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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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Lightning Channel Factories

8144225309/superscalar-mcp

Technical reference on Lightning Network channel factories, multi-party channels, LSP architectures, and Bitcoin Layer 2 scaling without soft forks. Covers Decker-Wattenhofer, timeout trees, MuSig2 key aggregation, HTLC/PTLC forwarding, and watchtower breach detection.

Software DevelopmentIn 1 list

Lightning Factory Explainer

8144225309/superscalar-mcp

Explain Bitcoin Lightning channel factories and the SuperScalar protocol — scalable Lightning onboarding using shared UTXOs, Decker-Wattenhofer trees, timeout-signature trees, MuSig2, and Taproot. No soft fork required.

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Managing Autonomous Development

jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills

Enables Claude to manage Sugar's autonomous development workflows. It allows Claude to create tasks, view the status of the system, review pending tasks, and start autonomous execution mode. Use this skill when the user asks to create a new development task using `/sugar-task`, check the system status with `/sugar-status`, review pending tasks via `/sugar-review`, or initiate autonomous development using `/sugar-run`. It provides a comprehensive interface for interacting with the Sugar autonomous development system.

Software Development

Managing Container Registries

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This skill enables Claude to manage container registries, including ECR, GCR, and Harbor. It should be used when the user needs to create, configure, or manage container image registries. It helps generate production-ready configurations, implement best practices, and ensure a security-first approach. Use this skill when the user mentions terms like "container registry," "ECR," "GCR," "Harbor," "image repository," or requests assistance with managing container images. It's also helpful for generating configuration code for DevOps pipelines related to container registries.

Images, Video & Audio

Managing Database Migrations

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This skill enables Claude to manage database schema changes through version-controlled migrations. It is activated when the user requests to create, apply, or rollback database migrations. The skill supports generating timestamped migration files with both up and down migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and MongoDB. It helps in tracking schema evolution and ensuring safe database modifications. Use this skill when the user mentions "database migration", "schema change", "add column", "rollback migration", or "create migration".

Databases

Managing Database Partitions

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This skill enables Claude to design, implement, and manage table partitioning strategies for large databases. It is triggered when the user needs to optimize query performance, manage time-series data, or reduce maintenance windows for tables exceeding 100GB. Use this skill when asked to "create database partitions", "optimize database queries with partitioning", "manage large database tables", or when the user mentions "partitioning strategy", "data archival", or uses the command `/partition`. The skill helps automate partition maintenance and data lifecycle management. It focuses on database

Databases

Managing Database Recovery

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This skill manages database recovery operations using the database-recovery-manager plugin. It enables disaster recovery, point-in-time recovery (PITR), and automated failover strategies for production database systems. Use this skill when the user requests help with "database recovery", "disaster recovery", "point-in-time recovery", "PITR", "backup validation", "recovery testing", or "multi-region failover" for databases. It automates backup verification and recovery testing.

Databases

Managing Database Replication

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This skill enables Claude to manage database replication, failover, and high availability configurations using the database-replication-manager plugin. It is designed to assist with tasks such as setting up master-slave replication, configuring automatic failover, monitoring replication lag, and implementing read scaling. Use this skill when the user requests help with "database replication", "failover configuration", "high availability", "replication lag", or "read scaling" for databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL. The plugin facilitates both physical and logical replication strategies.

Databases

Managing Database Sharding

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This skill assists with managing database sharding strategies. It is activated when the user needs to implement horizontal database sharding to scale beyond single-server limitations. The skill supports designing sharding strategies, distributing data across multiple database instances, and implementing consistent hashing, automatic rebalancing, and cross-shard query coordination. Use this skill when the user mentions "database sharding", "sharding implementation", "scale database", or "horizontal partitioning". The plugin helps design and implement sharding for high-scale applications.

Databases

Managing Database Testing

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This skill manages database testing by generating test data, wrapping tests in transactions, and validating database schemas. It is used to create robust and reliable database interactions. Claude uses this skill when the user requests database testing utilities, including test data generation, transaction management, schema validation, or migration testing. Trigger this skill by mentioning "database testing," "test data factories," "transaction rollback," "schema validation," or using the `/db-test` or `/dbt` commands.

Testing & QA

Managing Deployment Rollbacks

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This skill manages and executes deployment rollbacks with safety checks. It helps ensure smooth recovery from failed deployments by automating the rollback process. Use this skill when a deployment has issues, such as errors, performance degradation, or unexpected behavior. The skill is triggered by requests to "rollback deployment", "revert to previous version", or similar phrases related to deployment recovery. It prioritizes safe rollback procedures and provides options for verification.

