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I Tried 100+ Claude Code Skills. These 6 Are The Best

A 13-minute walkthrough of the six Claude Code skills Nate Herk says are the only ones businesses will actually pay for — plus how to package them into an AI-automation offer.

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Big Idea

The argument in one line.

The six Claude Code skills that generate client revenue are the boring ones that save time, cut costs, or eliminate mistakes—not the flashy ones—and you sell them by marketing the business outcome, not the technical workflow.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…
  • A freelancer or consultant with 0-2 years of automation experience who wants to sell Claude Code agents to small businesses without learning skill syntax manually.
  • An agency owner or founder running real estate, HVAC, coaching, or marketing operations who needs to build internal automations quickly and wants a proven six-skill framework.
  • An AI automation reseller who has tried building Claude Code skills and hit walls with reliability or who wants to understand which skills actually generate client revenue versus vanity projects.
SKIP IF…
  • You're an experienced Claude Code developer who already builds production skills fluently — this is intro-level skill selection and won't cover advanced multi-agent orchestration.
  • You work in industries outside service businesses (SaaS, product, publishing, etc.) — all examples are rooted in HVAC, real estate, coaching, and marketing operations.
  • You're looking for a complete guide to selling AI services, pricing strategies, or contract frameworks — this focuses purely on which skills to build, not go-to-market execution.
TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Six Claude Code skills survive real client work because they save time, cut costs, or prevent mistakes � the only outcomes businesses actually pay for. The stack works as a chain: Skill Creator builds custom skills from plain-English descriptions, Superpowers forces senior-engineer discipline by planning and testing before writing, GSD spawns clean-context subagents to stop mid-session context rot, /review and /ultrareview catch verified bugs before merge, Context Mode strips tool-call garbage from the window and rebuilds session state on compaction, and Claude Mem persists project knowledge across sessions through a local vector database. Frontend Design is a bonus for non-AI-looking UIs. Sell the outcome � hours saved, fewer errors, faster delivery � not the workflow; start with one skill, ship a demo, expand from there.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:0000:47

01 · Cold open: 400 hours, 6 skills

Pattern interrupt that says most YouTube-famous skills are useless to real clients. Names the criteria: save time, save money, remove mistakes — and promises the six that pay.

00:4701:30

02 · Credential drop + promise

Lists the verticals he's shipped to (real estate, HVAC, coaches, marketing) to earn permission, then restates the value: 'if you want to make money selling AI in 2026, start with what businesses already pay for.'

01:3004:00

03 · Skill 1 — Skill Creator (Anthropic)

Official Anthropic skill that writes other skills from plain-English descriptions. Frames it as 'the factory that builds the product' — not what a client pays for, but what makes every other paid skill possible. Install command: /plugin install skill-creator@claude-plugins-official.

04:0004:37

04 · Skill vs plugin disclaimer

Quick aside: a skill is a markdown file teaching Claude one job, a plugin is a bigger package that can bundle skills + hooks + MCP servers. Also addresses comments-section conspiracies that he's an AI avatar.

04:3707:05

05 · Skill 2 — Superpowers

Community skill (150K GitHub stars) that forces Claude to plan, test, review in two stages, and work in an isolated environment before writing code. Pitch: gets you from 60% to 80% one-shot quality, cuts debugging cycles and token costs. Tied directly to client-grade production work.

07:0507:59

06 · Skill 3 — GSD (Get Shit Done) intro

Names 'context rot' — the mid-session collapse where Claude forgets requirements and cuts corners — as the wall every Claude Code user hits.

07:5910:15

07 · Skill 3 — GSD context engineering

Solution: spawn fresh sub-agents per task, each with a clean context window. Built-in quality gates catch scope reduction and enforce security. Autonomous mode lets it plan/execute/commit unattended. Pairs with Superpowers — Superpowers gives the process, GSD gives the clean environment to run it.

