Tools

Performance review season helper: generates self-review and manager review templates and calibration materials, summarizes rating distributions and promotion cases, and rewrites vague feedback into specific behavioral examples. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Checks hours before payroll for US small businesses: totals regular time, overtime and PTO from Gusto, QuickBooks Payroll or timesheets, and flags missed punches, overtime anomalies, rate changes and mid-period hires or exits. Prepares only, never runs payroll. Official from Anthropic.

Month-end reconciliation for small businesses: matches QuickBooks or Xero line by line against PayPal, Stripe and Shopify payouts, flags likely duplicates and missing receipts, explains the P&L in plain terms and exports a close package (Excel and PDF). CSVs work too. Official from Anthropic.

Drafts offer letters from role, level, location and comp package, listing base salary, equity, signing bonus and first-year total, plus talking points for the hiring manager's negotiation. The template follows US company conventions; have legal review before sending. Official from Anthropic.

Helps with headcount planning and org design: maps reporting lines and spans of control, sequences upcoming hires, estimates people costs, and flags structural issues like single points of failure or top-heavy management. Works in plain chat. Official from Anthropic.

Turns a feature idea or problem statement into a structured spec or PRD with goals and non-goals, user stories, success metrics and acceptance criteria, and can split large requests into phases. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

Builds structured interview kits for a role: behavioral and situational questions by competency, follow-up probes, a 1 to 4 scoring rubric and a debrief template, so interviewers assess candidates against the same bar. Part of Anthropic's official human-resources plugin.

Reorder planning for small merchants: reads sales and stock from Shopify, Square, NetSuite or CSV, projects stockout dates from 7- and 28-day velocity, sizes reorders from 60-day usage plus lead time, drafts POs and supplier emails, and flags dead stock. Nothing is sent unapproved. By Anthropic.

Screens resumes against a role rubric into a cited shortlist, ignoring irrelevant details like name and age; drafts invite, hold or decline replies, schedules interviews and builds onboarding checklists. Gmail and Calendar are optional, sending only after you confirm. Official from Anthropic.

Designs multi-email marketing sequences for onboarding, lead nurturing, win-back and launches, with full copy for each email, timing, branches and exit conditions, benchmarks and A/B test ideas. No email tool required. Part of Anthropic's official marketing plugin.

Helps in-house legal score and rank risks in contracts, deals and disputes on a severity-by-likelihood matrix, write risk memos, and know when to escalate to senior or outside counsel. No other tools needed. From Anthropic's legal plugin; not legal advice, have a lawyer review.

Builds onboarding plans for new hires: a pre-start checklist (accounts, equipment, buddy), day-one and first-week schedules, and 30/60/90-day goals. Works in plain chat; with an HRIS, knowledge base or calendar connected it pulls in team info and books day-one events. Official from Anthropic.

HR plugin: drafts offer letters, generates onboarding checklists, runs performance reviews, answers policy questions, and produces compensation benchmarks and people analytics reports. Can connect to HRIS and ATS systems. Official from Anthropic.

Compensation analysis for HR and managers: market pay percentiles by role, level and location, offer competitiveness checks and equity modeling; upload a pay sheet to find employees outside their band and flight risks. Without a comp data source it uses public web data, so verify. By Anthropic.

30/60/90-day cash flow forecasts for small businesses: reads receivables, payables and collections from your accounting system, PayPal or Stripe (or an uploaded CSV), gives a forecast with ranges and risk flags, and exports to Excel. Have an accountant review. Official from Anthropic.

Makes social media routine for small business owners: keeps a rolling content calendar, learns the owner's voice before writing captions, adapts one image per platform, and waits for approval on each post. Image creation needs Canva; Shopify, HubSpot and Mailchimp are optional. By Anthropic.

Skill from Anthropic's official sales plugin: before a customer meeting, pulls together attendees, account history, past call notes and deal status into a one-page brief with suggested discovery questions. Works best with calendar, CRM and email connectors; uploaded files also work.

Reviews contracts clause by clause against your organization's negotiation playbook, flags deviations, proposes redlines and analyzes business impact. A skill from Anthropic's official legal plugin; conclusions need review by a legal professional.

Writes competitive briefs on one or more competitors or a feature area: researches websites, pricing and reviews online, then compares features, pricing, positioning and go-to-market for prioritization, sales battlecards or board decks. From Anthropic's product-management plugin.

Account research skill from Anthropic's official sales plugin: give a company name or domain (and optionally a contact) to get a company overview, recent news and likely priorities, an ICP fit check and existing CRM records. Without a CRM it uses uploaded lists or web search.

Anthropic's official knowledge work plugin: manages tasks in TASKS.md, remembers colleagues, projects and internal jargon with two-tier memory, and generates a local dashboard. Can sync to-dos with calendar, email and chat tools.

Product management plugin: writes PRDs from a problem statement, plans and updates roadmaps, generates stakeholder updates, synthesizes user research, and runs competitive analysis and metrics reviews. Official from Anthropic.

Turns campaign or channel data into weekly, monthly or quarterly marketing reports: executive summary, key metrics and period-over-period trends, wins and misses, and next-period priorities. Connect analytics tools or just paste tables or key numbers. From Anthropic's knowledge-work-plugins.

Everyday software engineering plugin: standup summaries, code review, structured debugging, architecture decision records, incident response and pre-deploy checks. Official from Anthropic, built mainly for Cowork but also usable in Claude Code.