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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. 80 149 files from 1 774 authors, of which 62 489 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.

62 489
unique skills
out of 80 149 files found on GitHub
17 660
are copies
same content, someone else's repository
1 741
tokens, median
what a typical skill costs you in context
7 984
name collisions
two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

27 781–27 840 of 62 489

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Zoho Invoice
by membranedev

| Zoho Invoice integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Invoice data.

2k tokens
Zoho Mail
by membranedev

| Zoho Mail integration. Manage Mailboxs, Contacts, Tags, Tasks, Notes, Calendars. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Mail data.

2k tokens
Zoho Meeting
by membranedev

| Zoho Meeting integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Meeting data.

2k tokens
Zoho People
by membranedev

| Zoho People integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho People data.

2k tokens
Zoho Projects
by membranedev

| Zoho Projects integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Projects data.

2k tokens
Zoho Recruit
by membranedev

| Zoho Recruit integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Recruit data.

2k tokens
Zoho Salesiq
by membranedev

| Zoho SalesIQ integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho SalesIQ data.

2k tokens
Zoho Sheet
by membranedev

| Zoho Sheet integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Sheet data.

2k tokens
Zoho Sign
by membranedev

| Zoho Sign integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Sign data.

2k tokens
Zoho Sprints
by membranedev

| Zoho Sprints integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Sprints data.

2k tokens
Zoho Subscriptions
by membranedev

| Zoho Subscriptions integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Subscriptions data.

2k tokens
Zoho Survey
by membranedev

| Zoho Survey integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho Survey data.

2k tokens
Zoho Workdrive
by membranedev

| Zoho WorkDrive integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoho WorkDrive data.

2k tokens
Zonka Feedback
by membranedev

| Zonka Feedback integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zonka Feedback data.

2k tokens
Zoom
by membranedev

| Zoom integration. Manage Users. Use when the user wants to interact with Zoom data.

2k tokens
Zooz
by membranedev

| ZOOZ integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with ZOOZ data.

2k tokens
Zulip
by membranedev

| Zulip integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zulip data.

2k tokens
Zuora Billing
by membranedev

| Zuora Billing integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zuora Billing data.

2k tokens
Zuplo
by membranedev

| Zuplo integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zuplo data.

2k tokens
Zype
by membranedev

| Zype integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zype data.

2k tokens
Zyte API
by membranedev

| Zyte API integration. Manage data, records, and automate workflows. Use when the user wants to interact with Zyte API data.

2k tokens
SkillAlchemy
by agentsope

| SkillAlchemy — 一念落地,万象成形。输入任意想法或蒸馏目标,输出可安装的 SKILL.md。 内部编排 Lens(看清问题)和 LEAP(执行蒸馏/融合)。用户唯一入口。 Use when 用户说「蒸馏」「生成 skill」「融合」「我想做 X 但不知道从哪下手」。

1475k tokens scripts zh
Leap
by agentsope

| LEAP — 落地执行引擎。内含两条管线:A 分支蒸馏(从 raw data 提取 skill)、 B 分支融合(多 skill 编织为一个)。被 SkillAlchemy 编排器调用。 Use when 编排器判断需要蒸馏或融合时。

35k tokens scripts zh
Lens
by agentsope

| Lens — 给你的问题加一层认知镜片。输入任意任务描述,输出增强版 description, 发现「你不知道自己不知道」的隐性维度、前置条件和认知路线。 Use when 用户说「帮我想想」「分析一下」「生成 skill」「蒸馏」「融合」 或输入看起来太简单需要展开。

2k tokens zh
Agentsop Bio Fraud Forensics
by agentsope

>- Screens biomedical / life-science papers for signs of data fabrication, image manipulation, and statistical anomalies, using the detection techniques distilled from the field's canonical exposure platforms (PubPeer, Data Colada, Science Integrity Digest, For Better Science) and tools (ImageTwin/Proofig, statcheck, GRIM/GRIMMER, Problematic Paper Screener, Seek & Blastn). Use when asked to check a paper/figure for image duplication, blot splicing, impossible statistics, paper-mill or tortured-phrase signals, research integrity, or "is this data faked"; or when a user shares a figure, Western blot, supplementary dataset, or DOI and asks whether it looks manipulated. Reports observable anomalies as questions for clarification — it never accuses anyone of fraud.

