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  1. 1Academy Guideanthropics/skillsStop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub. Trigger on: "how do I", "how can I", "getting started with", "what can Claude do", "teach me", "learn to use"; questions about artifacts, projects, skills, plugins, connectors, MCP; requests about rolling Claude out to a team, class, or organization; and any ask for training materials, onboarding content, or learning resources. Use it when the user is learning186k
  2. 2Algorithmic Artanthropics/skillsCreating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow fields, or particle systems. Create original algorithmic art rather than copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.186k
  3. 3Brainstormingobra/superpowersTransforms rough ideas into fully-formed designs. Structure your brainstorming sessions and develop ideas systematically.310k
  4. 4Diagnosing Superpowersobra/superpowersUse when a superpowers session went wrong and your human partner wants to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a skill that didn't fire, "it took too long", "why is it so expensive", "what is it doing" — or wants to build a bug report for the superpowers maintainers, for the current session or a past one identified by id or path, on any harness.310k
  5. 5Karpathy Guidelinesmultica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillsBehavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring code to avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, surface assumptions, and define verifiable success criteria.227k
  6. 6Rea Analysis Optimizationmorluto/reaOptimize REA providers and shared analysis workflows for agent context, latency, CPU, and memory while preserving correctness and Evidence. Use for analysis bottlenecks and cache or query design; CI/test-suite optimization belongs to rea-ci-tests-audit.414k
  7. 7Rea Changelog Updatemorluto/reaPrepare or rewrite REA release changelogs and GitHub release notes from pinned Git history, with verified contributor thanks and Release Please synchronization.414k
  8. 8Firecrawl Buildfirecrawl/firecrawlIntegrate Firecrawl into application code whenever a product, agent, or workflow needs web data inside the app — web search, live search results, page scraping, structured extraction, or browser interaction. Use when building any feature that needs data from the web in code, even if the user does not mention Firecrawl explicitly and only describes wanting web data, website content, search, scraping, or interaction in an application. Trigger for Firecrawl requests, "fire girl" shorthand, and generic app-level web-data needs that should map to `/scrape`, `/search`, or `/interact`. Do not use thi197k
  9. 9Firecrawl Build Interactfirecrawl/firecrawlIntegrate Firecrawl `/interact` into product code for dynamic pages and browser actions after scraping. Use when a feature needs clicks, form fills, pagination, authentication-aware flows, or other multi-step interactions that plain `/scrape` cannot complete.197k
  10. 10Ask Mattmattpocock/skillsAsk which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.308k

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Clean C Drive

41

iziqing/-disk-cleaner

小白安全清理C盘(Windows)。当用户想清理C盘、磁盘空间不足、系统盘快满了、想安全释放空间时使用。WizTree扫描→模式库+知识库两层分析→清理方案经用户批复→备份后执行→观察期收尾。安全第一,不确定的一律不动。

Other

Interactive Learning

51

geekjourneyx/interactive-learning

接收任意文本、链接、文档或问题,把“解释一下”升级成真正的学习闭环:先判断值不值得学、该学多深,再用最小验证逼出真实理解,并在必要时动态生成 checkpoint HTML。只要用户明显想“学懂”“吃透”“带我学”“帮我验证我是不是真懂了”,而不是只要摘要、改写或普通解释,就应主动使用本技能。也适用于用户想导出学习卡片、checkpoint 页面、复盘页、学习状态页的场景。

Learning & Education

Pc Control

40

AnubhavChaturvedi-GitHub/PC-Automation

Hands on the local Mac for any agent - system state (battery, volume, brightness, IP), app launch/quit, open websites and YouTube, media and browser control via keystrokes, screenshots, clipboard, notifications, TTS, and honest mic/speaker hardware tests. Use whenever the user asks to control the computer, change volume or brightness, open an app or site, play or pause media, check battery/IP/running apps, take a screenshot, or test the mic or speakers. Rebuilt from the PC-Automation repo: the agent is the intent brain; this skill is only the hands.

Testing & QA

Project Wiki

40

giodra96/project-wiki

Create, scan, update, sync, and maintain .project-wiki/ project knowledge bases, including requirements, document intake, and traceability. Consult and update an existing project wiki during coding tasks.

Productivity & Notes

R00 ComposioHQ Awesome Claude Skills Ecommerce

51

OrdinaryChart/r08-composiohq-awesome-claude-skills-ecommerce

🛒 E-commerce & Retail skill suite derived from ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills. Product catalogue optimisation, conversion rate, customer journey and retail analytics. Provides 10 specialised commands for ecommerce, retail, shopify workflows.

