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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. 79 600 files from 1 763 authors, of which 61 947 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.

61 947
unique skills
out of 79 600 files found on GitHub
17 653
are copies
same content, someone else's repository
1 739
tokens, median
what a typical skill costs you in context
7 890
name collisions
two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

20 581–20 640 of 61 947

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Assembling Components
by ancoleman

Assembles component outputs from AI Design Components skills into unified, production-ready component systems with validated token integration, proper import chains, and framework-specific scaffolding. Use as the capstone skill after running theming, layout, dashboard, data-viz, or feedback skills to wire components into working React/Next.js, Python, or Rust projects.

42k tokens scripts
Architecting Security
by ancoleman

Design comprehensive security architectures using defense-in-depth, zero trust principles, threat modeling (STRIDE, PASTA), and control frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001). Use when designing security for new systems, auditing existing architectures, or establishing security governance programs.

95k tokens scripts
Administering Linux
by ancoleman

Manage Linux systems covering systemd services, process management, filesystems, networking, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Use when deploying applications, optimizing server performance, diagnosing production issues, or managing users and security on Linux servers.

30k tokens scripts
Architecting Data
by ancoleman

Strategic guidance for designing modern data platforms, covering storage paradigms (data lake, warehouse, lakehouse), modeling approaches (dimensional, normalized, data vault, wide tables), data mesh principles, and medallion architecture patterns. Use when architecting data platforms, choosing between centralized vs decentralized patterns, selecting table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake), or designing data governance frameworks.

26k tokens
Building Clis
by ancoleman

Build professional command-line interfaces in Python, Go, and Rust using modern frameworks like Typer, Cobra, and clap. Use when creating developer tools, automation scripts, or infrastructure management CLIs with robust argument parsing, interactive features, and multi-platform distribution.

28k tokens scripts
Debugging Techniques
by ancoleman

Debugging workflows for Python (pdb, debugpy), Go (delve), Rust (lldb), and Node.js, including container debugging (kubectl debug, ephemeral containers) and production-safe debugging techniques with distributed tracing and correlation IDs. Use when setting breakpoints, debugging containers/pods, remote debugging, or production debugging.

25k tokens
Configuring Firewalls
by ancoleman

Configure host-based firewalls (iptables, nftables, UFW) and cloud security groups (AWS, GCP, Azure) with practical rules for common scenarios like web servers, databases, and bastion hosts. Use when exposing services, hardening servers, or implementing network segmentation with defense-in-depth strategies.

51k tokens scripts
Creating Dashboards
by ancoleman

Creates comprehensive dashboard and analytics interfaces that combine data visualization, KPI cards, real-time updates, and interactive layouts. Use this skill when building business intelligence dashboards, monitoring systems, executive reports, or any interface that requires multiple coordinated data displays with filters, metrics, and visualizations working together.

68k tokens scripts
Building Tables
by ancoleman

Builds tables and data grids for displaying tabular information, from simple HTML tables to complex enterprise data grids. Use when creating tables, implementing sorting/filtering/pagination, handling large datasets (10-1M+ rows), building spreadsheet-like interfaces, or designing data-heavy components. Provides performance optimization strategies, accessibility patterns (WCAG/ARIA), responsive designs, and library recommendations (TanStack Table, AG Grid).

70k tokens scripts
Configuring Nginx
by ancoleman

Configure nginx for static sites, reverse proxying, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, caching, and performance tuning. When setting up web servers, application proxies, or load balancers, this skill provides production-ready patterns with modern security best practices for TLS 1.3, rate limiting, and security headers.

24k tokens
Building Forms
by ancoleman

Builds form components and data collection interfaces including contact forms, registration flows, checkout processes, surveys, and settings pages. Includes 50+ input types, validation strategies, accessibility patterns (WCAG 2.1), multi-step wizards, and UX best practices. Provides decision trees from data type to component selection, validation timing guidance, and error handling patterns. Use when creating forms, collecting user input, building surveys, implementing validation, designing multi-step workflows, or ensuring form accessibility.

