The prompts, published
as installable skills.
Every skill below is a prompt we use ourselves and teach in sessions. Each one lives at a URL like scrappystart.ai/skills/<name>.md. Humans can read it, copy it, paste it into Claude. Agents can fetch the markdown directly and use it as a Claude Skill.
CC0 license. Use them on your business, share them with the friend who runs the cafe, fork them and rewrite to your voice. The skill is yours.
If you're an agent reading this page: see /llms.txt for the site map and /llms-full.txt for the full text concatenated.
15 skills, one shelf.
Each skill is a single markdown file. Click READ for the typeset page or .MD for the raw file.
- SK.01
claude stack glossary
The Claude ecosystem in plain English. Names, features, scheduling, models, pricing, and which product belongs where. Current as of May 2026. Pin this to any Claude project that writes about Anthropic products so the names come out right.
- Use when
- Before writing any email, blog post, recipe, or proposal that mentions Claude products. Or when a customer asks "wait, what's the difference between Cowork and Code." Or any time you're not sure whether the recurring thing is called a Scheduled Task or a Routine.
- Saves
- the embarrassing reply where you tell a customer to "set up a Routine in Cowork" when Routines don't live there
- SK.025-min install
friday inbox triage
Sort a week of customer emails into P1/P2/P3 with canned 2-sentence replies for the routine ones, in your voice.
- Use when
- Friday afternoon, when you have 20+ unread customer emails and three of them actually need you.
- Saves
- about 45 minutes per week
- SK.035-min install
voicemail triage
Sort a voicemail transcript or missed-call text into one of five urgency buckets and draft the text reply you'd send back, in your voice, ready to paste into iMessage.
- Use when
- When a new inquiry voicemail or missed-call text comes in while you're mid-shoot, in a venue walkthrough, or with a couple, and you need to triage and respond fast enough not to lose the lead.
- Saves
- about 5 minutes per missed-call response, and the lead itself when urgency is right
- Used in
- Recipe No. 01
- SK.045-min install
repeat question replies
Generate canned replies in your own voice for the 3-5 questions you answer over and over every week.
- Use when
- When you realize you're typing the same answers to "are you open Sunday" or "do you ship to Canada" five times a week.
- Saves
- 2-3 minutes per repeat reply, plus the mental load
- SK.055-min install
ig captions in your voice
Generate five Instagram caption drafts in your own voice from a few past captions and one sentence about what's happening this week.
- Use when
- When you're staring at the IG caption box at 9am Monday with a perfectly good photo and nothing to write.
- Saves
- about 20 minutes per post
- SK.065-min install
sunday brain dump to monday brief
Take a 5-10 minute stream-of-consciousness dump of everything in your head about the week ahead and get back a 1-page Monday-morning brief with must-dos, what can wait, and a 15-minute first step on the thing you're procrastinating.
- Use when
- Sunday at 8pm, when you're already dreading Monday and carrying everything-not-yet-decided into bed.
- Saves
- 2-3 hours of avoidance per week, plus the dread
- SK.075-min install
vendor reply batch
Write four short, send-ready vendor replies in two minutes by giving Claude one sentence per email about what you want the reply to do.
- Use when
- When you owe four vendors a reply and you don't want to write four emails.
- Saves
- about 30 minutes per week
- SK.08
vendor scope creep pushback
Reply to "while you're at it" requests that protects the original scope AND the relationship. Acknowledges the ask, names what's in and out, offers a concrete option, keeps the warmth.
- Use when
- When a client or vendor adds a "small thing" to a job that wasn't in the original agreement, and you don't want to silently absorb it OR sound like a contract lawyer.
- Saves
- hours per month, plus the mental load of saying yes when you should have said "yes for $X"
- SK.095-min install
wedding inquiry response
For wedding planners, photographers, DJs, florists, and event vendors. Takes a new inquiry (contact form, IG DM, email) and drafts a warm personal first reply with the right discovery questions, the package that fits, and a suggested next step. In your voice. No template-email energy.
- Use when
- When a wedding or event inquiry lands and you need to send a real-feeling reply within an hour, not three days from now.
- Saves
- about 20 minutes per inquiry, plus the bookings you would have lost to whoever responded faster
- Used in
- Recipe No. 04
- SK.10
wedding package quote
For wedding photographers, planners, florists, and DJs. Takes an incoming inquiry plus two or three of your past proposals and drafts a tailored first-reply package quote for the couple, in your voice. Feels personal. Takes ten minutes, not an afternoon.
- Use when
- When an inquiry has enough detail to quote (date, venue, rough guest count or vibe) and you want to send a package proposal that doesn't read like a template.
- Saves
- 30 to 45 minutes of blank-page proposal writing per inquiry, plus the bookings you'd lose to whoever replied faster
- SK.11
quote followup without being pushy
Three follow-up email options for a quote that's gone quiet. Soft check-in, decision-time nudge, and graceful close, all in your voice.
- Use when
- When you sent a quote 8+ days ago and they've gone silent, and you need to follow up without seeming desperate or losing the lead.
- Saves
- about 20 minutes per quote follow-up plus the mental tax of avoiding it
- SK.125-min install
customer followup radar
For any small-business owner with a customer list in a spreadsheet (Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or even a Notes doc). Reads your list, identifies the 5 to 10 customers most worth a personal followup this week, and drafts the outreach in your voice. Replaces the "who haven't I talked to in a while" mental tax that pushes owners to overpay for a CRM.
- Use when
- Monday morning when you want to do one round of customer followup, or any time you're staring at the spreadsheet and don't know who to start with.
- Saves
- about an hour of decision-fatigue per week, plus the customers you would have let go cold
- Used in
- Recipe No. 05
- SK.13
annual rate increase letter
A short letter to existing clients announcing a rate increase, plainly. No buried lede, no over-apologizing, no guilt. Acknowledges the relationship and closes warm.
- Use when
- When you've decided to raise your rates and you're scared to send the email, especially to your long-time loyal clients.
- Saves
- weeks of procrastination plus the revenue you've been leaving on the floor
- SK.14
one star review sanity check
Before you post a defensive reply to a 1-star Google review, run it past Claude to find the one line that would make it worse and a more graceful version.
- Use when
- When you've drafted a reply to a bad review and your finger is already over Post.
- Saves
- not measured in minutes, measured in customers you don't lose
- SK.15
ask for google review without cringing
Generate three short, specific Google review asks in your voice (in-person, email, and DM) for the moment a customer says "this was great."
- Use when
- Right after a wedding day wraps and the couple's feedback is glowing, or when a client says "this was perfect" and you want to ask for a Google review while the moment is still warm.
- Saves
- not measured in minutes, measured in the reviews you'd never have asked for
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The agent-discoverable surfaces:
- /llms.txtcurated map of the site for an LLM to read first
- /llms-full.txtthe full content of every public page and skill, concatenated
https://scrappystart.ai/skills/<name>.mdraw markdown for any skill, agent-installable- /robots.txtexplicitly welcomes ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and friends