Great Book Skills — Development skill for Claude Code

Great Book Skills

Books distilled into Claude Code skills. Load a book's wisdom as actionable guidance.

What This Is

Great Book Skills are [Claude Code skills](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) based on influential books. Each skill distills a book's core principles into instructions Claude can apply while working with you.

Think of it as having a writing coach, strategy advisor, or management mentor on call—except instead of asking "what would Grove say?", Claude already knows.

Available Skills

Writing

• Elements of Style — Strunk & White's blade for cutting prose
• On Writing Well — Zinsser's warm, exacting eye for nonfiction
• Bird by Bird — Lamott's survival guide for writers facing the blank page
• Hey Whipple, Squeeze This — Sullivan's irreverent guide to advertising copy

Strategy

• The Lean Startup — Ries's methodology for building under uncertainty
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy — Rumelt's bullshit detector for strategy
• 7 Powers — Helmer's diagnostic for durable competitive advantage

Leadership

• High Output Management — Grove's operating system for managers who build things
• The Manager's Path — Fournier's guide to each level of the engineering ladder
• Radical Candor — Scott's discipline for feedback that's both kind and clear
• The First 90 Days — Watkins' systematic approach to leadership transitions

Product

• Inspired — Cagan's diagnosis of product org dysfunction
• The Mom Test — Fitzpatrick's discipline for customer conversations that reveal truth

Thinking & Decisions

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