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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

10 321–10 380 of 68 678

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Correct
by backnotprop

Find the mistakes agents keep repeating in this repo and make each one impossible. Try architecture first, then types, then a lint whose error names the fix, then a test, and write docs last. Prove each check fails on a real past mistake. Repeat this each time the operator corrects you. Use for /correct.

619 tokens
Create Formal Verification Skill
by backnotprop

Generate a project-local skill that formally verifies the code where a bug costs the most and tests reach the least, in any language, with whichever verification tool fits. Use for /create-formal-verification-skill, \"model-check this race\", \"prove this invariant\", or when concurrency, retries, state machines, parsers, or unsafe code need more than tests.

1.4k tokens
How
by backnotprop

Use for \"how does X work\", code walkthroughs before changing something, and placement / ownership / layering questions (\"where should this live\", \"which package owns this\", \"is this the right layer\"). Explains subsystem architecture, runtime flow, onboarding mental models. Use why for motivation.

814 tokens
Create Verification Skill
by backnotprop

Generate a project-local verification skill that drives your app the way a user does — any language, framework, or platform. Use for /create-verification-skill, \"make a control skill for this repo\", or when a project has no scripted way to prove UI/CLI/service behavior.

1.7k tokens
In Your Own Words
by backnotprop

Restate in your own words what you think the user's goals are and what problem they're trying to solve. Use for /in-your-own-words.

78 tokens
Figure It Out
by backnotprop

Design an auditable playbook when no narrower one fits: a large migration, an ambitious multi-part change, or work a human reviews after stepping away. Scales rigor to the task, runs a hypothesis loop, and logs decisions. Use for /figure-it-out or 'figure it out'.

1k tokens
Interrogate
by backnotprop

Use for \"interrogate\", \"adversarial review\", \"multi-model review\", \"challenge this\", \"stress test this code\", \"find blind spots\", or \"tear this apart\". Multiple LLM reviewers challenge changes from independent angles.

1.3k tokens
Ketchup Video
by backnotprop

Catch the user up like /ketchup, with a short silent video of slides for what happened and the waiting calls as text under it. Use for /ketchup-video.

720 tokens
Make Bot UI
by backnotprop

>- Use when building a custom UI (page, dashboard, buttons) that should wake a Grok Bot over a webhook, when the user must provide a webhook sender key, or when exposing that UI on Tailscale.

1.2k tokens
Poteto Mode
by backnotprop

poteto's agent style for concise, detailed responses, deliberate subagents, unslopped prose, simple code, and verified work. Use for poteto, /poteto-mode, or requests to work in this style.

5.9k tokens scripts
No Comments
by backnotprop

Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.

847 tokens
Maintain Formal Verification Skill
by backnotprop

Bring a project's formal verification back in line with the code after the code changes: find the commits that touched verified code, update the model, harness, or properties to describe the code as it is now, rerun, and say whether each failure is drift in the verification or a bug in the code. Use for /maintain-formal-verification-skill, \"is the model still true to the code\", or after merges and refactors that touched verified code without rechecking it.

1.8k tokens
Ketchup
by backnotprop

Catch the user up on what changed in this chat since their last message, in plain words and small visuals. List every item waiting on them with what they need to decide it from the reply alone. Use for /ketchup.

1.6k tokens
Poteto Help
by backnotprop

Guides users through pstack setup, /poteto-mode, and picking the skill, playbook, or principle for a task. Type /poteto-help with a question.

4k tokens
Maintain Verification Skill
by backnotprop

Periodic pass that keeps a project's verification skill and feature map honest: parallel source readers per feature, one live session driving every feature, at most one PR of proven corrections. Use for /maintain-verification-skill or \"audit the verify skill\".

1.3k tokens
Principle Attack The Premise
by backnotprop

Apply when two or more fixes that share one premise have failed the same gate. Write the premise down and test it directly before you write another fix that assumes it.

479 tokens
Principle Build The Lever
by backnotprop

Apply to any non-trivial work, not just bulk work: edits, migrations, analyses, checks. Build the tool that does it or proves it (codemod, script, generator, or a skill your subagents follow) instead of working by hand. The tool is the artifact a reviewer can rerun.

596 tokens
Principle Encode Lessons In Structure
by backnotprop

Apply when you catch yourself writing the same instruction a second time, or notice a recurring correction. Encode the rule as a lint, metadata flag, runtime check, or script instead of more text.

139 tokens
Principle Explain The Number
by backnotprop

Apply before you trust, report, or act on a number you measured: a speedup, a regression, a throughput, a latency, or an eval result. Find what limits it, and rule out that it measured something other than the work you think.

415 tokens
Principle Exhaust The Design Space
by backnotprop

Apply when facing a novel UI interaction or architectural decision with no precedent in the codebase. Build 2-3 competing prototypes and compare side by side before committing.