122k tokens scripts
Deploying Applications
by ancoleman

Deployment patterns from Kubernetes to serverless and edge functions. Use when deploying applications, setting up CI/CD, or managing infrastructure. Covers Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD), serverless (Vercel, Lambda), edge (Cloudflare Workers, Deno), IaC (Pulumi, OpenTofu, SST), and GitOps patterns.

45k tokens scripts
Deploying On AWS
by ancoleman

Selecting and implementing AWS services and architectural patterns. Use when designing AWS cloud architectures, choosing compute/storage/database services, implementing serverless or container patterns, or applying AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.

40k tokens
Designing Apis
by ancoleman

Design APIs that are secure, scalable, and maintainable using RESTful, GraphQL, and event-driven patterns. Use when designing new APIs, evolving existing APIs, or establishing API standards for teams.

25k tokens scripts
Deploying On Azure
by ancoleman

Design and implement Azure cloud architectures using best practices for compute, storage, databases, AI services, networking, and governance. Use when building applications on Microsoft Azure or migrating workloads to Azure cloud platform.

32k tokens scripts
Designing Distributed Systems
by ancoleman

When designing distributed systems for scalability, reliability, and consistency. Covers CAP/PACELC theorems, consistency models (strong, eventual, causal), replication patterns (leader-follower, multi-leader, leaderless), partitioning strategies (hash, range, geographic), transaction patterns (saga, event sourcing, CQRS), resilience patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead), service discovery, and caching strategies for building fault-tolerant distributed architectures.

46k tokens scripts
Deploying On GCP
by ancoleman

Implement applications using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. Use when building on GCP infrastructure, selecting compute/storage/database services, designing data analytics pipelines, implementing ML workflows, or architecting cloud-native applications with BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI, and other GCP services.

36k tokens scripts
Displaying Timelines
by ancoleman

Displays chronological events and activity through timelines, activity feeds, Gantt charts, and calendar interfaces. Use when showing historical events, project schedules, social feeds, notifications, audit logs, or time-based data. Provides implementation patterns for vertical/horizontal timelines, interactive visualizations, real-time updates, and responsive designs with accessibility (WCAG/ARIA).

12k tokens scripts
Designing Sdks
by ancoleman

Design production-ready SDKs with retry logic, error handling, pagination, and multi-language support. Use when building client libraries for APIs or creating developer-facing SDK interfaces.

28k tokens scripts
Designing Layouts
by ancoleman

Designs layout systems and responsive interfaces including grid systems, flexbox patterns, sidebar layouts, and responsive breakpoints. Use when structuring app layouts, building responsive designs, or creating complex page structures.

45k tokens scripts
Embedding Optimization
by ancoleman

Optimizing vector embeddings for RAG systems through model selection, chunking strategies, caching, and performance tuning. Use when building semantic search, RAG pipelines, or document retrieval systems that require cost-effective, high-quality embeddings.

35k tokens scripts
Generating Documentation
by ancoleman

Generate comprehensive technical documentation including API docs (OpenAPI/Swagger), code documentation (TypeDoc/Sphinx), documentation sites (Docusaurus/MkDocs), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), and diagrams (Mermaid/PlantUML). Use when documenting APIs, libraries, systems architecture, or building developer-facing documentation sites.

28k tokens scripts
Evaluating Llms
by ancoleman

Evaluate LLM systems using automated metrics, LLM-as-judge, and benchmarks. Use when testing prompt quality, validating RAG pipelines, measuring safety (hallucinations, bias), or comparing models for production deployment.

