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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. 79 404 files from 1 741 authors, of which 61 763 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.

61 763
unique skills
out of 79 404 files found on GitHub
17 641
are copies
same content, someone else's repository
1 737
tokens, median
what a typical skill costs you in context
7 882
name collisions
two skills with one name cannot sit side by side

52 201–52 260 of 61 763

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Designing Apis
by ComeOnOliver

Designs REST and GraphQL APIs including endpoints, error handling, versioning, and documentation. Use when creating new APIs, designing endpoints, reviewing API contracts, or when asked about REST, GraphQL, or API patterns.

5k tokens
Designing Architecture
by ComeOnOliver

Designs software architecture and selects appropriate patterns for projects. Use when designing systems, choosing architecture patterns, structuring projects, making technical decisions, or when asked about microservices, monoliths, or architectural approaches.

5k tokens
Designing Tests
by ComeOnOliver

Designs and implements testing strategies for any codebase. Use when adding tests, improving coverage, setting up testing infrastructure, debugging test failures, or when asked about unit tests, integration tests, or E2E testing.

5k tokens
Managing Git
by ComeOnOliver

Manages Git workflows including branching, commits, and pull requests. Use when working with Git, creating commits, opening PRs, managing branches, resolving conflicts, or when asked about version control best practices.

4k tokens
Optimizing Performance
by ComeOnOliver

Analyzes and optimizes application performance across frontend, backend, and database layers. Use when diagnosing slowness, improving load times, optimizing queries, reducing bundle size, or when asked about performance issues.

4k tokens
Parallel Execution
by ComeOnOliver

Patterns for parallel subagent execution using Task tool with run_in_background. Use when coordinating multiple independent tasks, spawning dynamic subagents, or implementing features that can be parallelized.

4k tokens
Agent Workflow
by ComeOnOliver

Multi-agent development workflow system. Load when orchestrating development tasks, spawning subagents, or managing workflow phases.

4k tokens
Ask User
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for effectively interacting with users to gather information or get decisions. Use when you need user input.

2k tokens
Checkpoint
by ComeOnOliver

Robust workflow checkpoint and resume. Handles session interruption, state recovery, and safe resume across all workflow phases.

5k tokens
Contracts
by ComeOnOliver

Contract lifecycle management - creation, consumption, modification, and resolution.

4k tokens
Conventions
by ComeOnOliver

Load coding conventions and style guidelines when writing or reviewing code. Ensures consistency with project standards.

2k tokens
Cross Task Learning
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for aggregating insights across multiple tasks to enable data-driven evolution.

3k tokens
Decisions
by ComeOnOliver

Load past architectural decisions. Use when making new decisions to ensure consistency.

2k tokens
Error Recovery
by ComeOnOliver

Strategies for handling subagent failures with retry logic and escalation patterns.

4k tokens
Explore Codebase
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for efficiently exploring codebases using parallel subagents. Use when you need to understand code structure, find patterns, or gather context.

2k tokens
File Boundaries
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for respecting file ownership boundaries during implementation. Prevents conflicts in parallel work.

3k tokens
Lint
by ComeOnOliver

How to lint and typecheck in this project. Load when implementing or verifying code.

2k tokens
Patterns
by ComeOnOliver

Load common code patterns and abstractions used in this project. Use when implementing features to maintain consistency.

2k tokens
Project Knowledge
by ComeOnOliver

Load project architecture and structure knowledge. Use when you need to understand how this project is organized.

2k tokens
Reflect On Work
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for producing quality reflections after completing work. Required for all agent outputs.

3k tokens
Run Tests
by ComeOnOliver

How to run tests in this project. Load when implementing or verifying code.

2k tokens
Self Test
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for testing your own code during implementation. Ensures quality before declaring complete.

2k tokens
Spawn Parallel
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for spawning parallel subagents efficiently. Use when you need multiple independent tasks done concurrently.

4k tokens
Verify Output
by ComeOnOliver

Pattern for verifying your output matches required schema before completing. Use before writing final output to ensure validity.

3k tokens
Wrangler
by ComeOnOliver

Cloudflare Workers CLI for deploying, developing, and managing Workers, KV, R2, D1, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Workers AI, Containers, Queues, Workflows, Pipelines, and Secrets Store. Load before running wrangler commands to ensure correct syntax and best practices.

