The 6 Claude Code skills that save me 2 to 3 days a week, Quentin IA Marketing

Why these 6 skills

I've tested more than 100 Claude Code skills in my daily workflows: ad campaigns for Ignyte, building my SaaS Namedrop, freelance client automations. Most of them are useless. These 6 are the only ones I kept.

Four have been running in my setup for months: skill-creator, superpowers, get-shit-done, no-ai-frontend. The last two, claude-mem and context-mode, I installed this week and the impact on how long my sessions run was immediate.

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2-3d

saved per week

100+

skills tested

5/6

plug-and-play

The point isn't to install all of them tomorrow morning. Read the pack, pick one, test it on a real project for two days, then move to the next. That's the only way to tell whether a skill actually adds value to your workflow or just pollutes your context.

Recommended order

Start with skill-creator and superpowers — they're the building blocks. Then add get-shit-done if you do structured dev, context-mode if you use a lot of MCP, and claude-mem as soon as you work on long-running projects.

skill-creator

⌨️ /plugin install skill-creator

Build your own custom skills and benchmark their performance with evals. The building block for everything else in your arsenal.

superpowers

⌨️ /plugin install superpowers

Meta-skills that structure how Claude works: brainstorming, TDD, disciplined debugging, planning. Forces rigor across your whole workflow.

get-shit-done

⌨️ npx get-shit-done-cc --claude --global

67 skills for spec-driven dev. Breaks your projects into milestones and phases, with atomic commits and state tracking. Ideal for multi-phase SaaS.

context-mode

⌨️ /plugin install context-mode

Sandboxes MCP tool outputs, indexes large outputs in FTS5/BM25, preserves state after compaction. Saves hundreds of thousands of tokens per session.

claude-mem

⌨️ /plugin install claude-mem

Automatic cross-session memory. Captures every action in the background into a searchable database. You find "how did I do X last time" with a single command.

no-ai-frontend

🔧 Custom skill · anthropics/claude-cookbooks

Detects visual AI slop in your frontend (purple gradient, Inter everywhere, centered hero). Audits with the Slop Catalog and suggests concrete replacements. A custom skill I built myself.

The 3 mistakes to avoid

What cost me time before I figured it out.

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Installing everything at once

Each plugin loads its skills and hooks. Stacking 6 unknown plugins in the same session pollutes the context and causes triggering conflicts. Install them one by one, test for two days, observe the real impact before adding another.

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Keeping the defaults

Default skills are generic: they work everywhere, so rarely perfectly. Override them with your own skills in .claude/skills/. Local skills take priority over global plugins — that's where you truly adapt the tool to your stack.

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Chasing every new release

The ecosystem will ship 200 new skills a month. Don't chase them. Identify your 3 most repetitive workflows and build a custom skill for each with /skill-creator. That's where you save time, not by testing the 47th plugin of the week.

The simple rule

If a skill doesn't save you at least 30 minutes a week after 5 days of use, uninstall it. The cost of polluting your context is higher than the marginal gain.