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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. 79 404 files from 1 741 authors, of which 61 763 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.

61 763
unique skills
out of 79 404 files found on GitHub
17 641
are copies
same content, someone else's repository
1 737
tokens, median
what a typical skill costs you in context
7 882
name collisions
two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

7 321–7 380 of 61 763

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Bar Prep Questions
by anthropics
vendor

> Bar prep questions — MBE or essay, targeted at your weak subjects and bar jurisdiction. Tracks misses and comes back to patterns. Use when the user says "bar prep", "MBE questions", "practice essay", or "test me for the bar".

5k tokens
Takedown
by anthropics
vendor

> Draft a DMCA takedown notice, triage one you received, or draft a §512(g) counter-notice. Use when asserting copyright through a §512(c)(3) takedown with the fair-use and perjury gates, when an incoming takedown needs triage into comply / counter / engage / ignore options, or when drafting a §512(g)(3) counter-notice with the consent-to-federal-jurisdiction gate.

8k tokens
Case Brief
by anthropics
vendor

> Brief a case in your preferred format. In drill-me mode, makes the student state the holding first. Use when the user says "brief [case]", "what's the holding in", "case brief", or pastes a case.

2k tokens
Cold Call Prep
by anthropics
vendor

> Prep for a cold-call — predict the professor's likely questions and drill them Socratically, flagging where you're shaky so you know what to re-read before class. Use when the user says "prep for class tomorrow", "cold call [case]", "what might [professor] ask on", or points at assigned reading.

2k tokens
Customize
by anthropics
vendor

> Guided customization of your law-student study profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust current classes, learning style, outline preferences, bar prep subjects, seed materials, or study session cadence. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a class", "update my profile", "new semester", or "customize".

1k tokens
Cold Start Interview
by anthropics
vendor

> About-you interview and materials intake — classes, bar jurisdiction, learning style (drill-me vs explain-to-me), past outlines, graded essays, old exams, MBE sets, syllabi, papers. Use on a fresh install, when the user says "set up" or "get started", or with --check-integrations to re-probe connectors.

7k tokens
Exam Forecast
by anthropics
vendor

> Analyze past exams from the same professor to surface patterns — subject weighting, recurring issue-spot traps, favored hypo types, policy-vs-doctrine mix — and forecast likely emphases for the upcoming exam. Use when the user says "what's on the exam", "analyze past exams", "predict the exam", or shares past exams.

2k tokens
Flashcards
by anthropics
vendor

> Generate or drill flashcards for black-letter memorization — Leitner-style buckets, per-subject markdown storage, drill mode with self-assessment. Use when the user says "drill flashcards", "make flashcards from", "quiz me on cards", or wants to memorize rules.

2k tokens
Irac Practice
by anthropics
vendor

> Grade an IRAC essay for structure, issue-spotting, rule accuracy, analysis depth, and organization. Does NOT rewrite the essay or show a model answer; tracks patterns across sessions. Use when the user says "grade my IRAC", "check my essay", or "I wrote this, give me feedback".

3k tokens
Socratic Drill
by anthropics
vendor

> Socratic drilling — it asks, you answer, it pushes back. Does NOT give you the answer until you've earned it. Use when the user says "drill me on", "quiz me", "socratic", "test me on [subject]", or wants to study actively.

2k tokens
Auto Updater
by anthropics
vendor

> Check installed community skills for updates. Shows a diff and requires explicit approval before applying. Use when the user says "check for updates", "update my skills", "anything new for my installed skills", or when invoked from the registry-sync agent.

2k tokens
Legal Writing
by anthropics
vendor

> Structural feedback on a legal writing draft (memo, brief, paper, exam essay) — organization, analysis depth, clarity, citation form. NEVER rewrites the draft. Use when the user says "feedback on my memo", "read my draft", or "critique my brief".

2k tokens
Outline Builder
by anthropics
vendor

> Build or extend a course outline in your format, from class notes and casebook. Scaffolds — it does not write the outline for you. Use when the user says "outline [subject]", "add to my outline", "build an outline from", or points at class materials.

2k tokens
Registry Browser
by anthropics
vendor

> Search watched registries for community legal skills, showing matches with descriptions and offering to show the full SKILL.md before install. Use when the user says "browse", "search skills", "find a skill for", "what's out there for", or wants to add a new registry to the watchlist.

740 tokens
Customize
by anthropics
vendor

> Guided customization of your Legal Builder Hub profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust practice profile, installed starter pack, watched registries, update preferences, or QA strictness. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "add a registry", "update my profile", "edit my config", or "customize".

1k tokens
Disable
by anthropics
vendor

> Disable a community skill installed through the hub without removing its files. Use when the user wants to temporarily quiet a community skill ("disable [skill]"), stop its hooks from firing while keeping its config, or re-enable a previously disabled skill.