11k tokens
Architecture Diagram
by ComeOnOliver

Create professional, dark-themed architecture diagrams as standalone HTML files with SVG graphics. Use when the user asks for system architecture diagrams, infrastructure diagrams, cloud architecture visualizations, security diagrams, network topology diagrams, or any technical diagram showing system components and their relationships.

8k tokens
Commit
by ComeOnOliver

Create well-formatted git commits with conventional commit messages and emoji. Use when user asks to commit changes, save work, or after completing a task that should be committed.

3k tokens
Release
by ComeOnOliver

Create a new version release with git tag and GitHub Release. Use when user asks to release, publish, create a new version, or ship a release. (project)

4k tokens
Autofix
by ComeOnOliver

Auto-fix CodeRabbit review comments - get CodeRabbit review comments from GitHub and fix them interactively or in batch

5k tokens
Code Review
by ComeOnOliver

AI-powered code review using CodeRabbit. Default code-review skill. Trigger for any explicit review request AND autonomously when the agent thinks a review is needed (code/PR/quality/security).

4k tokens
Brainstorming
by ComeOnOliver

Collaborative design exploration that refines ideas into validated specs through iterative questioning. Use before any creative work including creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior.

3k tokens
Dispatching Parallel Agents
by ComeOnOliver

Dispatches one subagent per independent domain to parallelize investigation/fixes. Use when you have 2+ unrelated failures (e.g., separate failing test files, subsystems, bugs) with no shared state or ordering dependencies.

3k tokens
Executing Plans
by ComeOnOliver

Disciplined plan execution for implementation tasks. Use when executing a saved implementation plan, following step-by-step instructions from a plan document.

3k tokens
Finishing A Development Branch
by ComeOnOliver

Git branch completion workflow. Use when implementation is complete, tests pass, and a feature branch needs to be integrated via merge, pull request, or cleanup.

5k tokens
Receiving Code Review
by ComeOnOliver

Assesses and responds to incoming code review feedback on PRs (reviewer comments, requested changes), especially when suggestions are unclear, technically questionable, or scope-expanding. Use before implementing review suggestions to align on intent and keep changes minimal.

5k tokens
Requesting Code Review
by ComeOnOliver

Use when you need to request a code review for a PR/MR and want a consistent review brief (context, scope, risk areas, test instructions, acceptance criteria) before merge.

4k tokens
Subagent Driven Development
by ComeOnOliver

Sequential subagent execution with two-stage review gates for implementation plans. Use when executing multi-task plans in current session, when tasks need fresh subagent context to avoid pollution, when formal review cycles (spec compliance then code quality) are required between tasks, or when you need diff-based validation of each task before proceeding.

8k tokens
Systematic Debugging
by ComeOnOliver

Root cause analysis for debugging. Use when bugs, test failures, or unexpected behavior have non-obvious causes, or after multiple fix attempts have failed.

9k tokens scripts
Test Driven Development
by ComeOnOliver

Red-green-refactor development methodology requiring verified test coverage. Use for feature implementation, bugfixes, refactoring, or any behavior changes where tests must prove correctness.

9k tokens
Using Git Worktrees
by ComeOnOliver

Git worktree–based workspace isolation for parallel or non-disruptive development. Use when work must occur without modifying or interfering with the current working tree.

4k tokens
Using Superpowers
by ComeOnOliver

Meta-skill enforcing skill discovery and invocation discipline through mandatory workflows. Use when starting any conversation to check for relevant skills before any response, ensuring skill-first workflow before proceeding.

3k tokens
Verification Before Completion
by ComeOnOliver

Verification discipline for completion claims. Use when about to assert success, claim a fix is complete, report tests passing, or before commits and PRs. Enforces evidence-first workflow.

3k tokens
Writing Plans
by ComeOnOliver

Structured implementation planning for multi-step development tasks. Use when you have a spec or requirements and need to break work into executable steps.

