Skill Checkup
You've built a handful of Claude skills. Some you use daily. Some you forgot exist. Some do the same thing as another skill you saved last month. Time for a checkup — list everything, clean up the clutter, and keep the system sharp.
Before & After
You're a bookkeeper with 10 saved skills. You try to run "check invoices" but nothing happens — turns out you renamed it to "invoice-scan" two months ago. There's also an "overdue-check" that does almost the same thing. You have a "test-skill" from an experiment that never went anywhere. You can't remember what half of them do.
The system grew organically and now it's a mess. You avoid using skills because you're not sure which one to call.
You say "Skill checkup." Claude shows:
- morning — active, used daily
- invoice-scan — active, used weekly
- overdue-check — overlaps with invoice-scan, merge recommended
- test-skill — unused, remove recommended
- month-end — active, used monthly
Five minutes later: 2 skills merged, 1 removed, and a clean inventory you can actually trust.
What You Need
- Claude Desktop installed — follow the setup guide if you haven't yet
- At least 3–4 saved skills — enough to have some clutter worth cleaning
- 10 minutes — to inventory, review, and clean up
List All Your Skills
Start with an inventory. Tell Claude:
You might be surprised by what's in there. Skills you forgot about, experiments that never stuck, or duplicates you didn't realize existed. That's normal — it means you've been building.
Review Each Skill
Go through the list and sort each skill into one of four buckets:
Works well, use regularly
Good idea, needs a refresh
No longer needed
Overlaps with another
For each skill, ask yourself: Do I still use this? Has my process changed? Is there another skill that does the same thing?
Clean Up
Now act on your decisions. Tell Claude:
Don't be sentimental. A skill you never use isn't an asset — it's clutter that makes the useful ones harder to find.
Save the Checkup as a Skill
Make this repeatable. Tell Claude:
Run this once a month, or whenever the system starts feeling cluttered. Five minutes keeps everything clean.
What You've Built
- A clean, organized inventory of every skill in your system
- Removed or merged duplicates and dead-weight skills
- Updated stale skills to match your current processes
- A repeatable checkup skill you can run monthly to stay clean
A system that grows is great. A system that grows and stays organized is what actually gets used every day.
What's Next?
Morning & Evening Routines
Chain your best skills into daily routines that bookend your day.
Read the GuideBusiness Command Center
The dashboard that ties all your clean, organized skills together.
Read the GuideWant help organizing your whole Claude setup?
Book a Starter Session (90 min)Or do it yourself — everything on this page is free.
Skill: Skill Checkup
What this is for: Walk a small business owner through auditing their saved Claude skills. Over time, skills accumulate — some become outdated, some overlap, some were experiments that never stuck. This guide helps them list every skill, evaluate each one, clean up the stale ones, and save the checkup itself as a repeatable skill.
When to use this: When a user asks their AI assistant to help set up this workflow. The user should explicitly authorize use of this skill by referencing this page URL.