CLAUDE CODE SKILLS

Find a Claude Code skill for the job.

4,636 skills from Anthropic and from GitHub's most starred skill repos, each read and checked before it was listed.

Which Claude design skills actually help? We tested 8

Most installed

find-skills

vercel-labs/skills

Helps the agent find and install agent skills from the open ecosystem with the skills CLI.

4.1M installs · 37k stars

hyperframes-cli

heygen-com/hyperframes

Guides the agent through the HyperFrames CLI to scaffold, check, preview, render and publish video projects.

1.3M installs · 76k stars

agent-browser

vercel-labs/agent-browser

Drives Chrome through a CLI using accessibility snapshots and element refs for browsing, forms and scraping.

1.3M installs · 45k stars

grill-with-docs

mattpocock/skills

Interviews you relentlessly about a plan or design while recording decisions in glossary and ADR files.

1.3M installs · 307k stars

media-use

heygen-com/hyperframes

Finds or generates music, sound effects, images, voiceover and cutouts for HyperFrames videos, via HeyGen or free local tools.

1.2M installs · 76k stars

improve-codebase-architecture

mattpocock/skills

Makes the agent scan a codebase for shallow modules and present deepening options in an HTML report.

1.2M installs · 307k stars

tdd

mattpocock/skills

Guides the agent through test-driven red-green-refactor loops with rules for good tests and seams.

1.2M installs · 307k stars

hyperframes-registry

heygen-com/hyperframes

Points the agent to about 450 installable HyperFrames video blocks, such as transitions, titles and charts.

1.1M installs · 76k stars

setup-matt-pocock-skills

mattpocock/skills

Scaffolds per-repo config for the engineering skills: issue tracker, triage labels, and domain doc layout.

1.1M installs · 307k stars

handoff

mattpocock/skills

Compacts the current conversation into a handoff document saved to a temp folder for another agent.

1.1M installs · 307k stars

frontend-design

anthropics/skills

Directs the agent to build UI with distinctive, brief-specific visual choices instead of templated defaults.

1.1M installs · 185k stars

grilling

mattpocock/skills

Interviews the user in rounds about a plan, giving a recommended answer to each question until aligned.

1.0M installs · 307k stars

triage

mattpocock/skills

Moves issues and external PRs through triage roles, verifies them, and writes agent-ready briefs.

1.0M installs · 307k stars

prototype

mattpocock/skills

Builds a throwaway prototype, a logic walkthrough or UI variants, to answer one design question.

1.0M installs · 307k stars

domain-modeling

mattpocock/skills

Sharpens a project's domain language, glossary and ADRs as design decisions are made.

908k installs · 307k stars

codebase-design

mattpocock/skills

Gives the agent a shared vocabulary and principles for designing deep modules with clean seams.

882k installs · 307k stars

diagnosing-bugs

mattpocock/skills

Guides feedback-loop-first diagnosis of hard bugs and slow regressions, redacting secrets from output.

865k installs · 307k stars

vercel-react-best-practices

vercel-labs/agent-skills

Applies Vercel's React and Next.js performance rules when writing, reviewing or refactoring code.

854k installs · 33k stars

code-review

mattpocock/skills

Makes the agent review changes since a fixed point against repo standards and the originating spec.

821k installs · 307k stars

web-design-guidelines

vercel-labs/agent-skills

Reviews UI files against fetched Web Interface Guidelines and reports issues with file and line references.

803k installs · 33k stars

implement

mattpocock/skills

Implements a spec or tickets, runs tdd and code review, then commits to the current branch.

802k installs · 307k stars

ask-matt

mattpocock/skills

Routes you to the right skill or workflow for your situation, from idea to shipped code.

793k installs · 307k stars

wayfinder

mattpocock/skills

Maps a too-large effort as decision tickets on the tracker and resolves them until the route is clear.

747k installs · 307k stars

to-spec

mattpocock/skills

Turns the current conversation into a spec and publishes it to the issue tracker, with no interview.

743k installs · 307k stars

research

mattpocock/skills

Makes the agent research a question from primary sources and save cited findings as a Markdown file.

739k installs · 307k stars

to-tickets

mattpocock/skills

Splits a plan into vertical tracer-bullet tickets with blocking edges and publishes them to the tracker.

739k installs · 307k stars

remotion-best-practices

remotion-dev/skills

Routes Remotion video tasks to the matching guide for creating, previewing, multimedia and interactive editing.

712k installs · 6k stars

design-taste-frontend

Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Guides web page and app screen design with researched art directions and a strict anti-template style.

703k installs · 106k stars

caveman

JuliusBrussee/caveman

Makes the agent reply in terse, caveman-style prose to cut output tokens while keeping technical facts.

601k installs · 116k stars

microsoft-foundry

microsoft/azure-skills

Guides building, deploying, evaluating and managing Microsoft Foundry agents, models and resources end to end.

