Claude Power Tools

Claude Power Tools

Skills that make Claude Code proactively smarter about its own capabilities.

Claude Code ships with serious force-multipliers - multi-agent workflows, session goals, recurring loops, hooks, custom skills - but you have to know to ask for them. These skills flip that: Claude notices when your task fits one of its power tools and proposes it, with a concrete sketch and an honest cost, and you decide.

Using OpenAI Codex instead? The same scout, retargeted at Codex's native tool set (subagent fan-out, goals, automations, lifecycle hooks), lives at codex-power-tools.

Skills

suggest-power-tools

The opportunity spotter. While you work on ordinary tasks, it watches for eight shapes and surfaces a proposal at the right seam:

Core etiquette baked in: one proposal per opportunity, never stacks proposals, never treats enthusiasm as approval, drops it without ceremony if you decline.

The payoff shape: a "how do we systematically audit these 25 endpoints?" aside becomes a multi-agent workflow that produces a rerunnable consistency checker and a grounded drift report - a durable tool you'd never have thought to ask for.

Install

Copy any skill directory into your skills folder:

Skills follow the standard SKILL.md convention (YAML frontmatter + progressive-disclosure references), so they also work with any agent runtime that reads Claude-style skill directories. If you rename the directory, update the name: field in the frontmatter to match.

Optional: the firing hook

A proactive skill only helps if Claude remembers to consult it, and nothing re-injects that reminder at the moment the tool choice is made - so it under-fires. The bundled UserPromptSubmit hook fixes that. It prints a one-line "consider a power tool" reminder only when your prompt carries…