7 Claude Skills for HR and People Ops Teams That Cut the Admin Time
The best Agent Skills for HR professionals — recruiting, onboarding, performance reviews, comp analysis, org planning, and more. Works with Claude Code and Claude.ai.
HR work is high-volume by nature. Every hire means a job description, an interview plan, an offer letter, an onboarding checklist, and a 90-day plan — before the person even starts. Every review cycle means templates, calibration prep, and turning vague manager notes into specific, actionable feedback. Every quarter means comp benchmarks, headcount planning, and a people report for leadership.
The documentation and process layer is substantial. It’s also largely repeatable — the same structures apply across every hire, every review, every org change. Agent Skills give Claude a consistent, structured approach to that repeatable layer so you can focus on the decisions that require your judgment: the candidate who’s a close call, the performance conversation that needs careful handling, the org change that needs to land well.
The seven skills below are built from Anthropic’s official HR workflow plugins. They cover the full people ops lifecycle from interview prep through to org planning and reporting.
The skills
1. Human Resources Onboarding
A good onboarding plan doesn’t start on Day 1 — it starts two weeks before. Pre-start tasks (equipment, system access, Slack invites), a structured Day 1 agenda, a Week 1 plan that introduces the right people in the right order, and a 30/60/90-day goal framework that sets expectations clearly from the start. Building all of that from scratch for every hire takes longer than it should.
The Human Resources Onboarding skill gives Claude a structured approach to generating onboarding plans: pre-start checklist, Day 1 schedule, Week 1 agenda, and 30/60/90-day goals tailored to the role and team. The output is a complete onboarding plan you can share with the new hire, the hiring manager, and the IT team simultaneously.
Use it as soon as someone has a confirmed start date — input the role, the team, and any specific context about what success looks like in the first 90 days, and get a structured plan ready before the person arrives.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resources2. Human Resources Interview Prep
Inconsistent interviews produce inconsistent hiring decisions. When each interviewer asks different questions, uses different evaluation criteria, and scores candidates against their own implicit rubric, the calibration discussion becomes an exercise in reconciling fundamentally different assessments rather than a structured comparison of the same evidence.
The Human Resources Interview Prep skill gives Claude a structured approach to building interview plans: competency-based questions mapped to the specific skills and behaviours the role requires, a structured scorecard with clear rating criteria, an interviewer guide that ensures consistent question framing across the panel, and a calibration framework for the post-interview discussion.
Use it when preparing to run an interview process for a new role — input the job description and the competencies you’re screening for, get a structured interview plan the entire hiring team can run consistently. Especially useful when bringing new interviewers onto a panel who haven’t done structured interviews before.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resources3. Human Resources Performance Review
Performance review season creates a predictable bottleneck: managers need to write reviews, the reviews need to be specific and behavioural rather than vague, the calibration session needs structured input, and the whole thing needs to happen in a compressed window while everyone is also doing their normal jobs.
The Human Resources Performance Review skill gives Claude a structured approach to performance review support: self-assessment templates employees can actually use, a manager review format that produces specific behavioural examples rather than generic ratings, calibration preparation that makes the calibration session more productive, and the translation layer that turns rough manager notes (“she’s doing fine but could push back more”) into specific, usable feedback.
Use it at the start of a review cycle to prepare templates for the whole team, and again during calibration prep to help managers translate their observations into the structured format that makes calibration sessions work.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resources4. Human Resources Comp Analysis
Compensation decisions are high-stakes in both directions. Underpaying creates retention risk and slows hiring. Overpaying creates internal equity problems and compresses future raises. Making good comp decisions requires market data, internal band placement logic, and a clear framework — not a gut feel and a quick Glassdoor check.
The Human Resources Comp Analysis skill gives Claude a structured approach to compensation analysis: market benchmarking against comparable roles, internal band placement recommendations, equity modelling for offers that include equity, outlier identification in existing comp data, and retention risk flagging for employees whose comp has drifted outside competitive range.
Trigger it with “what should we pay a [role]”, “is this offer competitive”, or by uploading comp data to identify where the gaps are. Most useful when making an offer for a competitive role, when preparing for a comp review cycle, or when a manager raises a concern about someone’s pay relative to the market.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resources5. Human Resources Draft Offer
Offer letters have more moving parts than they look like they should. Base salary, equity grant with vesting schedule, signing bonus (if any), start date, benefits summary, at-will employment language, and a hiring manager note that feels personal rather than formulaic. Getting all of it right, in a format that’s professional and legally appropriate, on a tight timeline, is where mistakes tend to happen.
The Human Resources Draft Offer skill gives Claude a structured approach to drafting offer letters: compensation details formatted correctly, equity terms explained clearly (important for candidates who don’t have a finance background), signing bonus terms and conditions, and negotiation guidance for the hiring manager that covers the most likely counterpoints.
Use it when an offer is ready to go out — input the agreed-upon terms and the role context, get a complete offer letter draft and a hiring manager guide for the conversation. Faster than starting from a template and less error-prone than manually editing last quarter’s letter.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resources6. Human Resources Org Planning
Org design decisions — who reports to whom, how to structure a growing team, when to add a management layer, where the span of control is too wide — are some of the most consequential decisions in a scaling company and some of the least structured. Most org changes happen reactively, driven by a specific problem, without a clear framework for evaluating trade-offs.
The Human Resources Org Planning skill gives Claude a structured approach to headcount planning and org design: headcount modelling against growth targets, org structure options with trade-off analysis, span of control assessment, reporting line recommendations, and the framing for communicating an org change to the team in a way that lands well.
Trigger it with “headcount plan”, “reorg”, “team structure”, or “who should we hire next” — useful when thinking through a structural change before presenting it to leadership, or when preparing an org update for a board meeting that requires a clear rationale for the proposed structure.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resources7. Human Resources People Report
People data is one of the most requested and least standardised reports in any company. Leadership wants headcount by team. Investors want attrition and diversity trends. Managers want to know where their team is relative to plan. Getting all of it out of the HRIS in a format that’s actually useful for each audience takes more effort than it should.
The Human Resources People Report skill gives Claude a structured approach to generating people analytics reports: headcount snapshots by team and level, attrition analysis by tenure and department, hiring funnel metrics, diversity metrics for board or investor reporting, and org health indicators that surface early warning signs before they become retention problems.
Use it when pulling a headcount snapshot for a leadership meeting, when analysing turnover by team to understand where there’s a systemic problem, or when preparing diversity and people metrics for a board update or investor data room.
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill human-resourcesHow these skills chain together
Here’s how these skills map to the two most time-intensive HR cycles: hiring and performance reviews.
Hiring cycle: Use Interview Prep when the role opens — build the structured interview plan before the first candidate comes in. Use Sales Call Prep principles via Comp Analysis to benchmark the role before making an offer. Use Draft Offer when the decision is made. Use Onboarding as soon as the start date is confirmed.
Performance review cycle: Use Performance Review at the start of the cycle to prepare templates for the team. Run calibration prep for managers who need structured input before the calibration session. Use People Report after the cycle closes to produce the headcount and performance summary for leadership.
Ongoing: Use Org Planning whenever a structural change is under consideration — before it becomes a reactive decision made under pressure. Use People Report quarterly for leadership and investor reporting.
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The HR & People Ops Stack bundles recruiting, onboarding, performance reviews, comp analysis, org planning, offer drafting, and interview prep into one curated starter set.
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