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Claude Skills

The open format is called Agent Skills and works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents — most people know it as Claude Skills.

Every Agent Skill we could find on GitHub, deduplicated by content. 79 341 files from 1 736 authors, of which 61 700 are unique — the rest is the same skill repackaged into someone else's repository. For each one: what it weighs in tokens, whether it ships runnable scripts, and which MCP servers it needs.

61 700
unique skills
out of 79 341 files found on GitHub
17 641
are copies
same content, someone else's repository
1 739
tokens, median
what a typical skill costs you in context
7 879
name collisions
two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

Official skills

published by the companies themselves, counted once each
Microsoft 1 431 Anthropic 578 PostHog 418 OpenAI 407 NVIDIA 378 Google 351 GitHub 328 Vercel 230 Prisma 105 Vercel 102 Flutter 93 Google Workspace 93 Redis 84 LangChain 80 Hugging Face 78 Cloudflare 77 Shopify 76 Pulumi 62 Remotion 62 ClickHouse 58 PyTorch 56 Zapier 46 Apify 43 Clerk 40

Browse by what they do

every skill classified from its own instructions, not from repository tags
Development 8 674 DevOps & Cloud 4 344 Agent Workflow 4 121 Testing 3 543 Productivity 3 457 Marketing & SEO 3 187 Media 3 032 Data & Analytics 2 409 Design & UI 2 394 Research 2 269 Documents 2 253 Code Review 2 030 Writing 1 882 Machine Learning 1 781 Security 1 647 Databases 1 639 Communication 1 311 Finance 1 219 Browser Automation 537 Web Scraping 350

Which MCP servers skills depend on

1 of them are not in the registry at all
ServerStatusSkills need it
rube not in registry 2 483
task not responding 5
tycana answering 1

What they cost in context

a skill is loaded on every request that touches it
under 500 tokens 4 540 7.4%
500 – 2 000 20 250 32.8%
2 000 – 10 000 25 367 41.1%
10 000 – 50 000 9 484 15.4%
over 50 000 2 059 3.3%

Names that collide

two skills with one name cannot sit side by side — one is ignored
skill-creator ×83 anthropics, vercel-labs, JayZeeDesign, neondatabase most used one →
code-review ×67 mrgoonie, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver most used one →
frontend-design ×49 vercel-labs, Karanjot786, anthropics, YYH211 most used one →
agent-browser ×46 ComeOnOliver, vercel-labs, vercel-labs, countbot-ai most used one →
deep-research ×40 199-biotechnologies, loulanyue, lingxling, w95 most used one →
release ×35 remotion-dev, openai, parcadei, Devin-AXIS most used one →
brainstorming ×34 ZhanlinCui, w95, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver most used one →
setup ×31 ComeOnOliver, nanocoai, openai, pytorch most used one →
systematic-debugging ×29 ratacat, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver most used one →
git-workflow ×27 microsoft, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver most used one →
pdf ×27 anthropics, anthropics, christophacham, K-Dense-AI most used one →
writing-plans ×27 ZhanlinCui, ComeOnOliver, ComeOnOliver, jnMetaCode most used one →

1–60 of 61 700

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Theme Factory
by anthropics
vendor ×16

Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc. There are 10 pre-set themes with colors/fonts that you can apply to any artifact that has been creating, or can generate a new theme on-the-fly.

36k tokens
DOCX
by anthropics
vendor ×16

Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When Claude needs to work with professional documents (.docx files) for: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks

7k tokens
PDF
by anthropics
vendor ×16

Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms. When Claude needs to fill in a PDF form or programmatically process, generate, or analyze PDF documents at scale.

13k tokens scripts
XLSX
by anthropics
vendor ×15

Comprehensive spreadsheet creation, editing, and analysis with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization. When Claude needs to work with spreadsheets (.xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, .tsv, etc) for: (1) Creating new spreadsheets with formulas and formatting, (2) Reading or analyzing data, (3) Modify existing spreadsheets while preserving formulas, (4) Data analysis and visualization in spreadsheets, or (5) Recalculating formulas

5k tokens scripts
PPTX
by JayZeeDesign
×15

Presentation creation, editing, and analysis. When Claude needs to work with presentations (.pptx files) for: (1) Creating new presentations, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with layouts, (4) Adding comments or speaker notes, or any other presentation tasks

308k tokens scripts
Brand Guidelines
by anthropics
vendor ×13

Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.

3k tokens
Canvas Design
by anthropics
vendor ×13

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

1388k tokens
Internal Comms
by anthropics
vendor ×13

A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, project updates, etc.).

6k tokens
MCP Builder
by anthropics
vendor ×13

Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

30k tokens scripts
Webapp Testing
by anthropics
vendor ×12

Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser logs.

6k tokens scripts
Web Design Guidelines
by vercel-labs
vendor ×12

Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check my site against best practices".