98 tokens
Principle Fix Root Causes
by backnotprop

Apply when debugging. Trace each symptom back to the first place the system went wrong and fix it there. A guard is a fix only when the state it handles is legitimate.

455 tokens
Principle Guard The Context Window
by backnotprop

Apply when context is filling up: large outputs, long files, repeated reads, fan-out planning. Route bulk to subagents; keep summaries in the main thread, not raw payloads.

129 tokens
Principle Laziness Protocol
by backnotprop

Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. Bias toward deletion and the smallest change that solves the problem.

138 tokens
Principle Model The Domain
by backnotprop

Apply when writing stateful logic, or when code branches a lot or repeats a shape assumption across files.

464 tokens
Principle Migrate Callers Then Delete Legacy Apis
by backnotprop

Apply when introducing a new internal API while old callers still exist. Migrate callers and delete the old API in the same wave instead of preserving compatibility layers.

159 tokens
Principle Minimize Reader Load
by backnotprop

Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope.

499 tokens
Principle Make Operations Idempotent
by backnotprop

Apply when designing commands, lifecycle steps, or processing loops that run amid crashes, restarts, and retries. Converge to the same end state regardless of partial prior runs.

452 tokens
Principle Never Block On The Human
by backnotprop

Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.

227 tokens
Principle Redesign From First Principles
by backnotprop

Apply when integrating a new requirement into an existing design.

189 tokens
Principle Sequence Verifiable Units
by backnotprop

Apply to multi-step work (sweeps, migrations, runs of similar edits) and to how you stack commits and PRs. Break work into small units that each end in a verifiable state, check each before the next, and order delivery so the sequence proves itself to a reviewer.

426 tokens
Principle Subtract Before You Add
by backnotprop

Apply when sequencing an addition, refactor, or rewrite. Remove dead code, redundant validators, and stub references first, then build on the simpler base.

227 tokens
Principle Type System Discipline
by backnotprop

Apply when designing types, reviewing a function signature, or writing code in any statically-typed language. Make illegal states unrepresentable, brand semantic primitives, parse external data at boundaries, exhaust variants, derive from authoritative schemas.

389 tokens
Principle Test Behavior Not Implementation
by backnotprop

Apply when you write, change, or keep a test. Assert what the code's users can observe, so that the test fails when that behavior breaks and keeps passing when only the internals change.

653 tokens
Recall
by backnotprop

Reconstruct your recent working context from your own chat history, live state, and the shared record (user reports, prior fixes, incidents), then hand back a tight current-state brief. Use for 'recall my work on X', 'catch me up', 'what have I been working on', 'where did I leave off', before starting or resuming work.

1.6k tokens
Setup Pstack
by backnotprop

Configure which models pstack uses per role and at what reasoning budget. Detects your available models and writes an always-applied rule that overrides the skill defaults. Use for /setup-pstack, "configure pstack models", "pstack budget", or changing pstack's model choices.

1.8k tokens
Sharpen
by backnotprop

Make a task deeper, not bigger, then rewrite the prompt. Use for /sharpen.

165 tokens
Reflect
by backnotprop

Spawn three parallel review subagents over the active transcript, surface learnings, and route each to a concrete edit on an existing skill. Use when the user says reflect.

1.7k tokens
Show Me Your Work
by backnotprop

Keep a reviewable decision trail for long-running or unattended work: a TSV log with one row per decision (what, why, evidence, result). Local by default; commit it when a reviewer needs the trail to trust the result. Use for /show-me-your-work, autonomous or multi-phase runs, or work a human reviews after stepping away.

1.7k tokens scripts
Statechart
by backnotprop

Draw how any system moves between states, such as a product flow, a protocol, or a service, as a Mermaid statechart from a TLA+ model. Each bug is a numbered path with blue borders to a state that breaks a rule. Use for /statechart, to show a bug as a path through states, or to turn an agreed chart into a TLA+ skeleton.

1.9k tokens scripts
Swarm
by backnotprop

Fan out N parallel workers, drain them, and return one report. Use for /swarm, 'swarm this', or parallel coverage, races, gauntlets, and exploration.

867 tokens
Teach
by backnotprop

Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it. Runs the `how` and `why` skills and weaves what they find into one clear explanation. Use for 'teach me this', 'help me really understand X', 'explain this change or subsystem to me'.

1.4k tokens
Technical Writing
by backnotprop

Layered technical-writing standard: Diátaxis structure, Google developer style sentences, STE instruction rules, Global English syntax. Use for /technical-writing or when writing or reviewing docs, RFCs, readmes, PR descriptions, or commit messages.

2.3k tokens
Typescript Best Practices
by backnotprop

TypeScript best practices. Use when reading or editing any .ts or .tsx file.

691 tokens
Unslop
by backnotprop

Cut AI tells from any writing.