Marketing, Sales & Business

Remote GPU Trainer

42

Hanyuyuan6/remote-gpu-trainer

AutoDL/vast.ai/RunPod/Lambda/Paperspace远程GPU启动、调试、监控、续训、并行、停止及卡住/OOM/NaN/全零指标排查;可验证状态/selection-best checkpoint/拉回结果。释放实例销毁机器及数据盘,不等同关机。长期镜像/恢复→mirror-research-artifacts。

Research & Science

Security Scan

42

chaenmasahiro0425/claude-security-scan

開発者のPC・手元のgitリポジトリ・GitHub・Vercelと公開サイト・クラウド(AWS / Google Cloud / Azure / Cloudflare / Supabase)・Gmailを読み取り専用で横断スキャンし、重要度別のHTMLレポートと前回からの差分を出すスキル。「セキュリティチェックして」「セキュリティスキャン」「脆弱性ないか見て」「APIキー漏れてない?」「乗っ取られてないか確認」「新しく出たリスクだけ教えて」「毎週スキャンを設定して」等で使う。設定の変更・送信・削除はしない。直すときは1件ずつ利用者の承認を取る。

Security

SEO Content Writer

42

Yaroslavle/seo-content-writer-claude-skill

Full AI-assisted workflow for long-form SEO content (2,000+ words). Covers JTBD strategy, E-E-A-T quality standards, and 5 production phases: research, outline, draft, editing, and SEO/publishing. Built for B2B marketing agency context. Use when: user wants to write or optimize an SEO article, mentions "SEO content", "blog post", "GTM article", "long-form content", or asks to create content with keyword strategy.

Writing & Content

Skill Forge

46

motiful/skill-forge

Validate, fix, and publish skills as GitHub repos. Structures workflow skills for execution fidelity. Registers skills across platforms via symlinks and guides first-use onboarding. Use when the user says "create a skill", "forge a skill", "review this skill repo", "audit this skill", "audit all my skills", "audit this project", "clean up my skills", "check my skill", "publish this skill", "push this to GitHub", "structure my workflow skill", "extract a skill from this folder", "turn my prototype into a skill", or points to a project directory with mixed skills and rules, or to an engineering

Git & Code Review

Zhiwen Wo

56

Mortis114114/zhiwen-wo

Use only when the user explicitly selects this skill for a single requirements interview about the task currently under discussion. Never infer invocation from ordinary chat, keywords, or the skill name.

Productivity & Notes

Amz Review Analysis

38

CoderAndyLee/amz-review-analysis-skill

Amazon 评论分析:合并卖家精灵 review、按一级/二级/三级动态长出分类列、 把好评差评原文摘录写入对应列,再按指南输出类目/品牌/ASIN 报告和 HTML 看板。 Use when the user asks for Amazon review 分析、评论标注、好评差评分类、 卖家精灵 review 合并、类目 review 把脉, or runs /amz-review-analysis or /amazon-review-analysis.

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Aso

43

furkancingoz/aso-skill

Complete App Store Optimization toolkit - generate metadata in any language, analyze competitors, optimize keywords, set up IAPs/subscriptions, and submit to App Store Connect via direct API

Marketing, Sales & Business

B2b Lead Hunter

38

xiongQvQ/-b2b-lead-hunter-skill

Use when researching foreign-trade B2B leads, buyer companies, distributors, importers, wholesalers, reachable decision makers, customs/import signals, and outreach-ready contacts from product, region, ICP, website, or document inputs. Use for evidence-backed lead hunting, qualification, exportable lead files, regional/language email templates, company-personalized email drafts, and controlled SMTP sending after approval.

Productivity & Notes10

Econometrics

41

xiaomihu1992/econometrics-skill

Causal inference and applied econometric analysis on tabular data, from uploaded-data diagnostics and cleaning advice to treatment-effect estimation and publication-grade applied research design. Use for policy impact, ATE/ATT/LATE/ITT, OLS, propensity scores, IV/2SLS, DID/event studies, RDD, robustness checks, falsification tests, identification memos, 因果推断, 政策评估, 数据清洗建议, 稳健性检验, and 异质性分析.