50k tokens
Agentsop Aider
by agentsope

>- SOP for terminal-based, git-native AI pair programming with Aider (git work-tree + tree-sitter repo-map + edit-format + human-in-loop REPL). Use when editing code in an existing git repo via an LLM, when you need to converge a change to 2-5 files, pick an edit format that fits the model, run architect+editor mode, or wire an auto-test loop.

17k tokens zh
Agentsop Bounded Loop
by agentsope

>- Universal discipline for any LM-driven loop — agent retries, plan-act-observe, multi-agent handoffs, optimiser passes, test-fix cycles. Encodes the one rule every framework reliable terminator. Termination must be provided by an explicit counter + exit predicate + stagnation signal + escalation path that live OUTSIDE the LM's control. This is a tool- level, framework-agnostic skill. It maps onto LangGraph (recursion_limit + state counter + interrupt), CrewAI (max_iter + max_rpm + human_input), Claude / OpenAI SDKs (max_iterations + tool_use_budget), DSPy (declared evaluation budget), Aider (REPL + loop, recursion limit, recursion_limit, GraphRecursionError, max iterations, max_iter, agent stuck, agent won't stop, runaway agent, ReAct loop not terminating, agent repeating itself.

12k tokens
Agentsop Agent Topology Selection
by agentsope

>- Cross-framework enhancement overlay for choosing a multi-agent topology BEFORE writing any agent. A binary-question rubric — is single-agent + tools enough? do agents need to know about each other? does the output need one voice? — maps the answer to single-agent / supervisor / swarm / sequential / hierarchical. Activates when a coder agent is tempted to "split the work into roles" or reaches for a multi-agent framework. Encodes the *selection use multi-agent, single vs multi agent, do I need multiple agents, supervisor vs swarm, multi-agent vs single agent, agent team design.

10k tokens
Agentsop Code Execution Decision
by agentsope

>- Decision rubric for when an LM agent should write-and-run code (Program-of-Thought / code computable (emit + execute code, feed the result back) vs judgment (stay in prose). Use when designing or debugging an agent step that does arithmetic/parsing/data transforms, when prose reasoning hallucinates a computation (under-coding), or when a sandbox round- does math wrong, calculator hallucination, when to run code vs reason, program of thought, PoT, tool vs reasoning.

9k tokens
Agentsop Conventions Pinning
by agentsope

SOP for writing, loading, and evolving a project-level convention file (CONVENTIONS.md / CLAUDE.md / .cursor/rules / .clinerules / AGENTS.md) so that a coder-agent reliably respects your codebase's style choices every session. Tool-agnostic; covers the four load mechanics (read-only attachment, ancestor-walk auto-load, glob-scoped rules, agent backstory) and the conflict resolution between pinned conventions and the existing code.

17k tokens
Agentsop Domain Eval Set
by agentsope

Build and govern a 50-200 example domain-specific held-out benchmark sampled from real traffic. Distinct from public benchmarks (MMLU/HumanEval/GSM8K via lm-evaluation-harness) which measure GENERAL capability. Only a held-out domain set predicts whether THIS system works on YOUR data. Collect real examples, label, hold out (never train/prompt on it), size 50-200, version it, refresh on drift.

10k tokens
Agentsop Context Scope Discipline
by agentsope

>- into writable context) under ~25k tokens, separate "read" from "edit", delegate breadth to a read-only repo-map, and drop files once edited. Use when an LLM coder-agent edits multiple files, when the working set must stay focused, or when the model starts editing the wrong file / missing targets because too much context dilutes attention. Search working file budget, context dilution, lost in the middle.

9k tokens zh
Agentsop Dify
by agentsope

SOP for building LLM applications on Dify — visual workflow + chatflow + agent + RAG knowledge base + plugin marketplace + observability, self-hostable. Use when shipping LLM apps fast with a "no-code to pro-code" gradient, especially when non-engineers need to co-author the flow.