67k tokens scripts
Implementing API Patterns
by ancoleman

API design and implementation across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC patterns. Use when building backend services, public APIs, or service-to-service communication. Covers REST frameworks (FastAPI, Axum, Gin, Hono), GraphQL libraries (Strawberry, async-graphql, gqlgen, Pothos), gRPC (Tonic, Connect-Go), tRPC for TypeScript, pagination strategies (cursor-based, offset-based), rate limiting, caching, versioning, and OpenAPI documentation generation. Includes frontend integration patterns for forms, tables, dashboards, and ai-chat skills.

50k tokens scripts
Guiding Users
by ancoleman

Implements onboarding and help systems including product tours, interactive tutorials, tooltips, checklists, help panels, and progressive disclosure patterns. Use when building first-time experiences, feature discovery, guided walkthroughs, contextual help, setup flows, or user activation features. Provides timing strategies, accessibility patterns (keyboard, screen readers, reduced motion), and metrics for measuring onboarding success.

13k tokens scripts
Implementing Compliance
by ancoleman

Implement and maintain compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR using unified control mapping, policy-as-code enforcement, and automated evidence collection. Use when building systems requiring regulatory compliance, implementing security controls across multiple frameworks, or automating audit preparation.

33k tokens scripts
Implementing Drag Drop
by ancoleman

Implements drag-and-drop and sortable interfaces with React/TypeScript including kanban boards, sortable lists, file uploads, and reorderable grids. Use when building interactive UIs requiring direct manipulation, spatial organization, or touch-friendly reordering.

60k tokens scripts
Implementing Gitops
by ancoleman

Implement GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes using ArgoCD or Flux. Use for automated deployments with Git as single source of truth, pull-based delivery, drift detection, multi-cluster management, and progressive rollouts.

26k tokens scripts
Implementing Mlops
by ancoleman

Strategic guidance for operationalizing machine learning models from experimentation to production. Covers experiment tracking (MLflow, Weights & Biases), model registry and versioning, feature stores (Feast, Tecton), model serving patterns (Seldon, KServe, BentoML), ML pipeline orchestration (Kubeflow, Airflow), and model monitoring (drift detection, observability). Use when designing ML infrastructure, selecting MLOps platforms, implementing continuous training pipelines, or establishing model governance.

91k tokens scripts
Implementing Navigation
by ancoleman

Implements navigation patterns and routing for both frontend (React/TS) and backend (Python) including menus, tabs, breadcrumbs, client-side routing, and server-side route configuration. Use when building navigation systems or setting up routing.

74k tokens scripts
Implementing Observability
by ancoleman

Monitoring, logging, and tracing implementation using OpenTelemetry as the unified standard. Use when building production systems requiring visibility into performance, errors, and behavior. Covers OpenTelemetry (metrics, logs, traces), Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Tempo, structured logging (structlog, tracing, slog, pino), and alerting.

50k tokens scripts
Implementing Search Filter
by ancoleman

Implements search and filter interfaces for both frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Python) with debouncing, query management, and database integration. Use when adding search functionality, building filter UIs, implementing faceted search, or optimizing search performance.

76k tokens scripts
Implementing Realtime Sync
by ancoleman

Real-time communication patterns for live updates, collaboration, and presence. Use when building chat applications, collaborative tools, live dashboards, or streaming interfaces (LLM responses, metrics). Covers SSE (server-sent events for one-way streams), WebSocket (bidirectional communication), WebRTC (peer-to-peer video/audio), CRDTs (Yjs, Automerge for conflict-free collaboration), presence patterns, offline sync, and scaling strategies. Supports Python, Rust, Go, and TypeScript.

31k tokens scripts
Implementing Tls
by ancoleman

Configure TLS certificates and encryption for secure communications. Use when setting up HTTPS, securing service-to-service connections, implementing mutual TLS (mTLS), or debugging certificate issues.

28k tokens scripts
Ingesting Data
by ancoleman

Data ingestion patterns for loading data from cloud storage, APIs, files, and streaming sources into databases. Use when importing CSV/JSON/Parquet files, pulling from S3/GCS buckets, consuming API feeds, or building ETL pipelines.