10:1512:50

08 · Skill 4 — /review and /ultra-review

Built into Claude Code, not installed. /review runs a fast local structured code review; /ultra-review (launched with Opus 4.7) uploads your branch to a cloud sandbox, spins up parallel reviewer agents, and only surfaces independently reproduced bugs. Requires Claude Code 2.1.86+ and a Claude account. Pro/Max get 3 free runs, then $5–$20 per run.

12:5015:20

09 · Skill 5 — Context Mode (the garbage filter)

Every tool call dumps raw output into the context window — Playwright snapshots, GitHub issues, logs. After 30 minutes, 40% of context is junk. Context Mode routes tool calls through a sandbox subprocess and returns only the slice Claude needs: a 56 KB Playwright snapshot becomes 299 bytes.

15:2016:50

10 · Skill 5 — Context Mode session memory

Second half of Context Mode: tracks every meaningful event (file edits, tasks, decisions, errors) in a local SQL DB so when Claude compacts, it rebuilds the session snapshot and injects it back. Sessions that died at 30 min now run 3 hours. Install with two slash commands + restart.

16:5019:40

11 · Skill 6 — Claude Mem (cross-session memory)

Where Context Mode keeps the current session clean, Claude Mem carries knowledge across sessions. Hooks into the lifecycle, auto-captures edits/decisions/bug-fixes via Claude's own agent SDK, compresses into semantic summaries, stores in local SQLite with vector search. Auto-generates folder-level CLAUDE.md files. Three-layer retrieval claims ~10× token savings vs dumping everything at session start.

19:4020:35

12 · Bonus 7 — Anthropic Frontend Design

Official Anthropic frontend-design skill — installs globally, makes Claude Code's UI output look 'a lot less AI generated.' Notes this is now baked into Claude Design (Anthropic Labs) but you still want the skill installed if you bring Claude Design output back into Claude Code.

20:3522:50

13 · Sell the outcome, not the workflow

The actual business lesson: stop pitching 'I'll build you an AI workflow.' Pitch saving 10 hours/week, cutting admin mistakes, speeding up or growing leads. Beginner playbook: pick ONE of the six, build a few workflows with it, show a demo — the business owner doesn't care about your experience, they care about value. CTA to free Skool community resource guide + next video.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

  • After 400 hours in Claude Code across real client industries, the skills that consistently get paid for are the ones that save time, save money, or remove mistakes — not the ones that look impressive in demos.
  • The Skill Creator is the factory that builds every other skill — without it, most people hit a wall on the structural requirements and either give up or produce brittle skills that break in client environments.
  • Superpowers forces Claude to plan before coding, work in isolation, write tests first, and conduct two rounds of self-review — catching the edge cases that otherwise reach the client and break.
  • GSD addresses the context window degradation problem — code gets sloppy and requirements get forgotten around the midpoint of a session, and GSD manages the session environment to prevent that.
  • The review and ultra-review skills create a mandatory QA gate between generating code and shipping it, which is what converts a 60 percent first-pass success rate into something a client can depend on.
  • Context Mode solves the problem of Claude losing track of project-level requirements across multiple sessions by maintaining a persistent, structured context document the agent references before every task.
  • The AI automation freelance pitch is 'sell the outcome, not the workflow' — clients pay for the dispatch system that works, not for the skill architecture you used to build it.
Takeaway

Steal the format.

Toolkit-curation listicle playbook

The whole video is one move — burn the field of 100+ options down to six, name the criteria upfront, and tie each item to a paying business pain.

