Most Claude users only ever open the chat and never touch the settings — and that's exactly where four features live that noticeably save time on repetitive tasks: custom skills, exporting ready-made files, connectors to external services, and controlling text style through explicit bans. Let's take each one separately — what it is, where to switch it on and which prompt to use.
1. Skills — a skill Claude remembers on its own
A Skill is a saved instruction with triggers: you set it up once in Customize → Skills → Create Skill, and after that you don't re-explain the format in every chat. It suits any repeating task — scripts, briefs, profile packaging.
Skill: reels-producer
Description (triggers): Reels script, video script,
video copy, video hook.
Instruction: format hook → 2-3 key points → example → call to action.
No "in this video I'll tell you" and no rhetorical questions in the hook.
Ask for the topic and the platform before answering if they aren't in the request.
Save it — after that you invoke it either by the trigger phrase or with the /reels-producer command.
2. Ready-made files — ask for a format, get a file
Claude can assemble the result straight into the file format you need, not just as text in the chat. It works for spreadsheets, documents, presentations, code and SVG images.
Put together a content plan for the month. Format: a .csv table,
columns — date, topic, publication format, status.
You can ask the same way for .docx for a text document, .pptx for a presentation, .pdf for a
final print version — just state the format explicitly at the end of the request.
3. Connectors — hooking up external services directly
Settings → Directory → Connectors is the list of services Claude can read from and write to inside the conversation: Google Drive, Gmail, Notion, calendar and others. Once connected, you no longer have to copy data between tabs by hand:
Open the content plan spreadsheet for last month from
Google Drive and count how many posts went out in each
category. Don't invent data if the spreadsheet isn't found.
That last line matters: without an explicit ban the model may "fill in" plausible but inaccurate numbers instead of an honest "I couldn't find the file" — with connectors this is especially critical, because the answer looks as though it's based on real data.
4. Text style control — an explicit list of bans
Without a direct ban, any model gravitates toward cliches: "it's important to note", "in today's world", "one cannot fail to mention". An explicit list of banned phrases in the prompt works better than any general plea to "write like a human":
Rewrite the text without the phrases "it's important to note", "in today's
world", "one cannot fail to emphasize" and without bureaucratic language. Short
sentences. Replace general statements with concrete examples.
The full picture: where to apply it all together
A typical content maker's working cycle with these four settings looks like this:
- You write the brief into a skill (
reels-producer, for example) and get a structured script free of the cliches from point 4 (the ban list is already baked into the skill's instruction). - You ask Claude to build a content plan for the month from the data in Google Drive (connector) and
export it right away as
.csv(a ready-made file) to work with in a spreadsheet. - You run the final post text through the explicit list of banned phrasings — even if you wrote it yourself rather than Claude — to strip out the bureaucratic language before publishing.
How we do it
Full instruction texts for Skills, example prompts for file export and a breakdown of connectors for a content maker's tasks are collected in the qvib.pro arsenal — openly, with no waiting for a DM. The base holds 500+ cards on Claude, prompts and vibe coding, assembled by the same knowledge pipeline that powers our engine for generating code and websites.
Related links
- The "Claude Skills" section of the arsenal: qvib.pro/arsenal/claude-skills
- Prompts for content and briefs: qvib.pro/arsenal/prompts
- Vibe coding guides: qvib.pro/arsenal/docs