584k installs · 2k stars

Official from Anthropic 19

The anthropics/skills repo is a plugin marketplace: add it once, then install a plugin. anthropics/skills · 185k stars

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

document-skills

4 skills

xlsx · docx · pptx · pdf

Creates, edits, cleans, and converts spreadsheets (.xlsx, .csv, .tsv), including formulas and charts. Creates, reads, edits, and converts Word (.docx) and .dotx files, including tracked changes and comments.

example-skills

12 skills

algorithmic-art · brand-guidelines · canvas-design · doc-coauthoring · frontend-design · internal-comms · mcp-builder · skill-creator · slack-gif-creator · theme-factory · web-artifacts-builder · webapp-testing

Creates original p5.js generative art with seeded randomness, flow fields, and adjustable parameters. Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to artifacts that need its look and feel.

claude-api

1 skills

claude-api

Reference for the Claude API and Anthropic SDK covering models, pricing, tool use, caching, and migration.

academy-guide

1 skills

academy-guide

Recommends matching Claude Academy courses and tutorials when users ask how to use Claude or its features.

discernment-nudge

1 skills

discernment-nudge

After a substantive answer, asks 2-3 follow-up questions to help the user check facts and assumptions.

Whole collections 23

Popular skill repos, most starred first, with the install command from each README.

superpowers

obra/superpowers

Adds composable skills that make the agent brainstorm, plan, write tests first, and review code before finishing work.

309k stars

ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes the agent write only the code a task needs: it reuses existing code and libraries first, and keeps validation, security and tests.

181k stars

agent-skills

addyosmani/agent-skills

Production-grade engineering skills that make coding agents follow spec, plan, build, test, review, and ship workflows.

112k stars

taste-skill

Leonxlnx/taste-skill

Makes the agent design distinct websites and app screens, with a chosen art direction, real credited photos, and visual checks in a real browser.

106k stars

claude-mem

thedotmack/claude-mem

Captures tool usage in Claude Code sessions, generates semantic summaries, and makes them available to future sessions as persistent memory.

105k stars

impeccable

pbakaus/impeccable

Adds commands to steer and review UI design (critique, audit, polish, bolder) plus a rule-based detector for generic AI-style design.

96k stars

archify

tt-a1i/archify

Turns a system, idea, question, or plan into an interactive HTML diagram or one-page explainer that the agent can refine.

92k stars

Understand-Anything

Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything

Analyzes a codebase, wiki, or docs into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about.

89k stars

diagram-design

cathrynlavery/diagram-design

Draws editorial diagrams as one self-contained HTML and SVG file in your brand's style, across 45 diagram types.

63k stars

humanizer

blader/humanizer

Rewrites AI-generated prose to sound human-written while keeping its meaning, based on Wikipedia's signs of AI writing.

63k stars

i-have-adhd

ayghri/i-have-adhd

Makes the coding assistant lead with the next action, number multi-step tasks, and drop filler, preambles and recaps.

59k stars

marketingskills

coreyhaines31/marketingskills

Gives AI coding agents marketing skills for conversion optimization, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering.

57k stars

scientific-agent-skills

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

Gives AI agents 177 scientific skills for biology, chemistry, medicine, physics, engineering, and data analysis workflows.

55k stars

agents

wshobson/agents

Adds 94 plugins of agents, skills, and commands for Python, JavaScript, code review, testing, infrastructure, and security work.

42k stars

huashu-design

alchaincyf/huashu-design

Gives the agent design skills for interactive prototypes, slide decks, timeline animations, infographics, and five-dimension design reviews.

28k stars

planning-with-files

OthmanAdi/planning-with-files

Keeps task_plan.md, findings.md and progress.md on disk so the agent can resume multi-step work after context loss or /clear.

28k stars

baoyu-skills

JimLiu/baoyu-skills

Lets the agent generate Xiaohongshu image cards, infographics and article illustrations, and publish articles to WeChat Official Accounts.

27k stars

claude-seo

AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

Runs full SEO audits on any website, with parallel specialist agents covering technical SEO, content quality, schema markup, and AI search visibility.

24k stars

Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

A set of research skills that run an automated research workflow in Claude Code, with an independent model reviewing the executor's work.

18k stars

prompt-master

nidhinjs/prompt-master

Writes sharper, token-efficient prompts for many AI tools, adapting each prompt's structure to the tool it targets.

15k stars

video-shotcraft

Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft

Turns your real pages and copy into an editable promo MP4 in Remotion, using tuned motion recipes and beat-synced audio.

15k stars

claude-skills

Jeffallan/claude-skills

Ships 67 specialized skills for languages, frameworks, infra, testing, security and data, plus 9 Jira/Confluence workflow commands.

12k stars

dev-browser

SawyerHood/dev-browser

Lets coding agents control a persistent Chrome browser through short JavaScript scripts, with page snapshots for inspection.

7k stars

How to install

Any skill here, from a terminal. Works for Claude Code and other agents; add -g for all projects.

npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill tdd -a claude-code

Inside Claude Code, through a plugin marketplace.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file. Claude Code reads its one-line description at startup and the rest only when needed. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ for every project, or .claude/skills/ for one.

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