What I've Learned from Using 20 Claude Skills: The Scope of What to Delegate to AI
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What you'll learn in this article:
Claude skills—an honest account of what I've started delegating and where I'm still drawing the line after using about 20 of them.
Before I knew it, I had 20 of them
At first, I only created one 'template for polishing note articles'.
Work-related
Template for saving ideas and news to Notion
Template for saving configuration notes to Tips
Lifestyle-related
Child's bowel movement record
Template for organizing nursery school class schedules
Template for tracking books borrowed from the library
Template for saving parenting consultation logs to Notion
Note-related
Turning image generation prompts into articles
Turning articles about games for children into posts
General-purpose article skills
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Looking at them all, most were just 'things I write using the same steps every day.' I feel like I haven't created new work, but rather just translated the tasks I used to do by hand into words, one by one.
The most effective ones were the lifestyle recording tools
What surprised me was that the lifestyle-related skills had a greater impact than the work-related ones.
A format for organizing children's bowel movements
A format that reads and answers based on daycare schedules
A format for aggregating library reading records
The more tasks there are like these—things that happen every day but for which I lack the energy to write down properly—the more I feel the gradual relief of delegating them to Claude.
When I hand over scribbled notes, they come back as text I can read later.
This was an area where I underestimated the effectiveness until I actually tried it.
For note-taking, I can't delegate as much as I thought
Conversely, the skill for writing note articles didn't end up being as 'fully delegatable' as I had imagined.
Claude organizes five title options and the structure of the main text for me.
However, I still end up checking the final sentence endings and deciding what to cut myself.
This is because I felt that if I gave that up, my own personal touch would gradually fade away.
Delegate the format, but decide the tone yourself.
Ever since I started drawing that line, writing notes has become a little easier.
Storage-based skills have helped clear my mind
A format for sending ideas to a notebook when they strike
A format for adding configuration notes to a tips collection
A format for registering AI-generated content into Notion
A format for summarizing interesting news in Notion
By lining up these 'storage formats,' my thoughts are less likely to get scattered.
I have less need to keep things in my head, making it easier to focus on the day's work.
This was an effect I didn't expect at first, and I think it might be the most welcome byproduct of running 20 of them.
What I learned from increasing the number
Sometimes I find myself wondering, Which skill should I trigger again?. At first, I found this inconvenient, but recently I've come to think that
if I'm unsure, it's fine not to use them.
It's perfectly fine if some unused skills are just sitting there dormant.
It's like a toolbox; I feel that as long as the necessary tools are there when I need them, that's enough.
Occasionally, I open a skill and tweak just one line.
I feel that this kind of quiet maintenance is more effective than adding new ones.
The scope of delegation ultimately boiled down to these three things
After six months of operation, I'm probably only delegating these three things to Claude.
Formatting (applying to a specific structure)
Classification (deciding where to save things)
Drafting momentum (getting the first few lines started)
I make all the final decisions myself.
The scope of delegation, in one line
Delegate the preparatory work, but do not delegate the decision-making work.
Summary
The more skills you have, the more you can quietly focus on the work that only you should be doing.
It's a bit of a cliché conclusion, but ultimately, it comes down to the fact that Claude's skills are the best. It's a mechanism similar to Gemini's Gems or ChatGPT's GPTs, but the ease of being able to open it quickly and
trigger a skill while understanding the conversation from any chat (whether new or existing) is exceptional.
Even now, with various companies releasing project features, I feel that the lightness of keeping everything within the chat itself suits me best.
Thank you for reading. See you in the next article.
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