20k tokens zh
Agentsop Crewai
by agentsope

SOP for building multi-agent systems with CrewAI — role-based collaboration, sequential/hierarchical processes, Flows, memory, delegation. Use when modeling agent teams with clear roles and task pipelines.

15k tokens zh
Agentsop Framework Selection
by agentsope

| RAG / LLM framework should I reach for?" Synthesizes the ecosystem sections of 7 landmark-project SOPs (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, DSPy, CrewAI, vLLM, Aider, Dify) a real project usually combines DSPy (compile) + LlamaIndex (retrieve) + LangGraph (orchestrate) + vLLM (serve), and you choose ONE per layer, not one to rule all. Use when starting any LLM/agent/RAG project, or whenever the "which framework?" question is asked. Deliberately neutral — unlike vendor docs and the LangChain-biased `framework-selection` on skill.sh, this skill has no horse in the race.

11k tokens
Agentsop Cost Tiered Models
by agentsope

>- make the few reasoning decisions and a cheap model do the many mechanical executions (Aider architect+editor, DSPy optimizer-LM vs task-LM, vLLM speculative draft+target, LangGraph supervisor+worker are the same shape). Use when designing or cost-optimizing a pipeline that calls an LM many times, when deciding which steps need a strong reasoner vs a cheap executor, or when adding an escalation valve for when the cheap tier degrades. cheap model, strong model plus cheap model, LLM cost optimization.

10k tokens zh
Agentsop Dspy
by agentsope

| Operating SOP for DSPy (Stanford NLP) — the declarative framework for "programming, not prompting" language models. "BootstrapFewShot", "GEPA", "Signatures + Modules", "teleprompter", "auto-tune prompts for a different LM", or whenever a brittle hand-crafted prompt pipeline needs to be turned into a *compiled*, measurable, swappable program. Do NOT activate for one-shot prompt tweaks, no-metric exploratory work, or pipelines where prompts must remain human-authored verbatim — use raw prompting or LangChain templates instead.

19k tokens
Agentsop HTTP Tool Wrapping
by agentsope

| Decision protocol for wrapping a REST / GraphQL / RPC API as a tool an LLM LM-friendly subset of the *API surface* — one tool per user intent, not one per endpoint. Activates when a coder agent must expose an external HTTP API to a model (function calling, tool_use, MCP, LangChain `@tool`, CrewAI `BaseTool`). Encodes the *what to surface, how to name, how to shape, how to fail* — not any single framework's API. ~80% of agent tools in production are HTTP wrappers; this is the SOP for getting them right.

13k tokens
Agentsop Llamaindex
by agentsope

| Operating-system distillation of LlamaIndex — the leading RAG / document-agent framework. Activate when the calling agent must build, debug, harden, or evaluate a Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline over unstructured/private data, decide between RAG primitives (Index types, retrievers, query engines, routers, agents), or pick LlamaIndex vs LangChain / Haystack / raw vector store for a coding task. Encodes the 5-layer mental model (Documents → Nodes → Indices → Retrievers → Query Engines / Response Synthesizers), the canonical RAG bootstrap SOP from baseline `VectorStoreIndex` through hybrid + reranker + eval-loop hardening, the official 13-failure-mode checklist, and 5 dilemma cases distilled from docs, GitHub issues, and 2025 production post-mortems.

21k tokens
Agentsop Hybrid Retrieval
by agentsope

| Enhancement-overlay SOP for adding sparse (BM25 / keyword) retrieval alongside dense (embedding) retrieval. Activate when a calling agent is building, reviewing, or debugging a retrieval pipeline whose corpus contains exact-match tokens — identifiers, error codes, SKUs, API/function names, proper nouns, citations, rare jargon — that pure dense embedding silently misses. Encodes the single decision share that depends on exact tokens is non-trivial**), the wiring of QueryFusionRetriever-style fusion (RRF vs alpha-weighted), and per-query-type alpha tuning. Frame the work as recovering lexical identity that dense pooling destroys, not as "add keyword search for completeness". Cross-links [[llamaindex]].

