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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. 79 354 files from 1 739 authors, of which 61 713 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.

61 713
unique skills
out of 79 354 files found on GitHub
17 641
are copies
same content, someone else's repository
1 738
tokens, median
what a typical skill costs you in context
7 879
name collisions
two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

4 741–4 800 of 61 713

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N8n:telemetry
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Guides adding, changing, and reviewing telemetry through the `@n8n/telemetry` event registry. Use when working on telemetry, analytics, tracking, product events, `track()` calls, or RudderStack/PostHog product events, in frontend or backend code — and whenever you need to find which registered telemetry events exist, what an event means, or what properties it carries.

1k tokens
N8n:setup Mcps
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Configure MCP servers for n8n development. Use when the user says /setup-mcps or asks to set up MCP servers for n8n.

681 tokens
N8n:setup Mcps
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Configure MCP servers for n8n development in OpenCode. Use when the user says /setup-mcps or asks to set up MCP servers for n8n.

572 tokens
N8n CLI
by n8n-io
vendor

Use the n8n CLI to manage workflows, credentials, executions, and more on an n8n instance. Use when the user asks to interact with n8n, automate workflows, manage credentials, or operate their instance from the command line.

2k tokens
Config Evals
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Builds and maintains configuration-based evaluations on a workflow with the eval-config tool. Use when the user asks to set up, add, view, change, or remove an evaluation, score, grade, or judge a workflow's output, or measure answer quality against a test dataset. This is the only eval form Instance AI handles — it does not touch on-canvas evaluation nodes.

3k tokens
Data Table Manager
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Load before calling data-tables or parse-file. Use for natural standalone requests like "what data tables do I have?", "show/list my tables", or "what columns are in this table?", and whenever the user asks to list, show, create, inspect, import, seed, query, update, clean up, rename columns in, or delete data tables and rows, especially from CSV/XLSX/JSON attachments. Also load before building or planning workflows that create or write to Data Tables (then load workflow-builder before build-workflow).

4k tokens
Credential Setup With Computer Use
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Guides n8n credential setup through Computer Use browser tools. Use when a user needs OAuth apps, API keys, client IDs, client secrets, or other credential values from an external service console.

909 tokens
Debugging Executions
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Debug failed or wrong-output workflow executions using executions tools. Load when the user reports execution failures, unexpected node output, empty parameter values after a successful run, or a node showing a red or failed expression error.

690 tokens
N8n Docs Assistant
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Answers n8n product, setup, credential, node, hosting, API, and usage questions from current n8n docs. Load n8n-docs via load_tool before calling it (search "n8n docs" if not visible). Use when the user asks how to configure, set up, troubleshoot, or understand n8n behavior, especially credential setup questions opened from the credential modal.

597 tokens
Planned Task Runtime
by n8n-io
vendor

>- build-workflow, checkpoint), background-task-completed, running-tasks context, and create-tasks silence rules. Load whenever any of these tags appear or after calling create-tasks.

2k tokens
Intent Recognition
by n8n-io
vendor

>- owns the top-level control flow — workflow-anchored, agent-anchored, needs-clarification, or out-of-scope) and embeds_other (whether the other primitive appears embedded inside — an agent step inside a workflow, or a workflow invoked as an agent tool). Must be used before deciding the intent of any automation request, including compound requests with multiple independent automations, mid-build extensions to an existing workflow or agent, one-off questions or reports that need external systems you cannot query directly, and requests that need clarification before an anchor can be chosen, before choosing workflow-builder, planning, or an agent-oriented design.

6k tokens
Planning
by n8n-io
vendor

>- shared data-table schema/migration across tasks, or the user explicitly asked to review a plan first. Load create-tasks via load_tool before calling it (search "create tasks" if not visible). Do NOT use for new one-off workflows, single-workflow edits, verification-only requests, or standalone data-table ops — use workflow-builder or data-table-manager instead.

3k tokens
Post Build Flow
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Handles workflow verification and setup after build-workflow succeeds, or when the message contains workflow-verification-follow-up or workflow-setup-required. Load after direct builds, when verificationReadiness requires action, or on orchestrator verify/setup follow-up turns.