3k tokens
Marimo Development
by ComeOnOliver

Expert guidance for creating and working with marimo notebooks - reactive Python notebooks that can be executed as scripts and deployed as apps. Use when the user asks to create marimo notebooks, convert Jupyter notebooks to marimo, build interactive dashboards or data apps with marimo, work with marimo's reactive programming model, debug marimo notebooks, or needs help with marimo-specific features (cells, UI elements, reactivity, SQL integration, deploying apps, etc.).

96k tokens
Pixi Package Manager
by ComeOnOliver

Fast, reproducible scientific Python environments with pixi - conda and PyPI unified

16k tokens
Python Style Guide
by ComeOnOliver

Comprehensive Python programming guidelines based on Google's Python Style Guide. Use when Claude needs to write Python code, review Python code for style issues, refactor Python code, or provide Python programming guidance. Covers language rules (imports, exceptions, type annotations), style rules (naming conventions, formatting, docstrings), and best practices for clean, maintainable Python code.

24k tokens
R Development
by ComeOnOliver

Modern R development practices emphasizing tidyverse patterns (dplyr 1.1 and later, native pipe, join_by, .by grouping), rlang metaprogramming, performance optimization, and package development. Use when Claude needs to write R code, create R packages, optimize R performance, or provide R programming guidance.

17k tokens
Shell Scripting
by ComeOnOliver

Specialized knowledge of Bash and Zsh scripting, shell automation, command-line tools, and scripting best practices. Use when the user needs to write, debug, or optimize shell scripts, work with command-line tools, automate tasks with bash/zsh, or asks for shell script help.

7k tokens scripts
Baml Integration
by ComeOnOliver

Generic BAML patterns for type-safe LLM prompting. Covers schema design, DTO generation, client wrappers, and cross-language codegen. Framework-agnostic.

18k tokens
Browser Discovery
by ComeOnOliver

Browser automation for documentation discovery. Use when curl fails on JS-rendered sites, when detecting available browser tools, or when configuring browser-based documentation collection.

9k tokens
C4 Modeling
by ComeOnOliver

C4 architectural modeling for documenting software architecture. Use when creating architecture diagrams, planning new systems, communicating with stakeholders, or conducting architecture reviews.

6k tokens
Chrome Devtools Debugging
by ComeOnOliver

Debug and analyze web applications using Chrome DevTools MCP. Use for console log inspection, network request monitoring, performance analysis, and debugging authenticated sessions. For basic browser automation (screenshots, form filling), use browser-discovery skill instead.

9k tokens
Codebase Analysis
by ComeOnOliver

Patterns and techniques for analyzing brownfield codebases. Use when onboarding to unfamiliar code, preparing for refactoring, conducting architecture reviews, or identifying technical debt.

9k tokens
Dependency Sync
by ComeOnOliver

Detect new imports in modified files and auto-install missing dependencies. Works with npm, uv, pip, cargo, go mod, and other package managers. Triggers after code implementation to keep manifests in sync.

8k tokens
Docs Navigation
by ComeOnOliver

Navigate hierarchical ai-docs indexes to find documentation. Check local docs FIRST for speed and curated context before web searching. Covers Claude Code, BAML, MCP, and other tracked libraries.

6k tokens
Docs Retrieval
by ComeOnOliver

Retrieve documentation context from local ai-docs. Check here first when implementing features, debugging errors, or needing library information. Fall back to web search if topic not found locally.

8k tokens
Docs Sources
by ComeOnOliver

Knowledge of documentation platforms and fetching strategies. Use when adding new documentation sources, determining fetch strategy for a docs site, detecting doc frameworks, or configuring the docs registry.

11k tokens
Library Detection
by ComeOnOliver

Detect project stack from package manifests (package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Cargo.toml, pubspec.yaml, CMakeLists.txt). Auto-identify frameworks, test tools, and build systems for onboarding.

12k tokens
Mapreduce
by ComeOnOliver

The MapReduce skill enables parallel task execution across multiple AI providers or agent instances, followed by intelligent consolidation of results. This produces higher-quality outputs by levera...

17k tokens
Model Discovery
by ComeOnOliver

Fetch current model names from AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama), classify them into tiers (fast/default/heavy), and detect new models. Use when needing up-to-date model IDs for API calls or when other skills reference model names.

16k 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: 11 329 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 79 404 files found on GitHub, 61 763 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: 7 882 skills here share a name with another skill, and two of them cannot sit side by side.