AI Agent Skills - spinningideas/resources GitHub Wiki
Skills can be used to improve how an AI agent or process performs specific tasks. Skills can be single files or folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that an AI agent can load when needed.
AI agents will only access a skill when it's relevant to the task at hand. When used, skills make AI agents better at specialized tasks like working with Excel or following your organization's brand guidelines.
Skills acts as intermediary between custom slash commands and subagents. They can contain more persistent context more and can power autonomous commands for injection and usage of said context, thus allowing for creation of useful automated workflows. Skills provide another set of contexts the agent can tap into which persists and evolves across sessions.
Another interesting part about SKILLS that is it can run bash commands and such. This makes it so that files in persistent memory folders like templates, rules and scripts, as well as some multi-step tasks that can be assigned and performed by a subagent to do, can ALL go into the SKILLS, meaning that this automatically reduces context window. Some mcps can be made out of a SKILL as well.
Furthermore, since skills data is portable and composable, its easier to share this amongst a team or organization to make sure everyone are adhering to procedures. This data set can also be used across anthropic products or potentially with others.
Skills Links & Official Resources
- https://www.anthropic.com/news/skills
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/skills
Skill Directories & Marketplaces
Sites with collections of skills that are searchable
Official Skill Directories
- https://skills.sh/ - Vercels Open Agent Skills
- https://officialskills.sh/
- https://skillsmp.com/
- https://agentskillsrepo.com/
- https://claudemarketplaces.com/skills
Misc Skill Directories (Good Ones...)
- https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills
- https://github.com/wondelai/skills
- https://hermesatlas.com/lists/top-skills - hermes agent skills that can be used elsewhere
- https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers - 72 agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers
- https://github.com/coreyhaines31/makerskills - personal operator's craft skills for decisions, research, second-brain, content rotation, scenario modeling
- https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills
- https://github.com/BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills
- https://github.com/AI-Builder-Club/skills
Best Of Skills
Design/UX Skills
GitHub Skills Searches
There are alot of repositories that contain SKILLS or AGENTS folders. These can be searched for to find useful skills.
- Search Skills (Github) - https://github.com/search?q=path%3A.claude%2Fskills+language%3AMarkdown+&type=code&ref=advsearch
- Search Agents (Github) - https://github.com/search?q=path%3A.claude%2Fagents+language%3AMarkdown&type=code&ref=advsearch
Skill Creation Tools & Editor Docs
- https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers/
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills + https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
- https://antigravity.google/docs/skills
- https://docs.windsurf.com/windsurf/cascade/skills
Skills Articles, Guides & Templates
- https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/the-system-skill-pattern
- https://www.blog.langchain.com/using-skills-with-deep-agents/
- https://gist.github.com/spinningideas/1a6a31c2aa6b5e2e73e974513e72e814
General / Core AI & Productivity Skills
- JayZeeDesign/awesome-claude-skills + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WImBwiA7RA
- https://github.com/forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
- https://github.com/Njengah/claude-code-cheat-sheet + https://github.com/Njengah/claude-code-cheat-sheet/tree/main/subagents
- https://github.com/lyndonkl/claude/tree/main/skills
- https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills
- https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC (Everything Claude Code)
Coding & Software Engineering Skills
Specific Coding Skills
Single file skills that target specific use cases
- Ponytail - https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
- caveman - https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
- compound-engineering - https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
- Codebase Memory - https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp
- No Mistakes - https://github.com/kunchenguid/no-mistakes
- Code Review - https://github.com/coderabbitai/skills/tree/main/skills/code-review
- Feature Dev - https://claude.com/plugins/feature-dev
- Code Simplifier - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/main/plugins/code-simplifier/
General Collections
- https://github.com/BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills
- https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
- https://github.com/ThamJiaHe/claude-prompt-engineering-guide/tree/main/skills/examples
- https://github.com/mrgoonie/claudekit-skills/tree/main/.claude/skills
- https://github.com/nikhilvallishayee/universal-pattern-space
- https://github.com/doorscomputers/nextjspos/tree/master/.claude/skills
- https://github.com/jimmymalhan/codereview-pilot/tree/main/.claude/skills
- https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/skills
- https://github.com/Agents365-ai?tab=repositories
- fablize - Claude Code plugin that makes Opus behave like Fable with completion, evidence, and verification enforced as procedure.
