You're using 5% of Claude

If you've never installed a skill or an MCP in Claude, you're using about 5% of what you're paying for.

Out of the box, Claude is a chatbot. A clever one, but it only knows what you paste into it, and it forgets your standards every session. Most people stop there, then wonder why AI hasn't saved them any time.

The fix is two kinds of add-on, and both take minutes to install. A skill teaches Claude how to do a specific job well. An MCP connects it to the other tools you use. Here are the seven I'd install first.

Prompt Master turns rough prompts into expert ones, so you get the right answer first time. Stop Slop strips the AI giveaways out of Claude's writing, so your emails sound like you wrote them. The Google Workspace MCP connects Claude to your inbox and calendar, so it can find emails, draft replies and plan your day.

Caveman makes Claude answer in short, blunt lines, which in my use cuts its replies by well over half. Impeccable stops your Claude-built pages looking like every other AI website. Last 30 Days makes Claude research the last 30 days of the internet before it answers you. And the Higgsfield MCP puts more than thirty image and video models behind one connection for your marketing.

I run most of these daily. They're the reason Claude reads my inbox and drafts my morning instead of waiting for me to paste things into a chat window.

You're paying full price for Claude either way. The setup decides how much of it you actually get.

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