Testing & QA

Humanizer Ru

45

thevseprod/humanizer-ru

Rewrite text so it reads like a real person wrote it, not an AI. Auto-detects Russian vs English and applies the matching rule set. Use when the user asks to humanize text, remove the "AI smell", de-AI, or make AI output sound natural - especially for Russian. Russian requests count too - очеловечь, перепиши как человек, оживи текст, убери запах ИИ, сделай живее, звучит как робот, убери канцелярит. Also use when asked whether a text was written by AI - нейросеть писала?, похоже на ChatGPT?, видно ли, что это ИИ, человек или бот писал, did AI write this? - then check and report findings without

AI, LLMs & Agents

Lazy Cat

50

albertobarnabo/lazy-cat

Keeps code changes as small as the problem allows. Use before writing or changing code, including small fixes, single functions and quick scripts, and especially before generating data, fixtures or seed records, or hand-writing something a stdlib call, package, public API or open dataset already provides (validation, parsing, auth, dates, currency, geo). Checks for that cheaper path first, then writes only what was asked: no unrequested error handling, tests, docstrings, flags, abstractions or refactors. Not for infra/terraform/k8s or database queries.

Writing & Content

Possession

47

Summer907/possession-skill

角色扮演蒸馏器:从官方设定、语音台词、背景故事中蒸馏可扮演的游戏角色——AI夺舍角色灵魂,让TA在你面前活过来。支持profile、personality、interaction、memory、relations五维提取。

Productivity & Notes

R00 ComposioHQ Awesome Claude Skills Datascience

50

Tameoltreasure34/r08-composiohq-awesome-claude-skills-datascience

🤖 Data Science & AI/ML skill suite derived from ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills. Data pipelines, model training, evaluation, MLOps and analytical reporting. Provides 10 specialised commands for data-science, machine-learning, analytics workflows.

AI, LLMs & Agents

R00 ComposioHQ Awesome Claude Skills SEO

50

ColonyShopkeeper/r08-composiohq-awesome-claude-skills-seo

📈 SEO & Content Marketing skill suite derived from ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills. Keyword research, content audits, SERP analysis, technical SEO and content strategy. Provides 10 specialised commands for seo, content, marketing workflows.

Marketing, Sales & Business

Readme Generator

50

geekjourneyx/readme-generator

为 GitHub 项目生成作品集级 README.md。适用于「帮我写 README」「生成 README」「优化 README」「README 最佳实践」「项目首页」「开源说明」「README 信息图」「README 封面」「用 Codex Image Gen / gpt-image-2 生成 README 图片」等请求。输出包括克制的 README 叙事、最多两张高质量视觉资产、压缩后的图片、MIT 许可证、GitHub Description 和 Topics 推荐、推荐星级,以及可选 gh CLI 更新建议。重点是帮项目讲清自己的故事,并基于项目类型判断视觉强度,避免套模板、堆信息和过度设计。

Writing & Content

Remotion Code Motion Explainer

39

vibe-motion/remotion-code-motion-explainer

Create polished, code-driven Remotion motion explainers from scripts, narration, subtitles, product specifications, reference videos, UI recordings, diagrams, or abstract concepts. Use for product launches, AI demonstrations, UI interactions, algorithms, scientific principles, electrical systems, data flows, architecture, charts, equations, and concepts best expressed with React, SVG, Canvas, WebGL, or Three.js. Prioritize continuous spatial logic, visible cause and effect, precise interaction states, editable parameters, deterministic rendering, and evidence-backed visual QA.

Images, Video & Audio

Self Learning Skills

47

scottfalconer/self-learning-skills

Memory sidecar for agent work: recall before tasks, record learnings after tasks, review recommendations, optional backport bundles.

Learning & Education

Video Illustrator

42

axtonliu/video-illustrator

Turn the user's own voice and real assets (book or course covers, screenshots, logos) plus a chosen visual style into a 20–60 second cinematic promo or concept explainer, or turn a passage, article, idea or script into an animated illustration clip, or (explainer mode) make one passage of an existing narrated video visible as a mechanism insert in 16:9 and 9:16, or (episode mode) make a whole researched, narrated science or tech explainer with real footage. One system where every mode runs the same steps and picks its look from one style atlas (a bright 3D diagram by default for explainers and

Images, Video & Audio

Video to Skill

41

Lum1104/video-to-skill

Turn a video, tutorial, playlist, or course into an installed, evidence-grounded course Skill that can teach, give practice and feedback, apply demonstrated methods, and answer reference questions. Use when the user provides video sources and wants reusable learning or operational capability.