10k tokens
Agentsop Idempotent Ingestion
by agentsope

| Re-ingest-correctness SOP for production RAG. Activate when a calling agent builds, reviews, or debugs an ingestion pipeline that runs more than once over a changing corpus — scheduled re-index, incremental updates, CI re-ingest, or a "retrieval has duplicates / shows deleted docs" bug. Encodes the rule — insert/update/skip, so re-running over unchanged docs is a no-op** — plus the docstore + doc-hash upsert machinery (LlamaIndex `IngestionPipeline` + `DocstoreStrategy`), the delete-propagation problem, and cross-framework equivalents (LangChain `index()` + `RecordManager`, manual hash table). ENHANCE the re-ingest-correctness contract is not surfaced.

13k tokens
Agentsop LLM Artifact Versioning
by agentsope

>- + compiled programs + model snapshot pins + retrieval config + eval-set version, versioned together so a deploy is reproducible and rollback is atomic. Activate when preparing to deploy an LLM app, when asking "what exactly is running in prod right now?", when a deploy must be reproducible months later, or when an incident needs a clean rollback. The core independently-mutable parts, not one weights file. Do NOT activate for one-off prompt edits with no deploy, for a single-component demo, or where a vendor owns the whole prompt lifecycle. For versioning ONE compiled prompt use [[agentsop-per-model-artifacts]]; for versioning, reproducible deploy, what is running in prod, rollback LLM app, model pinning, prompt registry, version prompts and config.

12k tokens
Agentsop Langgraph
by agentsope

| Decision protocol for building, debugging, and operating LangGraph-based agent systems. Activates when a coder agent is asked to design a stateful LLM workflow, add human-in-the-loop, choose a multi-agent pattern (supervisor / swarm / hierarchical), pick a checkpoint backend, or migrate a fragile chain into a durable graph. LangGraph is positioned by its maintainers as a "low-level orchestration framework for building, managing, and deploying long-running, stateful agents" — this skill encodes the *when* and *why*, not the API.

21k tokens
Agentsop LLM Engine Selection
by agentsope

Cross-engine decision rubric for self-hosting or recommending an LLM serving stack. Picks among vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, TGI, llama.cpp, Ollama, and MLX as a function of (hardware × workload × constraint), not "which is fastest". Activates whenever a coder-agent must choose, defend, or migrate a serving runtime.

12k tokens
Agentsop LLM Tool Idempotency
by agentsope

>- Decision protocol for making side-effectful agent tools idempotent — so when an LLM tool call is retried (timeout, framework resume, user re-run, model duplicate emit), the second it'll call exactly once; the tool must promise the second call is safe. Framework-agnostic — applies to LangGraph node bodies that re-run on resume, MCP tools, OpenAI tool-calling duplicate email sent, charged twice, exactly-once, idempotency key, tool called twice, retry side effect, double-send, at-least-once delivery.

16k tokens
Agentsop Map Reduce Fanout
by agentsope

| Decision protocol for the map-reduce / dynamic fan-out pattern in LM pipelines — "given list L, run f(item) for each item in parallel, then combine". Activates when the coder agent is about to process N items with N LM calls (per-doc summarize, per-query retrieve, per-candidate rank, parallel tool fan-out). Encodes the *when*, *how many at once*, *what to do when one fails*, and *how to reduce* — not the API of any single Flow, `asyncio.gather`, `ThreadPoolExecutor`, LlamaIndex batch retrieval.

8k tokens
Agentsop Multi Tenant RAG
by agentsope

| Security-first SOP for multi-tenant RAG systems. Activate when a calling agent is building, reviewing, or debugging any retrieval pipeline whose vector store is shared across more than one user, organisation, workspace, customer, or permission scope. Encodes the single non-negotiable rule — **filter at the vector store query, never after retrieval / never after rerank** — together with the per-vendor query-time filter APIs (Pinecone namespaces + `$eq`/`$in`, Weaviate `multiTenancyConfig` + tenant handle, Qdrant `is_tenant` payload index + `Filter.must`, Chroma `where`, pgvector RLS), and the cross-framework adapters (LlamaIndex `MetadataFilters`, LangChain `filter=` dict). Frame the work as preventing CVE-2024-41892 / EchoLeak / Slack-AI-class cross-tenant leakage, not as "adding a filter for relevance".