DevOps & Cloud

Managing Environment Configurations

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This skill enables Claude to manage environment configurations and secrets across different deployments using the environment-config-manager plugin. It is invoked when the user needs to generate, update, or retrieve configuration settings for various environments (e.g., development, staging, production). Use this skill when the user explicitly mentions "environment configuration," "secrets management," "deployment configuration," or asks to "generate config files". It helps streamline DevOps workflows by providing production-ready configurations based on best practices.

DevOps & Cloud

Managing Network Policies

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This skill enables Claude to manage Kubernetes network policies and firewall rules. It allows Claude to generate configurations and setup code based on specific requirements and infrastructure. Use this skill when the user requests to create, modify, or analyze network policies for Kubernetes, or when the user mentions "network-policy", "firewall rules", or "Kubernetes security". This skill is useful for implementing best practices and production-ready configurations for network security in a Kubernetes environment.

Security

Managing Snapshot Tests

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This skill enables Claude to manage and update snapshot tests using intelligent diff analysis and selective updates. It is triggered when the user asks to analyze snapshot failures, update snapshots, or manage snapshot tests in general. It helps distinguish intentional changes from regressions, selectively update snapshots, and validate snapshot integrity. Use this when the user mentions "snapshot tests", "update snapshots", "snapshot failures", or requests to run "/snapshot-manager" or "/sm". It supports Jest, Vitest, Playwright, and Storybook frameworks.

Testing & QA

Managing Ssltls Certificates

jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills

This skill enables Claude to manage and monitor SSL/TLS certificates using the ssl-certificate-manager plugin. It is activated when the user requests actions related to SSL certificates, such as checking certificate expiry, renewing certificates, or listing installed certificates. Use this skill when the user mentions "SSL certificate", "TLS certificate", "certificate expiry", "renew certificate", or similar phrases related to SSL/TLS certificate management. The plugin can list, check, and renew certificates, providing vital information for maintaining secure connections.

AI, LLMs & Agents

Managing Test Environments

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This skill enables Claude to manage isolated test environments using Docker Compose, Testcontainers, and environment variables. It is used to create consistent, reproducible testing environments for software projects. Claude should use this skill when the user needs to set up a test environment with specific configurations, manage Docker Compose files for test infrastructure, set up programmatic container management with Testcontainers, manage environment variables for tests, or ensure cleanup after tests. Trigger terms include "test environment", "docker compose", "testcontainers", "environme

Testing & QA

Markdown to EPUB Converter

Converts markdown documents into professional ebook files. Transform your documentation, notes, or writing into properly formatted EPUB files for e-readers.

Documents & Office Files

Marketplace Manager

jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills

Automatically manages marketplace catalog updates, syncs marketplace.json, and handles plugin distribution when user mentions marketplace update, sync catalog, or add to marketplace. Specific to claude-code-plugins two-catalog system. allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Bash

AI, LLMs & Agents

Meeting Insights Analyzer

Analyzes meeting transcripts for behavioral patterns and insights. Extract action items, decisions, and communication patterns from meetings.

Productivity & Notes

Metadata Extraction

Extracts and analyzes file metadata for forensics and analysis. Extract hidden metadata from files.

Security

Modeling Nosql Data

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This skill enables Claude to design NoSQL data models. It activates when the user requests assistance with NoSQL database design, including schema creation, data modeling for MongoDB or DynamoDB, or defining document structures. Use this skill when the user mentions "NoSQL data model", "design MongoDB schema", "create DynamoDB table", or similar phrases related to NoSQL database architecture. It assists in understanding NoSQL modeling principles like embedding vs. referencing, access pattern optimization, and sharding key selection.

AI, LLMs & Agents

Monitoring Cpu Usage

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This skill enables Claude to monitor and analyze CPU usage patterns within applications. It helps identify CPU hotspots, analyze algorithmic complexity, and detect blocking operations. Use this skill when the user asks to "monitor CPU usage", "optimize CPU performance", "analyze CPU load", or "find CPU bottlenecks". It assists in identifying inefficient loops, regex performance issues, and provides optimization recommendations. This skill is designed for improving application performance by addressing CPU-intensive operations.

DevOps & Cloud

Monitoring Database Health

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This skill enables Claude to monitor database health using real-time metrics, predictive alerts, and automated remediation. It's designed for production-grade database health monitoring for PostgreSQL and MySQL, detecting performance degradation, resource exhaustion, and replication issues. Use this skill when the user requests to monitor database health, check database performance, receive database alerts, or automate database remediation. The skill is triggered by phrases like "check database health", "monitor database performance", "database health check", or "/health-check".

Databases

Monitoring Database Transactions

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This skill enables Claude to monitor database transactions for performance and lock issues using the database-transaction-monitor plugin. It is triggered when the user requests transaction monitoring, lock detection, or rollback rate analysis for databases. Use this skill when the user mentions "monitor database transactions," "detect long-running transactions," "identify lock contention," "track rollback rates," or asks about "transaction anomalies." The skill leverages the `/txn-monitor` command to provide real-time alerts and insights into database health.

