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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. 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

10 081–10 140 of 68 678

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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.

1.1k 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.

2.3k 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.

2.1k 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".

3.4k 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.

1.4k 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.

2.2k tokens
Azure AI Voicelive Java
by microsoft
vendor

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

2k 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.

3.5k 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.

2.3k 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.

716 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.

2.4k 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.

2.4k 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.

2.2k 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.

3k tokens
Azure Cosmos Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Java. NoSQL database operations with global distribution, multi-model support, and reactive patterns.

1.9k tokens
Azure Data Tables Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build table storage applications with Azure Tables SDK for Java. Use when working with Azure Table Storage or Cosmos DB Table API for NoSQL key-value data, schemaless storage, or structured data at scale.

2.5k tokens
Azure Eventgrid Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid SDK for Java. Use when publishing events, implementing pub/sub patterns, or integrating with Azure services via events.

2.3k tokens
Azure Eventhub Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build real-time streaming applications with Azure Event Hubs SDK for Java. Use when implementing event streaming, high-throughput data ingestion, or building event-driven architectures.

2.8k tokens
Azure Identity Java
by microsoft
vendor

Azure Identity library for Java authentication with Azure services. Use when implementing DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, service principal, or any Azure authentication pattern in Java applications.

2.7k tokens
Azure Messaging Webpubsub Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build real-time web applications with Azure Web PubSub SDK for Java. Use when implementing WebSocket-based messaging, live updates, chat applications, or server-to-client push notifications.

2.4k tokens
Azure Monitor Ingestion Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor Ingestion SDK for Java. Send custom logs to Azure Monitor via Data Collection Rules (DCR) and Data Collection Endpoints (DCE).

2k tokens
Azure Monitor Opentelemetry Exporter Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter for Java. Export OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs to Azure Monitor/Application Insights.

2.2k tokens
Azure Monitor Query Java
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor Query SDK for Java. Execute Kusto queries against Log Analytics workspaces and query metrics from Azure resources.

3.5k tokens
Azure Security Keyvault Keys Java
by microsoft
vendor

Azure Key Vault Keys Java SDK for cryptographic key management. Use when creating, managing, or using RSA/EC keys, performing encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify operations, or working with HSM-backed keys.

2.9k tokens
Azure Security Keyvault Secrets Java
by microsoft
vendor

Azure Key Vault Secrets Java SDK for secret management. Use when storing, retrieving, or managing passwords, API keys, connection strings, or other sensitive configuration data.

3.1k tokens
Azure Storage Blob Java
by microsoft
vendor

Build blob storage applications with Azure Storage Blob SDK for Java. Use when uploading, downloading, or managing files in Azure Blob Storage, working with containers, or implementing streaming data operations.

2.7k tokens
Agent Framework Azure AI Py
by microsoft
vendor

Build Azure AI Foundry agents using the Microsoft Agent Framework Python SDK (agent-framework-azure-ai). Use when creating persistent agents with AzureAIAgentsProvider, using hosted tools (code interpreter, file search, web search), integrating MCP servers, managing conversation threads, or implementing streaming responses. Covers function tools, structured outputs, and multi-tool agents.

3.1k tokens
Azure AI Contentsafety Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Python. Use for detecting harmful content in text and images with multi-severity classification.

2.2k tokens
Azure AI Contentunderstanding Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python. Use for multimodal content extraction from documents, images, audio, and video.

2.6k tokens
Azure AI Language Conversations Py
by microsoft
vendor

Implement Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) using the azure-ai-language-conversations Python SDK. Use when working with ConversationAnalysisClient to analyze conversation intent and entities, building NLP features, or integrating language understanding into applications.

1.4k tokens
Azure AI Ml Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python. Use for ML workspaces, jobs, models, datasets, compute, and pipelines.

2.2k tokens
Azure AI Projects Py
by microsoft
vendor

Build AI applications using the Azure AI Projects Python SDK (azure-ai-projects). Use when working with Foundry project clients, creating versioned agents with PromptAgentDefinition, running evaluations, managing connections/deployments/datasets/indexes, or using OpenAI-compatible clients. This is the high-level Foundry SDK - for low-level agent operations, use azure-ai-agents-python skill.

2.8k tokens scripts
Azure AI Textanalytics Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Text Analytics SDK for sentiment analysis, entity recognition, key phrases, language detection, PII, and healthcare NLP. Use for natural language processing on text.

2.4k tokens
Azure AI Transcription Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Transcription SDK for Python. Use for real-time and batch speech-to-text transcription with timestamps and diarization.

