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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

9 661–9 720 of 61 763

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Squad Help
by microsoft
vendor

How to actually use Squad — Squad is a custom Copilot agent (invoked via the task tool with agent_type='Squad'), not a skill. This file explains the right invocation paths for setting up a team, listing squad commands, and initializing Squad in a new project.

1k tokens
Squad Version Check
by microsoft
vendor

Internals of how @bradygaster/squad-cli stamps its version, how `squad upgrade` works (what it preserves vs overwrites), and how to probe the npm registry for the latest version from a coordinator prompt.

2k tokens
Squad
by microsoft
vendor

>- Squad's command catalog and interactive menu. Invoke via /squad (slash command) or natural language ("squad commands", "what can squad do", "show me squad options"). Presents categorized operations (Install & Upgrade, Team Management, Issues & PRs, Plugins & Skills, Model & Cost, Sessions & State) as an interactive picker. Routes to the right squad CLI command or the Squad coordinator agent.

3k tokens
Tiered Memory
by microsoft
vendor

Three-tier agent memory model (hot/cold/wiki) for context reduction per spawn

2k tokens
Opensrc
by vercel-labs
vendor

Fetch dependency source code to give AI agents deeper implementation context. Use when the agent needs to understand how a library works internally, read source code for a package, fetch implementation details for a dependency, or explore how an npm/PyPI/crates.io package is built. Triggers include "fetch source for", "read the source of", "how does X work internally", "get the implementation of", "opensrc path", or any task requiring access to dependency source code beyond types and docs.

719 tokens
Ctf AI Ml
by ljagiello

Provides AI and machine learning techniques for CTF challenges. Use when attacking ML models, crafting adversarial examples, performing model extraction, prompt injection, membership inference, training data poisoning, fine-tuning manipulation, neural network analysis, LoRA adapter exploitation, LLM jailbreaking, or solving AI-related puzzles.

18k tokens
Ctf Crypto
by ljagiello

Provides cryptography attack techniques for CTF challenges. Use when attacking encryption, hashing, signatures, ZKP, PRNG, or mathematical crypto problems involving RSA, AES, ECC, lattices, LWE, CVP, number theory, Coppersmith, Pollard, Wiener, padding oracle, GCM, key derivation, or stream/block cipher weaknesses.

99k tokens
Ctf Forensics
by ljagiello

Provides digital forensics and signal analysis techniques for CTF challenges. Use when analyzing disk images, memory dumps, event logs, network captures, cryptocurrency transactions, steganography, PDF analysis, Windows registry, Volatility, PCAP, Docker images, coredumps, side-channel power traces, DTMF audio spectrograms, packet timing analysis, CD audio disc images, or recovering deleted files and credentials.

87k tokens
Ctf Malware
by ljagiello

Provides malware analysis and network traffic techniques for CTF challenges. Use when analyzing obfuscated scripts, malicious packages, custom crypto protocols, C2 traffic, PE/.NET binaries, RC4/AES encrypted communications, YARA rules, shellcode analysis, memory forensics for malware (Volatility malfind, process injection detection), anti-analysis techniques (VM/sandbox detection, timing evasion, API hashing, process injection, environment checks), or extracting malware configurations and indicators of compromise.

9k tokens
Ctf Misc
by ljagiello

Provides miscellaneous CTF challenge techniques for problems that do not cleanly fit the main categories. Use for encoding puzzles, pyjails, bash jails, RF/SDR, DNS oddities, unicode tricks, esoteric languages, QR or audio puzzles, constraint solving, game theory, unusual sandbox escapes, and hybrid logic puzzles. Prefer a more specific skill first when the challenge is mainly web, pwn, reverse, forensics, malware, OSINT, or crypto. Treat this as the fallback skill for genuine cross-category or edge-case challenges, not the default starting point.

