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

56 341–56 400 of 61 713

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Mobile Security Coder

by ComeOnOliver

3k tokens

Modern Javascript Patterns

Multi Cloud Architecture

by ComeOnOliver

1k tokens

Multi Platform Apps Multi Platform

Nextjs App Router Patterns

Nodejs Backend Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

264 tokens

Nx Workspace Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

3k tokens

Observability Engineer

by ComeOnOliver

3k tokens

Observability Monitoring Monitor Setup

by ComeOnOliver

483 tokens

Observability Monitoring Slo Implement

by ComeOnOliver

382 tokens

On Call Handoff Patterns

by ComeOnOliver

3k tokens

Openapi Spec Generation

Performance Testing Review AI Review

Prometheus Configuration

Protocol Reverse Engineering

by ComeOnOliver

207 tokens

Python Development Python Scaffold

Python Performance Optimization

Python Testing Patterns

React State Management

Risk Metrics Calculation

Screen Reader Testing

Security Compliance Compliance Check

by ComeOnOliver

528 tokens

Security Requirement Extraction

by ComeOnOliver

208 tokens

Security Scanning Security Dependencies

by ComeOnOliver

385 tokens

Security Scanning Security Hardening

by ComeOnOliver

3k 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.