  • Lead with a credential-plus-curation hook: '400 hours in, here are the only 6 that matter.' This works for ANY toolkit Joe owns — '14 versions of ModBoard later, here are the 6 features that survived.'
  • State the three filters at second 18. Nate's are save time / save money / remove mistakes. Joe's $6 Stack version could be: cuts your bill / runs offline / you own it.
  • Give each item the same 4-beat structure: name + 'the problem it solves' + concrete example + install/use command. Repeatable, scannable, edit-friendly.
  • Mid-video re-hook every 2-3 minutes. Nate restates the thesis at the top of each new skill ('the next skill is...') — keeps mid-roll retention up without feeling forced.
  • Plant pairing logic between items. 'Superpowers gives Claude the process, GSD gives it the substrate' — turns a flat list into a composable system, which is a memetic upgrade.
  • Close on the outcome ladder, not another tool. The last 2 minutes pivot from WHAT to HOW-TO-SELL, which gives the value-promise viewer their reason to stay through the CTA.
  • Bonus the 7th. Adding a 'and one more' bonus item after the listed count feels generous and gets a second engagement spike at the end.
Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Claude Code skill
A markdown file that teaches Claude Code how to perform a specific, repeatable job — installed as a /slash command that triggers consistent behavior across projects.
Claude Code plugin
A larger package than a single skill; it can bundle multiple skills together with hooks and MCP server integrations that change how Claude Code behaves at a deeper level.
Skill Creator
An official Anthropic skill for Claude Code that lets users describe a workflow in plain English and automatically generates, tests, and packages it as a reusable skill file.
Superpowers (skill)
A community Claude Code skill with over 150,000 GitHub stars that forces the agent to plan thoroughly, work in isolation, write tests before code, and self-review in two passes before delivering results.
GSD (Get Stuff Done)
A Claude Code plugin that combats context degradation by spawning fresh sub-agents with clean context windows for each task, while adding quality gates for scope drift, security, and autonomous execution.
Context rot
The progressive degradation in output quality that occurs as a Claude Code session grows longer and the model's context window fills with accumulated logs, raw data, and earlier conversation history.
Context engineering
The practice of carefully managing what information enters an AI agent's context window — keeping it clean and focused so the model maintains quality output throughout long work sessions.
Sub-agent
An independent AI agent instance spawned by a parent agent to handle a specific task in isolation, with its own fresh context window, reporting results back when done.
Quality gate
An automated checkpoint in a workflow that verifies specific criteria — like security compliance or scope completeness — before allowing the next step to proceed.
Context Mode (plugin)
A Claude Code plugin that routes command output through a sandbox so only compressed summaries enter the context window, and stores session events in a local SQLite database to survive compaction.
Claude Mem
A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures file edits, decisions, and events during a session and stores them in a local vector-search SQLite database so future sessions can retrieve relevant history without re-explaining the project.
Vector search
A search method that finds semantically similar content by comparing numerical embeddings rather than exact keywords, allowing retrieval of contextually relevant information even when phrasing differs.
SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
A documented step-by-step process for completing a repeatable task consistently, commonly used in business operations to maintain quality and train staff.
QA (Quality Assurance)
The process of testing software or outputs to find bugs, edge cases, and errors before they reach production or a client.
Resources

Things they pointed at.

09:40toolGSD — Get Shit Done plugin
10:15tool/review (built into Claude Code)
10:40tool/ultra-review (built into Claude Code 2.1.86+)
12:50toolContext Mode plugin
16:50toolClaude Mem plugin
19:40toolAnthropic Frontend Design skill
20:10productClaude Design (Anthropic Labs)
22:20linkNate Herk free Skool community + resource guide
Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:12
They're simple, they're boring, but they are effective.
anti-hype thesis statement in one sentence, perfectly contrarian for the AI-skills genreTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
01:00
If you're watching this and you wanna make money selling AI in 2026, don't overthink it. Just start with what the businesses are already paying for.
direct address + year tag + permission to simplify — pure cold open energyIG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
02:35
The skill itself isn't what a client pays for. But every single skill that you're going to sell... they all come out of this one. It's the factory that builds the product.
factory-vs-product metaphor lands the whole Skill Creator section in two linesnewsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
07:02
Superpowers slows Claude down just enough to actually think the problem through, and it doesn't let Claude skip steps.
perfect one-line value prop, no setup neededTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
07:40
If you can get somewhere like 80% of the way there rather than just like 60% of the way there, that's a win.
realistic-expectations counter-take against the 'one-shot everything' AI hypenewsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
09:05
Somewhere around halfway through your context window, it starts to fall apart. And this is essentially called context rot.
names a problem every Claude Code user has felt — instant resonance hookTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
14:10
After about thirty minutes of real work, 40% of your context window is just garbage.
concrete stat + visceral word 'garbage' — pattern-interrupt punchIG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
15:00
A 56 kilobyte playwright snapshot becomes 299 bytes.
specific number, dramatic compression ratio — credibility detailnewsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
16:10
Sessions that used to fall apart around thirty minute mark now run for three hours.
30 minutes vs 3 hours is a 6× transformation in a single beatTikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
20:50
You need to be selling the outcome. You need to be selling saving the business owner ten hours a week or cutting their admin mistakes.
the whole second half of the video distilled into one CTA-grade lineIG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
The Script