56k tokens
Ctf Osint
by ljagiello

Provides open source intelligence techniques for CTF challenges. Use when gathering information from public sources, social media, geolocation, DNS records, username enumeration, reverse image search, Google dorking, Wayback Machine, Tor relays, FEC filings, or identifying unknown data like hashes and coordinates.

15k tokens
Ctf Pwn
by ljagiello

Provides binary exploitation techniques for CTF challenges. Use when you already have a vulnerable native target or service and need to turn memory corruption or low-level primitives into code execution or privilege escalation, such as buffer overflows, format strings, heap bugs, ROP, ret2libc, shellcode, kernel exploitation, seccomp bypass, sandbox escape, or Windows/Linux exploit chains. Do not use it when the main blocker is understanding what the binary does; use reverse engineering first. Do not use it for pure web bugs, disk or packet forensics, or standalone crypto/math challenges.

114k tokens
Ctf Reverse
by ljagiello

Provides reverse engineering techniques for CTF challenges. Use when the main job is to understand how a compiled, obfuscated, packed, or virtualized target works before exploiting or solving it, including binaries, APKs, WASM, firmware, custom VMs, bytecode, game clients, malware-like loaders, and anti-debug or anti-analysis logic. Do not use it when the vulnerability is already understood and the remaining task is exploitation; use pwn instead. Do not use it for pure web workflows, log or disk forensics, or standalone crypto problems unless reversing the implementation is the real blocker.

100k tokens
Ctf Web
by ljagiello

Provides web exploitation techniques for CTF challenges. Use when the target is primarily an HTTP application, API, browser client, template engine, identity flow, or smart-contract frontend/backend surface, including XSS, SQLi, SSTI, SSRF, XXE, JWT, auth bypass, file upload, request smuggling, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, prototype pollution, and similar web bugs. Do not use it for native binary memory corruption, reverse engineering of standalone executables, disk or memory forensics, or pure cryptanalysis unless the web flaw is still the main path to the flag.

112k tokens
Ctf Writeup
by ljagiello

Generates a single standardized submission-style CTF writeup for competition handoff and organizer review. Use after solving a CTF challenge to document the solution steps, tools used, and lessons learned in a structured format.

1k tokens
Solve Challenge
by ljagiello

Solves CTF challenges by performing first-pass triage, identifying the dominant category, and routing execution to the right specialized ctf-* skill. Use when the user gives you a challenge bundle, a remote service, a suspicious file, or only a vague challenge description and you must determine where to start. Do not use it when the category is already clear and a specialized skill can be invoked directly; this is the dispatcher and recon entrypoint, not the deepest reference for category-specific techniques.

2k tokens
Dependency Review Plan
by google
vendor
612 tokens
Azure AI Agents Persistent Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure AI Document Intelligence Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure AI Openai Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure AI Projects Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure AI Voicelive Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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2k tokens
Azure Eventgrid Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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4k tokens
Azure Eventhub Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Identity Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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2k tokens
Azure Maps Search Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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4k tokens
Azure Mgmt Apicenter Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Mgmt Apimanagement Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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6k tokens
Azure Mgmt Applicationinsights Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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5k tokens
Azure Mgmt Arizeaiobservabilityeval Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

Azure Resource Manager SDK for Arize AI Observability and Evaluation (.NET). Use when managing Arize AI organizations \non Azure via Azure Marketplace, creating/updating/deleting Arize resources, or integrating Arize ML observability \ninto .NET applications. Triggers: \"Arize AI\", \"ML observability\", \"ArizeAIObservabilityEval\", \"Arize organization\".\n

2k tokens
Azure Mgmt Botservice Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Mgmt Fabric Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Mgmt Mongodbatlas Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

Manage MongoDB Atlas Organizations as Azure ARM resources using Azure.ResourceManager.MongoDBAtlas SDK. Use when creating, updating, listing, or deleting MongoDB Atlas organizations through Azure Marketplace integration. This SDK manages the Azure-side organization resource, not Atlas clusters/databases directly.

