The 3 Claude Skills That Replace an Executive Assistant
The thing an executive assistant actually does isn't scheduling. It's managing information flow — deciding what needs your attention, what doesn't, what needs a response today, and what can wait. That judgment is what makes a great EA irreplaceable. It's also what most founders are doing themselves, badly, at 11pm.
The Executive Assistant pack has 5 skills. Here are the three that recover the most time.
/email-triage
Inbox management is where a lot of cognitive load goes that shouldn't. You open an email, decide you'll deal with it later, close it, open it again tomorrow. The average professional checks email dozens of times a day and makes the same "not now" decision over and over without ever actually clearing the queue.
/email-triage sorts your inbox into three buckets: ACTION (needs a response or decision from you), FYI (you should know about it, nothing required), and NOISE (can be archived without reading again). One item at a time, no overwhelm, clear on what actually needs you.
--brief gives you a compressed summary of each item so you can process faster when the volume is high.
The inbox isn't a to-do list. Treating it like one is why it never gets done.
/meeting-prep
Walking into a meeting unprepared is a choice that feels like it saves time but doesn't. You spend the first 10 minutes orienting, you miss context that would have changed your questions, and you leave without the clarity you could have had if you'd spent 5 minutes before the call.
/meeting-prep researches every attendee and generates a 2-minute brief before any call — who they are, what they care about, what the context is, and what you should know walking in. It connects to your calendar so you're not manually pulling names.
Two minutes of prep changes the quality of every conversation. This makes sure you actually do it.
/weekly-brief
Most founders don't have a clear picture of their own week until it's over. The calendar happened, emails were sent, things got done — but there's no synthesis. No sense of what moved forward, what's still open, and what needs to happen next week to stay on track.
/weekly-brief compiles a summary from your calendar and inbox into a 3-minute read covering what happened, what's pending, and what needs attention. It replaces the hour you'd spend trying to reconstruct the week from memory on a Sunday night.
--send formats it as a ready-to-send email for sharing with a co-founder, investor, or team. --team expands the brief to include team-level context rather than just your individual schedule.
Clarity at the end of the week makes the start of the next one faster. That compound effect adds up.
All five skills in the Executive Assistant pack — including /follow-up and /investor-update — are available to Skills Pack members. They ship as SKILL.md files — drop them into ~/.claude/skills/ and invoke with the slash command in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
That's all 10 packs covered. If you want to go deeper on any of them, every skill is available individually in the pack library.