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00:00After spending four hundred hours in Cloud Code, I noticed something. Most people online are developing fancy skills for the sake of a cool video, but businesses don't actually want that. They want six types of skills.
00:08They're simple, they're boring, but they are effective. Skills that save time, save money, or remove mistakes. And the crazy part is these six skills are the ones that clients will pay the most for because they allow you to build the best agents at the lowest cost.
00:19So in this video, I'll show you what they are, why they sell, and how you can use them to sell AI automations. But before we jump into the first one, let me show you how I figured all of this out. I've worked with real estate agencies, HVAC companies, coaches, marketing agencies, and more, and I've seen the same patterns across every business.
00:33They're different industries, sure, but they face the same problems. And these skills keep showing up again and again. So if you're watching this and you wanna make money selling AI in 2026, don't overthink it.
00:41Just start with what the businesses are already paying for. Alright. Let's get into the first skill.
00:45So the first skill that I'd install is the one that builds every other skill, and it's called the skill creator. It's one of the official skills from Anthropic. You basically just describe what you want in plain English.
00:54Claude drafts the skill, tests it, iterates on it, and it packages it into something that you can use forever. You don't have to manually touch or edit a skill dot m d file. You don't have to figure out the formatting.
01:03You just talk to Claude like you're explaining the job to a coworker, and you walk away with a skill that runs the same every time. You could even drop in like an SOP, and it would be able to turn that into a reusable skill. So the problem that solves is very simple.
01:14Most people who get into clogged code try to write skills manually, and they immediately hit a wall. They don't know the structure. They don't know what makes a skill reliable versus flaky.
01:22So they either give up or they cobble something together that breaks the second a client touches it. So the skill creator removes all of that headache. Now, honestly, the skill itself isn't what a client pays for.
01:31But every single skill that you're going to sell to an HVAC company, a real estate agency, a coach, whatever, they all come out of this one. It's the factory that builds the product. So indirectly, this is the skill that can help make all of the other dollars possible.
01:43So here's a simple example. Let's say a real estate agency tells you they waste hours every week writing property descriptions. Without Skill Creator, you'd be writing out the whole skill dot m d file, figuring out the trigger conditions, testing it over and over, and it will probably break a few times, and you could obviously get to a spot where you have a good working skill.
01:57But with the Skill Creator, you can just explain it more naturally, and it will help you build, test, and package it. So it just compresses that learning curve. To install this, you can run slash plug and install skill creator.
02:06I'll put the full command right up here and in the description, and I'll include all of the actual commands that you'll need in the description so you can just copy and paste them. I personally installed this skill globally on a user scope, so no matter what project that I'm actually working in, if I ever need to build a skill, it just automatically invokes this, and I don't even have to think about it at all.
02:20Alright. So quick thing before we get into the rest. You're gonna hear me use the word skill throughout this video, but technically some of these are plugins.
02:26A skill is basically a package that you install that teaches Claude how to do a specific job better. It is the markdown file, but a plugin is a bigger package around that skill because it can contain multiple other skills plus extra things like hooks or MCP servers. And all of that changes how ClawdCode behaves under the hood because of that plugin.
02:42Also, because I know you guys are gonna say so in the comments, I'm not an AI avatar. This is really me here speaking to you guys. But anyways, for this video, I'm gonna be calling some of these skills because the point isn't the technical category, it's that each one of these makes Claude noticeably better at its job.
02:55Anyways, the next skill is called superpowers, and this one literally gives Claude superpowers. It's a great name. It forces Claude to work the way that a senior developer works.
03:03Meaning, instead of jumping in and writing code right away, Claude will now step back and plan the whole thing first. It works in an isolated environment so nothing breaks your main project. It writes tests before it writes code.