371 tokens
Cold Start Interview
by anthropics
vendor

> Practice-profile interview that recommends and installs a starter pack of community legal skills. This IS the cold start for the whole ecosystem — it asks what kind of lawyer you are and recommends what to install first. Use on fresh install, when the user says "get me started" or "what should I install", or to re-run the integration-availability check after adding or removing an MCP connector.

7k tokens
Study Plan
by anthropics
vendor

> Build or update a long-term bar prep (or exam prep) study plan — phases, subjects weighted by weakness, daily session schedule, adaptive to session history in study-plan.yaml. Use when the user says "build a study plan", "plan my bar prep", "schedule my studying", or "how should I study for [X]".

3k tokens
Session
by anthropics
vendor

> Run a focused N-question study session on a subject — MBE, essay, or flashcards. Tracks performance and updates the study plan. Use when the user says "run me 10 questions on [subject]", "do a session on [subject]", "let's do 5 cards on [subject]", or wants to drill a fixed number of questions and have the plan adapt.

479 tokens
Skill Installer
by anthropics
vendor

> Install a community skill from a watched registry. Reads the allowlist first, fetches, shows the RAW SKILL.md (not just a summary), runs structural trust checks, runs skills-qa, and only writes files after explicit user approval. Use when the user says "install [skill]", picks install from browse, or provides a direct skill URL.

9k tokens
Related Skills Surfacer
by anthropics
vendor

> Suggest community skills based on recent activity in other plugins. Checks whether the community has built something relevant to a task and mentions it once, non-intrusively. Use when the user says "is there a community skill for this", "what else is out there", or asks for skill recommendations; also runs passively as part of other plugins' workflows.

811 tokens
Client Intake
by anthropics
vendor

> Structured intake — practice-area templates, cross-area issue spotting, conflict flags, and triage classification. Produces a formatted case summary the student analyzes and the professor reviews. Does NOT decide case acceptance. Use when starting a new client intake, running an intake interview, or writing up a new client's situation.

3k tokens
Skills QA
by anthropics
vendor

> Evaluate a skill against the Legal Skill Design Framework — thirteen design parameters (including trust-surface, freshness, schema validation, and conflict detection), three legal failure modes, and a three-band verdict (Ready / Some Concern / Material Concerns). Use when deciding whether to trust a community skill before installing it, before deploying a first-party skill to your team, or whenever the user asks "should I trust this?" or "is this skill well-designed?". Runs automatically as part of

9k tokens
Skill Manager
by anthropics
vendor

> skills installed via the legal builder hub. Safe by default — refuses to touch first-party plugin skills, confirms before removing files, and logs

1k tokens
Uninstall
by anthropics
vendor

> Uninstall a community skill that was installed via the hub. Confirms before deleting files, refuses to touch first-party plugin skills, and logs every action. Use when the user wants to fully remove a community skill ("uninstall [skill]", "remove this skill") rather than just disable it.

386 tokens
Client Comms Log
by anthropics
vendor

> Log a client communication — call, email, text, letter, in-person, voicemail. Append-only per-case record with dated entries, direction, medium, summary, action items. Works alongside /client-letter and /status client. Use when logging a call or client email, reviewing a communication log, or asking "what did we tell [client] last time".

2k tokens
Build Guide
by anthropics
vendor

> Help a clinic supervisor author a practice-area guide that configures how student-facing skills behave — intake questions, pedagogy posture (assist / guide / teach), review gates, cross-plugin checks, and local rules. Use when a supervising attorney wants to build or revise a per-practice-area guide, tune how the clinic skills behave for their clinic type, or set their teaching philosophy as plugin configuration.

4k tokens
Client Letter
by anthropics
vendor

> Routine client correspondence from templates — appointment confirmations, document requests, brief "we filed it" updates. Plain language, required elements, supervision routing. NOT substantive advice. Use when a student needs to send routine correspondence, an appointment confirmation, a document request letter, or a brief status note to a client.

2k tokens
Cold Start Interview
by anthropics
vendor

> Professor's one-time clinic setup — practice areas, jurisdiction, supervision style (formal review queue / configurable flags / lighter-touch), and handbook/rules upload. Writes CLAUDE.md so every other skill and every student who runs /ramp reads from the same clinic context. Use on fresh install, when CLAUDE.md has placeholders, when re-doing setup with --redo, or when re-checking integrations with --check-integrations.

9k tokens
Draft
by anthropics
vendor

> First draft of a common clinic document — practice-area templates (asylum applications, eviction answers, protective order petitions, demand letters), jurisdiction-aware formatting, explicitly a starting point requiring student analysis and attorney review. Use when a student needs a first draft of a motion, letter, petition, declaration, or other clinic document.