5k tokens
Workflow Builder
by n8n-io
vendor

>- Load before calling build-workflow. Default path for all single-workflow and workflow-local data tables. Write or edit a workspace source file, run workflow-sdk validate via workspace_execute_command, then call build-workflow with filePath. When the workflow creates or writes Data Tables, load data-table-manager first, then this skill. Do not load planning or create-tasks first. Load planning only when multiple coordinated workflows or shared cross-task data tables require a dependency-aware task graph.

11k tokens
Azure Pipelines
by microsoft
vendor

Use when validating Azure DevOps pipeline changes for the VS Code build. Covers queueing builds, checking build status, viewing logs, and iterating on pipeline YAML changes without waiting for full CI runs.

19k tokens scripts
Agent Host E2e Tests
by microsoft
vendor

Use when writing, recording, updating, or troubleshooting the agent host end-to-end tests under src/vs/platform/agentHost/test/node/e2e (black-box tests that drive the whole agent host over the AHP protocol, using a CapiReplayProxy record/replay system for Claude/Copilot/Codex). Covers adding a cross-provider test, re-recording fixtures after an SDK bump, gating non-deterministic or platform-specific tests, and diagnosing replay cache misses.

2k tokens
Accessibility
by microsoft
vendor

Primary accessibility skill for VS Code. REQUIRED for new feature and contribution work, and also applies to updates of existing UI. Covers accessibility help dialogs, accessible views, verbosity settings, signals, ARIA announcements, keyboard navigation, and ARIA labels/roles.

4k tokens
Agent Host Logs
by microsoft
vendor

Analyze Agent Host debug log exports. Use when given an ah-logs or ahp-logs zip/folder, an Export Agent Host Debug Logs bundle, events.jsonl, AHP JSONL transport logs, Agent Host.log, remote-agenthost.log, or copilot-logs.

3k tokens scripts
Add Policy
by microsoft
vendor

Use when adding, modifying, or reviewing VS Code configuration policies. Covers the full policy lifecycle from registration to export to platform-specific artifacts. Run on ANY change that adds a `policy:` field to a configuration property.

12k tokens
Author Contributions
by microsoft
vendor

Identify all files a specific author contributed to on a branch vs its upstream, tracing code through renames. Use when asked who edited what, what code an author contributed, or to audit authorship before a merge. This skill should be run as a subagent — it performs many git operations and returns a concise table.

2k tokens
Auto Perf Optimize
by microsoft
vendor

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

24k tokens scripts
Chat Customizations Editor
by microsoft
vendor

Use when working on the Chat Customizations editor — the management UI for agents, skills, instructions, hooks, prompts, MCP servers, and plugins.

3k tokens
Chat Perf
by microsoft
vendor

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

5k tokens
Code Oss Logs
by microsoft
vendor

Find and read timestamped process logs from Code OSS dev builds, including main.log, renderer.log, extension host logs, and agenthost.log. For bundles produced by Export Agent Host Debug Logs, use agent-host-logs.

2k tokens
Fix Errors
by microsoft
vendor

Guidelines for fixing unhandled errors from the VS Code error telemetry dashboard. Use when investigating error-telemetry issues with stack traces, error messages, and hit/user counts. Covers tracing data flow through call stacks, identifying producers of invalid data vs. consumers that crash, enriching error messages for telemetry diagnosis, and avoiding common anti-patterns like silently swallowing errors.

2k tokens
Cpu Profile Analysis
by microsoft
vendor

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-*.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating user timing marks.

6k tokens
Fix CI Failures
by microsoft
vendor

Investigate and fix CI failures on a pull request. Use when CI checks fail on a PR branch — covers finding the PR, identifying failed checks, downloading logs and artifacts, extracting the failure cause, and iterating on a fix. Requires the `gh` CLI.

3k tokens
Design Philosophy
by microsoft
vendor

The VS Code design philosophy — a shared Values→Principles→Moves vocabulary for reasoning about UI in design terms instead of raw pixels. Use when designing, building, reviewing, or giving feedback on any visual surface; when deciding a radius, spacing, type role, icon size, border, color, or motion; or when translating a "this feels off" observation into a concrete, principled fix.

