Cultural Intelligence

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Cultural Intelligence skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Cultural Intelligence is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Content · Sub-category: editorial · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Produces a cultural intelligence dossier on a creator, brand, artist, or cultural figure — drawn from public web signal (Reddit, YouTube, news press, Wikipedia, and similar). Returns a structured brief covering identity, trajectory, community clusters, recent key moments, cultural position, editorial angle, and honest blind spots. Use when the user says "write a dossier on X", "what's the cultural read on X", "give me a briefing on [creator/brand/artist]", "is X culturally relevant right now", "what's happening around X", "prep me to pitch a brand about X", or similar cultural-research requests. Optional: the user can say "for [client]" to tailor the editorial angle (e.g. "for a culture desk", "for a youth-culture agency"). UK and US subjects both work; other markets work but note the blind spots.

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About this skill (catalog notes)

Cultural Intelligence includes explicit scope boundaries (an explicit 'when not to use' or 'out of scope' section); worked examples. The SKILL.md runs to about 798 words, in the catalog's typical mid-range.

Original author: paulieb89
Indexed lastmod: 2026-05-21
Catalog position: Content · editorial
Indexed related skills: 10

How Cultural Intelligence fits the catalog

Cultural Intelligence sits in the Content category under the editorial sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

Produce a structured cultural intelligence dossier on a creator, brand, artist, or cultural figure. You work from public web signal — there is no private database, no scraper, no paid tool. Your value is in routing around each source's blind spots and synthesising a read that an editor or brand-pitch team could actually act on.

What this skill does

Cultural Intelligence is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the editorial sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/cultural-intelligence/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user says "write a dossier on X", "what's the cultural read on X", "give me a briefing on [creator/brand/artist]", "is X culturally relevant right now", "what's happening around X", "prep me to pitch a brand about X", or similar cultural-research requests. Optional: the user can say "for [client]" to tailor the editorial angle (e.

Who uses this skill

The Cultural Intelligence Claude Code skill is built for content creators, marketers, copywriters, SEO professionals, and editorial teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 149,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cultural-intelligence
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/cultural-intelligence/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/cultural-intelligence/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/cultural-intelligence/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/cultural-intelligence/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\cultural-intelligence\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Cultural Intelligence Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/cultural-intelligence/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Cultural Intelligence skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Cultural Intelligence skill?

Use Cultural Intelligence when your Claude Code task falls under the Content category — specifically in the editorial area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Cultural Intelligence" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/content/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Cultural Intelligence skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Cultural Intelligence is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Content category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/paulieb89/bouch-mcp-skills/blob/HEAD/cultural-intelligence/SKILL.md
Author: paulieb89

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

paulieb89. (2026). Cultural Intelligence [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/cultural-intelligence/

BibTeX

@misc{cultural-intelligence-2026,
  author    = {paulieb89},
  title     = {Cultural Intelligence [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/cultural-intelligence/}
}

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Grade A · scanned 2026-07-11 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

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