Summary

This guide demonstrates how Claude Desktop Skills drastically reduce token usage by up to 80%, enabling faster task execution and extended conversation capacity. Skills are pre-loaded instructions that activate automatically, eliminating repetitive explanations and allowing users to complete 150-200 tasks in a single conversation versus 25-30 without skills. The framework combines Skills, Sub-Agents, and MCPs to create efficient workflows, particularly for dashboard generation and data analysis tasks.

Key Takeaways

• Massive token efficiency: Skills reduce token usage from 800 to 150 per task (81% reduction), allowing you to accomplish significantly more work before hitting context limits.
• Zero-friction execution: Once installed, skills persist forever and activate automatically—no re-explaining required, transforming multi-step dialogues into instant execution.
• The power trio: Combining Skills (behaviour modification) + Sub-Agents (complex workflows) + MCPs (external services) creates a maximum-efficiency pipeline that can reduce token costs by over 96% in data-heavy operations.

Extracting and scraping from product detail page and search results page.

These two scripts are bookmarklets that make it easy to capture source code from a search results page—you enter your keyword, search, and extract the HTML.

Why use them?

Amazon has protocols that block bots, agents, and browser automation. By extracting the HTML data, you can give it directly to Claude.

The process is simple. Store the bookmarklet in your browser using the setup below.

When you're on a product detail page or search results page, click the bookmarklet. It creates a text file and downloads all the information to your computer.

Provide that file to Claude, then decide what data you want to extract and how to use it.

SERP Data Analysis

Copy this script here and paste into the URL field as image below.