a week, $20 a month. That's the math behind Claude Co-work. Here's a great one. Actually, instead of going how to set up scheduled task in Claude Co-work, this one's great. There's a button inside Claude Co-work that runs work while you're sleep. And most people don't even know it exists. Boom. I love that hook. And then you go in to talk about showing them how to set up scheduled tasks. So, this has already unlocked ideas just in the few seconds that we've run it. Now, let's move things up a notch and actually go and activate one in my skills area here called the council.

[00:06:37]This is a multi-persona decision-making council that runs five different AI agents through expert lenses. So, let's take a decision for example. I'm going to fire up a new co-work task here and say something like, "Hey, you know all about me, my YouTube, my creator business, my strengths and weaknesses.

[00:06:57]I'm considering setting up an AI implementation agency. I'm not actually necessarily going to do all of the implementation. I would consult and generate leads, but I would work with another operator that can actually go and implement and actually run the systems and run the implementation teams below me." Now based on what you know about me and my work, do you think this is a good idea? Can we invoke the decision council, assemble the council to decide whether this is a good idea?

[00:07:25]And this is an interesting line that you'll see here. I'm spawning all five council members in parallel because I've got five different sub aents that are all working independently to come to their decision and then they're going to push back and query against each other so that they're working in an unbiased manner rather than just being fed by the rest of the context of the chat or working sequentially through a report.

[00:07:46]So you can see here now it's up and running. It's actually running each five agents. You've got the researcher, council member, the skeptic, the strategist, the operator is just still booting up, and the creative as well is just running. By the way, if you want this council skill as well, I actually do have it in my AI recipe vault here.

[00:08:04]You can see my AI recipe vault. There's a link in the description with all of these different pages, step-by-step walkthroughs, but I actually have one page called five claude skills to build right now, which I ran a video on recently. You can actually get some of these skills. You can get the council skill which I'm showing you here now in this page. So if you go into the AI recipe vault and find five claude skills to build right now, you can download that skill for yourself. And what I love when it finishes, it comes out with this deep report. I'm actually going to open it in my browser here so we can get a good look at it. But one of the things I love as well, I pushed it to actually run in my brand colors as well, which is pretty cool. But we get each experts back feedback. the researcher. He goes and researches the market is real, but it's commoditizing fast. The top agencies here, the top consulting agencies peg AI as the largest near-term enterprise spend category. But creator to agency pivots have mixed evidence and agency margins aren't as fun as digital products, for example. Now, below this is where it really comes to life because we get the peer review. We get the researcher, what he's agreeing with other people and what he pushes back on.

[00:09:11]We've got the skeptic that where that expert is agreeing and pushing back on some of these findings from our researcher for example and we get whether their view is shifted back and forth based on the others research and feedback as well across all of these different areas. So we go through the researcher, we've got the skeptic says don't do it as its headline. The researcher actually says the market data supports the opportunity. Skeptic obviously says don't do it, but it's going to give you a skeptic's view as to why not. We've got the strategist. How should you be thinking about this long term? Actually, don't build it yet.

[00:09:47]Productize the demand first and then you can build that as a strategic flywheel later. We've got the operator. Again, don't set it up yet. Run a pilot before actually building this out. And the creative, again, don't do this. And when they and then they've all then debated this decision between them. It looks like a lot of them are saying don't do this. This isn't right for you. So this all then boils down into a final verdict of what our chairman is saying on the council. Elliot frame this as a should I start an AI implementation agency? But the council surfaced a different question. Should he convert a working audience's trust asset into a delivery business via an unproven founder? all five members independently arrived at the variant not to do this or not yet.

[00:10:30]There's some critical factors that we need to address first such as actually validating and structuring and then structuring this out later. So this is a fascinating use of claude skills that I'm not seeing many other people use for at the moment. Now, in the vein of looking at spotting opportunities of where to implement and use AI, I'm actually I'm actually going to jump back into normal Claude chat for this skill rather than the Claude projects because this is my AI employee head hunter. And if I jump into my projects here, let's say I'm going to go into my AI Elliot project here, which is built out with key information about my business, some ICP audience intelligence, my YouTube frameworks, etc. I don't use this a ton anymore, but I actually want to use it to run this skill.

