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. 86 961 files from 2 125 authors, of which 68 678 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.

68 678

unique skills

out of 86 961 files found on GitHub

18 283

are copies

same content, someone else's repository

1 749

tokens, median

what a typical skill costs you in context

8 467

name collisions

two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

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Git Pr Workflows Pr Enhance

Go Concurrency Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

216 tokens

Godot Gdscript Patterns

Helm Chart Scaffolding

Hybrid Cloud Architect

by ComeOnOliver

2.4k tokens

Hybrid Cloud Networking

by ComeOnOliver

1.4k tokens

Hybrid Search Implementation

Incident Response Incident Response

by ComeOnOliver

2.6k tokens

Incident Response Smart Fix

Istio Traffic Management

Javascript Testing Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

269 tokens

Javascript Typescript Typescript Scaffold

K8s Manifest Generator

by ComeOnOliver

286 tokens

K8s Security Policies

Langchain Architecture

LLM Application Dev AI Assistant

by ComeOnOliver

302 tokens

LLM Application Dev Langchain Agent

by ComeOnOliver

1.9k tokens

LLM Application Dev Prompt Optimize

Machine Learning Ops Ml Pipeline

Market Sizing Analysis

Memory Safety Patterns

Microservices Patterns

Mobile Security Coder

by ComeOnOliver

3.1k tokens

Modern Javascript Patterns

Multi Cloud Architecture

by ComeOnOliver

1.2k tokens

Multi Platform Apps Multi Platform

Nextjs App Router Patterns

Nodejs Backend Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

264 tokens

Nx Workspace Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

2.7k 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: 13 478 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 86 961 files found on GitHub, 68 678 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 in stages. Its name and description stay in the model's context all the time; the body of SKILL.md is read when the skill is used; other files in the folder, such as references, scripts and fonts, are opened only when the skill asks for them. The number we show is SKILL.md, the part every use pays for. A big folder is not a big cost: one official skill ships 83 font files, and none of them ever enters the context.

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: 8 467 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.

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