Images, Video & Audio

Coinpaprika API

37

coinpaprika/skills

Access the CoinPaprika API to query cryptocurrency market data including coin prices, tickers, exchanges, historical OHLCV data, and global market statistics. Use this skill when making HTTP requests to api.coinpaprika.com or api-pro.coinpaprika.com for crypto market information.

Software DevelopmentIn 2 lists

Dexpaprika API

37

coinpaprika/skills

Access the DexPaprika API, CLI, and streaming service to query DEX data including networks, pools, tokens, and trading activity. Use this skill when making HTTP requests to api.dexpaprika.com or streaming.dexpaprika.com, or when using dexpaprika-cli for blockchain DEX information.

Software DevelopmentIn 2 lists

Dolphindb Skill

36

hugo2046/dolphindb_skill

DolphinDB/DolphinScript 的数据库、SQL、流计算、回测与排障技能。用户提到 DolphinDB,或仓库/代码出现 dfs://、createPartitionedTable、context by、streamTable、subscribeTable、createTimeSeriesEngine、DStream::、Backtest:: 等专有线索时调用;已有 DolphinDB 上下文时,即使本轮只说“分区表”“实时 K 线”“回测报错”也要使用。用于按目标 Server/插件版本核对官方 API、选择 OLAP/TSDB/PKEY/IOT,并生成可验证的代码与方案。明确只涉及其他技术栈且无 DolphinDB 上下文时不调用。

Databases12

Memory Bank

32

fockus/skill-memory-bank

Agent-agnostic long-term project memory through `.memory-bank/` + RULES (TDD/SOLID/Clean Architecture/FSD/Mobile) + dev-toolkit commands. Use when working in a project with a `.memory-bank/` directory or when the user explicitly asks for memory-bank workflow, code rules, or dev-toolkit commands (`/mb`, plan, spec, verify, done; «память проекта», «контекст проекта», «план», «продолжай по плану»).

Productivity & NotesIn 1 list

Mineru Converter

40

CSlawyer1985/mineru-converter-skill

PDF转Markdown工具,基于MinerU和方案A++策略,完全封装的CLI工具+Skill,自动清理临时文件,支持单文件和批量处理

Documents & Office Files

Modern React Guidance

49

adhhamdev/modern-react-guidance

Authoritative guidance for modern React 19+ (Actions, use, Compiler, View Transitions, Fragment refs, Activity, browser, useEffectEvent). Use when writing, reviewing, refactoring, or migrating React components, forms, data fetching, concurrent UI, or upgrading to React 19+. Triggers on React, React 19, useActionState, useOptimistic, forwardRef, useEffect data fetch, React Compiler, ViewTransition, Suspense patterns, or codemods. Always prefer latest official patterns over training data.

Frontend & Design

Openclaw Docs Sync

44

TheSethRose/OpenClaw-Docs-Sync

Sync OpenClaw + ClawHub + Skills docs into a local mirror for the QMD memory backend.

Writing & Content

R00 Alirezarezvani Claude Skills Datascience

54

orangevoinULTRA/r02-alirezarezvani-claude-skills-datascience

🤖 Data Science & AI/ML skill suite derived from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. Data pipelines, model training, evaluation, MLOps and analytical reporting. Provides 10 specialised commands for data-science, machine-learning, analytics workflows.

AI, LLMs & Agents

R00 ComposioHQ Awesome Claude Skills Security

49

CraftsmanTuck/r08-composiohq-awesome-claude-skills-security

🔒 Security & Compliance skill suite derived from ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills. Security audits, vulnerability management, GDPR/SOC2/ISO27001 compliance and incident response. Provides 10 specialised commands for security, compliance, gdpr workflows.

