Sam Lau's Agent Skills

A collection of Claude Code skills and plugins designed to extend Claude's capabilities with specialized workflows, prompt engineering frameworks, document processing, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server development.

Overview

This plugin marketplace provides ready-to-use skills that enhance Claude Code's functionality across multiple domains:

Prompt Engineering - 57 proven frameworks for crafting optimized AI prompts
Skill Development - Tools for creating custom Claude Code skills
MCP Building - Framework for building Model Context Protocol servers
Document Processing - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDF manipulation capabilities

Included Skills

1. Prompt Optimizer

57 proven prompt engineering frameworks including:

RACEF, CRISPE, BAB frameworks
Tree of Thought, Chain of Thought
RICE, RELIC, SCAMPER
And 50+ more for marketing, education, decision analysis, and creative work

2. Skill Creator

A tool for creating new custom skills that extend Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

3. MCP Builder

Framework for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers - the standard protocol for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources.

4. Document Skills Suite

Complete document processing capabilities:

xlsx - Excel spreadsheet manipulation
docx - Word document processing
pptx - PowerPoint presentation handling
pdf - PDF form filling and manipulation

Installation

Prerequisites

Claude Code installed

Install via Marketplace

Run the following command in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add samlaudev/skills

Manual Installation (Alternative)

If you prefer to install from source:

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/samlaudev/skills.git

Add the plugin to your Claude Code configuration:

claude plugin add /path/to/skills

Usage

Once installed, skills are automatically available in Claude Code. Simply invoke them by name:

Prompt optimization: "Use the prompt-optimizer skill to improve this prompt..."
Create a skill: "Use the skill-creator to make a new skill for..."
Build an MCP: "Use the mcp-builder to create a server for..."
Process documents: "Use the xlsx skill to analyze this spreadsheet..."

Example Conversations

You: I need to create a better prompt for code review
Claude: I'll use the prompt-optimizer skill with the RACEF framework...

You: Help me build an MCP server for my API
Claude: I'll use the mcp-builder skill to design and implement...

Project Structure

skills/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   └── marketplace.json      # Plugin marketplace configuration
├── skills/
│   ├── prompt-optimizer/     # 57 prompt engineering frameworks
│   ├── skill-creator/        # Custom skill creation toolkit
│   ├── mcp-builder/          # MCP server development framework
│   ├── docx/                 # Word document processing
│   ├── pptx/                 # PowerPoint processing
│   ├── xlsx/                 # Excel spreadsheet handling
│   └── pdf/                  # PDF form manipulation
└── README.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to:

Report issues
Suggest new skill ideas
Submit pull requests

License

See LICENSE file for details.

Author

Sam Lau - GitHub

Acknowledgments

Built for Claude Code by Anthropic.

samlaudev/skills