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- Best Claude Skills: 5 We Installed and Ran for Real (Ranked)We installed five popular Claude skills in Claude Code and ran each on a real task. grill-me and the pptx skill changed the result most; xlsx was already built in; frontend-design waited to be named.
- Claude's grill-me Skill: Make Claude Ask Questions First (Install and Real Test)The grill-me skill makes Claude interview you in rounds before it writes anything. How to install it in Claude Code, answer fast, and what a real run produced: a 317-line plan in under 6 minutes.
- Claude Frontend Design Skill: Does It Run Once Installed? A Three-Run TestWe gave Claude Code the same café landing-page prompt three times. With the frontend-design skill installed, Claude ignored it; only naming the skill changed the design.
- Claude Excel Skill: Already Built In? A Real Report-and-Update TestWe asked Claude Code to build an Excel report with formulas and a chart, then add a new month, with nothing installed and with Anthropic's document-skills. The built-in xlsx skill did the job.
- How to Create a Claude Skill With skill-creator: A Real Meeting-Minutes TestWe used skill-creator to build a custom Claude skill that turns messy meeting notes into Word minutes. It wrote a 106-line SKILL.md in about 1 minute 15 seconds, then triggered on its own.
- What Are Claude Skills? How to Install Them From GitHub (PowerPoint Skill Tested)Claude skills are instruction folders Claude loads when a task matches. We installed Anthropic's skills from GitHub in Claude Code and had the pptx skill build a 6-slide deck with a native chart in about 2 minutes 10 seconds.
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