16k tokens
Agentsop Module Shape Selection
by agentsope

>- ENHANCE overlay on [[dspy]] — the upfront rubric for choosing a reasoning SHAPE (Predict / ChainOfThought / ReAct / ProgramOfThought) BEFORE you write a prompt or pick an optimizer. reasoning shape is chosen by task structure, not by reflexively defaulting to CoT. Activate every time a new LM-calling node/step is added to a pipeline. Do NOT activate for one-shot prompts, optimizer/teleprompter choice (that is the dspy SOP's job), or non-LM ReAct vs CoT vs PoT, which dspy module, predict vs chain of thought.

8k tokens
Agentsop Metric Design
by agentsope

>- Decomposed, multi-criteria metric design for LLM pipelines. The metric IS the model — change the metric and the optimizer changes behavior. Decompose by default; bool during LLM-as-judge, llm as judge, eval metric, evaluation score, scoring function, rubric, RAGAS, G-Eval, judge bias, verbosity bias, how to evaluate LLM output.

13k tokens
Agentsop Observability Setup
by agentsope

| Enhancement-overlay skill — the DECISION + WIRING layer for LM observability that the single-backend skills [[langsmith]], [[phoenix]], [[mlflow]] do NOT cover. Each of those installs one backend; none of them help you DECIDE which backend fits your stack/scale/budget, nor give you a one-line autolog that turns it on fast. Use when starting any LM project, before the first deploy, or the moment someone asks "why did it do that?" and there are no traces to answer with. The skill picks a backend by stack (LangSmith for LangChain/LangGraph; Phoenix for OSS/local OpenTelemetry; MLflow for ML-shops already on MLflow; Langfuse for self-host), wires one-line autolog, verifies traces land, and adds eval hooks — instrumenting BEFORE you need it. Cross-links the first-debug-move skill [[agentsop-prompt-history-inspect]]. Do NOT activate to re-teach a backend you already chose (defer to its own skill), or for non-LM ML experiment tracking with no LLM calls (that is plain MLflow).

8k tokens
Agentsop Output Format By Model
by agentsope

>-

7k tokens
Agentsop Multiscale Chunking
by agentsope

>- Enhancement-overlay (C5) for RAG over long documents — the chunk-paradox resolution. Activate when a single fixed chunk size cannot satisfy both retrieval precision (small large chunks dilute embedding relevance into "topic averages". Encodes the core flip — large for synthesis context — and the SOP to pick a base chunk size, choose a horizontal (sentence-window) vs vertical (auto-merging / parent-child) expansion strategy, and measure the lift. Cross-links [[llamaindex]] for the full RAG SOP; this overlay supplies the missing "chunk-paradox-resolution" recipe that the framework docs (HierarchicalNodeParser, SentenceWindow) only describe in fragments. Medium-frequency for chunking strategy, parent document retriever, sentence window, small-to-big retrieval, hierarchical chunking, optimal chunk size.

9k tokens
Agentsop Per Model Artifacts
by agentsope

>- Lifecycle SOP for **per-model prompt artifacts** — the compiled prompts, instructions, few-shot demos, edit-format pins, and embedding-bound indices that change behavior when the underlying LM, dataset, or framework version changes. Activate when adopting compiled prompts (DSPy, GEPA, BootstrapFewShot output), when supporting multiple LMs in production, when a provider deprecates a model snapshot, or when a framework deprecates a config surface (LlamaIndex `ServiceContext` → `Settings`, Aider edit-format defaults). Do NOT activate for one-off raw prompt edits or for truly model-agnostic system prompts that have deprecation, prompt per model, prompt breaks on new model, version compiled prompts.

