A collection of Claude skills designed for neurodivergent individuals to reduce cognitive friction.

neurodiverse-claude-skills

A set of Claude skills I built for myself as a neurodivergent person. If your brain works anything like mine, they might help you too.

What This Is

A growing collection of custom Claude skills built around the friction points I encounter day to day, things like processing messy voice-to-text input, breaking down tasks, translating communication, or reducing cognitive load.

These were built by a neurodivergent engineering manager for personal use — not by a clinician or researcher. They are shared openly in case they are useful to others. They are not a substitute for professional support.

The skills are designed around specific friction points rather than diagnostic labels. If a skill solves a problem you recognise, it is probably useful to you regardless of how your brain is wired.

Who These Are For

Anyone who finds that their brain creates friction around communication, task management, writing, or processing information. You do not need a diagnosis to find these useful.

Skills

Skill	What It Does	Friction It Addresses
voice-input-processor	Interprets messy, unstructured voice-to-text input, finds the intent, and reformats it for use	Unstructured speech input, non-linear thinking, word substitution errors
brain-dump-organiser	Takes everything on your mind and organises it into clear themes and structure with optional next steps	Overwhelm, scattered thinking, context switching, mixed thoughts
digest-this	Makes long or dense content short and scannable	Walls of text, long reports, documents you need to understand quickly
visualiser	Turns any document or information into a rendered visual — never plain text	Dense documents, walls of text, high stakes letters, information that is easier to see than read

This table will grow as skills are added.

How to Install a Skill

Claude.ai (web or desktop)

Download the skill folder you want from the skills/ directory
Zip the folder
Go to Settings > Features > Skills and upload the zip file
Enable the skill from your skills library
Claude will automatically use it when relevant, or you can invoke it directly with /skill-name

Claude Code (terminal)

Download the skill folder you want from the skills/ directory
Copy the folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (personal, available across all projects) or .claude/skills/ (project-specific)
Claude will automatically discover and use the skill when relevant, or you can invoke it directly with /skill-name

Claude Code via plugin marketplace

Add the marketplace:

   /plugin marketplace add 8ix/neurodiverse-claude-skills

Open the plugin browser:

   /plugin

Select Browse and install plugins and install the skills you want

For more on how Claude skills work, see Anthropic's skills documentation.

Design Principles

These skills were designed with the following in mind:

Function over label — skills target cognitive friction points, not diagnostic categories
Forgiving input — all skills are designed to work with messy, fragmentary, or voice-to-text input
Voice preservation — skills help you communicate what you actually mean, not make you sound like someone else
No masking — the goal is reduced cognitive load, not performing neurotypicality
Composable — skills are designed to work independently and alongside each other

Status

This is a personal project, actively being built. Skills will be added incrementally. Contributions and feedback are welcome but this is not a formally maintained open source project.

Disclaimer

These skills were built by a neurodivergent person for personal use. They are not clinically validated, professionally endorsed, or a substitute for workplace accommodations or professional support. Use them if they help. Ignore them if they don't.