16k tokens scripts
Implementing Service Mesh
by ancoleman

Implement production-ready service mesh deployments with Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium. Configure mTLS, authorization policies, traffic routing, and progressive delivery patterns for secure, observable microservices. Use when setting up service-to-service communication, implementing zero-trust security, or enabling canary deployments.

38k tokens
Load Balancing Patterns
by ancoleman

When distributing traffic across multiple servers or regions, use this skill to select and configure the appropriate load balancing solution (L4/L7, cloud-managed, self-managed, or Kubernetes ingress) with proper health checks and session management.

40k tokens
Managing Configuration
by ancoleman

Guide users through creating, managing, and testing server configuration automation using Ansible. When automating server configurations, deploying applications with Ansible playbooks, managing dynamic inventories for cloud environments, or testing roles with Molecule, this skill provides idempotency patterns, secrets management with ansible-vault and HashiCorp Vault, and GitOps workflows for configuration as code.

36k tokens
Managing Incidents
by ancoleman

Guide incident response from detection to post-mortem using SRE principles, severity classification, on-call management, blameless culture, and communication protocols. Use when setting up incident processes, designing escalation policies, or conducting post-mortems.

62k tokens scripts
Managing Git Workflows
by ancoleman

Manage Git branching strategies, commit conventions, and collaboration workflows. Use when choosing between trunk-based development, GitHub Flow, or GitFlow, implementing conventional commits for automated versioning, setting up Git hooks for quality gates, or organizing monorepos with clear ownership.

30k tokens scripts
Managing Vulnerabilities
by ancoleman

Implementing multi-layer security scanning (container, SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets), SBOM generation, and risk-based vulnerability prioritization in CI/CD pipelines. Use when building DevSecOps workflows, ensuring compliance, or establishing security gates for container deployments.

32k tokens scripts
Managing Media
by ancoleman

Implements media and file management components including file upload (drag-drop, multi-file, resumable), image galleries (lightbox, carousel, masonry), video players (custom controls, captions, adaptive streaming), audio players (waveform, playlists), document viewers (PDF, Office), and optimization strategies (compression, responsive images, lazy loading, CDN). Use when handling files, displaying media, or building rich content experiences.

32k tokens scripts
Model Serving
by ancoleman

LLM and ML model deployment for inference. Use when serving models in production, building AI APIs, or optimizing inference. Covers vLLM (LLM serving), TensorRT-LLM (GPU optimization), Ollama (local), BentoML (ML deployment), Triton (multi-model), LangChain (orchestration), LlamaIndex (RAG), and streaming patterns.

37k tokens scripts
Managing DNS
by ancoleman

Manage DNS records, TTL strategies, and DNS-as-code automation for infrastructure. Use when configuring domain resolution, automating DNS from Kubernetes with external-dns, setting up DNS-based load balancing, or troubleshooting propagation issues across cloud providers (Route53, Cloud DNS, Azure DNS, Cloudflare).

33k tokens scripts
Operating Kubernetes
by ancoleman

Operating production Kubernetes clusters effectively with resource management, advanced scheduling, networking, storage, security hardening, and autoscaling. Use when deploying workloads to Kubernetes, configuring cluster resources, implementing security policies, or troubleshooting operational issues.

40k tokens scripts
Optimizing Costs
by ancoleman

Optimize cloud infrastructure costs through FinOps practices, commitment discounts, right-sizing, and automated cost management. Use when reducing cloud spend, implementing budget controls, or establishing cost visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.

37k tokens scripts
Performance Engineering
by ancoleman

When validating system performance under load, identifying bottlenecks through profiling, or optimizing application responsiveness. Covers load testing (k6, Locust), profiling (CPU, memory, I/O), and optimization strategies (caching, query optimization, Core Web Vitals). Use for capacity planning, regression detection, and establishing performance SLOs.