Security

Workflow Design Bible

39

preangelleo/workflow-design-bible

Generate a complete "constitution + documentation system" for a new autonomous, agent-run project — a content channel, an ebook press, an SEO tool-site, a web product, a casual game, or anything that should run itself with minimal human babysitting. Use when starting a brand-new self-running project and you want a CEO-orchestrated architecture (main agent → sub-agents → skills → CLI/MCP) with a named document system, a session lifecycle (start → work → finalize), and a growing identity/soul — scaffolded from a short structured interview. Triggers - "start a new autonomous project", "scaffold a

Productivity & Notes

Write Iut Thesis

40

sakhadib/IUT-Thesis-Skill-for-AI

Draft, expand, revise, structure, and maintain a full Islamic University of Technology BSc thesis from source documents using the local iutbscthesis LaTeX template. Use when writing or editing thesis metadata, front matter, abstract, chapters, related works, methodology, results, discussion, conclusion, citations, appendices, figures, tables, code listings, or compile guidance for main.tex. Also use when the user expects an AI agent to turn papers, notes, PDFs, LaTeX sources, bib files, data tables, and assets into a substantial thesis manuscript chapter by chapter without requiring repeated b

Writing & Content

Xhs Business Validator

40

liangdabiao/xhs-business-validator-skill

小红书业务创意验证器。当用户想验证一个商业想法、分析小红书市场需求、生成市场验证报告时激活。 这是一个完全自包含的技能,不依赖任何外部项目文件。 通过 TikHub API 搜索小红书笔记和评论,利用 AI 分析用户痛点、市场信号,最终生成评分和报告。 触发词:验证XX想法、分析XX市场、小红书调研、市场验证、Xiaohongshu research、business idea validation。

Marketing, Sales & Business

Dergipark

43

saidsurucu/dergipark-skill

Use when the user wants to search Turkish academic journals on DergiPark (keyword or advanced field search by title/author/abstract/DOI/ORCID/year/etc.), read a DergiPark article PDF as text, or extract an article's references — drives the user's own Chrome (no CAPTCHA solving needed) by injecting JavaScript.

Writing & Content

R00 Borghei Claude Skills SEO

53

SheenEmpress/r14-borghei-claude-skills-seo

📈 SEO & Content Marketing skill suite derived from borghei/Claude-Skills. Keyword research, content audits, SERP analysis, technical SEO and content strategy. Provides 10 specialised commands for seo, content, marketing workflows.

Marketing, Sales & Business

Skill Publisher

41

joeseesun/qiaomu-skill-publisher

一键发布 agent skill 到 GitHub,自动验证 SKILL.md、生成或检查更吸引人的 README、区分 skill name 与 GitHub repo name、创建或更新仓库、推送并通过 npx skills 真实安装验证。当用户说"发布这个skill"、"publish skill"、"把skill发到GitHub"、"分享这个skill"、"/publish-skill"时触发。支持发布当前目录或指定路径的 skill。

Git & Code Review

Spec to Readable HTML

43

KeMezz/spec-to-readable-html

Transform Markdown or text specifications into human-readable HTML documents with summaries, reordered structure, visual explanations, diagrams, charts, and traceability to the source. Use when asked to convert a spec, requirements document, API spec, product spec, design doc, or technical document into readable HTML, especially when the user wants summarization, restructuring, diagrams, graphs, images, or visual aids rather than a literal Markdown-to-HTML conversion.

Images, Video & Audio

Sun Felt Wechat Illustrator

41

sunyifeng11111/sun-felt-wechat-illustrator

为中文微信公众号文章分析内容并生成清晰易懂、真实 3D 毛毡质感且图文一体的头条长封面、1:1 分享页封面与正文配图,同时给出每张正文图应插在哪个原句之后。用于用户提供文章、Markdown 或正文,并要求“公众号封面”“分享封面”“方形封面”“毛毡配图”“文章插图”“为正文配图”“只做封面”“生成 N 张配图”“推荐配图数量”等任务;未提供文章标题时默认根据核心命题生成合适的封面文字,正文图未指定画幅时默认 16:9,也支持用户明确指定 4:3 或 3:4,并使用少量毛毡文字帮助单图理解;适配方法论、教程、专业干货、商业科技、情感叙事、个人成长、生活方式、教育与母婴等内容。

Images, Video & Audio

Suoha Serenity Skill

43

suoha888/suoha-serenity-skill

Research stocks and supply-chain chokepoints using a framework distilled from Serenity's public posts. Use for evidence-first company health checks across A-shares, Hong Kong and US equities, live data packs, company-name resolution and falsifiable, source-cited research reports. Distinguish an industry bottleneck from a company's value capture and market expectations. Reports do not represent Serenity's own views; research only, no trade execution or promised returns.

Research & Science

ThinkWiki

38

wzdavid/ThinkWiki

Use this skill when the user wants to create, maintain, query, or visualize a local Markdown knowledge base. ThinkWiki can initialize a wiki, import files or webpages, collect inbox items, answer from existing knowledge, save higher-value outputs, and generate HTML viewer and graph artifacts.

