Free Claude Skills for Executives
The intind guides, packaged as Claude Agent Skills your team can actually run.
No signup. No email. No telemetry.
What is a Claude Skill?
A Skill is a small folder of plain-text instructions that Claude reads on demand. Anthropic shipped the format so the same model could behave like a different specialist depending on what you ask of it. You hand Claude a Skill and it knows how to do a specific job the way you want it done.
The official docs frame this for engineers building agents. The skills on this page are the executive version. Each one packages a workflow from one of the guides into something Claude can run for you in a single conversation. You don't write any code. You don't need to understand the file format. You upload a zip, ask the question, and get a useful answer.
How to install one
Three paths, in order of how most readers will use them:
- claude.ai (Pro, Team, or Enterprise). Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill. Drop the zip. The skill is available in your next conversation. Team and Enterprise admins can push skills to everyone.
- Claude Code. Unzip into your project's
.claude/skills/directory or the user-level equivalent. Claude Code picks it up automatically. - Hand it to whoever runs Claude internally. If your company has standardized on a Claude integration, forward the zip to whoever maintains it. The format is documented and stable.
How to use one
After installing, you don't have to invoke the skill explicitly. Claude reads the metadata at startup and pulls the full instructions in when your request matches. You ask the question the skill is designed for and the right behavior shows up. If you want to be sure it's loaded, mention the skill by name once.
Skills are designed to be read before you install them. Unzip and open
SKILL.md. It's a few hundred words of plain English. If you
wouldn't approve those instructions being given to a junior on your team,
don't install the skill. That goes for these and for any other skill you
pick up.
The skills
Each one is a single workflow distilled from one or more of the executive guides. More are being added.
Claude Skill
v0.1.0
AI Spend Audit
Walks Claude through a five-minute review of your AI line items against actual usage. Outputs a defensible reallocation memo.
You hand Claude your seat list, your usage data, and your invoices. The skill produces a one-page reallocation memo: who to drop, who to upgrade, what to consolidate, and the dollar impact. Written for the conversation you're about to have with finance.
Pair this skill with a CSV export of seats and usage from your AI vendor's admin console.
Draws from: Evaluating Spend
Coming soon
Claude Skill
v0.1.0
Tool Selection Brief
Produces a defensible buy recommendation for a given role or team. One vendor, one reason, one number.
Tell the skill the role, the team size, and the constraints. It returns a recommendation, the runner-up, what you give up by picking it, and what to revisit in six months. No matrix. No twelve-vendor shortlist. The answer.
Draws from: Choosing Tools
Coming soon
Claude Skill
v0.1.0
AI Policy Draft
Generates a first-draft acceptable-use policy from a short intake. Plain language. Defensible. Not a fifteen-page legal artifact.
Answer a dozen questions about your industry, your data, and what your people actually do. The skill produces a policy your team will read and your legal counsel can edit. Not a template. A starting point that already reflects your situation.
Draws from: Building an AI Policy , Managing Risk
Coming soon
Claude Skill
v0.1.0
Adoption Diagnostic
Interviews you about a team and surfaces why the seats are idle. Gives you the next conversation to have, not a deck.
Describe a team that bought the tool and isn't using it. The skill works through the usual reasons in order — the wrong tool, the wrong workflow, the wrong people, the wrong incentives — and tells you which one is yours. Comes with the question to ask in your next 1:1.
Draws from: Driving Adoption , Recognizing Leverage
Coming soon
Claude Skill
v0.1.0
Talent Screen
Produces interview questions and a review rubric for spotting AI leverage in candidates and on your current team.
Tell the skill the role and the seniority. It returns a screen: three questions that separate people who use AI from people who get leverage from it, what good answers sound like, and what to do with the result. Works for hiring and for assessing the team you already have.
Draws from: Selecting Talent
Coming soon
A note on trust
These are plain-text instruction files. Nothing executes on your machine. Nothing reports back to me. There is no analytics ping, no license check-in, no auto-update. I don't know who downloaded what. The skills either run inside your Claude environment or they don't run at all.
If something is broken, off-key, or wrong for your situation, write to tim@intind.com. I read every message. The skills get better when readers tell me where they fall over.