6k tokens
Flaky Smoke Tests
by microsoft
vendor

Diagnose intermittent VS Code Electron smoke-test failures from the Azure DevOps Flaky Smoke Tests pipeline (definition 700). Covers finding failed iterations, downloading task logs and platform artifacts with Azure CLI, correlating cumulative runner logs, tracing the introducing commit, and queueing focused validation runs.

3k tokens
Heap Snapshot Analysis
by microsoft
vendor

Analyze V8 heap snapshots to investigate memory leaks and retention issues. Use when given .heapsnapshot files, asked to compare before/after snapshots, asked to find what retains objects, or investigating why objects survive GC. Provides snapshot parsing, comparison, retainer-path helpers, and scratchpad scripts.

10k tokens scripts
Integration Tests
by microsoft
vendor

Use when running integration tests in the VS Code repo. Covers scripts/test-integration.sh (macOS/Linux) and scripts/test-integration.bat (Windows), their supported arguments for filtering, and the difference between node.js integration tests and extension host tests.

1k tokens
Hygiene
by microsoft
vendor

Use when making code changes to ensure they pass VS Code's hygiene checks. Covers the pre-commit hook, unicode restrictions, string quoting rules, copyright headers, indentation, formatting, ESLint, and stylelint. Run the hygiene check before declaring work complete.

433 tokens
Otel
by microsoft
vendor

OpenTelemetry instrumentation for the Copilot Chat extension — covers the four agent execution paths, the IOTelService abstraction, span/metric/event conventions, and the relationship between code and the user/developer monitoring docs. Use when adding/changing OTel spans, metrics, or events; instrumenting a new agent surface; touching the Copilot CLI bridge or Claude span emission; or updating `extensions/copilot/docs/monitoring/agent_monitoring*.md`.

5k tokens
Memory Leak Audit
by microsoft
vendor

Audit code for memory leaks and disposable issues. Use when reviewing event listeners, DOM handlers, lifecycle callbacks, or fixing leak reports. Covers addDisposableListener, Event.once, MutableDisposable, DisposableStore, and onWillDispose patterns.

1k tokens
Integrated Browser
by microsoft
vendor

Use this when working on the VS Code integrated browser ("browserView") to understand its architecture and mental model. Covers the embedded Chromium browser, its editor tab, navigation, overlay/layout, sessions, and agent browser tools under `src/vs/platform/browserView` and `src/vs/workbench/contrib/browserView`.

3k tokens
Sessions
by microsoft
vendor

Agents window architecture — covers the agents-first app, layering, folder structure, chat widget, menus, contributions, entry points, and development guidelines. Use when implementing features or fixing issues in the Agents window.

27k tokens
Smoke Tests
by microsoft
vendor

Use when running VS Code smoke tests or working on smoke-test CI steps. Covers npm run smoketest / smoketest-no-compile, grep filtering tests, and a temporary repeat-loop technique for tracking down flaky smoke tests in CI.

2k tokens
Symbolicate Crash Dump
by microsoft
vendor

Symbolicate a native VS Code crash dump (.dmp) using electron-minidump. Use when given a crash dump file, asked to symbolicate a crash, resolve missing method names in a native crash backtrace, or attach Electron/Insiders/Stable symbol files. VS Code team members only; requires macOS or Linux.

3k tokens
Tool Rename Deprecation
by microsoft
vendor

Ensure renamed built-in tool references preserve backward compatibility. Use when renaming a toolReferenceName, tool set referenceName, or any tool identifier. Run on ANY change to tool registration code. Covers legacyToolReferenceFullNames for tools and legacyFullNames for tool sets.

3k tokens
Update Screenshots
by microsoft
vendor

Download screenshot baselines from the latest CI run and commit them. Use when asked to update, accept, or refresh component screenshot baselines from CI, or after the screenshot-test GitHub Action reports differences. This skill should be run as a subagent.

362 tokens
Ux CSS Layout
by microsoft
vendor

VS Code CSS conventions, file organization, class naming, standard sizes, SplitView/Grid layout, scrollable content, responsive layout, and text overflow/ellipsis patterns. Use when writing CSS, building layouts, or fixing text truncation issues.

4k tokens
Ux Theming
by microsoft
vendor

VS Code theming, color tokens, widget styles, focus indicators, and high-contrast theme support. Use when registering colors, styling widgets with theme tokens, or ensuring HC/focus compliance.