Data & Analytics

Trdizin

40

saidsurucu/trdizin-skill

Use when the user wants to search TR Dizin (trdizin.gov.tr — TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM national academic index) for publications, journals, authors, or institutions; do field-scoped advanced search (title/author/abstract/journal/doi/year/…); apply facet filters (access type, year, language, subject, document type); read a publication's references; or extract a publication PDF as text. Uses the open public JSON API over plain HTTPS — no login, no CAPTCHA, no API key.

Productivity & Notes

Trip Planner

47

skywain/trip-planner-skill

End-to-end international trip planning: turns "I want to go to X for N days" into a verified, bookable plan — route skeleton across cities, flight price scans (international + domestic legs), train-vs-fly decisions, hour-by-hour daily timelines with opening hours, dwell times, holiday collisions and tappable turn-by-turn map links (小时级行程+地图导航+离线KML), hotel shortlists by neighborhood, budget rollup, and a booking checklist with deep links. Use this whenever the user asks to plan a trip, vacation, itinerary or honeymoon, compare flight dates/prices, pick between cities or routes, schedule a trav

Testing & QA

Vibe to UI

39

MonkeyUI-dev/vibe-to-ui

Design systems, motion, mood boards, spatial layout, visual assets, Design Context profiles, and a global Inspiration Library from screenshots, website URLs, inspiration images, music, or fuzzy aesthetic intent. Classifies page archetype, explores 3 product-aware directions before locking tokens (unless exact restoration), and applies only after confirmation. Use when designing or restyling UI, collecting design inspiration under ~/.vibe-to-ui/inspirations, extracting tokens/motion, generating assets, saving brand context under ~/.vibe-to-ui, or Git remote sync of Design Context for cross-devi

Frontend & Design

Wechat Article to Md

38

likemaoke/wechat-article-to-md

抓取微信公众号文章并转换为 Markdown 文档。使用脚本自动获取文章标题、作者、正文内容,保留格式并保存为 .md 文件,支持下载图片到本地。适用场景:用户要求抓取/获取/下载/保存微信公众号文章内容为 Markdown 格式,或给出 mp.weixin.qq.com 链接需要提取内容。支持 Obsidian 模式(使用 -obsidian 参数)。

Writing & Content

Agentic MCP

40

cablate/Agentic-MCP-Skill

Agentic MCP - Three-layer progressive disclosure for MCP servers with Socket daemon. Use when the user needs to interact with MCP servers, query available tools, call MCP tools, or manage the MCP daemon process. Provides socket-based communication for efficient server interaction with three-layer progressive disclosure API.

AI, LLMs & Agents

About Claude skills

What is a Claude skill?

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file: a name, a one-line description of when to use it, and instructions (plus optional scripts and reference files). Claude reads only the description up front and loads the rest when a task needs it, so you can install many skills without filling the context window. Skills work in Claude Code, Claude.ai, the Claude app and the Claude API, and the same format is used by other agents such as Codex and Cursor.

How do I install a skill in Claude Code?

Copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills (for you) or .claude/skills in a project (for your team). If the repo is a plugin marketplace you can also run /plugin marketplace add owner/repo inside Claude Code and install it from /plugin. Every skill page here has the exact commands.

How is popularity measured?

Mostly by the GitHub stars of the repo the skill lives in, with forks, the number of curated awesome lists that include it, and the number of repos that carry a copy as smaller signals. Skills from a repo with hundreds of skills share that repo's stars, so they get a small penalty to keep one big collection from filling the list.

Where does this directory get its skills?

From Anthropic's official anthropics/skills repo, the largest community lists (VoltAgent, travisvn, ComposioHQ, BehiSecc, karanb192, heilcheng, skillmatic-ai and hesreallyhim) and a GitHub search for skill repos. Every SKILL.md in those repos is read for its name and description, and copies of the same skill are merged. It refreshes every day.

Are these skills safe to install?

Skills can include scripts that run on your machine, so treat a skill like any other code from the internet: read the SKILL.md and any scripts before installing, prefer official and well-starred repos, and check the license.

Sources: anthropics/skills (official), travisvn/awesome-claude-skills, ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills, BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills, karanb192/awesome-claude-skills, heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, skillmatic-ai/awesome-agent-skills, hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code, and GitHub search. Last updated 31 October 2026. Want your own? Try the skills generator.