03:12It brainstorms and it reviews its own work in two stages. Once for whether it actually matches the spec and once for code quality. The problem it solves is the number one failure mode when people use Claude code, which is rushed or sloppy code.
03:23You ask for something, Claude sprints to write it, and on the surface it looks fine, but then when you start to run it and use it, it falls apart. Or worse, your client runs it and it falls apart. So superpower slows Claude down just enough to actually think the problem through, and it doesn't let Claude skip steps.
03:36So really any project where you're building software or automations that will actually be put into production needs this skill. An HVAC company paying for a dispatch system, a marketing agency paying for a custom reporting tool. These clients don't care how many lines of code you wrote.
03:48They care that the system works when their business depends on it. Without a framework like superpowers, Claude might write the whole automation in one shot and miss an edge case. But with superpowers, Claude can plan it out.
03:56It can write the tests. It can find edge case scenarios, and it can catch those gaps before it ever reaches your client. Now it's not realistic to say that it's still going to be able to one shot everything.
04:05Ultimately, when you're building, a large part of your job is QA, quality assurance. And on your first pass, if you can get somewhere like 80% of the way there rather than just like 60% of the way there, that's a win. Fewer debugging cycles means less time spent fixing things and lower token costs.
04:19This is also why superpowers is one of the most popular community skills out there with over a 150,000 stars on GitHub. So to install it, just run this command right up here. I threw this in the description.
04:28And by the way, I also made a full YouTube video breaking down this superpower skill and talking about the tokens that it actually spends. So you can check that out right up here. Alright.
04:35Skill number three is called GSD, which stands for shit done. And if superpowers is about how Claude writes code, then GSD is about the environment that Claude actually writes that code in.
04:45Every Claude code user eventually hits that wall. Right? You start a session.
04:48Things are going great. Claude's nailing everything. Then somewhere around halfway through your context window, it starts to fall apart.
04:53You know, code gets sloppy. Claude forgets requirements that you set at the beginning of the session. It starts skipping steps, and it actually cuts corners, and it might tell you things are done when they're not.
05:02And this is essentially called context rod. Now GSD fixes this with context engineering. Instead of letting one big session slowly degrade, it spawns fresh sub agents for each task, and each one has a clean context window focused on only what they need to know.
05:14So your main session stays clean, each task gets the full power of Claude's context window instead of just the leftovers. It also has built in quality gates that catch real problems during execution. Scope reduction detection catches the planner when it silently drops a requirement that you asked for.
05:28Security enforcement anchors verification to your threat model. These aren't things that you'd manually think to go check through, especially if you're not coming from a software engineering background, which is exactly why having them automated really matters. There's also an autonomous mode if you want to hand claw to spec and just walk away.
05:41It'll plan, execute, commit, and work through the whole project without you having to babysit it as much. Now one thing I wanna be upfront about is that GSD isn't really a token saving plugin. All of these sub agents cost tokens, but what it saves you is the hours you'd otherwise spend redoing work that Claude broke because it forgot what you asked in the place.
05:58So superpowers gives Claude the process, plan, test, review, repeat. GSD gives Claude the clean context so that processing actually works every time. So to install this one, just run this command in your terminal, and then you can also type slash g s d dash help inside of Claude code to see what other commands are available within that plugin.
06:14Okay. So the fourth one isn't actually a skill that you install. It's already built into Claude code, and most people just aren't using it.
06:20It's the slash review command and its more powerful cousin slash ultra review. So when you finish writing code and you type slash review, Claude does a structured code review on what you just built. It looks for bugs, edge cases, and design issues, all of the stuff that a careful reviewer would be flagging.
06:34It runs locally. It's fast. It costs you nothing beyond your usual usage tokens.
06:38And then we have slash ultra review, which launched alongside Opus 4.7. Now this one, instead of running locally, it uploads your branch to a cloud sandbox and spins up a fleet of reviewer agents in parallel. Each agent will attack your code base from a different angle, logic, security, performance, edge cases.