[00:11:17]So, if I actually launch my AI employee head hunter, I can say, can you find areas of where I should be implementing AI in my business that I'm not always using or not always using, already using.

[00:11:32]So you can see here it's looking for untapped automation opportunities both auditing what I do every day my skill set my projects everything to get this answer I love this as well once it's done before I ask you a single thing let me show you I've already cased the joint then it's going to actually ask me walk me through your Monday morning first thing you open first hour what are you actually doing before you get to work you're known for what's the weekly task you resent most of everything that brings you money YouTube newsletter jump start calls corporate days affiliates etc [snorts] which one is growing the way you want and which one are just neglecting cuz you don't want to do that work. And once it's actually answered these questions and mapped this out, here's what we get back. We get our mapped out. We've got the content machine that transcript in title, description, thumbnail, newsletter, email, AI, recipe, LinkedIn post actually pushed out automatically rather than me going through skills and acting these into my system automatically. Got the pitch closer. So, we get a client brief in or a call and it actually pushes out a VIP day proposal out the other end, which is what I'm going to show you in a minute. We've got the visibility engine, the cortex keeper, the intel officer pulls YouTube analytics weekly, surfaces what's working, what's tanking, which title formats are performing. I mean, you could run something similar to this in your business that could be looking at your CRM to actually give you intel on where revenue is leaking out of your business or where you should be focusing. And we've got my AI decision partner, my nerve center. But what's cool is I can click one of these and I have been working in this chat before, but it says build the intel officer. How do I connect the YouTube data to API for weekly analytics brief and content radar? So, it's going to go and figure out how to build all of this.

[00:13:09]And you can see it's actually already built one. Scroll up a little bit. We can see we've actually built a lot of this stuff already just by clicking that button. So, it doesn't just find opportunities, it actually goes and then hires the AI employee in your business, I guess. Now, I told you about my AI proposal generator, and I want to show you that as well. I like to run this one in Claude Co-work. I'm going to run a new task as well, and I'm going to say I'm just going to say I want to create a branded proposal for my AI VIP workshop days for the King of England, and it's going to cost £7,000 for the day. Please create my branded proposal for them. Now, usually I would pair this with a transcript or something to actually give it more context, but we should be able to run it pretty simply like this. Now, while it sort of runs up its questions just to get some more clarity here, this is a really important skill for me. It seems so simple, but in the past, I've been guilty of never actually delivering proposals for people that have asked them because it would take me hours to sit down and think about it and write it. And I would say, "Hey, I'll get it to you on Monday. I sit down on Monday. I've forgotten half the information from the call. it's kind of unpaid work and then the person ghosts you so I never do it. Using this skill, I can actually generate my branded tailored proposal in seconds to have it back in someone's desk within half an hour to get an answer and actually start the work before anyone else has actually sat down on a Monday morning from the previous week and actually created and delivered their proposal. We're already off and running and doing work. And here we go. We've got our AI strategy VIP day ready for his majesty the king of England ready to go. the opportunity, what makes this difference. Obviously, there could be more context on here if this was actually a real proposal based on conversation we've had. Then we've got the breakdown of how the VIP day might look and the cost and everything in there ready to go in less than 2 minutes. And you can see my logo, my brand colors, everything built in there beautifully. Now, this would often run into another skill as well, another action item because based off the transcript or the agreement from this strategy day, for example, I might need to put a taskboard together in notion and I might need to create notion pages based off it. So, what this skill would do next is my notion tasker would actually go and put tasks in my notion database and then give them enough context from a transcript or a skill or some notes to actually go and then execute the work. But this links beautifully with what I call I'm going to give you a little preview behind the scenes here of my outline for this YouTube video because I've got my notion designer skill. But you can see this page is pretty ugly. It's pretty nothing. I wouldn't present this to like public facing or a client or anything.

