These 5 Free Claude Skills SOLVES 98% of Claude Code’s Problems

If you've been using Claude code long enough, we all agree that it is a powerful tool, but it comes with a lot of limitations. It can't watch videos. It writes like AI. Sometimes it gives you AI slop when you're designing apps. And on top of that, you don't really get a lot of usage out of it. Now, we know that installing some of these skills from GitHub repos could solve some of these problems, but there's hundreds of them. How do you know which ones are actually good? Now, I've been testing these for months, and I found five skills that solve 98% of the things that Claude struggles with that I wish I knew when I first started. So, I'm going to show you what these are, how to install them, and the best part is that they're all free to use. So, let's dive in. All right. So, the first one is actually one of my favorites. Now, Claude can do a lot of things, but there's one thing that it can't do, which is watching videos. For example, if you give it a YouTube link, it's not going to be able to watch it. It's going to struggle. Now, it might be able to grab the transcript of the video, but it's not going to be able to see what is being displayed on the screen, right? So, if you need some context from the actual video, it's not going to be able to do it. Now, this repo called Claude video fixes this problem. It gives Claude the ability to watch any video and actually understand what is being shown on the screen, so you can get the full context of the video. Now, as a content creator, I watch a lot of YouTube tutorials, but I can't watch every single minute of it. So, by having this skill, Claude does not only read the script, but it watches the video, sees the visual, so it understands completely the full context of the video. Now, the nice thing about this is that it also works for Loom, TikTok videos, X, Instagram, and I can't tell you how many times I came across a good video when I was scrolling Instagram, and let's say I want Claude to analyze that video. It always struggles, right? But with this skill installed, you can simply share the link to Claude, and it can analyze the video, no problem. So, a little bit on how it works in the background is that it actually extracts the frames from the video to understand the context, and it also analyzes the transcript, so it puts the two things together and give you a complete picture of the video. Now, of course, the problem is, as you can imagine, the more frames it extracts, the more tokens it burns, right? And they thought about this and they actually have a setting where you can actually pick how many frames you want to extract. So, if you're a bit cautious with your usage limit, you can do the official one and there's also balanced one and it gives you a roughly how many tokens it's going to burn for each setting. And they also have a token burner setting if you really want the full context and you don't care about your usage limit. And for me, I always have it on the balance setting for most of the time and I always use stable five when I'm doing these things cuz you don't want to use stable five for image extraction, it is overkill and it's been working great for me. Now, to install this skill, you can simply copy this link and paste it here or if you're lazy, you can just ask Claude to install this skill. You can say something like install this repo and then paste in the URL and it's going to analyze the entire page, install the skill and understand how this works so you can call it next time. Now, because I already have the skill installed, it's going to say it's already installed, but once you have it installed and you want Claude to watch a video using the skill, you can simply type in /watch and then just paste in the URL that you want it to watch from YouTube or Instagram or any other links and then just hit go. But of course, you want to be aware of prompt injections inside of the repo. So, for me, whenever I want to install a specific repo and if I'm skeptical, I ask Claude to analyze the repo first and just ask it to grab what it needs, right? So, if there's anything malicious, it doesn't take it into the system. So, the second skill here is the last 30 days skill and it is the biggest repo on my list. So, it's got 57,000 stars and here is the problem that it solves, right? So, for example, if I want to build a yoga app for seniors, right? And ask Claude to research my competitors and figure out if there's a gap in the market. So, if I simply ask Claude to do that, what I get back is usually just research based on popular articles on Google and most of them will be couple months or even couple years old, right? Now, this skill fixes that issue, right? So, instead of reading articles, it actually sends Claude to where everybody actually talk, right? So, Reddit X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, GitHub, and any other sites that you tell it to go. Now, the thing that makes it powerful is that it will also read comments. So, the normal cloud search will maybe find this Reddit post and it moves on. It never goes into the comment section, which is probably where all the good stuff is, right? But this thing will actually go to the comments and gather information, right? And it also cross-checks everything. If it finds somebody complaining about something on Reddit here and then finds it on