- dmmulroy/skills - Personal coding-agent skills for TypeScript engineering, architecture, Cloudflare composition, and agent workflows.
Agentic Software Factory
Skills geared specifically to software development factories powered by skills that can be used to build an agentic software factory.
- https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
- https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers - Agent skills synthesizing years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers
- https://github.com/disler/super-simple-software-factory
- Repeatable agents-plus-code workflows, packaged as one skill, stamped into any repo. Deterministic Python owns the graph; coding agents are bounded nodes inside it.
- https://github.com/christinoleo/BMAD-METHOD/tree/main/.claude/skills/bmad
- https://github.com/obra/superpowers - An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
- https://github.com/AI-Builder-Club/skills - Claude Code plugin marketplace of skills for building autonomous loop engineers that trigger, work, ship, verify, and compound knowledge.
- https://github.com/DannyMac180/sol-advisor
Software Security
- https://github.com/0xwilliamortiz/claude-red - claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills designed for the Claude skills system. Each skill is a structured SKILL.md file that primes Claude with expert-level methodology for a specific attack surface — from SQLi to shellcode, EDR evasion to exploit development.
Design, UI/UX & Branding Skills
Design Directories & Curated Lists
- https://github.com/bergside/awesome-design-skills
- https://www.typeui.sh/
- https://getdesign.md
- https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-design-md
- https://github.com/rohitg00/awesome-claude-design
Design Skills
- Taste Skill - https://github.com/leonxlnx/taste-skill
- Impeccable - https://github.com/pbakaus/impeccable + https://impeccable.style/ + https://youtu.be/82Eo0ZR9aOk?si=5R1Ui5GFF9ljwRgx
- https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
- https://github.com/ZeroZ-lab/cc-design
- https://github.com/ferdinandobons/brand-docs
- https://github.com/JCodesMore/ai-website-cloner-template
- https://github.com/Dammyjay93/interface-design
- https://github.com/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
- https://github.com/OpenCoworkAI/open-codesign
- https://stitch.withgoogle.com/ + https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/stitch-design-md/
- jakubkrehel/skills - Set of agent skills that help improve product details from animations and typography to layout and colors.
Writing, Content & Communication Skills
- https://github.com/blader/humanizer - removes signs of AI-generated writing from text
- plain-writing-skill - Plain-language writing skill for AI agents with a revision view that shows what changed.
- https://github.com/conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writing - helps avoid AI writing patterns
- directional-prompting - Two-layer skill for writing prompts and agent directives with outcome-first and directional language.
- https://github.com/mikiarlo3/ai-copywriter
- https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/personal/edit-article
Content Scrapping
Research, Learning & Knowledge Management Skills
- Autoresearch - https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
- Obsidian - https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills
- LightRAG - https://github.com/hkuds/lightrag
- https://github.com/Kulaxyz/self-learning-skills
- brain-map-skill - Interactive HTML knowledge graph skill for notes with timeline scrubbing, filtering, and search.
- good-question - Skill for sharpening research questions.
- programming-tutor - Claude tutoring skill that guides programming learners to answers rather than handing them out.
Sales, Marketing & Business Skills
- https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/main/skills
- https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/main/small-business/skills
- Brand-building-skills - Brand building skills for Claude Code and AI agents covering strategy, naming, identity, voice, positioning, messaging, and launch.
- codex-first-customer-finder-skill - Codex skill that turns a startup URL or product idea into a qualified shortlist of potential first customers.
- awesome-growth-hacking-skills - agentic growth hacking skills
Productivity, Workflow & Agentic Harnesses
- https://github.com/lst97/claude-code-sub-agents
- https://github.com/buckstrdr/claude-workflow-system
- https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill
- grill-me - https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md
- https://github.com/plugtheliam/ai-employee-starter-pack/tree/master/employees
- https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/skillsmith
- https://github.com/bradautomates/second-brain
- More agent harnesses
- hyperagent-public-skills - Free reusable skill definitions from the Hyperagent team for AI and automation workflows.
- forsy-trace-skill - Skill for capturing AI agent workflows as structured, annotated trajectory data.
