Free resource · 10 skills + Word guide
Claude HR Skills: 10 ready-to-install skills
Job description, announcement, interview guide, integration, annual reviews, skills, training plan, HR communication, employee questions and social barometer: ten skills in French, designed to respect labor law and never decide in place of HR.
Claude HR Skills, in brief
- What it is
- A pack of 10 skills in standard Agent Skills format, written for HR documents that come up every week, and a guide to install them, adapt them to your agreements and templates, and deploy them in compliance with the legal framework.
- For who
- The HR, recruitment, training and HR development teams of large organizations, their managers and their AI referents.
- Format
- A ZIP archive (one archive per skill for Claude, the same skills in folders for Claude Code and Copilot) Cowork, a README) and a 13-page Word guide in 10 chapters.
- The 10 skills
- Job description, job posting, recruitment interview guide, integration process, annual and career development review, skills framework, skills development plan, HR communication, answering employee questions, social barometer analysis.
- What they don't do
- No skill is used to sort, rate, rank, or eliminate candidates or collaborators. The decision remains human.
- Where they work
- Claude (all offers, code execution enabled), Claude Code and Microsoft Copilot Cowork.
- Price
- Free, in exchange for a professional email address. No unsolicited emails.
- Update
- November 2026 edition, legal framework verified on November 2, 2026 (career path interview, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 on the AI Act).
- What it doesn't replace
- The advice of your employment lawyer and your DPO, your company agreements and consultation with the CSE when required.
The HR teams produce the same documents every week: job descriptions, announcements, interview guides, onboarding plans, employee memos, and responses regarding leave or remote work. These documents must be consistent across all sites and comply with non-discrimination laws, GDPR regulations, and company agreements.
A skill fulfills both of these requirements. It's a text file that describes your method for a task, with the rules that must never be broken. It's written once, reviewed by the legal team, and then Claude applies it to the entire team. These ten HR skills are a starting point, with a "House Rules" section to be completed with your collective agreement, company agreements, and templates.
1. Claude's 10 Skills for HR
| Skill | What she does | Example of a request |
|---|---|---|
| job description | A structured profile, with observable skills, without discriminatory wording | "Draft the job description for the payroll officer based on these notes." |
| job posting | An attractive and inclusive offer, with its LinkedIn version | "Write the job posting for a management controller (M/F) in Lyon" |
| interview guide for recruitment | A structured interview: questions by skill, signals, scale, common grid | "Prepare a guide for a one-hour interview" |
| integration pathway | The integration of pre-arrival to 90 days, with a manager for each action | "Preparing for the arrival of a recruitment officer on January 5th" |
| annual maintenance | Preparation and reporting of the annual or career review | "Help me prepare for Paul's interview, without judgment." |
| skills framework | A four-level observable reference framework and anonymized mapping of a team | "Add AI skills to our repository" |
| skills-development-plan | The prioritized, costed training plan, with funding options and a note to the Works Council | "Build the 2027 plan with 80,000 euros" |
| HR communication | Note to employees, manager version and FAQ, faithful to the reference text | "Draft the memo on the new teleworking agreement" |
| answer-question-collaborator | A response based on your agreements and policies, and guidance on sensitive cases | "What does the agreement say about postponing vacation time?" |
| social barometer analysis | Scores, verbatim comments, alerts, priorities and findings of an internal investigation | "Synthesize the barometer and the 640 comments" |
They follow the employee lifecycle: the job description informs the job posting, the interview guide, and then the integration process; the skills framework informs the annual review and the skills development plan.
2. HR skills designed for the legal framework
| Subject | What the frame says | What the skills do |
|---|---|---|
| Non-discrimination | Prohibition of all discrimination in recruitment and career advancement (Labour Code, article L. 1132-1), of any age limit in a job offer (L. 5331-2); interview questions limited to skills (L. 1221-6) | They flag risky wording, draft F/H profiles, and list prohibited questions. |
| Automated decision | The GDPR (Article 22) prohibits decisions based solely on automated processing, such as a refusal to hire. | No skill sorts, rates, or eliminates |
| AI Act | AI used for recruitment and employee assessment is high risk (Annex III); Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 postpones their obligations until 2 December 2027 | Limited use for document preparation |
| CSE | The introduction of an AI tool or a major project may require prior information and consultation with the Works Council | communication-rh and plan-developpement-skills remind us of this |
| Data and surveys | Data minimization, respondent anonymity | Aggregated data, threshold of ten respondents, reformulated verbatim transcripts |
The annual skills interview takes into account the reform of October 24, 2025: the professional interview has become the career path interview, in the first year and then every four years, and it does not evaluate the work.
3. Install the skills in Claude, Claude Code, and Copilot Cowork
| Tool | How to install | To know |
|---|---|---|
| Claude (application and claude.ai) | Customize > Skills, then Create skill > Upload a skill: upload the skill archive without extracting it. | All offers; the "Code execution and file creation" option must be activated |
| Claude Team and Enterprise | As above, an owner can also share or provision skills for the entire organization. | Shared skills are read-only for members and update automatically for everyone. |
| Claude Code | The folder has been copied to ~/.claude/skills/ or to the .claude/skills/ directory of the project. | Direct call with /skill-name, broadcast possible via plugin |
| Microsoft Copilot Cowork | Folder copied to your OneDrive, under /Documents/Cowork/skills/ | Skills discovered at the beginning of each session |
For the skill to answer employee questions, create a dedicated Claude project with your agreements, your internal regulations and your collective agreement: the skill will then respond based on your texts, with the exact reference.
