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

An ECOSYSTEM.md file is generated with suggestions for other Skene tools that fit your stack.

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What's included

If you'd rather copy a recipe and plug in your CRM/Stripe/playbook than build from scratch, start with the Skill Chain Cookbook (36 recipes). Each recipe chains 2–7 skills and is backed by a playbook (workflow blueprint) with ICP, integration references, and prompts — see Playbooks and registry/blueprints.

Skills library (764 total: 382 executable + 382 reference guides)

• 70 PLG: Product-led growth, activation, onboarding.
• 52 Marketing: Content, SEO, campaigns, analytics.
• 29 Customer Success: Health scoring, churn prediction.
• 25 RevOps: Sales pipeline, forecasting, GTM alignment.
• 20 Monetization: Pricing, billing, revenue optimization.
• 19 AI Ops: Automation and ML operations.
• 187 more: Security, data ops, devex, finance, HR, and others.

Executable skills breakdown →

Reference guides & infrastructure (382)

• 241 Cursor rules: IDE guidelines for 241+ frameworks.
• 141 Scientific: Research tools, bioinformatics, data analysis.
• Integrations: 40+ standardized tools (CRM, analytics, billing).
• Security: Approval gates, rollbacks, audit trails.

Workflow blueprints & integration schemas

• Blueprints: Each recipe maps to registry/blueprints/ with optional ICP, integration references, and per-step prompts.
• Data to wire: registry/integration_schemas/ has reference schemas for Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe so you can wire CRM and billing without reinventing. See Playbooks.

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Quick start

1. Install (see above).

2. See a working flow quickly — pick one by time you have:

   • ⏱️ 15 min: Lead scoring agent (2 skills)
   • 🕐 1 hour: Churn prevention agent (3 skills)
   • 🌅 Half day: Campaign automation agent (5 skills)

3. Check installation:

   npx skills-directory status
   

4. Deploy from a recipe: Browse the Skill Chain Cookbook — 36 recipes with step-by-step instructions across 15+ domains.

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CLI reference

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