Anthropic

Prepare journal entries for month-end accruals, depreciation, prepaid expenses, payroll, and revenue recognition. It produces balanced debit and credit lines, supporting calculations, review flags, and posting instructions, with prior-period comparisons when the data is available.

• Preparing month-end payable and payroll accruals
• Calculating depreciation and prepaid expense entries
• Preparing revenue recognition and deferred revenue adjustments

Choose research problems, refine new ideas, or rethink stalled projects through structured conversation. Assess feasibility, potential impact, and risks, then develop success criteria, decision points, and backup plans for a clearer research strategy.

• Choosing a thesis research topic
• Assessing risks in a new research idea
• Finding alternatives for a stalled project

Analyze single-cell data with scvi-tools, using deep learning to combine datasets, correct differences between experiments, and transfer cell labels. Model guides and reusable scripts cover RNA, protein, chromatin accessibility, spatial data, and downstream analysis.

• Integrate single-cell RNA datasets and correct batch effects
• Analyze paired RNA and protein or RNA and ATAC measurements
• Transfer cell-type labels from reference data

Turn resolved support issues, recurring questions, and workarounds into help article drafts customers can search and follow. Choose an appropriate format, organize instructions clearly, and include metadata, source references, and publishing review notes.

• Turning a resolved support ticket into a help article
• Documenting answers to recurring questions
• Explaining a known issue and its workaround

Review a design or web page against WCAG 2.1 AA, an accessibility standard. Organize findings on contrast, keyboard access, forms, and screen reader behavior, with severity levels and practical recommendations for fixes.

• Review accessibility before design handoff
• Check text and interface color contrast
• Review keyboard navigation and focus behavior

Turn an unresolved customer issue into a structured brief for the right team. Gather context, document reproduction steps, assess customer and business impact, and clarify the action and deadline needed from engineering, product, security, or leadership.

• Preparing a bug report for engineering
• Consolidating reports of an issue affecting multiple customers
• Escalating an issue that puts a customer renewal at risk

Turn recent work or rough notes into a concise daily standup update organized by yesterday, today, and blockers. Connected tools can supply commits, pull requests, ticket changes, and relevant discussions to help assemble the report.

• Preparing a concise daily standup update
• Turning rough work notes into a shareable report
• Summarizing commits, pull requests, and ticket changes

Plan a system or service from requirements through components, APIs, data storage, and reliability. Produce a structured design document with diagrams, stated assumptions, trade-offs between choices, and decisions to revisit as usage grows.

• Planning the architecture of a new service
• Defining APIs, data models, and service boundaries
• Reviewing scaling and reliability plans

Analyze data distributions, trends, unusual values, and differences between groups using suitable statistical methods. The skill guides interpretation of effect sizes, meaning the magnitude of differences, alongside uncertainty and business impact, while checking for misleading conclusions.

• Summarize business metrics beyond averages
• Assess differences in A/B test results
• Investigate outliers and unusual time-series values

Plan and track the month-end accounting close with daily checklists, task dependencies, owners, deadlines, and blockers. Use the included schedules and review questions to coordinate work, assess delays, and identify process improvements.

• Planning a daily month-end close calendar
• Tracking task owners, deadlines, and progress
• Identifying blockers and their impact on the schedule

Plan tests for APIs, interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure. Choose suitable test types, prioritize critical behavior, and produce a plan with coverage targets and example cases while balancing thoroughness, execution speed, and maintenance effort.

• Planning tests for a new feature
• Finding gaps in existing test coverage
• Choosing test types for APIs and interfaces

Find information across connected workplace sources by turning a question into targeted searches. The skill adapts queries for each source, ranks and deduplicates results, and combines findings into an answer about decisions, status, documents, or policies.

• Find past decisions across chats and documents
• Check project status across connected sources
• Locate specifications or internal policies

Identify maintenance problems across code, architecture, tests, dependencies, documentation, and infrastructure. Rank them by impact, risk, and effort, then produce a prioritized backlog with business reasons and a phased improvement plan alongside feature development.

• Deciding which parts of the codebase to refactor first
• Organizing maintenance issues across technical areas
• Explaining the business reasons for technical improvements

Convert laboratory instrument files into Allotrope Simple Model (ASM) JSON, a standardized data format, or tabular CSV. Detect instrument types, validate converted data, and export Python parsing code for analysis workflows or handoff to data engineers.

• Standardizing instrument data for a laboratory management system
• Converting ELISA results into an importable CSV
• Exporting Python code to parse NanoDrop files

Review a design system for inconsistent names and hardcoded visual values, document component variants and accessibility behavior, or propose new interface patterns that follow existing rules. Produce structured audits, component references, and design proposals.

• Auditing component names and visual consistency
• Documenting component variants and states
• Recording keyboard and screen reader behavior

Prepare SOX 404 internal control testing, including sample selection, evidence requirements, and audit workpapers. Organize findings about controls over financial reporting, assess deficiencies, and outline remediation plans for review by qualified financial professionals.

• Prepare workpapers for internal control testing
• Choose audit samples based on control frequency and risk
• Organize control deficiencies and remediation plans

Summarize recent activity across connected chats, email, documents, and task tools into a daily or weekly digest. See action items first, followed by decisions and updates grouped by project, with duplicate information combined.

• Catching up on project activity after time away
• Checking requests and unanswered questions each morning
• Reviewing weekly decisions and document updates

Prepare month-end journal entries with balanced debits and credits, calculation support, and source references. Covers accrued expenses, prepaid costs, depreciation, payroll, and revenue recognition, with review checklists to help identify errors before approval and posting.

• Prepare accrual entries for uninvoiced goods or services
• Calculate prepaid expense allocation and depreciation entries
• Organize payroll accruals and revenue recognition entries

Write and improve SQL for major data warehouses, accounting for differences in their syntax. Use it to build analytical queries, translate existing SQL, investigate errors, and review slow queries for performance improvements.

• Translate SQL from PostgreSQL to BigQuery
• Review slow queries for performance improvements
• Calculate retention rates and funnel conversion

Create or improve a company-specific data analysis skill by gathering analysts’ knowledge and examining database structures. Document business terms, metric formulas, table relationships, and common query patterns in reusable reference files.

• Create a data analysis skill for a company
• Document metric formulas and standard exclusions
• Add knowledge about a new business domain

Research customer questions using available internal documents, account history, support records, and public sources. Produce a brief with an answer, source references, confidence level, unresolved questions, and recommended next steps before drafting a customer response.

• Check product capabilities before answering a customer
• Find previous bug reports and known workarounds
• Review what a specific customer was told before

Manage service incidents from initial assessment through recovery review. The skill organizes severity, impact, roles, status updates, and timelines, then drafts a blameless postmortem with root cause analysis and action items assigned to owners.

• Assess the severity and impact of a new incident
• Draft internal and customer status updates
• Record mitigation steps and an incident timeline

Draft customer responses to product questions, outages, billing problems, and difficult requests. Adapt tone and length to the relationship and communication channel, with internal notes identifying facts to verify, sensitive points, and follow-up actions.

• Answering a customer's product question
• Responding to an outage or escalated complaint
• Explaining a delay or declining a feature request

Ask data questions in everyday language, from checking a single metric to investigating trends or preparing a formal report. Receive findings supported by queries, tables, or charts, with data validation and clear limitations.

• Check new user signups for a specific month
• Investigate a decline in conversion rates
• Compare support tickets by category and priority