307 tokens
Algorithmic Art
by anthropics
vendor ×10

Creating 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.

15k tokens scripts
Doc Coauthoring
by anthropics
vendor ×10

Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.

4k tokens
PDF
by anthropics
vendor ×10

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, extracting images, and OCR on scanned PDFs to make them searchable. If the user mentions a .pdf file or asks to produce one, use this skill.

15k tokens scripts
Skill Creator
by anthropics
vendor ×10

Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.

56k tokens scripts
Skill Creator
by vercel-labs
vendor ×10

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

12k tokens scripts
Competitive Ads Extractor
by frostant
×10

Extracts and analyzes competitors' ads from ad libraries (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) to understand what messaging, problems, and creative approaches are working. Helps inspire and improve your own ad campaigns.

2k tokens
Content Research Writer
by frostant
×10

Assists in writing high-quality content by conducting research, adding citations, improving hooks, iterating on outlines, and providing real-time feedback on each section. Transforms your writing process from solo effort to collaborative partnership.

4k tokens
File Organizer
by frostant
×10

Intelligently organizes your files and folders across your computer by understanding context, finding duplicates, suggesting better structures, and automating cleanup tasks. Reduces cognitive load and keeps your digital workspace tidy without manual effort.

3k tokens
Frontend Design
by vercel-labs
vendor ×9

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

4k tokens
Skill Creator
by JayZeeDesign
×9

Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.

10k tokens scripts
Changelog Generator
by frostant
×9

Automatically creates user-facing changelogs from git commits by analyzing commit history, categorizing changes, and transforming technical commits into clear, customer-friendly release notes. Turns hours of manual changelog writing into minutes of automated generation.

774 tokens
Artifacts Builder
by JayZeeDesign
×8

Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies (React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui). Use for complex artifacts requiring state management, routing, or shadcn/ui components - not for simple single-file HTML/JSX artifacts.

11k tokens scripts
Domain Name Brainstormer
by frostant
×8

Generates creative domain name ideas for your project and checks availability across multiple TLDs (.com, .io, .dev, .ai, etc.). Saves hours of brainstorming and manual checking.

1k tokens
Lead Research Assistant
by frostant
×8

Identifies high-quality leads for your product or service by analyzing your business, searching for target companies, and providing actionable contact strategies. Perfect for sales, business development, and marketing professionals.

2k tokens
Meeting Insights Analyzer
by frostant
×8

Analyzes meeting transcripts and recordings to uncover behavioral patterns, communication insights, and actionable feedback. Identifies when you avoid conflict, use filler words, dominate conversations, or miss opportunities to listen. Perfect for professionals seeking to improve their communication and leadership skills.

3k tokens
Web Artifacts Builder
by anthropics
vendor ×7

Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies (React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui). Use for complex artifacts requiring state management, routing, or shadcn/ui components - not for simple single-file HTML/JSX artifacts.

11k tokens scripts
Finishing A Development Branch
by ZhanlinCui
×7

Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup

1k tokens
Receiving Code Review
by ZhanlinCui
×7

Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or technically questionable - requires technical rigor and verification, not performative agreement or blind implementation

2k tokens
MCP Builder
by JayZeeDesign
×7

Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

37k tokens scripts
Slack Gif Creator
by JayZeeDesign
×7

Toolkit for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack, with validators for size constraints and composable animation primitives. This skill applies when users request animated GIFs or emoji animations for Slack from descriptions like "make me a GIF for Slack of X doing Y".

53k tokens scripts
Template Skill
by JayZeeDesign
×7

Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.

35 tokens
Test Driven Development
by w95
×7

Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code

2k tokens
XLSX
by w95
×7

Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, or .tsv file (e.g., adding columns, computing formulas, formatting, charting, cleaning messy data); create a new spreadsheet from scratch or from other data sources; or convert between tabular file formats. Trigger especially when the user references a spreadsheet file by name or path — even casually (like \"the xlsx in my downloads\") — and wants something done to it or produced from it. Also trigger for cleaning or restructuring messy tabular data files (malformed rows, misplaced headers, junk data) into proper spreadsheets. The deliverable must be a spreadsheet file. Do NOT trigger when the primary deliverable is a Word document, HTML report, standalone Python script, database pipeline, or Google Sheets API integration, even if tabular data is involved.

3k tokens
Systematic Debugging
by ratacat
×7

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes

10k tokens scripts
Vercel React Native Skills
by vercel-labs
vendor ×6

React Native and Expo best practices for building performant mobile apps. Use when building React Native components, optimizing list performance, implementing animations, or working with native modules. Triggers on tasks involving React Native, Expo, mobile performance, or native platform APIs.

39k tokens
Notebooklm
by ZhanlinCui
×6

Use this skill to query your Google NotebookLM notebooks directly from Claude Code for source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Browser automation, library management, persistent auth. Drastically reduced hallucinations through document-only responses.