3k tokens
Azure Mgmt Weightsandbiases Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Resource Manager Cosmosdb Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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8k tokens
Azure Resource Manager Durabletask Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Resource Manager Mysql Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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4k tokens
Azure Resource Manager Playwright Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Resource Manager Postgresql Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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4k tokens
Azure Resource Manager Redis Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Resource Manager SQL Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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7k tokens
Azure Search Documents Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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6k tokens
Azure Security Keyvault Keys Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Azure Servicebus Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
M365 Agents Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

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3k tokens
Microsoft Azure Webjobs Extensions Authentication Events Dotnet
by microsoft
vendor

Microsoft Entra Authentication Events SDK for .NET. Azure Functions triggers for custom authentication extensions. Use for token enrichment, custom claims, attribute collection, and OTP customization in Entra ID. Triggers: "Authentication Events", "WebJobsAuthenticationEventsTrigger", "OnTokenIssuanceStart", "OnAttributeCollectionStart", "custom claims", "token enrichment", "Entra custom extension", "authentication extension".

4k tokens
Azure AI Agents Persistent Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Agents Persistent SDK for Java. Low-level SDK for creating and managing AI agents with threads, messages, runs, and tools.

7k tokens
Azure AI Anomalydetector Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build anomaly detection applications with Azure AI Anomaly Detector SDK for Java. Use when implementing univariate/multivariate anomaly detection, time-series analysis, or AI-powered monitoring.

8k tokens
Azure AI Contentsafety Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build content moderation applications with Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Java. Use when implementing text/image analysis, blocklist management, or harm detection for hate, violence, sexual content, and self-harm.

6k tokens
Azure AI Formrecognizer Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Use for extracting text, tables, key-value pairs from documents, receipts, invoices, IDs, or building custom document models. "analyze invoice receipt java", "custom document model java", "document classification java".

9k tokens
Azure AI Projects Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Projects SDK for Java. High-level SDK for Azure AI Foundry project management including connections, datasets, indexes, and evaluations.

4k tokens
Azure AI Vision Imageanalysis Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build image analysis applications with Azure AI Vision SDK for Java. Use when implementing image captioning, OCR text extraction, object detection, tagging, or smart cropping.

8k tokens
Azure AI Voicelive Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI VoiceLive SDK for Java. Real-time bidirectional voice conversations with AI assistants using WebSocket.

8k tokens
Azure Appconfiguration Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure App Configuration SDK for Java. Centralized application configuration management with key-value settings, feature flags, and snapshots.

10k tokens
Azure Communication Callautomation Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build call automation workflows with Azure Communication Services Call Automation Java SDK. Use when implementing IVR systems, call routing, call recording, DTMF recognition, text-to-speech, or AI-powered call flows.

6k tokens
Azure Communication Callingserver Java
by microsoft
vendor

Azure Communication Services CallingServer (legacy) Java SDK. Note - This SDK is deprecated. Use azure-communication-callautomation instead for new projects. Only use this skill when maintaining legacy code.

1k tokens
Azure Communication Chat Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build real-time chat applications with Azure Communication Services Chat Java SDK. Use when implementing chat threads, messaging, participants, read receipts, typing notifications, or real-time chat features.

5k tokens
Azure Communication Common Java
by microsoft
vendor

Azure Communication Services common utilities for Java. Use when working with CommunicationTokenCredential, user identifiers, token refresh, or shared authentication across ACS services.

6k tokens
Azure Communication Sms Java
by microsoft
vendor

Send SMS messages with Azure Communication Services SMS Java SDK. Use when implementing SMS notifications, alerts, OTP delivery, bulk messaging, or delivery reports.

6k tokens
Azure Compute Batch Java
by microsoft
vendor

|- Azure Batch SDK for Java. Run large-scale parallel and HPC batch jobs with pools, jobs, tasks, and compute nodes.

10k 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.