Layer 03
Skills
Turn repeatable thinking into reusable prompts.
A skill is a saved prompt you reach for every week — the status update template, the decision brief format, the meeting prep structure. Skills are the difference between Claude as a one-off tool and Claude as a personal workflow engine.
Signals — you're here when…
You're here when you write the same prompt more than twice and haven't saved it.
Playbooks at this layer
Review My Direct Report's V2MOM
Three-dimensional review — consistency with team strategy, ownership of wording, granularity of methods — with a rating and a coaching question for your next 1:1.
Align Up Before Thursday
Read your manager's V2MOM via OrgChart MCP, surface method gaps vs your work, and produce 3 talking points for your next 1:1.
OKR Review Before the Review
Reads V2MOM measures via V2MOM Get, optionally pulls YTD actuals from Salesforce, and gives you red/yellow/green per objective with one honest paragraph each.
Find the Automation Gaps
Walks through your recurring weekly work, categorises automatable/skillable/human-only, ranks gaps by leverage.
Draft My Weekly Update
Takes V2MOM measures + week developments, drafts stakeholder update: what moved / what's next / what I need.
Build the All-Hands Brief
Takes last 4 weeks of team activity, synthesises 3–5 narrative beats, flags sensitive or missing items.
Prep My 1:1 in 5 Minutes
Reads report name + recent Slack threads + last 1:1 notes, produces: open items / temperature / question to ask / thing to acknowledge.
Read the Room on a Customer
Takes customer name, reads Salesforce opportunity + recent email, produces: sentiment / open risks / next action / renewal confidence.
Stress-Test My Plan
Claude as rigorous sparring partner — identifying blind spots, generating alternatives, devil's advocate before your proposal reaches a wider audience.
Next layer
Once you have skills that compound, schedule the ones that should run without you.