1.5k tokens
Why
by backnotprop

Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds. Discovers available MCPs and queries each evidence category (source control, issue tracker, long-form docs, real-time chat, infrastructure observability, error tracking, product analytics warehouse) in parallel, then returns a cited read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for runtime behavior.

2.4k tokens
Aiq Research
by NVIDIA
vendor

| Use when asked to run deep research or AI-Q research through a reachable NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint backend.

4.1k tokens scripts
Aiq Deploy
by NVIDIA
vendor

| Use when asked to install, deploy, run, validate, troubleshoot, or stop NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint infrastructure.

3.3k tokens
Accelerated Computing Cudf
by NVIDIA
vendor

Official NVIDIA-authored guidance for NVIDIA cuDF GPU DataFrames, pandas acceleration, dask-cuDF, ETL, joins, groupby, CSV/Parquet I/O, nullable semantics, and multi-GPU DataFrame workloads.

2.4k tokens scripts
Nvidia Skill Finder
by NVIDIA
vendor

>- Use for NVIDIA-related requests where an NVIDIA skill might help, even if the user did not ask for a skill. Trigger on NVIDIA products, hardware, software, SDKs, GPUs, Jetson/JetPack/L4T/BSP/SDK Manager/driver/flashing/setup, CUDA, NIM, NeMo, Omniverse/OpenUSD/SimReady, RAPIDS/cuDF, cuPyNumeric, cuOpt, Dynamo, Holoscan, TensorRT, DeepStream, VSS, TAO, NGC/NVCF. Do not use for generic non-NVIDIA route, optimize, deploy, AI, video, data, or infrastructure tasks.

2.1k tokens
Cupynumeric Hdf5
by NVIDIA
vendor

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3k tokens scripts
Cupynumeric Install
by NVIDIA
vendor

Install and verify cuPyNumeric for Python — requirements, commands, verification. Source builds are out of scope.

2k tokens
Cupynumeric Migration Readiness
by NVIDIA
vendor

Pre-migration readiness assessor for porting NumPy to cuPyNumeric. Use BEFORE substantial porting work begins when the user asks whether code will scale on GPU, whether they should migrate to cuPyNumeric, which NumPy patterns transfer cleanly, what must be refactored before porting, or mentions pre-port assessment, scaling analysis, or refactor planning. Inspect the user's source code, look up NumPy usage, cross-reference the cuPyNumeric API support manifest, and distinguish distributed-scaling-friendly patterns from blockers such as unsupported APIs, scalar synchronization, host round-trips, Python/object-heavy control flow, shape/data-dependent branching, and in-place mutation hazards. Produce a verdict of READY, LIGHT REFACTOR, SIGNIFICANT REFACTOR, or NOT RECOMMENDED, with concrete refactor pointers.

4.6k tokens scripts
Cupynumeric Parallel Data Load
by NVIDIA
vendor

Load a sharded, on-disk dataset (sharded .npy, Parquet/Arrow, raw binary, sharded HDF5, custom layouts) into a distributed cuPyNumeric ndarray via a manual partition + leaf @task launch with CPU/OMP/GPU variants. Use when no single-call loader fits, including when per-shard row counts differ across files. Prefer cupynumeric.load or legate.io.hdf5.from_file when they apply.

4.5k tokens scripts
Data Designer
by NVIDIA
vendor

Use when the user wants to create a dataset, generate synthetic data, or build a data generation pipeline.

1.2k tokens scripts
Dicom Metadata Extract
by NVIDIA
vendor

Used for extracting selected metadata from one DICOM file and flagging standard-tag PHI presence. Not for anonymization or clinical use.

809 tokens scripts
Dicom Series To Volume
by NVIDIA
vendor

Used for converting one CT DICOM series folder to a HU NIfTI volume with affine evidence. Not for multi-frame DICOM or clinical use.

898 tokens scripts
Dicom Series Preflight
by NVIDIA
vendor

Used for header-only preflight of one DICOM series folder before conversion or inference. Not for de-identification or clinical clearance.

835 tokens scripts
Digital Health Clinical Asr Build
by NVIDIA
vendor

Stage 2 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when curating clinical terms, tagging IPA, and synthesizing a NeMo manifest. NOT for scoring (use /digital-health-clinical-asr-eval).

5k tokens
Digital Health Clinical Asr Finetune
by NVIDIA
vendor

Stage 4 of the Clinical ASR Flywheel. Use when priority KER is above 0.3 to run stock NeMo SFT on Parakeet TDT v2 and offline cycle N+1 re-eval. NOT for generic word boosting (use /finetune-asr).

5k tokens
Digital Health Clinical Asr Eval
by NVIDIA
vendor

Stage 3 of Clinical ASR Flywheel. Score a NeMo manifest, produce the five-section KER leaderboard (by-ipa_source diagnostic). Not for ASR auth (/riva-asr).

4.7k 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.