26k tokens scripts
Requesting Code Review
by ZhanlinCui
×6

Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements

2k tokens
Verification Before Completion
by ZhanlinCui
×6

Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing, before committing or creating PRs - requires running verification commands and confirming output before making any success claims; evidence before assertions always

1k tokens
Frontend Design
by Karanjot786
×6

Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.

1k tokens
DOCX
by w95
×6

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.

5k tokens
Developer Growth Analysis
by frostant
×6

Analyzes your recent Claude Code chat history to identify coding patterns, development gaps, and areas for improvement, curates relevant learning resources from HackerNews, and automatically sends a personalized growth report to your Slack DMs.

4k tokens
Image Enhancer
by frostant
×6

Improves the quality of images, especially screenshots, by enhancing resolution, sharpness, and clarity. Perfect for preparing images for presentations, documentation, or social media posts.

635 tokens
Slack Gif Creator
by anthropics
vendor ×5

Knowledge and utilities for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack. Provides constraints, validation tools, and animation concepts. Use when users request animated GIFs for Slack like "make me a GIF of X doing Y for Slack.

11k tokens scripts
Dispatching Parallel Agents
by ZhanlinCui
×5

Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies

2k tokens
Vercel React Best Practices
by ratacat
×5

React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal performance patterns. Triggers on tasks involving React components, Next.js pages, data fetching, bundle optimization, or performance improvements.

34k tokens
Invoice Organizer
by frostant
×5

Automatically organizes invoices and receipts for tax preparation by reading messy files, extracting key information, renaming them consistently, and sorting them into logical folders. Turns hours of manual bookkeeping into minutes of automated organization.

3k tokens
Raffle Winner Picker
by frostant
×5

Picks random winners from lists, spreadsheets, or Google Sheets for giveaways, raffles, and contests. Ensures fair, unbiased selection with transparency.

949 tokens
Frontend Design
by anthropics
vendor ×4

Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.

5k tokens
Skill Development
by anthropics
vendor ×4

This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on skill structure, progressive disclosure, or skill development best practices for Claude Code plugins.

9k tokens
Expo Tailwind Setup
by openai
vendor ×4

Set up Tailwind CSS v4 in Expo with react-native-css and NativeWind v5 for universal styling

3k tokens
Playwright Skill
by lackeyjb
×4

Complete browser automation with Playwright. Auto-detects dev servers, writes clean test scripts to /tmp. Test pages, fill forms, take screenshots, check responsive design, validate UX, test login flows, check links, automate any browser task. Use when user wants to test websites, automate browser interactions, validate web functionality, or perform any browser-based testing.

12k tokens scripts
Next Best Practices
by vercel-labs
vendor ×4

Next.js best practices - file conventions, RSC boundaries, data patterns, async APIs, metadata, error handling, route handlers, image/font optimization, bundling

20k tokens
Find Skills
by sanity-io
vendor ×4

Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.

1k tokens
Writing Skills
by ZhanlinCui
×4

Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment

26k tokens scripts
Using Git Worktrees
by ZhanlinCui
×4

Use when starting feature work that needs isolation from current workspace or before executing implementation plans - creates isolated git worktrees with smart directory selection and safety verification

1k tokens
Brainstorming
by ZhanlinCui
×4

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

626 tokens
Writing Plans
by ZhanlinCui
×4

Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code

816 tokens
PPTX
by w95
×4

Use this skill any time a .pptx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates, layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions \"deck,\" \"slides,\" \"presentation,\" or references a .pptx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.

2k tokens
Video Downloader
by CommandCodeAI
×4

Downloads videos from YouTube and other platforms for offline viewing, editing, or archival. Handles various formats and quality options.

671 tokens

Claude Skills — questions

Answers built from the skills we actually parsed.

What is a Claude Skill?
A folder with a SKILL.md file: instructions that teach an agent to do one thing well, optionally with scripts and reference files alongside. The format is open and called Agent Skills — Claude Code, Codex and other agents read the same files. It is not a program you run; it is knowledge the agent loads when the task calls for it.
How is a skill different from an MCP server?
A server gives the agent new abilities — it connects to something and exposes tools. A skill gives the agent knowledge: how to use what it already has. They combine, and often literally: 11 328 of the skills here declare which MCP servers they need to work.
Why are there fewer skills here than in other catalogues?
Because we deduplicate by content. Of 79 341 files found on GitHub, 61 700 are unique — the rest is the same skill copied into someone else's repository, word for word. Catalogues that count files rather than skills show every copy as a separate entry.
What does the token count mean?
A skill is loaded into the model's context when it is used, so its size is a running cost on every request that touches it. We measure the whole folder, not just SKILL.md: one official skill is 377 tokens, another drags 83 files of fonts behind it.
How do I install a skill?
Copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project. The agent picks it up by the name in the SKILL.md header — which is worth checking: 7 879 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.