[00:15:48]But if I go in here and let's go and just run a new task again here. We're gonna go and actually say, can you use my notion beautiful designer skill to make this page look presentable? And then I'll just give it the link to the notion page. And it's going to be able to go and design our page in notion for me because it's linked in with my connectors here. We can see we've got the notion connector switched on. So again, we've got the skill with all the custom instructions, workflows, step by step, exactly what we want, how we like things to work, connect it up with a a connector here to actually go and execute work outside of notion. You can see it can go into Gmail, Apollo, Calendar, Ampify, Claud, and Chrome to start executing tasks for me. And now you can see the skill is actually still running, but my page has actually been transformed from my intro framework and just building out these lovely drop-down sections, the body, the different skills. You can see here, the search and rescue skill about how I should introduce and run that down to the one we're talking about now, my notion brain designer. Now, the final one I want to talk about here is my prompt builder.

[00:16:57]And as you can imagine, it helps me write awesome prompts that also you'll find in my notion database of AI recipes. In here, you'll see my mega prompt chest. This is filled with well over a 100 prompts that you can access.

[00:17:10]They're just in a word document here.

[00:17:12]You can see there's loads of people in here checking this out at the moment.

[00:17:15]It's got all sorts of things in here like my new age lead magnet prompt, which develops and takes you through a process of building AI powered lead magnets for your business. But a lot of these prompts are generated from working with my prompt builder skill. If we go back into Claude, we can say, "Hey, I want you to help me write a prompt using my prompt builder skill. This skill should help me ideulate and build lead magnets specially tailored for my audience and my ICP." And if I run that, it should activate this skill. And it works in a very specific way because it has two modes that it runs on. Now, before it actually goes and builds, it asks me a question. It's like, do I want a basic prompt that's just four to six lines and it's just rough and ready and we can get rock and rolling, or do I need a detailed, comprehensive, structured prompt that has built from some more questions and is going to be repeatable and almost the first step to actually taking that, running it, and building it into a claude skill in many cases. Let's say I want to run a detail comprehensive prompt. And this is something I do quite often when I'm building my skills. I actually give them modes. I say you're either going to enter interview mode or build mode.

[00:18:27]You're going to enter analysis or question mode or you're going to take transcript or you're going to take other inputs. So that can actually follow slightly different processes from the start but still feed into the same sort of outcome. How far should the prompt take you? Ideate or actually then build one? I'd choose I think we're actually just going to go let's go for a two-phase. Let's see how deep we can go.

[00:18:49]Although I don't like to go too far with prompts. They should really in the best case scenario stick with solving one task and one problem. But let's see how this builds. What's the number one job of these lead magnets? Let's say qualify and filter for high fit ICPs, not just send generic traffic. Where should the ideas come from? My existing content and frameworks. So we could feed in YouTube videos, Instagram reels, LinkedIn posts to actually help generate these ideas for us. And guys, I'm actually running in Claude chat for this one. I'm not even in Claude co-work for this depth of work. And here we go. We get it's actually inspired off some of my other skills in my database there. You're Daniel Priestley, entrepreneur and author of key person of influence and Oversubscribed. Oversubscribed is one of the best business books I've ever read.

[00:19:35]I 100% recommend you should actually read that if you're doing if you're trying to create lead magnets. Read over subscribed as well. Inputs. It's going to ask for my positioning, my high fit ICP. Actually, it's put some suggestions in there already because it knows a lot about my business already, but I could ask it if I was working in co-work to just go and get that information because I have all that knowledge base built out or just give it a brain drum and a transcript. Then it's got the task. You can see the depth we're going in here.

[00:20:01]You'll help me ideulate phase one. So, it's going to work step by step. Phase two is then build with all of these bits of information and the output format.

[00:20:10]So, I probably run this prompt in Claude Co-work because it's going to be a super in-depth job that Claude chat probably chat tap out. But this is how I go about starting to build my prompts. Now, from here, I would test it, see how it performed, probably go back and change it, edit it, give it some feedback, and tweak it before it's actually ready to run. I'd probably run it two, three, four, five times before it actually works and I got the exact output that I was happy with. And from there, you could go and take that process and turn it into a clawed skill, which is exactly what I show you to do in my next video of how to take that next step from prompting into building your clawed skills Out.