X and on a YouTube comment and on another site, it understands that pattern and puts a ranking on it. But if it's just one comment, maybe a guy that is angry about something, it's probably going to get ignored. So, you're not actually getting research from blog articles that are sometimes biased, but from people that are your potential customers and they are hidden in the comments here. And if you go to the website here, you can actually see what people are actually using this for. So, for example, if you want to know what's happening with AI agents, you can type something like {slash} last 30 days, what's exploding in AI agents and actually going to research this topic, whatever's trending in the last 30 days. But of course, depending on what you're researching, you can indicate if you only want it to research certain platforms like if you only want it to scour Reddit, you can include that in the prompt so you don't have to run the full thing every single time. So, I use this pretty much every single week when I'm researching app ideas or when I'm writing my weekly newsletter to see if something's actually good and worth building. Now, there is a catch to this. It's pretty heavy. I noticed that a full run will take around 5 minutes because it's actually going out there and reading hundreds or even thousands of comments, right? So, if you have just a quick question about something, you don't want to run this. But if you have something that you need deep research on, I think this is the perfect skill to have to get a better answer. All right, quick break from our sponsor TopView. When you're building any product or app, at some point you're going to need images or videos for it. And TopView gives you all the best models in one place like GPT Image 2, Stable Diffusion 2.0, NadaBanana, so So, you can make your own AI images and videos in one single platform. And you can also connect it to Claude via an MCP, so you can generate all these videos inside of your Claude session. But first, let me show you a couple things you can create on this platform. So, for example, if you're selling a product like this vitamin here, you can use this prompt to batch create 10 different UGC ads with just one prompt. Obviously, you can swap it with your own model and your own product. Or let's say you found a viral video on TikTok and you want to clone it, you can just use this prompt to clone that video and swap it out with your own model and your own product. Or you can even create full-blown TV ads like this by just chatting with the AI. You can essentially swap any product and you can get the same result. I mean, look at the detail here and just the creative direction. It just looks amazing. And I love the fact that these prompts are given for you to grab, so you're not guessing on how to prompt certain videos, but you have the exact detail to recreate the video. Plus, they got a bunch more presets or templates that will give you inspiration on what is possible. And if you like any of these, the prompts are included, ready for you to use. Now, if you're working with Claude or Codex, they do have an MCP ready, so you can connect directly into the top view. And you can generate all these videos directly inside of your Claude session. So, all you need to do is you want to copy this URL. You want to go back to Claude, add a custom connector, call it top view, paste in that URL that you we just copied, and you're done. Now, if I go to connectors, I can see that top view is enabled here. And I can just ask it, "Hey, check my top view MCP connection and tell me what I can do with it." And it verified that everything's connected and it's working. Now, I can give it a simple image of a lemon soda here and ask it to generate five videos for TikTok. And because we already have that MCP connection, Claude will automatically generate all the videos in the background in just a couple minutes, we have all our videos ready. And look at that, I think this just looks exceptional. And now I can just choose which one I want to use for my TikTok videos. Now, the pricing plan starts at $16 a month here if you get the annual plan. As you can see, they're having a lot of promotions at the moment. So, if you guys want to give this a try, I'm going to have this linked in the description below for you to get the best pricing. Thanks again to Upwork for sponsoring this video. All right, so number three is the Humanizer skill. So, this skill is the thing that you need if you want to destroy AI slop in your writing. And one of the common ones is probably the M-dashes, as we know, and also things like not this but that, right? And every time you ask Claude to write something for you, you have to keep reminding it to make it more casual, make it more human, make it sound less like AI. Now, with this skill, you don't have to do that anymore. And here's how it works. So, this skill is created based on Wikipedia's rule of AI writing, and it goes through 33 different patterns of AI writing. And it checks through all this and removes all these things from your writing. So, here you can see example AI usually gives you, and here is the writing after the cleanup. So, it goes through 33 different patterns like this, and here you can also see an example of an AI-sounding writing, and then the result after it's been humanized. Now, the way that I've been using this skill is that I give it