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# **anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins**

Open source repository of plugins primarily intended for knowledge workers to use in Claude Cowork

main Updated 12 hours ago [GitHub](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins)

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## Repository statistics

- Indexed skills

  **22**
- Skill groups

  **1**
- GitHub stars

  **25,956**
- Forks

  **3,051**

## Skills

22 total

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[<h3>**/create-cowork-plugin**</h3>Guide users through creating a new plugin from scratch in a cowork session. Use when users want to create a plugin, build a plugin, make a new plugin, develop a plugin, scaffold a plugin, start a plugin from scratch, or design a plugin. This skill requires Cowork mode with access to the outputs directory for delivering the final .plugin file. /create-cowork-plugin](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/create-cowork-plugin)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/analyze**</h3>Answer data questions -- from quick lookups to full analyses. Use when looking up a single metric, investigating what's driving a trend or drop, comparing segments over time, or preparing a formal data report for stakeholders. /analyze](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/analyze)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/customer-escalation**</h3>Package an escalation for engineering, product, or leadership with full context. Use when a bug needs engineering attention beyond normal support, multiple customers report the same issue, a customer is threatening to churn, or an issue has sat unresolved past its SLA. /customer-escalation](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/customer-escalation)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/customer-research**</h3>Multi-source research on a customer question or topic with source attribution. Use when a customer asks something you need to look up, investigating whether a bug has been reported before, checking what was previously told to a specific account, or gathering background before drafting a response. /customer-research](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/customer-research)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/data-visualization**</h3>Create effective data visualizations with Python (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly). Use when building charts, choosing the right chart type for a dataset, creating publication-quality figures, or applying design principles like accessibility and color theory. /data-visualization](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/data-visualization)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/draft-response**</h3>Draft a professional customer-facing response tailored to the situation and relationship. Use when answering a product question, responding to an escalation or outage, delivering bad news like a delay or won't-fix, declining a feature request, or replying to a billing issue. /draft-response](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/draft-response)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/financial-statements**</h3>Generate financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) with period-over-period comparison and variance analysis. Use when preparing a monthly or quarterly P&L, closing the books and need to flag material variances, comparing actuals to budget, building a financial summary for leadership review, or looking up GAAP presentation requirements and period-end adjustments. /financial-statements](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/financial-statements)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/kb-article**</h3>Draft a knowledge base article from a resolved issue or common question. Use when a ticket resolution is worth documenting for self-service, the same question keeps coming up, a workaround needs to be published, or a known issue should be communicated to customers. /kb-article](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/kb-article)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/search-strategy**</h3>Query decomposition and multi-source search orchestration. Breaks natural language questions into targeted searches per source, translates queries into source-specific syntax, ranks results by relevance, and handles ambiguity and fallback strategies. /search-strategy](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/search-strategy)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/source-management**</h3>Manages connected MCP sources for enterprise search. Detects available sources, guides users to connect new ones, handles source priority ordering, and manages rate limiting awareness. /source-management](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/source-management)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/sql-queries**</h3>Write correct, performant SQL across all major data warehouse dialects (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, PostgreSQL, etc.). Use when writing queries, optimizing slow SQL, translating between dialects, or building complex analytical queries with CTEs, window functions, or aggregations. /sql-queries](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/sql-queries)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/start**</h3>Initialize the productivity system and open the dashboard. Use when setting up the plugin for the first time, bootstrapping working memory from your existing task list, or decoding the shorthand (nicknames, acronyms, project codenames) you use in your todos. /start](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/start)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/ticket-triage**</h3>Triage and prioritize a support ticket or customer issue. Use when a new ticket comes in and needs categorization, assigning P1-P4 priority, deciding which team should handle it, or checking whether it's a duplicate or known issue before routing. /ticket-triage](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/ticket-triage)

Updated 7 months ago

Requires [/customer-escalation](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/customer-escalation)

[<h3>**/cowork-plugin-customizer**</h3>Customize a Claude Code plugin for a specific organization's tools and workflows. Use when: customize plugin, set up plugin, configure plugin, tailor plugin, adjust plugin settings, customize plugin connectors, customize plugin skill, tweak plugin, modify plugin configuration. /cowork-plugin-customizer](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/cowork-plugin-customizer)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/system-design**</h3>Design systems, services, and architectures. Trigger with "design a system for", "how should we architect", "system design for", "what's the right architecture for", or when the user needs help with API design, data modeling, or service boundaries. /system-design](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/system-design)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/tech-debt**</h3>Identify, categorize, and prioritize technical debt. Trigger with "tech debt", "technical debt audit", "what should we refactor", "code health", or when the user asks about code quality, refactoring priorities, or maintenance backlog. /tech-debt](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tech-debt)

