5 free AI tricks i use every day

hey friends,

i hope you’re all abusing AI. to be in the top 1% of AI users, it’s important to understand what skill is.

a skill is a saved set of instructions you give AI once, so it does a job your way every time. think of it as teaching your AI a trick. it's a folder with a text file inside, that's it.

here are the 5 i'd install today if i only got 5. nothing paid beyond Claude(or your AI of choice)

1. make AI writing sound human

the problem: you paste something Claude wrote into an email or a post & everyone can tell.

the trick: rewrites it so it reads like a person wrote it, without changing what it says. kills the "not X but Y" lines, the lists of three, the dashes, the stock words.

how: paste the text, say "humanize this". skill: humanizer (by @blader, MIT, copied in with credit).

2. stop the 600-word answers

the problem: you ask a yes/no question & get an essay.

the trick: puts one short instruction in the right place for you (Instructions for Claude in Claude.ai, a settings file in Claude Code), then runs the same question before & after so you see the difference.

how: say "be concise". skill: be-concise.

3. an AI that tells you the truth about your idea

the problem: Claude agrees with everything you say.

the trick: Claude becomes a board member instead of a yes man. every idea gets the hard truth, steps to fix each risk, & one task you come back & report on. it won't change its mind without new facts.

how: it's one block of text. paste it at the start of a chat & pitch your idea. skill: board-advisor.

4. make AI write like you, not like AI

the problem: everything it drafts for you sounds like a chatbot.

the trick: reads your own captions, emails or transcripts, writes a one-page voice guide with real examples from you, then rewrites any draft to match. trick 1 is generic. this one is you.

how: paste 5 to 10 things you actually wrote & say "start". skill: sounds-like-me.

5. turn a messy spreadsheet into a dashboard

the problem: dates in three formats, prices stored as text, duplicates, nobody can read it.

the trick: cleans the sheet & builds an Excel dashboard on formulas: totals, sales by week, best & worst products, a chart. paste next month's rows under the last row & it updates.

how: upload the file, say "clean this & build a dashboard". needs code execution on in Claude.ai (Settings > Capabilities). skill: spreadsheet-dashboard.

how to install (2 minutes)

all 5 are here: https://github.com/jsath/claude-skills

Claude.ai: download the repo, zip just the skill's folder (the one with SKILL.md inside), turn on code execution in Settings > Capabilities, upload it under Customize > Skills.

Claude Code: drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ & start a new session. ask for the job.

ChatGPT or anything else: open SKILL.md & paste it in as your instructions. tricks 1 to 4 work that way.

if you want more than 5

the full AI Operating System i run my business on, the skills i haven't made public, & live build calls are inside AI Operators on Skool: https://www.skool.com/ai-operators-5011/about

& if you'd rather i set one up with you live: one hour, your screen, we build the workflow that eats your week & you leave with it running, plus the files, the recording & your next 3 moves in writing within 24 hours. https://johann.fyi/call

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