16k tokens
Agentsop Query Routing
by agentsope

>- Enhancement-overlay SOP for query-type routing — sending a query to the right index / tool / engine *before* retrieving, not after. Activate when a calling agent owns a retrieval or answering surface that fronts more than one handler (a summary index, a vector index, a vs "find the clause about X" vs "how many orders shipped in Q3". Encodes the one non- negotiable insight — **one retriever cannot serve all query types; route first, retrieve second** — plus the three router families (LLM/selector, embedding/semantic, keyword/rule), confidence-threshold + fallback discipline, and the cross-framework mapping (LlamaIndex `RouterQueryEngine` / `SelectorPromptTemplate`, Dify Question Classifier node, LangGraph conditional edges). This is an ENHANCE overlay over the per-framework skills — cross-link `[[llamaindex]]`, `[[agentsop-dify]]`, `[[agentsop-langgraph]]` for the deep

11k tokens
Agentsop Repo Map
by agentsope

>-

11k tokens zh
Agentsop Regression Gate
by agentsope

Build a held-out eval set, run it on every prompt/model change, and block regressions in CI. An LM change is a code change — gate it with a test suite (eval set + metric + threshold). Cross-framework SOP not surfaced by any single base skill.

12k tokens
Agentsop Prompt History Inspect
by agentsope

| the framework sent to the model, before changing anything else. Activate when an LM call produced an unexpected output (wrong answer, schema violation, refusal, truncation, cost spike, latency spike, infinite loop, "model got dumber after upgrade"). The skill enforces a 30-second inspect step BEFORE any prompt edit, model swap, retry, or temperature CrewAI `step_callback`, LangChain `set_debug`/`set_verbose`, Aider `/diff`+`--verbose`, raw OpenAI/Anthropic via `OPENAI_LOG=debug`/`ANTHROPIC_LOG=debug` or HTTPX event hooks. Do NOT activate for first-time prompt authoring, exploratory prompt design, or non-LM bugs.

16k tokens
Agentsop Prompt Compilation
by agentsope

The compile-readiness gate for prompt auto-optimization. Decide whether you have earned the right to run an optimizer (DSPy MIPROv2 / GEPA / BootstrapFewShot) before spending compute. Two preconditions only — a real metric, and enough examples for the optimizer you picked. Garbage metric in, garbage prompt out. Pick the optimizer by data scale; GEPA inverts the scale assumption (~10 examples + textual feedback).

12k tokens
Agentsop Reranker Stage
by agentsope

>- Enhancement-overlay SOP for the reranker stage of a RAG pipeline — the "retrieve wide, rerank narrow" discipline. Activate when a calling agent owns a retrieval pipeline whose the context window is under pressure from too many marginal chunks. Encodes the one non- negotiable insight — a cheap bi-encoder retrieves *wide* for recall, then a more expensive cross-encoder (which reads query + document *together*) reranks *narrow* for precision; keep top-N=20-50, rerank to top-k=3-5. Covers when to add a reranker (and when not to), N-vs-k tuning, model choice (Cohere/Voyage API vs bge-reranker local vs SentenceTransformer cross-encoder), latency/cost budgeting, and the cross-framework mapping (LlamaIndex node postprocessors, LangChain ContextualCompressionRetriever, Cohere/Voyage rerank APIs, local cross-encoders). This is an ENHANCE overlay over the per- framework skills — cross-link `[[llamaindex]]` and `[[agentsop-hybrid-retrieval]]` for the

10k tokens
Agentsop Repo State Gating
by agentsope

>- A 5-minute gate the coder runs at project kickoff (and again whenever the repo shape changes). Classifies the workspace into Greenfield / Brownfield-large / Mid-size-familiar / Library-SDK, then maps the state to an agent strategy (autonomy, context primitive, tool choice). Use BEFORE picking Cursor vs Claude Code vs Aider, BEFORE turning on repo-map, BEFORE writing the first prompt. Skip only if the same repo was gated within the last day codebase, project setup strategy, legacy codebase agent, where to start a coding agent.

10k tokens zh

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: 11 696 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 80 149 files found on GitHub, 62 489 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: 7 984 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.