Updated 7 months ago

[<h3>**/data-context-extractor**</h3>Generate or improve a company-specific data analysis skill by extracting tribal knowledge from analysts. BOOTSTRAP MODE - Triggers: "Create a data context skill", "Set up data analysis for our warehouse", "Help me create a skill for our database", "Generate a data skill for \[company\]" → Discovers schemas, asks key questions, generates initial skill with reference files ITERATION MODE - Triggers: "Add context about \[domain\]", "The skill needs more info about \[topic\]", "Update the data skill with \[metrics/tables/terminology\]", "Improve the \[domain\] reference" → Loads existing skill, asks targeted questions, appends/updates reference files Use when data analysts want Claude to understand their company's specific data warehouse, terminology, metrics definitions, and common query patterns. /data-context-extractor](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/data-context-extractor)

Updated 8 months ago

[<h3>**/instrument-data-to-allotrope**</h3>Convert laboratory instrument output files (PDF, CSV, Excel, TXT) to Allotrope Simple Model (ASM) JSON format or flattened 2D CSV. Use this skill when scientists need to standardize instrument data for LIMS systems, data lakes, or downstream analysis. Supports auto-detection of instrument types. Outputs include full ASM JSON, flattened CSV for easy import, and exportable Python code for data engineers. Common triggers include converting instrument files, standardizing lab data, preparing data for upload to LIMS/ELN systems, or generating parser code for production pipelines. /instrument-data-to-allotrope](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/instrument-data-to-allotrope)

Updated 8 months ago

[<h3>**/nextflow-development**</h3>Run nf-core bioinformatics pipelines (rnaseq, sarek, atacseq) on sequencing data. Use when analyzing RNA-seq, WGS/WES, or ATAC-seq data—either local FASTQs or public datasets from GEO/SRA. Triggers on nf-core, Nextflow, FASTQ analysis, variant calling, gene expression, differential expression, GEO reanalysis, GSE/GSM/SRR accessions, or samplesheet creation. /nextflow-development](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/nextflow-development)

Updated 8 months ago

[<h3>**/scientific-problem-selection**</h3>This skill should be used when scientists need help with research problem selection, project ideation, troubleshooting stuck projects, or strategic scientific decisions. Use this skill when users ask to pitch a new research idea, work through a project problem, evaluate project risks, plan research strategy, navigate decision trees, or get help choosing what scientific problem to work on. Typical requests include "I have an idea for a project", "I'm stuck on my research", "help me evaluate this project", "what should I work on", or "I need strategic advice about my research". /scientific-problem-selection](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/scientific-problem-selection)

Updated 8 months ago

[<h3>**/scvi-tools**</h3>Deep learning for single-cell analysis using scvi-tools. This skill should be used when users need (1) data integration and batch correction with scVI/scANVI, (2) ATAC-seq analysis with PeakVI, (3) CITE-seq multi-modal analysis with totalVI, (4) multiome RNA+ATAC analysis with MultiVI, (5) spatial transcriptomics deconvolution with DestVI, (6) label transfer and reference mapping with scANVI/scArches, (7) RNA velocity with veloVI, or (8) any deep learning-based single-cell method. Triggers include mentions of scVI, scANVI, totalVI, PeakVI, MultiVI, DestVI, veloVI, sysVI, scArches, variational autoencoder, VAE, batch correction, data integration, multi-modal, CITE-seq, multiome, reference mapping, latent space. /scvi-tools](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/scvi-tools)

Updated 8 months ago

[<h3>**/single-cell-rna-qc**</h3>Performs quality control on single-cell RNA-seq data (.h5ad or .h5 files) using scverse best practices with MAD-based filtering and comprehensive visualizations. Use when users request QC analysis, filtering low-quality cells, assessing data quality, or following scverse/scanpy best practices for single-cell analysis. /single-cell-rna-qc](https://skilld.dev/gh/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/single-cell-rna-qc)

Updated 8 months ago

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