06:53And here's the part that's really cool. Before any bug shows up on your list, it has to be independently reproduced and verified. So you're not gonna get a pile of style nitpicks or false positives.
07:02You're gonna be getting confirmed bugs. Practically, I mean, this fits at the end of any Claude code workflow. You plan with superpowers, you execute with clean context using GSD, and then before you merge anything important, you run slash ultra review to catch the bugs that Claude missed on its own.
07:15A few things to know before you run it, you need Claude code version two point one point eight six or later. You need to be signed in with a Claude account. An API key alone won't work.
07:24And when you run the slash ultra review, it could take, you know, ten to twenty minutes, but it runs in the background so that you can keep working. You'll wanna use slash review for fast feedback on everything, and you can use slash ultra review when you're about to merge something that actually matters, like a big refactor or anything touching payments or auth or a database migration.
07:39The kind of commit where a production bug costs way more than the time and the tokens that UltraView may cost you. And also a quick heads up, UltraView isn't free. Pro and max plans get three free runs to try.
07:49It might have changed by the time you're watching this. But after that, it might cost 5 to $20 per run depending on size. Once again, you don't need to go install this if you're on Claude code 2.186 or later.
07:59Just type slash review or slash ultra review in your terminal, and it should work. Alright. This fifth plugin is context mode.
08:04So here is the problem. Every tool call that you make, Claude dumps raw data into your context window. So a playwright snapshot might be 56 kilobytes.
08:1220 GitHub issues might be 59 kilobytes. And after about thirty minutes of real work, 40% of your context window is just garbage. Log output, raw data, you know, stuff that you never actually need Claude to look at.
08:22And when Claude runs out of space and compacts the conversation, it forgets what files it was editing, what tasks were in progress, and what you last asked it to do. So context mode's job is to fix both halves of these problems. First, it keeps the garbage out.
08:35When Claude runs a command or fetches a URL, context mode routes that call through a sandbox. So your code runs in an isolated subprocess, the raw output gets captured, and only the part that Claude actually needs comes back into the context window.
08:46Now according to their own benchmarks, a 56 kilobyte playwright snapshot becomes 299 bytes. A 46 kilobyte access log becomes 155 bytes.
08:54So over a full session, 315 kilobytes of raw output becomes five kilobytes total. That's obviously from their published benchmarks, and you can see your own numbers by running slash context mode colon c t x dash stats at any point. Now second, and this is the part that I didn't even know I needed until I had it, context mode tracks every meaningful event in your session in a local SQL database.
09:13Every file you edit, every task you create, every decision you make, every error that comes up. When Claude compacts the conversation, it doesn't lose any of that. Context mode rebuilds a session snapshot and injects it back in.
09:23So the model picks up exactly where you left off with your files, your tasks, and your last prompt intact. Practically, what does this mean for your Claude code projects? Sessions that used to fall apart around thirty minute mark now run for three hours because you don't hit any slowdown.
09:36You stop wasting prompts reminding Claude of the context that it already had. So to install this one on Cloud Code, just type in these two commands right here, and then you restart Cloud Code, and that's basically it. The plug in auto installs the MCP server, the hooks, and the routing instructions.
09:48Alright. And now this last skill is called Claude Memm. And if context mode keeps your current session clean, then Claude Memm is what carries knowledge across all of your future sessions.
09:57Claude code starts every new session from scratch. So you open up a session, and you're explaining the project for the fifth time this month. Because every new conversation costs you maybe ten minutes and thousands of tokens just getting Claude caught up.
10:08Now you can try to solve this with things like your Claude dot m d files and your memory files, which obviously are important, and these are plain text files that you write to give Claude persistent project instructions. And those work, but you do have to kinda think about maintaining them by hand. So if you miss an update on one of those files, then Claude will also miss that context.
10:24So ClaudeMem basically takes this completely over. It hooks into Claude's session life cycle, and it automatically captures what happened during your session. It'll look at the file edits, the decisions, the bug fixes, the commands, things like that.