3k tokens
Deadlines
by anthropics
vendor

> Track case deadlines — add, cross-case rollup report, update, complete, close. Warns at configurable thresholds (default 14/7/3/1 days); overdue items stay flagged until resolved. The operational record for a clinic workload. Use when a student or supervisor needs to add a deadline, ask what's due this week, get a deadline report, or update a case deadline.

3k tokens
Form Generation
by anthropics
vendor

> the draft skill, which handles practice-area document generation including form population. Kept as a redirect for migration.

182 tokens
Memo
by anthropics
vendor

> IRAC-scaffolded case analysis memo with research gaps flagged — the scaffold, not the analysis. Rule blocks are RESEARCH NEEDED, Application is STUDENT ANALYSIS prompts, Conclusion is blank. Use when a student needs to scaffold a case analysis memo, write up their analysis, or build an IRAC memo for a case.

3k tokens
Customize
by anthropics
vendor

> Guided customization of your legal clinic profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust clinic profile, jurisdiction, supervision style, practice-area templates, semester configuration, or output safeguards. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "new semester", "add a practice area", "update my config", or "customize".

1k tokens
Plain Language Letters
by anthropics
vendor

> `/status client` for substantive updates. Split into two more focused skills during the v2 rebuild. Kept as a redirect for migration.

208 tokens
Ramp
by anthropics
vendor

> Student semester onboarding — clinic procedures, tool walkthrough, practice exercises before real cases. Reads the handbook the professor uploaded at setup and teaches it interactively. Use when a new clinic student says "onboard me", "I'm new to the clinic", "getting started", or at the start of each semester; pass --card for the one-page reference.

2k tokens
Semester Handoff
by anthropics
vendor

> End-of-semester case handoff memos — the mirror of /ramp. Produces per-case transition memos and a cohort summary so the departing cohort hands work to the incoming cohort cleanly. Reads deadlines, client-comms, and case history. Use when the professor or departing students need to wrap up the semester, build transition memos, or offboard a graduating/withdrawing student.

3k tokens
Research Start
by anthropics
vendor

> Research roadmap for a legal issue — statutes to check, case law areas to investigate, regulatory frameworks, Westlaw search terms. Leads and frameworks, NOT authoritative citations; students verify and develop everything. Use when a student asks where to start researching, wants a research roadmap for an issue, or needs gaps identified in existing research.

3k tokens
Claim Chart
by anthropics
vendor

Build or review an element chart — a patent claim chart (infringement, invalidity, or review) or a civil element chart for any cause of action or defense — with every cell pin-cited and gap detection as the priority output. Use when the user asks for a claim chart, element chart, proof chart, infringement or invalidity contention, element-by-element mapping, or asks "what are we missing to prove [claim]".

15k tokens
Status
by anthropics
vendor

> Case status summary by audience — client-facing (plain language), internal (for the professor), or court-ready (formal caption format per local rules). Same facts, different framing and depth. Use when a student needs to update the client, brief the professor, or prepare a court status report.

2k tokens
Chronology
by anthropics
vendor

Build or update a chronology from declared document sources and uploads — dated events extracted, de-duped, and tagged by significance per the matter theory. Use when the user asks to build a chronology or timeline from a production or matter file, says "chron from the production" or "what happened when", or needs a working, statement-of-facts, or witness-specific timeline.

6k tokens
Supervisor Review Queue
by anthropics
vendor

> Professor's review queue — student output waits here for professor approval before going to clients or courts. Only active if "formal review queue" supervision style was chosen at setup; otherwise dormant. Use when the professor wants to see what's waiting for review, approve, edit-then-approve, or return an item.

1k tokens
Brief Section Drafter
by anthropics
vendor

Draft a brief section in house style, consistent with the case theory — every fact cited, every case checked, every argument tied to the theory. Use when the user says "draft the [section]", "write the statement of facts", "argument section on [issue]", or needs a first draft of a brief section.

4k tokens
Cold Start Interview
by anthropics
vendor

House cold-start for the litigation plugin — branches by role (in-house, firm associate, solo) and side (plaintiff, defense, both), captures risk calibration, landscape, and house style, and writes the practice profile CLAUDE.md. Use on a fresh install, when the user wants to set up or redo the practice profile, or to re-check available integrations.

12k tokens
Demand Draft
by anthropics
vendor

Draft a demand letter from a completed intake, gated on a privilege / FRE 408 / waiver / admission checklist, with a .docx output, post-send checklist, and an offer to create a matter. Use when the user says "draft the demand", "write the [type] letter", or has a finished demand intake ready to turn into a sendable draft.

