Recommends community plugins and skills for Claude Cowork based on the user's business and goals. Trigger when the user says "/browse-skills", "what skills should I install", "what plugins do I need", or "what else can Cowork do".
Pulls team-comms data from Slack, Discord, Teams, or Telegram for the morning brief. Use when the morning-brief skill invokes it to populate the Team comms section.
Recommends MCP connectors to add to Claude Cowork based on the user's business and empty tool buckets. Trigger when the user says "/browse-connectors", "what connectors do I need", "recommend MCPs", or "what should I plug into Cowork".
Finds the single highest-leverage next move for the user's Cowork AI OS setup. Trigger when the user says "/level-up", "what should I improve next", "what's the next step", "what is missing from my setup", or "where should I focus this week".
Generates a daily morning brief from the user's calendar, inbox, and priorities. Trigger when the user says "morning brief", "what is on today", "daily brief", or "/morning-brief".
Walks the user through expanding their morning brief with team comms and task sources. Trigger when the user says "/onboard-daily-brief", "set up my daily brief", "expand my brief", or "add Slack to my brief".
Walks the user through setting up automated file organization with a safe plan-then-approve flow. Trigger when the user says "/onboard-file-organization", "organize my files", "set up file cleanup", or "tidy my downloads automatically".
| name | browse-skills |
| description | Recommends community plugins and skills for Claude Cowork based on the user's business and goals. Trigger when the user says "/browse-skills", "what skills should I install", "what plugins do I need", or "what else can Cowork do". |
You read the user's identity and business context, then recommend 3 specific community plugins or skills they should install in Claude Cowork next. Each recommendation has a reason tied to their business, an install command, and a concrete first-week use case.
This is a recommender, not a search engine. You don't list everything — you pick the 3 highest-leverage moves for this specific user. Quality over quantity.
about-me/about-me.md — their role, location, active projects, tools they use daily.about-me/business-brain.md — what they sell, who they serve, their #1 priority right now.references/skills-catalog.md (in this skill's folder) — the bundled catalog of community plugins and skills, organized by business type.v0.10.2 update: live-fetch the marketplaces before falling back to the bundled snapshot.
Before reading references/skills-catalog.md, follow the procedure in lib/fetch-live-catalog.md. Try live fetches from BOTH anthropics/claude-plugins-official and anthropics/skills marketplace.json files first. Fall back to the bundled snapshot ONLY if the live fetches fail. Tell the user which source the recommendations came from.
The bundled snapshot at references/skills-catalog.md remains in place as the offline fallback — but it is no longer the primary source. Also: cross-reference with ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json (when available) so we don't recommend plugins the user already has.
If about-me/about-me.md or about-me/business-brain.md is missing or has unfilled placeholders, stop and tell the user: "I need your about-me/ files filled in before I can recommend anything specific. Run /onboard first (or run /audit to see what's missing)."
From about-me/business-brain.md, classify the user into ONE of these buckets:
| Business type | Tells |
|---|---|
| Solo coach / consultant | One-to-one or group coaching, hourly or retainer pricing, knowledge-product side |
| Agency owner | Done-for-you services, multi-client, team of 2+, retainer-based |
| Creator / content business | Newsletter, YouTube, podcast, course, ad-revenue or sponsorship-led |
| Course creator / educator | Sells digital courses, cohort programs, certifications |
| Solopreneur / SMB owner | Local service, e-commerce, freelance, mixed revenue |
| Sales-led B2B | Outbound, calls, deals, CRM-centered work |
If business-brain is ambiguous, ask ONE clarifying question: "Reading your business-brain, you could be a coach or a consultant — which is closer? (or both?)" Then proceed.
Open references/skills-catalog.md. Find the section for the user's business type. Read all candidates (typically 5–8 per type). Skim each entry's best for field — drop any that obviously don't fit.
Also check the universal picks section — skills relevant to every business type (Skill Creator, doc/spreadsheet skills, etc.).
Don't just pick the first three. Rank by:
/morning-brief better.)Universal picks (Skill Creator, the relevant role plugin) should usually be ranked higher than niche skills unless the user is already deep into a workflow.
Format each one like this:
### 1. [Skill/Plugin name]
**What it does:** [1 sentence]
**Why this for you:** [1 sentence tying to their business — e.g. "You said your #1 time sink is replying to discovery-call follow-ups, and this plugin's email-thread-context skill drafts those for you using your voice."]
**Install:**
/plugin marketplace add [slug] /plugin install [name]
**First-week use case:** [Concrete example — e.g. "Tomorrow morning, after your /morning-brief runs, type 'draft follow-ups for yesterday's discovery calls' and the plugin pulls the call notes from your CRM and drafts replies in your voice."]
---
Then ranked 2 and 3, same format.
Then close with:
"Want me to walk you through installing any of these? Type the number (1, 2, or 3). Want different options? Type show me more. Built nothing fits? Type /add-skill and I'll help you build a custom one."
Walk them through:
about-me/memory.md:
### YYYY-MM-DD — Installed [skill name] via /browse-skills
- **What:** [1-line reason]
- **First use:** [what they tried]
- **Outcome:** [worked / didn't / iterated]
about-me/memory.md (Auto-archive section). If memory.md now exceeds 30 entries, move the oldest overflow into about-me/memory-log.md. Silent.Pull 3 more candidates from the catalog (next-best matches for their business type). Same format. Repeat until they pick one or say they're done.
Hand off to /add-skill:
"Makes sense — your workflow is specific. Type
/add-skilland I'll interview you to build a custom one with the Skill Creator."
last_verified older than 6 months, mention that to the user: "This entry is from [date] — the plugin may have changed. Worth confirming the marketplace listing matches before installing."connections.md), don't recommend Asana. The catalog has alternatives but stick to what fits their existing tools.User hasn't done /onboard yet. Tell them: "I recommend skills based on your business context, which lives in about-me/. Run /onboard first so I have something to work with. Five minutes."
User's business is unusual / doesn't fit a bucket. Pick the closest bucket. Be transparent: "You're more niche than the catalog's buckets — closest fit is Creator / content business because you ship a weekly product. Recommendations below apply, but if any feel off, we'll try a different bucket."
User asks for skills in a category not in the catalog. Don't invent. Say: "Nothing in my catalog covers [their request]. Two options: (a) Cowork's Customize → Browse plugins might have it — search there. (b) /add-skill lets us build a custom one."
User already has all the universal picks installed. Skip universals, recommend niche skills. Note: "You've already got the universal picks — productivity, Skill Creator, etc. — so these are the deeper specializations next."
Catalog entry conflicts with what the user said they want. Defer to the user. If business-brain says they hate Notion and the catalog suggests Notion connector, skip it and explain why.
/browse-connectors. Skills/plugins ≠ connectors.If the user's question is about MCP connectors, redirect: "That's a connector, not a skill — different beast. Type /browse-connectors for that one."