10:35And then it will use Claude's own agent SDK to compress all of that semantic summaries and stores everything into a local SQLite database with vector search. So when you open up a new session, the relevant parts get injected back in automatically, and it also auto generates folder level claw dot m d files and updates them as you work.
10:51So your project documentation literally writes itself while you code, and it's automated. And the part that actually saves tokens is the retrieval. So instead of dumping every past observation into your context, CloudMem uses a three layer search system.
11:03It first returns a compact index of observations, and then you can pull a timeline around the ones that matter. And only then does it fetch the full details for the handoff that you need. So this repo reports about 10 times token savings on retrieval compared to dumping everything in at the session start.
11:18So practically, all of your Cloud Code projects, you stop paying the startup tax on every new session. You stop repeating yourself. You pick up a project where you haven't touched in two weeks, and Cloud already knows exactly what you're working on and what you've decided and where you left off.
11:30And because everything runs locally on your machine with a web viewer, you can actually see what Cloud remembers about your project, and you can look through it yourself. Now inside of Cloud Code, you can install this using the plug in marketplace with the commands right here on screen. Now one quick warning from the repo itself, you don't have to run this NPM install command.
11:44That installs the SDK library only, and nothing actually works because the hooks never register. So stick with the two commands above, and that ladies and gentlemen was number six on our list today. But real quick because I know a lot of you guys are doing things with website design or you know building out slide decks and whatnot.
11:58Bonus skill number seven is the official front end design skill from Anthropic. You just install it using the command on screen and I would go ahead and just install that globally. So whenever you're doing things like actually designing things in Cloud Code, it will make them look a lot less AI generated because of that front end design skill.
12:13Now this type of stuff also is natively baked into Anthropic Labs new products called Cloud Design, but if you do bring that project back into Cloud Code, you're gonna wanna use this Okay. So now that you know these skills and what they do, here's how to actually sell them. Because I see so many people starting out trying to sell the actual workflow, but you need to be selling something else.
12:30You need to be selling the outcome. You need to be selling saving the business owner ten hours a week or cutting their admin mistakes and their human error. You need to be selling the results like speeding up their leads or getting them more leads.
12:39That's what they actually wanna pay for. So instead of offering to build an AI workflow, you're actually just offering to save time, cut costs, and help them focus on making more profit for their business. And there's actually a simple way to start doing this.
12:49If you're brand new, don't try to use all six of these right away. Just pick one, learn it, build out a few workflows using it, and show a business owner a demo. They won't really care about your experience.
12:57They'll care about the value of what you're showing them. Once you start to understand how skills work and how they piece together, you're able to build better automations quicker and hopefully for cheaper, which means you can make more demos. You can make more content.
13:08You can automate more parts of your own business. All of that experience is gonna help you communicate the value of what you know to business owners much better. So I know that we covered a ton of information in this video, so what I did is I threw all of this into a resource guide that you can access for completely free inside of my free school community.
13:22You can check that out using the link in the description. And if you wanna see exactly how I make money in 2026, then check out this video right up here. But, anyways, that is gonna do it for today.
13:30If you guys enjoyed or you learned something new, then please give it a like. It helps me out a ton. And as always, I appreciate you guys made it to the end of the video, and I'll see you all in the next one.
13:37Thanks, everyone.
The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Nate opens by burning the rest of the genre — '100+ skills tested, most don't matter' — then immediately narrows the field to six. The title promises a filter and the first 22 seconds deliver the filter's criteria: save time, save money, or remove mistakes. From there it's a pure curation play built on his 400-hour credential and his portfolio of real-estate, HVAC, coaching and marketing clients.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