Databases

Monitoring Error Rates

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This skill enables Claude to monitor and analyze application error rates to improve reliability. It is used when the user needs to track and understand errors occurring in their application, including HTTP errors, application exceptions, database errors, external API errors, background job errors, and client-side errors. Use this skill when the user asks to "monitor errors", "analyze error rates", "track application errors", or requests help with "error monitoring". It sets up comprehensive error tracking and alerting based on defined thresholds.

DevOps & Cloud

n8n Workflow Automation

Enables AI to understand and operate n8n workflows. Create and manage automation workflows in n8n.

Productivity & Notes

Optimizing Cache Performance

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This skill enables Claude to analyze and improve application caching strategies. It optimizes cache hit rates, TTL configurations, cache key design, and invalidation strategies. Use this skill when the user requests to "optimize cache performance", "improve caching strategy", "analyze cache hit rate", or needs assistance with "cache key design", "TTL optimization", or "cache invalidation". The skill identifies potential bottlenecks and recommends adjustments for improved performance and efficiency of caching mechanisms like Redis.

AI, LLMs & Agents

Optimizing Cloud Costs

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This skill enables Claude to analyze and optimize cloud costs. It identifies areas for potential savings, generates cost reports, and suggests configuration changes to reduce expenses. Use this skill when the user asks to "optimize cloud costs", "reduce cloud spending", "generate a cost report", or similar requests related to cloud resource expenses. It is especially useful when the user provides details about their cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). The skill leverages best practices for cost optimization and provides production-ready configurations.

DevOps & Cloud

Optimizing Database Connection Pooling

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This skill optimizes database connection pooling for enhanced performance and resource management. It is activated when the user requests assistance with connection pooling, database performance tuning, or connection lifecycle management. Use this skill to implement and configure connection pools in various programming languages, identify optimal pool settings, and troubleshoot common connection-related issues. The skill is triggered by phrases like "connection pooling," "optimize database connections," or "improve database performance with connection pool.

Databases

Optimizing Deep Learning Models

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This skill optimizes deep learning models using various techniques. It is triggered when the user requests improvements to model performance, such as increasing accuracy, reducing training time, or minimizing resource consumption. The skill leverages advanced optimization algorithms like Adam, SGD, and learning rate scheduling. It analyzes the existing model architecture, training data, and performance metrics to identify areas for enhancement. The skill then automatically applies appropriate optimization strategies and generates optimized code. Use this skill when the user mentions "optimize

Learning & Education

Optimizing Prompts

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This skill optimizes prompts for Large Language Models (LLMs) to reduce token usage, lower costs, and improve performance. It analyzes the prompt, identifies areas for simplification and redundancy removal, and rewrites the prompt to be more concise and effective. It is used when the user wants to reduce LLM costs, improve response speed, or enhance the quality of LLM outputs by optimizing the prompt. Trigger terms include "optimize prompt", "reduce LLM cost", "improve prompt performance", "rewrite prompt", "prompt optimization".

AI, LLMs & Agents

Optimizing Sql Queries

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This skill analyzes and optimizes SQL queries for improved performance. It identifies potential bottlenecks, suggests optimal indexes, and proposes query rewrites. Use this when the user mentions "optimize SQL query", "improve SQL performance", "SQL query optimization", "slow SQL query", or asks for help with "SQL indexing". The skill helps enhance database efficiency by analyzing query structure, recommending indexes, and reviewing execution plans.

Databases

Orchestrating Deployment Pipelines

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This skill orchestrates complex, multi-stage deployment pipelines. It generates production-ready configurations and setup code based on user-specified requirements and infrastructure. Use this skill when the user asks to create a deployment pipeline, generate CI/CD configurations, or needs help with automating software deployments. Trigger terms include "deployment pipeline", "CI/CD", "automate deployment", "pipeline configuration", and "deployment orchestration".

DevOps & Cloud

Orchestrating Multi Agent Systems

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This skill enables Claude to orchestrate multi-agent systems using the AI SDK v5. It allows Claude to set up agent handoffs, intelligent routing, and coordinated workflows across different AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Use this skill when the user asks to create multi-agent systems, needs help with agent coordination, task routing, or wants to build complex workflows involving specialized agents. It is triggered by phrases like "multi-agent system", "agent orchestration", "agent handoff", "intelligent routing", or "coordinate agents".

AI, LLMs & Agents

Orchestrating Test Workflows

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This skill enables Claude to orchestrate complex test workflows using the test-orchestrator plugin. It allows Claude to define test execution graphs with dependencies, execute tests in parallel, and intelligently select tests to run based on code changes. Use this skill when a user requests test orchestration, dependency management for tests, parallel test execution, smart test selection, or CI/CD integration for testing. Trigger terms include "orchestrate tests", "test workflow", "parallel testing", "smart test selection", "test dependencies", and "/orchestrate".