1k tokens
Azure AI Translation Document Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Document Translation SDK for batch translation of documents with format preservation. Use for translating Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, and other document formats at scale.

2.6k tokens
Azure AI Translation Text Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications.

2.7k tokens
Azure AI Vision Imageanalysis Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. Use for computer vision and image understanding tasks.

2.5k tokens
Azure AI Voicelive Py
by microsoft
vendor

Build real-time voice AI applications using Azure AI Voice Live SDK (azure-ai-voicelive). Use this skill when creating Python applications that need real-time bidirectional audio communication with Azure AI, including voice assistants, voice-enabled chatbots, real-time speech-to-speech translation, voice-driven avatars, or any WebSocket-based audio streaming with AI models. Supports Server VAD (Voice Activity Detection), turn-based conversation, function calling, MCP tools, avatar integration, and transcription.

2.9k tokens
Azure Appconfiguration Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure App Configuration SDK for Python. Use for centralized configuration management, feature flags, and dynamic settings.

1.9k tokens
Azure Containerregistry Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Container Registry SDK for Python. Use for managing container images, artifacts, and repositories.

2.2k tokens
Azure Cosmos DB Py
by microsoft
vendor

Build Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL services with Python/FastAPI following production-grade patterns. Use when implementing database client setup with dual auth (DefaultAzureCredential + emulator), service layer classes with CRUD operations, partition key strategies, parameterized queries, or TDD patterns for Cosmos. Triggers on phrases like "Cosmos DB", "NoSQL database", "document store", "add persistence", "database service layer", or "Python Cosmos SDK".

3k tokens scripts
Azure Cosmos Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Python (NoSQL API). Use for document CRUD, queries, containers, and globally distributed data.

2.3k tokens
Azure Data Tables Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Tables SDK for Python (Storage and Cosmos DB). Use for NoSQL key-value storage, entity CRUD, and batch operations.

2.1k tokens
Azure Eventgrid Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Event Grid SDK for Python. Use for publishing events, handling CloudEvents, and event-driven architectures.

1.8k tokens
Azure Eventhub Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Event Hubs SDK for Python streaming. Use for high-throughput event ingestion, producers, consumers, and checkpointing.

2.3k tokens scripts
Azure Identity Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Identity SDK for Python authentication with Microsoft Entra ID. Use for DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, service principals, and token caching.

4.4k tokens
Azure Keyvault Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Key Vault SDK for Python. Use for secrets, keys, and certificates management with secure storage.

2.4k tokens
Azure Messaging Webpubsubservice Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Web PubSub Service SDK for Python. Use for real-time messaging, WebSocket connections, and pub/sub patterns.

2k tokens
Azure Mgmt Apicenter Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure API Center Management SDK for Python. Use for managing API inventory, metadata, and governance across your organization.

2.3k tokens
Azure Mgmt Apimanagement Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure API Management SDK for Python. Use for managing APIM services, APIs, products, subscriptions, and policies.

2.2k tokens
Azure Mgmt Botservice Py
by microsoft
vendor

|- Azure Bot Service Management SDK for Python. Use for creating, managing, and configuring Azure Bot Service resources.

2.6k tokens
Azure Mgmt Fabric Py
by microsoft
vendor

|- Azure Fabric Management SDK for Python. Use for managing Microsoft Fabric capacities and resources.

2.2k tokens
Azure Monitor Ingestion Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor Ingestion SDK for Python. Use for sending custom logs to Log Analytics workspace via Logs Ingestion API.

2k tokens
Azure Monitor Opentelemetry Exporter Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter for Python. Use for low-level OpenTelemetry export to Application Insights.

2.3k tokens
Azure Monitor Opentelemetry Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for Python. Use for one-line Application Insights setup with auto-instrumentation.

2k tokens
Azure Monitor Query Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Monitor Query SDK for Python. Use for querying Log Analytics workspaces and Azure Monitor metrics.

2.1k tokens
Azure Search Documents Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure AI Search SDK for Python. Use for vector search, hybrid search, semantic ranking, indexing, and skillsets.

4.4k tokens scripts
Azure Servicebus Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Service Bus SDK for Python messaging. Use for queues, topics, subscriptions, and enterprise messaging patterns.

2.6k tokens scripts
Azure Speech To Text REST Py
by microsoft
vendor

|- Azure Speech to Text REST API for short audio (Python). Use for simple speech recognition of audio files up to 60 seconds without the Speech SDK.

3k tokens
Azure Storage Blob Py
by microsoft
vendor

| Azure Blob Storage SDK for Python. Use for uploading, downloading, listing blobs, managing containers, and blob lifecycle.

2.3k 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.