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7 Claude Code skills that kill freelance admin work (invoices, proposals, contract redlines)

I bill clients as a freelancer, and I noticed I was rewriting the same Claude Code prompts every week: draft an invoice, write a proposal from a job post, turn messy meeting notes into a summary + action items, check a contract for risky clauses before signing.

So I packaged them as reusable Claude Code skills — plain-text files you drop into your skills folder, no API keys, no subscriptions:

  • /invoice — describe the work in plain English, get a polished invoice back (HTML + Markdown) in seconds
  • /proposal — paste a job post or call notes, get a tight, client-ready proposal
  • /meeting — paste messy notes or a transcript, get a summary + action-item table + a follow-up email draft
  • /redline — paste a contract or SOW, get the risky clauses flagged in plain English before you sign
  • /outreach — a personalized 3-touch cold email/LinkedIn sequence for a prospect
  • /scopecheck — paste a new client ask against your original scope, get a verdict and a ready-to-send response
  • /setrate — turn a target income into an hourly rate or project price, with the math shown

Example of what /redline actually outputs on a real (anonymized) contract clause:

Flagged: Unlimited revisions clause (Section 4.2)
"Contractor shall provide unlimited revisions until Client is fully satisfied" has no cap on rounds or timeline — this is the single most common freelance scope-creep trap. Suggested response: "Happy to include up to 2 rounds of revisions per deliverable; additional rounds billed at the hourly rate."

That's the kind of thing that's obvious once you see it, but easy to miss when you're reading a contract for the third time at 11pm.

I made /invoice free to try on its own. The full 7-skill pack is $27 (one-time, not a subscription) — Claude Code Freelancer Pack.

If you're a freelancer/consultant using Claude Code for actual client work: what's the admin task you'd want automated that isn't on this list? Genuinely collecting ideas for what to build next.

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