a couple of examples of my own writing. So, whenever I ask Claude to write something for me, Claude will actually write in the way that I speak. And at the end, it will use this Humanizer skill to clean up the writing so it doesn't have any of this AI slop that you see here. Now, keep in mind that this is not a writing tool, so it is a cleanup tool. So, it can't give you an idea, it can't give you a story, it can't make a boring writing interesting, basically. So, so if the content is bad to begin with, it's not going to make it better, it's just going to clean it up. All right, so the next one here is called Ponytail. So, if you're building or vibe coding any type of app and you're struggling with token usage, this one is going to make a huge difference. But first, let's talk about where the name actually came from. So, in every tech company, you can probably imagine this one developer, this guy with a long ponytail, and he's been there for like 30 years. Someone shows him 50 lines of code. He looks at it, he says nothing, and he replaces it with just one line, and it works, right? So, this skill puts this guy inside of your Claude code. So, this is the skill you need if you want to build something lean, something that is efficient, so you also save tokens. Cuz here's the thing that you already noticed if you've been live coding, right? Claude loves to overdo things, right? You ask for one simple thing to build, and sometimes it goes off and builds more than what you ask for. And that actually hurts you in two different areas, right? First, you're going to burn tokens in every line of code that Claude writes. And second of all, this is a thing that nobody talks about. All of those extra code piles up, right? And once you start adding more features, your project gets massive, and Claude will actually start getting confused by its own mess. And every time you make a change on one thing, it will break something else. So Polyfill actually fixes that issue with this simple checklist. So before Claude writes any code, it has to ask itself a couple questions, right? Does this thing ever need to exist? Did I already build something like this in the project? Does the browser already do this for free? Can it be one line? And they've actually tested this, and the results are pretty good, and I've verified this with my own code as well. So they're claiming that you are getting 54% less code and 22% cheaper in token usage, and also 27% faster. So I think this is really good. At the end of the day, I think you're winning in two places, right? You're saving tokens, and at the same time you're building something that is smaller, cleaner, and also leaner, right? Now one limitation here, cuz I've been using this quite a lot, because it's trying to save tokens, I find that it also shortens the replies that you get in the chat, right? So sometimes I get an answer back that is so compressed because it's trying to save tokens, I got to read it two to three times it, right? Especially if it's something technical. But easy fix to this, just tell it to explain it in plain English, so it will be more elaborate in the responses to you, but when it's actually building code for an app, it still keeps the code pretty lean. All right, so this next one is actually not a free GitHub repo like the other ones, but I've been using this quite a lot, and I think it's too useful to leave it off the list, and I think not a lot of people know about this one. That's why I want to include this. So So, is actually a paid tool, but they do have a generous free tier, so you can test it out. So, here is what it does and why I think this is so powerful. So, let's say there's a creator that you want to learn from, for example, Alex Hormozi here on his YouTube channel. He has thousands of videos, and let's say that you want to learn his opinion or what he thinks about a particular topic. So, with Script Creators, I can just scrape his entire YouTube channel, and let's say that he has 100 videos, right? We can grab those 100 videos without burning your Claude tokens, collect everything in one place, and now you can ask questions like, "Hey, what does Hormozi think about structuring your offer?" Or, "What does he think about hiring people?" And, "What does he think about content creation?" And because we've collected all the videos from one channel, you're not getting an answer based on one or two videos, but you're getting an answer based on everything he's ever said about that topic. Now, obviously, he's got 5,400 videos here, this is not a great example, but for somebody who has maybe 100 or 200 videos, this scraper can do it with no issues, right? Now, they also have an MCP connector to Claude as well, which means that you can control this via your Claude session, right? So, you can go to Claude, ask it to connect to Script Creators, and say, "Hey, can you go to this particular YouTube channel and scrape 100 of their videos?" As easy as that. And like I said, they do have a free plan for you to try it out. They give you 100 free credits, which is actually quite generous. And by the way, this is not sponsored or anything, I just use this tool a lot, and I find it really useful, and I think it's a good one to have in your toolkit. All right, so I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you want to watch another video, you want to click here, and I'll see you there.