When you need an AI workflow without building it from scratch

If you're trying to ship something like lead scoring, churn alerts, or a content pipeline without months of custom agent code, this repo is a cookbook of 36 recipes (skill chains) and 764 skills you can copy and adapt. Pre-built workflows and skills for Cursor and Claude; install via npm, pick a recipe, and wire your data. New to skills? What are skills?

Browse Skill Chain Recipes • Playbooks & Data to Wire • Explore the Directory • View Metrics • Quick Start

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Choose your path

Guides by role — pick the one that matches your situation.

Role	When this fits you	Get started
👔 Sales Leader	You own pipeline and want AI qualification without a big build	View guide →
🚀 Growth PM	You're improving activation and want flows for onboarding or engagement	View guide →
🔬 Researcher	You need scientific tools and data analysis in your workflow	View guide →
💼 Finance/CFO	You need financial intelligence and reporting, not custom models	View guide →

Or browse the Skill Chain Cookbook (36 recipes) → · browse 764 skills →

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When this helps

You want a multi-step workflow (e.g. qualify → score → route) but don't want to design and maintain each step yourself. The cookbook gives you recipes; you copy one, point it at your CRM or data, and adjust. Skills are the building blocks; chains are the workflows that combine them.

• Single steps vs workflows: If you only need one-off prompts or single skills, you can use the skills library. If you need a repeatable flow (e.g. lead in → score → route → notify), the recipes are for that.
• Starting from zero vs from a recipe: Many teams build custom agents over several months. Here you start from a recipe and ship in days or weeks by wiring your data and tweaking prompts.
• Generic vs domain: Recipes are organized by domain (sales, churn, PLG, compliance, growth, etc.) so you can find something that matches what you're trying to do.

Example outcomes: Teams use the sales recipe to automate lead scoring and routing (fewer manual touches). Finance recipes are used for burn and scenario modeling. Churn recipes flag at-risk accounts early. Growth recipes drive conversion and onboarding flows. Full breakdown and numbers →

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Installation

npm install @skene/skills-directory

Auto-activation

Skills are installed to your environment during npm install and work with:

• Cursor: ~/.cursor/skills/
• Claude: ~/.claude/skills/

Install is skipped automatically in:

• CI/CD (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins)
• Docker
• When you use --ignore-scripts

To skip manually (e.g. in CI or Docker):

SKIP_SKILLS_INSTALL=true npm install @skene/skills-directory