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Claude Code for Teams: A Skills Standardization Playbook
Five developers, five Claude setups. How project-level skills turn a repo's review and debugging standards into something every teammate inherits on clone.
How Many Claude Skills Should You Install?
Most people install 20+ skills and use five. The real number to aim for, what each idle skill costs, and how to prune without breaking triggers.
Claude for Writing: The Tested Skill Stack for 2026
How writers actually use Claude AI writing skills: the humanizer that passed our blind-editor test, voice cloning that holds, and what to skip.
Claude for SEO: What Works, What Fails, What We Tested
A practitioner's AI SEO workflow with Claude: tested skills with real scores, a keyword-to-publish pipeline, schema markup, and the content-quality trap.
Claude for Word, Excel and PDF: Real Files, Not Markdown
With the right skills Claude writes actual .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and PDF files. Our test results per format, three office workflows, and honest limits.
CLAUDE.md Best Practices (With a Full Annotated Example)
CLAUDE.md best practices from a team that tests Claude setups daily: what belongs in the file, what belongs in skills, plus a full annotated example.
The Best Claude Code Setup for 2026 (30-Minute Guide)
A 30-minute Claude Code setup, layer by layer: a lean CLAUDE.md, the 5 skills to install first, MCP servers worth their tokens, and safer permissions.
Claude Skill Not Triggering? Fix It in 6 Checks
Claude skill not triggering or not working? Run our six-point checklist: folder, restart, name collision, vague description, frontmatter, conflicts.
Claude Skills vs Cursor Rules: Which Should You Use?
Claude skills vs Cursor rules compared: triggering, portability, token cost, testing. Plus working conversion examples in both directions.
Best Free Claude Skills: 15 Tested Picks (2026)
Every skill worth installing is free. We tested 45 Claude skills on a clean machine and ranked the 15 best free ones, plus how to spot the duds.
How to Test Claude Skills: The SkillProof Protocol
The exact protocol we use to test Claude skills: clean installs, trigger batteries, baseline runs, four scores. Steal it before you publish your own.
AGENTS.md vs CLAUDE.md vs skills: what goes where
AGENTS.md is becoming the cross-tool standard. How it relates to CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules and Claude skills, and how to run all of them without duplication.
Claude Skills vs Copilot Instructions: Full Comparison
Claude skills vs GitHub Copilot custom instructions: how each format works, where each wins, migration examples both ways, and when to run both.
Claude Skills vs Custom GPTs: What Actually Differs
A Custom GPT is a separate assistant you visit. A Claude skill is a behavior your assistant gains. We compare both and port a real GPT into a SKILL.md.
Claude Skills vs Windsurf Rules & Memories Compared
Claude skills vs Windsurf rules and memories: trigger models, the auto-memory twist, portability, and migration examples in both directions.