32k tokens scripts
Optimizing SQL
by ancoleman

Optimize SQL query performance through EXPLAIN analysis, indexing strategies, and query rewriting for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server. Use when debugging slow queries, analyzing execution plans, or improving database performance.

40k tokens
Planning Disaster Recovery
by ancoleman

Design and implement disaster recovery strategies with RTO/RPO planning, database backups, Kubernetes DR, cross-region replication, and chaos engineering testing. Use when implementing backup systems, configuring point-in-time recovery, setting up multi-region failover, or validating DR procedures.

37k tokens scripts
Platform Engineering
by ancoleman

Design and implement Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with self-service capabilities, golden paths, and developer experience optimization. Covers platform strategy, IDP architecture (Backstage, Port), infrastructure orchestration (Crossplane), GitOps (Argo CD), and adoption patterns. Use when building developer platforms, improving DevEx, or establishing platform teams.

39k tokens
Providing Feedback
by ancoleman

Implements feedback and notification systems including toasts, alerts, modals, progress indicators, and error states. Use when communicating system state, displaying messages, confirming actions, or showing errors.

60k tokens scripts
Prompt Engineering
by ancoleman

Engineer effective LLM prompts using zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured output techniques. Use when building LLM applications requiring reliable outputs, implementing RAG systems, creating AI agents, or optimizing prompt quality and cost. Covers OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models with multi-language examples (Python/TypeScript).

61k tokens scripts
Resource Tagging
by ancoleman

Apply and enforce cloud resource tagging strategies across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes for cost allocation, ownership tracking, compliance, and automation. Use when implementing cloud governance, optimizing costs, or automating infrastructure management.

38k tokens scripts
Managing Secrets
by ancoleman

Managing secrets (API keys, database credentials, certificates) with Vault, cloud providers, and Kubernetes. Use when storing sensitive data, rotating credentials, syncing secrets to Kubernetes, implementing dynamic secrets, or scanning code for leaked secrets.

37k tokens scripts
Security Hardening
by ancoleman

Reduces attack surface across OS, container, cloud, network, and database layers using CIS Benchmarks and zero-trust principles. Use when hardening production infrastructure, meeting compliance requirements, or implementing defense-in-depth security.

35k tokens scripts
Shell Scripting
by ancoleman

Write robust, portable shell scripts with proper error handling, argument parsing, and testing. Use when automating system tasks, building CI/CD scripts, or creating container entrypoints.

39k tokens scripts
Securing Authentication
by ancoleman

Authentication, authorization, and API security implementation. Use when building user systems, protecting APIs, or implementing access control. Covers OAuth 2.1/OIDC, JWT patterns, sessions, Passkeys/WebAuthn, RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC, policy engines (OPA, Casbin, SpiceDB), managed auth (Clerk, Auth0), self-hosted (Keycloak, Ory), and API security best practices.

50k tokens scripts
Siem Logging
by ancoleman

Configure security information and event management (SIEM) systems for threat detection, log aggregation, and compliance. Use when implementing centralized security logging, writing detection rules, or meeting audit requirements across cloud and on-premise infrastructure.

29k tokens scripts
Testing Strategies
by ancoleman

Strategic guidance for choosing and implementing testing approaches across the test pyramid. Use when building comprehensive test suites that balance unit, integration, E2E, and contract testing for optimal speed and confidence. Covers multi-language patterns (TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust) and modern best practices including property-based testing, test data management, and CI/CD integration.

32k tokens scripts
Streaming Data
by ancoleman

Build event streaming and real-time data pipelines with Kafka, Pulsar, Redpanda, Flink, and Spark. Covers producer/consumer patterns, stream processing, event sourcing, and CDC across TypeScript, Python, Go, and Java. When building real-time systems, microservices communication, or data integration pipelines.

38k tokens scripts

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: 11 352 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 79 600 files found on GitHub, 61 947 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: 7 890 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.