4. Customize skills to your company
Each skill concludes with a "House Rules" section: document templates, skills framework, collective agreement, applicable agreements, HR contacts, and approval process. Complete this section as a team and have it reviewed by your employment lawyer before distributing the skills: this is what distinguishes a generic method from your HR department's approach.
5. What the kit contains
The ZIP archive contains the ten skills twice: one archive per skill to upload to Claude, and the folders for Claude Code and Copilot. Coworkwith a README file. The skills contain only text: no script, no calls to an external site.
The Word guide has 13 pages in 10 chapters: why skills for HR, the 10 skills at a glance, installation, customizing house rules, a sheet per skill, HR safeguards (non-discrimination, GDPR, AI Act, CSE, surveys), measuring time saved, deployment in 30 days, and the template for writing your eleventh skill with its 8-point checklist.
Download the Claude HR Skills (10 skills and a Word guide, free)
10 ready-to-install skills and a 13-page Word guide. Written by NextStart.AI based on Anthropic documentation, cited texts, and our training sessions with HR teams from large organizations.
- From recruitment to social barometer, covering the entire employee lifecycle
- For Claude, Claude Code and Copilot Cowork
- Designed to comply with non-discrimination, GDPR, and the AI Act
- Deployment in 30 days and the pre-sharing checklist
Related trainingAI training for HR teams →Your HR teams build their own skills and prompts on their documents, agreements and processes, in compliance with the legal framework.
6. Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Claude skill for HR?
It's a text file that describes your team's method for an HR task (a job description, an interview guide, a memo to employees): the information to gather, the steps, the format, and the rules to follow. Claude automatically uploads it when a request matches.
Can Claude be used to sort CVs?
This kit intentionally omits it. An AI system that sorts or evaluates candidates is classified as high-risk under the AI Act, with obligations applicable from December 2, 2027, and the GDPR prohibits recruitment decisions based solely on automated processing. The AI prepares the documents; humans make the decisions.
How do I install an HR skill in Claude?
In Claude, open Customize, then Skills, then Create skill and Upload a skill, and upload the skill's ZIP archive without extracting it. On Team and Enterprise, an organization owner must first authorize skills and can then share them with the entire HR team.
Should the Works Council be consulted before using these skills?
Introducing a new AI tool within a company may require prior notification and consultation with the Works Council (CSE). This is not triggered by the skill itself, but by the deployment of Claude; check with your employment lawyer. The AI and Social Dialogue Toolkit details this process.
Is employee data protected?
On the Claude Team and Enterprise offerings, conversations are not used to train default models. The skills require anonymized or aggregated data and reject unnecessary data; health, union, or disciplinary data should not be entrusted to Claude without a framework validated by the DPO.
Is the kit free?
Yes. The 10 skills and the Word guide are free, provided you have a professional email address. The download link is personal and valid for 30 days; we will not send you any unsolicited emails.
7. Going further
For HR prompts categorized by level, the AI HR kitRegarding the legal framework, the AI Act kit, the GDPR kit and the AI and Social Dialogue KitFor transferable skills, the Claude Skills kitTo train your teams on their real-life cases, the AI training for HR teams.
The entire series of free kits. To drive adoption: AI charter template, AI Ambassadors Kit, Manager's toolkit for dealing with AI, AI-powered time-saving kit, Adoption Roadmap Kit, AI maturity grid, AI Measurement and ROI Kit, AI Governance Kit, Cowork kit, 50 Copilot M365 prompts, Copilot Studio kit, Deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot kit, Copilot Kit Cat, Copilot Excel kit, Copilot Teams and Outlook kit, Copilot Word and PowerPoint kit, Configure Claude kit, Deploying Claude in the Workplace Kit, Claude Agents Kit, Claude Skills kit, Claude's Marketing Skills, Skills Claude HR, Claude Plugins Kit, Claude Code kit, Claude Design kit et Vibe coding kitFor the AI project sponsor: AI Act kit, GDPR kit, Security and data kit, Shadow AI kit, AI and Social Dialogue Kit, frugal AI kit, AI Sovereignty Kit et responsible AI kitBy profession: AI HR kit, AI marketing kit, AI finance kit, AI kit for lawyers, AI kit for salespeople, AI toolkit for project managers, AI innovator kit, communicator's AI kit, AI Shopping Kit et AI Kit for Researchers.
8. sources
The information cited on this page and in the kit is based on the following sources, verified on November 2, 2026.
- Anthropic, Claude's Help Center, using skills.
- Anthropic, Agent Skills documentation.
- Open specification Agent Skills.
- EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act), Annex III, amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 24 July 2026.
- Labour Code, articles L. 1132-1, L. 1221-6 and L. 5331-2, and law of 24 October 2025 creating the professional career interview.
- CNIL, the recruitment guide.