Cold Open Creator
Create 25-35 second cold opens that hook listeners by dropping them into a specific moment that encapsulates the episode's themes. Merge Descript's character-driven narrative with Colin & Samir's rearrangement technique.
Email Writing
Write authentic, human-sounding emails that build relationships and drive action. This skill should be used when drafting welcome emails, follow-ups, newsletters, announcements, outreach, or any email communication. Integrates with human-writing principles to avoid AI tells. Particularly suited for community building, movement organizing, and personal relationship management contexts.
Podcast Production
Complete workflow for producing podcast episodes from raw transcript to publishable YouTube and social media assets. Four-checkpoint system for strategic decision-making plus final polished assets.
Youtube Clip Extractor
Download YouTube videos, identify compelling clips from transcripts, cut clips with ffmpeg, and generate platform-optimized on-screen text and captions. Complete workflow from URL to publishable clips.
Youtube Downloader
Download YouTube video transcripts when user provides a YouTube URL or asks to download/get/fetch a transcript from YouTube. Also use when user wants to transcribe or get captions/subtitles from a YouTube video.
Vellum Prep
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
Meta Ads Creative
Create high-converting Meta (Facebook/Instagram) ad creative using the 6 Elements framework, proven ad formats, and research-driven copywriting. Optimized for lo-fi, native-feeling ads that don't look like ads.
Ai Tells
Patterns that make writing sound AI-generated. Invoke this skill for ANY writing task - newsletters, social media, blog posts, emails. Apply these constraints automatically.
How Newsletters
Writing style reference based on case studies of successful newsletters. This skill should be used when the user wants to write in the distinctive voice and style of professional newsletter writers, or when creating content that needs to feel authentic and human rather than AI-generated.
Writing Style
Core writing standards for all Skill Stack content. Invoke automatically for any writing task. Combines anti-AI patterns, voice principles, and prose style.
Nano Banana Image Generator
Generate AI images using Nano Banana Pro (Gemini). Use this skill when the user needs images - thumbnails, social posts, blog headers, or creative visuals. Follows an iterative workflow - brainstorm concepts, select direction, generate in multiple styles, then produce via API.
Day In The Life
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
X Article Converter
Convert blog posts or newsletters into X/Twitter articles with handles inserted and a posting strategy. Use when the user wants to turn an article into X content, create a tweetstorm, or promote content on Twitter/X with expert tagging. (project)
Dude With Sign Writer
Creates punchy, conversational one-liners in "Dude With Sign" style - bold statements that challenge norms, validate feelings, or poke fun at everyday truths. Use when creating short social captions, easel reveal messages, or single-sentence hooks. Not for long-form content or formal messaging.
Ghostwriter
Transform source material into authentic, human-written content. Use for ANY writing task - newsletters, articles, social posts, emails. Combines voice transformation, AI pattern detection, and Charlie Deist's signature moves. Replaces the old ai-tells and human-writing skills.
Seo Content Writer
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
Podcast Blog Post Creator
Transform podcast episodes into compelling, SEO-optimized blog posts in a conversational voice. Creates narrative-driven explainers (~1,000 words) that weave guest expertise with real-world storytelling.
X Posting
Post and schedule content to X/Twitter. Use when batch processing social posts, promoting podcasts/blogs, or scheduling content. Handles guest tagging, template matching, and getlate.dev API integration.
Hook And Headline Writing
Create attention-grabbing hooks and headlines using 15 proven formulas, sticky techniques, and the 4 U's test. This skill provides systematic frameworks for generating volume (10+ options) and selecting the best performers. Use for newsletter subject lines, social media hooks, blog headlines, or any content that needs to stop the scroll.
Short Form Video
Create short-form video content (Reels, TikTok, Shorts) using practitioner methodology. Covers production workflow from concept to publish, hook construction, format selection, and algorithm optimization.
Voice Pirate Wires
Write in the Pirate Wires style - authentic, conversational, contrarian. This voice is direct and confident with irreverent humor, takes obvious-but-unsaid positions, and sounds like a smart friend explaining something they've figured out. Use with anti-ai-writing for tech commentary, cultural criticism, or any content requiring a strong point of view.
Seo Research
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
Find Your Margin
Help a knowledge worker find where their attention earns the fattest margin when combined with AI. Maps their skill stack against AI capabilities to identify high-surplus opportunities vs. commodity traps. Use when someone asks where to focus their AI efforts, how to avoid the allocation economy race-to-zero, or how to build a defensible position as an individual operator.
Video Caption Creation
Create on-screen text hooks and captions for short-form video clips. Built around the Complementarity Principle - on-screen text should ADD to what the viewer hears, not repeat it. Includes podcast clip workflow, hook categories, and Triple Word Score optimization.
Verified Review
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
Youtube Title Creator
Generate high-CTR YouTube titles and thumbnails using framework fitting method. Match content to 119 proven formulas from Creator Hooks, apply psychological principles, test variations.
Text Content
Create high-performing text posts for social media using framework fitting method. 360+ proven templates across LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and Instagram. Progressive disclosure loads only relevant templates based on platform and content type.
Human Writing
Transform AI-assisted drafts into authentic, distinctive prose. Use this skill when (1) reviewing or humanizing AI-generated content, (2) writing content that must not appear AI-assisted, (3) converting transcripts or source material into polished prose, (4) maintaining Charlie Deist's voice across content. Triggers on requests to "make it sound human", "remove AI tells", "write in my voice", or…
Youtube Scriptwriting
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
Open Education Hub Deep Dives
Create SEO-optimized deep dive articles for the Open Education Hub. This skill combines proprietary OpenEd insights (podcasts, Slack, newsletters) with SEO-structured headers to create authoritative, non-generic content on homeschooling topics. Use when writing curriculum guides, pedagogical method explainers, grade-level guides, or state-specific homeschool content.
Social Content Creation
Transform newsletters, articles, and podcasts into platform-optimized social posts using 180+ proven templates. This skill uses the framework fitting method to extract standalone concepts, match them to proven formats, generate volume, and multiply winners. Use for repurposing long-form content to LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook, and Instagram.
Transcript Polisher
Transform raw podcast transcripts into polished, readable documents. This skill removes filler words, fixes grammar, adds structure, and preserves authentic voice. Use when processing podcast transcripts, interview recordings, video captions, or any spoken content that needs cleanup while maintaining 100% fidelity to meaning.
Invisible Threads
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.
Anti Ai Writing
Transform AI-assisted drafts into authentic, human-sounding content. This skill provides patterns to detect and eliminate AI tells, frameworks for natural writing, and techniques for creating prose that reads as genuinely human. Use when reviewing any AI-generated content or when writing content that must not appear AI-assisted.
Memo
A Claude skill from cdeistopened/content-os.