knowledge-work-productivity

---
name: knowledge-work-productivity
description: Use when you want Claude to manage tasks, plan your day, and build persistent memory of your work context, syncing from calendar, email, and chat.
source: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/productivity
generated: 2026-07-02T18:42:46.235Z
category: tool
audience: general
---

## When to use

- Setting up a persistent task list Claude reads, writes, and executes against
- Teaching Claude your workplace shorthand — people, projects, deals, terminology
- Running a morning sync that scans email, calendar, and chat for missed action items
- Getting a visual dashboard board view of tasks and what Claude knows about your work

## Key concepts

### task-management

Markdown-based task tracking in a shared TASKS.md file that Claude reads, writes, triages for stale items, and syncs with external tools.

### memory-management

Two-tier memory: CLAUDE.md for working memory plus a memory/ directory for deep storage, teaching Claude your people, projects, and shorthand so it acts like a colleague.

### Visual dashboard

A local dashboard.html giving a board view of tasks and a live view of workplace memory; edits from the board or the file stay in sync.

### /start and /update commands

/start initializes tasks, memory, and dashboard; /update triages stale items and checks memory gaps; /update --comprehensive deep-scans email, calendar, and chat.

### Workplace shorthand decoding

Once memory is populated, Claude resolves terse requests like 'ask todd to do the PSR for oracle' to the right person, deal, and artifact without clarifying questions.

## API reference

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

Add Anthropic's knowledge-work plugin marketplace (one-time).

```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
```

```
/plugin install productivity@knowledge-work-plugins
```

Install the Productivity plugin.

```
/plugin install productivity@knowledge-work-plugins
```

## Gotchas

- Primarily designed for Cowork, Anthropic's agentic desktop app, though it also runs in Claude Code
- Memory must be seeded first — Claude only decodes shorthand after /start populates people, projects, and terminology
- External sync (email, calendar, chat) requires connected tools; --comprehensive is a no-op without them
- Tasks live in a plain TASKS.md, so the file is the source of truth — editing it and the dashboard both mutate the same state
- Stale-task triage happens on /update, not automatically; skip it and the list drifts out of date

---
Generated by SkillMake from https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/productivity on 2026-07-02T18:42:46.235Z.
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File: ~/.claude/skills/knowledge-work-productivity/SKILL.md