Testing & QA

Overnight Development

jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills

Automates software development overnight using Git hooks to enforce test-driven development (TDD). This skill should be used when Claude needs to build new features, refactor existing code, or fix bugs autonomously, ensuring all changes are fully tested and meet specified quality standards. Use when the user mentions "overnight development", "autonomous coding", or asks about TDD workflows and Git hooks. This skill leverages Git hooks to block commits until all tests pass, enforcing a rigorous TDD process and ensuring high-quality, production-ready code.

Software Development

Performance Testing

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This skill enables Claude to design, execute, and analyze performance tests using the performance-test-suite plugin. It is activated when the user requests load testing, stress testing, spike testing, or endurance testing, and when discussing performance metrics such as response time, throughput, and error rates. It identifies performance bottlenecks related to CPU, memory, database, or network issues. The plugin provides comprehensive reporting, including percentiles, graphs, and recommendations.

Testing & QA

Performing Penetration Testing

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This skill enables automated penetration testing of web applications. It uses the penetration-tester plugin to identify vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10 threats, and suggests exploitation techniques. Use this skill when the user requests a "penetration test", "pentest", "vulnerability assessment", or asks to "exploit" a web application. It provides comprehensive reporting on identified security flaws.

Security

Performing Regression Analysis

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This skill empowers Claude to perform regression analysis and modeling using the regression-analysis-tool plugin. It analyzes datasets, generates appropriate regression models (linear, polynomial, etc.), validates the models, and provides performance metrics. Use this skill when the user explicitly requests regression analysis, prediction based on data, or mentions terms like "linear regression," "polynomial regression," "regression model," or "predictive modeling." This skill is also helpful when the user needs to understand the relationship between variables in a dataset.

AI, LLMs & Agents

Performing Security Audits

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This skill allows Claude to conduct comprehensive security audits of code, infrastructure, and configurations. It leverages various tools within the security-pro-pack plugin, including vulnerability scanning, compliance checking, cryptography review, and infrastructure security analysis. Use this skill when a user requests a "security audit," "vulnerability assessment," "compliance review," or any task involving identifying and mitigating security risks. It helps to ensure code and systems adhere to security best practices and compliance standards.

Security

Performing Security Code Review

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This skill enables Claude to conduct a security-focused code review using the security-agent plugin. It analyzes code for potential vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, authentication flaws, and insecure dependencies. Claude uses this skill when the user explicitly requests a security audit, asks for a code review with a focus on security, or mentions security concerns related to code. The security-agent plugin then provides structured security findings with severity ratings, code locations, impact assessments, and remediation guidance.

Security

Performing Security Testing

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This skill automates security vulnerability testing. It is triggered when the user requests security assessments, penetration tests, or vulnerability scans. The skill covers OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, authentication issues, and authorization flaws. Use this skill when the user mentions "security test", "vulnerability scan", "OWASP", "SQL injection", "XSS", "CSRF", "authentication", or "authorization" in the context of application or API testing.

Security

Performing Visual Regression Testing

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This skill enables Claude to execute visual regression tests using tools like Percy, Chromatic, and BackstopJS. It captures screenshots, compares them against baselines, and analyzes visual differences to identify unintended UI changes. Use this skill when the user requests visual testing, UI change verification, or regression testing for a web application or component. Trigger phrases include "visual test," "UI regression," "check visual changes," or "/visual-test".

Testing & QA

Planning Disaster Recovery

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This skill enables Claude to plan and implement disaster recovery (DR) procedures. It generates configurations and setup code based on specific requirements and infrastructure. Use this skill when the user requests assistance with disaster recovery planning, business continuity, or related DevOps tasks. Trigger this skill when the user mentions "disaster recovery", "DR plan", "business continuity", or requests help with setting up a recovery strategy. It provides production-ready configurations, implements best practices, and supports multi-platform environments.

Productivity & Notes

Playwright Browser Automation

Model-invoked browser automation for web testing using Playwright. Automate browser interactions and validate web applications.

Testing & QA

Plugin Auditor

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Automatically audits Claude Code plugins for security vulnerabilities, best practices, CLAUDE.md compliance, and quality standards when user mentions audit plugin, security review, or best practices check. Specific to claude-code-plugins repository standards. allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Bash

Security

Plugin Creator

jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills

Automatically creates new Claude Code plugins with proper structure, validation, and marketplace integration when user mentions creating a plugin, new plugin, or plugin from template. Specific to claude-code-plugins repository workflow. allowed-tools: Write, Read, Grep, Bash

Skill & Plugin Authoring

Plugin Validator

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Automatically validates Claude Code plugin structure, schemas, and compliance when user mentions validate plugin, check plugin, or plugin errors. Runs comprehensive validation specific to claude-code-plugins repository standards. allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Bash

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.