- handoff - Path-free prompt handoff workflow for delegating a task to another agent.
- session-viewer - Local searchable HTML viewer for agent session JSONL.
- dzhng/skills - Skills for building software factories.
Finance
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/skills/custom_skills
- gauss314/skills - Financial market data consumption skills for Claude Code and AI agents.
HR and Hiring
- https://github.com/michaljuhas/recruiting-skills + https://github.com/michaljuhas/recruiting-with-claude
- https://github.com/michaljuhas/workshop-ai-in-recruiting
Presentations & Media Skills
Slides / PowerPoint
- https://github.com/ToseaAI/awesome-html-slide-skills
- https://tosea.ai/slide-skills
- https://github.com/nicobailon/visual-explainer
- https://github.com/alchaincyf/huashu-design + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmk1wxoi6ys
- https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides
- https://github.com/Akxan/ppt-agent-skill
- https://github.com/StarryKit/starry-slides
- https://github.com/nghiahsgs/skills-slides
Video
- https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMljuD10sU
- calesthio/OpenMontage - https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage
- https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
- https://github.com/xiejunjie524/handdraw-story-video
- https://github.com/pireel/pireel
Specialized / Niche Skills
CLI Skills
- Playwright CLI - https://playwright.dev/agent-cli/intro
- GWS - https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
- GitHub CLI - https://cli.github.com/
- Firecrawl - https://github.com/firecrawl/firecrawl
- Stripe CLI - https://github.com/stripe/stripe-cli
AI Tools For Team Development
- https://www.aligndev.dev/ + https://github.com/razr001/align-dev
- https://getdesign.md/design-md + https://www.design-extractor.com/
Self-Hosted Tools & Platforms
The items below are self-hosted applications and platforms, not agent skills. They are grouped here by domain.
Business & Operations
- TaskView - Self-hosted project and task management platform.
- Work-Review - Local-first app usage tracker with intelligent AI review.
- relaticle - Open-source CRM with native AI agent support and MCP tools.
- cmms - Self-hosted CMMS web and mobile application for enterprise maintenance.
- job-ops - DevOps-inspired self-hosted job-hunting pipeline and tracker.
- ChatbotX - Open-source agentic omnichannel chat marketing platform.
- Aural - Open-source AI interview platform for voice, chat and video.
- rejourney - Open-source observability and revenue-leak prediction for mobile apps.
DevOps, Infrastructure & IT
- open-connector - Open-source auth gateway connecting 1000+ SaaS providers to AI agents.
- postlab - Interactive bare-metal homelab server manager.
- sencho - Self-hosted Docker Compose management platform.
- jabali-panel - Modern open-source web hosting control panel.
- scanopy - Self-updating network diagrams and topology visualization.
- Argus - Open-source monitor for new software releases and website changes.
- agentic-operator-core - Regulated controls and air-gapped Kubernetes runtime for AI agents.
- PulseWeaver - Self-hosted forward-auth sidecar for trusted networks and devices.
- code-server - Run VS Code on any machine and access it in the browser.
- KalamDB - Lightweight real-time SQL database for agent-native apps.
- folderhost - Your own private cloud in one executable.
Media & Discovery
- birdnet-go - Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife.
- AudioMuse-AI - Self-hosted music discovery tool using sonic analysis and AI playlists.
- jcorp-nomad - Portable offline media server powered by ESP32-S3.
- slskd - Modern client-server application for the Soulseek file sharing network.
- digarr - AI-powered music discovery for your Lidarr library.
- ConvertX - Self-hosted online file converter supporting 1000+ formats.
Productivity & Knowledge
- Docmost - Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software.
- paperless-ngx - Community-supported open-source document management system.
- health-md - Apple Health exporter to Markdown, JSON, CSV and Obsidian.
- simplebudget - Clean budgeting app to plan your month and track spending.
- geopulse - Self-hosted privacy-first location timeline and analytics platform.
- brainapi2.git - Knowledge graph-powered AI memory layer.
Utilities & Other
- alt-sendme - Peer-to-peer file transfer tool without cloud storage.
- famstack - Turn your Mac into the brain of your family server.
- mazzap - Open-source utility for generating agro-ecological digital twins.
- Corvus - Modern privacy-first communication platform and Discord alternative.