Guys check these out. 🛠️ Spent the weekend installing every open-source Claude Code tool that dropped in the last two weeks. Wanted to share the 6 that actually pulled their weight. The quick version: → caveman keeps Claude's brain big but its mouth small. Cuts your reply tokens around 75% with no real quality hit. Cheapest install of the bunch. → codeburn tracks AI spend across 18 different tools in one dashboard. Mint for your Anthropic bill. You find out which agent is bleeding you. → open-design generates full UIs locally from a single prompt. No more half-baked screenshots from cloud tools. → designlang steals any website's design system in 90 seconds. Point it at a URL, get fonts, colors, spacing, components back. → /watch gives Claude eyes. Hand it a YouTube URL, ask it questions about what's inside. Useful for tutorials, ad reviews, demo calls. → n8n-mcp lets Claude build your n8n workflows from a plain-English description. Way faster than dragging nodes around. The one nobody's talking about is codeburn. Everyone has 4+ AI subscriptions running and zero clue what they're spending where. Fix that this week. Anyone tried these yet? Video walkthrough if you want the deep dive on each: https://youtu.be/s2-jnLL0ooc

I was spending 4-5 hours every weekend manually creating guides, writing LinkedIn posts, and crafting DM templates for my lead magnets. Same process every week. So I built a Claude Code skill that does the whole thing for me. Here's the workflow: 1. I paste a YouTube video URL 2. The skill extracts the transcript using yt-dlp (free open source tool) 3. It researches the topic further on its own using web search 4. It writes a full Notion guide with step-by-step instructions, formatting, and sources 5. It generates 3 LinkedIn post variations (story angle, problem angle, framework angle) 6. It creates a DM template with placeholders for the person's name and the guide link The whole thing runs in about an hour for a full week of content. The only manual step is the graphic in Canva because image models still can't nail that consistently. The key here is that skills are just text files. No code. You describe your workflow once in plain English and Claude follows it every time. The structure is simple: a SKILL.md file for the main instructions, a references folder for things like writing rules and guide templates, and optionally a scripts folder for any code it needs to run. If you have any repeating workflow in your business (content, outreach, reporting, onboarding) you can turn it into a skill the same way. Just do the task once with Claude, then tell it to package the whole process into a skill using the Skill Creator. I put together a full walkthrough showing the entire build if anyone wants to see how the pieces fit together 👇 https://youtu.be/Z1zx4SivZ2Y?si=ViSKIkQsRq8AjcT4

Most people either use Claude through the chat or jump straight into Claude Code. But Cowork (the middle option in Claude Desktop) is honestly where non-technical users should be spending their time. Quick breakdown for anyone who hasn't tried it yet: The 3 modes and when to use each: → Chat = conversations, brainstorming, writing → Cowork = real tasks on your computer (files, email, dashboards, automations) → Code = full dev projects in a terminal Setup stuff most people skip: → You can import your ChatGPT or Gemini memory into Claude so it already knows your context → Global instructions let you set tone, formatting rules, etc. once and forget about it → Connectors (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Notion) are one click to set up. No API keys. What Cowork can actually do: → Scan your email and calendar then summarize your week with pending tasks → Audit a website's structure through the Chrome extension → Build an interactive HTML dashboard from your email data → Organize hundreds of files in your Downloads folder in under a minute → Schedule any of these to run automatically on a timer The file organization one surprised me the most. 151 screenshots sorted into folders in about 30 seconds. And scheduled tasks mean you set it up once and never think about it again. No coding. No terminal. Just plain language. If you've been curious about Claude but felt intimidated by the code side, Cowork is the move. Same power, way more user friendly. I put together a full walkthrough with live demos of all of this if you want to see how it works in practice: https://youtu.be/w2-3cwNumlw?si=vGaUQU__SRexfs0W