7k tokens
Customize
by anthropics
vendor

> Guided customization of your litigation practice profile — change one thing without re-running the whole cold-start interview. Adjust practice role, side (plaintiff / defense / mixed), risk calibration, landscape, house style, escalation contacts, severity vocabulary, or matter workspace paths. Use when the user says "change my [thing]", "update my profile", "edit my config", or "customize".

1k tokens
Demand Received
by anthropics
vendor

Triage an inbound demand letter — extract fields, cross-check the portfolio, assess merit, present response options with a recommendation, and hand off to matter-intake or demand-intake if escalation is warranted. Use when the user says "we got a demand letter", "triage this demand", or shares an incoming demand to evaluate.

3k tokens
Legal Hold
by anthropics
vendor

Issue, refresh, release, or report on legal holds — drafts the hold notice as .docx, updates legal_hold fields in _log.yaml, and calendars the next refresh. Use when the user says "issue a hold", "refresh hold", "release hold", or asks for a portfolio-wide hold status report.

4k tokens
Demand Intake
by anthropics
vendor

Pre-drafting context gathering for a demand letter — parties, facts, basis, leverage, BATNA, and privilege filters — written to a structured intake.md the demand-draft skill reads. Use when the user wants to prep a demand letter, run intake before drafting, or capture context for a payment demand, breach/cure notice, cease-and-desist, employment separation, or preservation demand.

3k tokens
Matter Briefing
by anthropics
vendor

Deep briefing on one matter — current posture, what's changed, next deadline, open questions, and a risk re-assessment check, ready before a GC update or outside counsel call. Use when the user says "brief me on [matter]", "where are we on [matter]", or needs a read on a specific matter.

1k tokens
Deposition Prep
by anthropics
vendor

Build a deposition outline for a witness — pull their documents from the eDiscovery platform, organize topics around the case theory, and surface impeachment material. Use when the user says "depo prep for [witness]", "build a depo outline", or "prepare for [name]'s deposition".

4k tokens
Matter Intake
by anthropics
vendor

Intake a new matter — uniform questions covering identification, conflicts, source, risk triage, materiality, outside counsel, owners, legal hold, and key dates; writes matter.md and history.md and appends a structured row to _log.yaml. Use when the user says "new matter", "intake this matter", or wants to bring a new matter into the portfolio.

3k tokens
Matter Close
by anthropics
vendor

Close a matter — capture outcome, final exposure, and lessons, then archive it out of the active portfolio without deleting the record. Use when the user wants to close a matter, says "[matter] is done", or needs to record a settlement, dismissal, judgment, withdrawal, or consolidation outcome.

2k tokens
Oc Status
by anthropics
vendor

Generate weekly status-request email drafts to outside counsel across the active portfolio — markdown per matter, plus Gmail drafts when the MCP is available. Use when the user asks for OC status requests, weekly outside counsel check-ins, or wants per-matter status emails drafted from the portfolio log.

2k tokens
Matter Update
by anthropics
vendor

Append a dated event to a matter's history file and refresh the log row — captures new developments, status changes, risk re-assessments, deadline shifts, and settlement authority changes. Use when the user wants to log an update on a matter, note a development, or record a status change against the portfolio.

2k tokens
Portfolio Status
by anthropics
vendor

Roll up the portfolio from _log.yaml — risk distribution, upcoming deadlines, stale matters, materiality totals, stage distribution, and flagged anomalies. Use when the user asks "where do we stand", "how many open matters", or wants a portfolio rollup or status across all active matters.

1k tokens
Matter Workspace
by anthropics
vendor

Manage matter workspaces for multi-client practices — create, list, switch, close, or detach the active matter. Use when the user wants to create a new matter workspace, switch the active matter, list matters, archive a matter, or work at practice-level only without an active matter.

3k tokens
Privilege Log Review
by anthropics
vendor

First-pass privilege log review — make the obvious privilege calls and flag the hard ones for attorney review without making close calls. Use when the user says "review the privilege log", "priv log", "check privilege on these docs", or has a log to QA before production.

5k tokens
Subpoena Triage
by anthropics
vendor

Triage a subpoena served on the company — classify it, analyze scope/burden/privilege, cross-check the portfolio, and produce an objections framework, compliance plan, and deadline calendar. Use when the user says "we got a subpoena", "served with a subpoena", or shares a subpoena, CID, or third-party document request to evaluate.

5k tokens
Cold Start Interview
by anthropics
vendor

> Run the cold-start interview — learns your privacy practice and writes CLAUDE.md from your policy, DPA template, and a reference PIA. Use on first run, when CLAUDE.md is missing or has placeholders, or when the user says "set up the privacy plugin", "onboard me", "configure privacy", or wants to re-run the interview or re-check integrations.

9k 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: 11 329 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 79 404 files found on GitHub, 61 763 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: 7 882 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.