00:18list

Three filters for client-payable AI skills

  1. Save time
  2. Save money
  3. Remove mistakes

Nate's whole curation criteria. Anything that doesn't pass one of these three doesn't make the list — and these are also what the business owner is actually buying.

Steal forany pitch deck or sales page where you're selling productivity tooling — replace the feature list with which of the three filters it satisfies
01:00list

The 6 (+1) Claude Code skill stack for AI agencies

  1. Skill Creator
  2. Superpowers
  3. GSD (Get Shit Done)
  4. /review + /ultra-review
  5. Context Mode
  6. Claude Mem
  7. Frontend Design (bonus)

The full curated stack — Skill Creator is the factory, Superpowers gives Claude the engineering process, GSD gives it clean sub-agent context, /review and /ultra-review catch bugs pre-merge, Context Mode trims tool-call garbage in-session, Claude Mem carries memory across sessions, and Frontend Design fixes the AI-generic UI look.

Steal fora one-page 'starter stack' lead magnet for any creator audience — Joe could do the exact same listicle for video-editing or content-creator tooling
09:40concept

Superpowers + GSD pairing

Superpowers controls HOW Claude writes code (plan → test → review). GSD controls the ENVIRONMENT it writes code in (clean sub-agent contexts). One gives the process, the other gives the substrate the process runs on. They compose.

Steal forany 'two tools that look competitive but are actually complementary' explainer
11:30concept

Pre-merge review ladder

Daily flow: /review for everything (fast, local, cheap). /ultra-review only for high-stakes merges — payments, auth, DB migrations — where production bugs cost more than the $5–$20 run.

Steal forany 'when to use cheap vs expensive AI tier' explainer
20:35list

Sell the outcome ladder

  1. Save 10 hours/week
  2. Cut admin mistakes / human error
  3. Speed up leads
  4. Get more leads
  5. More profit

The pitch frame for AI-automation freelancers. Don't sell the workflow, don't sell the skill, don't sell the AI — sell what the business owner already wants to buy.

Steal forevery single offer Joe builds — Mod Producer, Clip Lab, MCN+ — the pitch should always lead with the outcome ladder, not the toolkit
21:30list

Pick one + demo playbook

  1. Pick ONE skill
  2. Build a few workflows with it
  3. Show a business owner a demo
  4. They don't care about your experience, only the value

The beginner cold-start sequence. Resists the temptation to learn all six before pitching anything.

Steal forany 'how do I get my first client' content — the demo-as-proof loop beats the credentials-as-proof loop
CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK
22:20newsletter
I threw all of this into a resource guide that you can access for completely free inside of my free school community. You can check that out using the link in the description.

Soft, low-pressure pitch tucked after the big 'sell the outcome' lesson. Followed immediately by an end-screen video card and a like-the-video ask. Note: he says 'school' but means Skool — the spelling drift is verbal habit.

FROM THE DESCRIPTION
Storyboard

Visual structure at a glance.

title card
hooktitle card00:00
talking head intro
hooktalking head intro00:10
'MAKE' graphic
promise'MAKE' graphic00:39
Skill 1 reveal
valueSkill 1 reveal00:49
real-estate agency demo
valuereal-estate agency demo01:44
Skill 1 callback panel
valueSkill 1 callback panel02:55
Super Power Skill card
valueSuper Power Skill card03:10
Superpowers laptop demo
valueSuperpowers laptop demo04:02
GitHub repo screen
valueGitHub repo screen04:28
context-rot diagram
valuecontext-rot diagram04:57
sub-agents diagram
valuesub-agents diagram05:58
Skill 3 GSD reveal
valueSkill 3 GSD reveal06:31
Frame Gallery

Visual moments.

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