2k tokens
Vscode Dev Workbench
by microsoft
vendor

Use when the user wants to run the vscode.dev server locally and exercise the VS Code workbench or Agents window in the integrated browser against the local `microsoft/vscode` sources. Covers starting the dev server, the `vscode-quality=dev` URL, browser-driven interaction patterns, and optionally wiring up a local mock agent host for the Agents window.

2k tokens
Unit Tests
by microsoft
vendor

Use when running unit tests in the VS Code repo. Covers the runTests tool, scripts/test.sh (macOS/Linux) and scripts/test.bat (Windows), and their supported arguments for filtering, globbing, and debugging tests.

940 tokens
Agent Customization
by microsoft
vendor

**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Create, update, review, fix, or debug VS Code agent customization files (.instructions.md, .prompt.md, .agent.md, SKILL.md, copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md). USE FOR: saving coding preferences; troubleshooting why instructions/skills/agents are ignored or not invoked; configuring applyTo patterns; defining tool restrictions; creating custom agent modes or specialized workflows; packaging domain knowledge; fixing YAML frontmatter syntax. DO NOT USE FOR: general coding questions (use default agent); runtime debugging or error diagnosis; MCP server configuration (use MCP docs directly); VS Code extension development. INVOKES: file system tools (read/write customization files), ask-questions tool (interview user for requirements), subagents for codebase exploration. FOR SINGLE OPERATIONS: For quick YAML frontmatter fixes or creating a single file from a known pattern, edit the file directly — no skill needed.

6k tokens
Github Copilot Upgrader
by microsoft
vendor

Use this to update the Github Copilot CLI/SDK

844 tokens
Chronicle
by microsoft
vendor

Analyze Copilot session history for standup reports, usage tips, session search, and session reindexing. Use when the user asks for a standup, daily summary, usage tips, workflow recommendations, wants to search or find past sessions by keyword/file/PR, wants to reindex their session store, or asks about deleting session data.

7k tokens
Create Agent
by microsoft
vendor

Create a custom agent (.agent.md) for a specific job.

315 tokens
Launch
by microsoft
vendor

Launch and automate VS Code Insiders with the Copilot Chat extension using @playwright/cli via Chrome DevTools Protocol. Use when you need to interact with the VS Code UI, automate the chat panel, test the extension UI, or take screenshots. Triggers include 'automate VS Code', 'interact with chat', 'test the UI', 'take a screenshot', 'launch with debugging'.

4k tokens
Create Instructions
by microsoft
vendor

Create an instructions file (.instructions.md) for a project rule or convention.

361 tokens
Create Hook
by microsoft
vendor

Create a hook (.json) to enforce policy or automate agent lifecycle events.

474 tokens
Create Prompt
by microsoft
vendor

Create a reusable prompt file (.prompt.md) for a common task.

310 tokens
Create Skill
by microsoft
vendor

Create a reusable skill (SKILL.md) that packages a workflow.

310 tokens
Init
by microsoft
vendor

Generate or update chat customization files for AI coding agents

995 tokens
Act On Feedback
by microsoft
vendor

Act on user feedback attached to the current session. Use when the user submits feedback on the session's changes via the Submit Feedback button.

266 tokens
Troubleshoot
by microsoft
vendor

Investigate unexpected chat agent behavior by analyzing direct debug logs in JSONL files. Use when users ask why something happened, why a request was slow, why tools or subagents were used or skipped, or why instructions/skills/agents did not load.

5k tokens
Code Review
by microsoft
vendor

Perform a code review of the current session's changes. Use when the user requests a code review via the Run Code Review button in the Changes toolbar.

385 tokens
Create Draft Pr
by microsoft
vendor

Create a draft pull request for the current session. Use when the user wants to open a draft PR with the session's changes.

201 tokens
Generate Run Commands
by microsoft
vendor

Generate or modify run commands for the current session. Use when the user wants to set up or update run commands that appear in the session's Run button.

595 tokens
Commit
by microsoft
vendor

Commit staged or unstaged changes with an AI-generated commit message that matches the repository's existing commit style. Use when the user asks to 'commit', 'commit changes', 'create a commit', 'save my work', or 'check in code'.

788 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 79 354 files found on GitHub, 61 713 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: 7 879 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.