The most-starred Skills collection on GitHub: gives AI coding agents a full set of "superpowers" workflows covering debugging, planning, testing and more.
Agent Skills Encyclopedia
“Professional capability packs” you install into an AI agent — what they are, curated projects, and installation tutorials.
What is a Skill?
A Skill is a “professional capability pack” you install into an AI agent: a folder that holds an instruction manual
(SKILL.md), scripts and reference material. The AI loads it on demand,
so it learns the correct way to do a specific task — writing brand copy, analyzing data, building slides, or testing web pages, each one a specialist at its own job.
Think of an AI agent as a smart but untrained new hire: a Skill is its onboarding manual plus toolbox. Install a design Skill and it produces professional UI; install a research Skill and it writes with academic rigor.
This format was started by Anthropic and has become an open standard adopted by roughly 40 mainstream AI clients.
Plug and play
Standard folder structure — clone or copy into the target directory and you're done.
Loaded on demand
The AI only reads it when a task calls for it, so it doesn't waste context window.
Make your own
Write a single SKILL.md to teach the AI your own workflow.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills See each project's README for installation in other clients.
Essential Guides
What Are Skills? The Agent Skills Open Standard, Explained
How Skills work, SKILL.md format, ecosystem adoption, and how they differ from MCP — beginner friendly.
Read more → List10 Agent Skills Most Worth Installing
Who should install what — devs, designers, creators — with star counts and copy-paste install commands.
Read more → ComparisonSkills vs MCP: What's the Real Difference?
Essence, analogy, and audience in one comparison table — plus how to decide which to install first.
Read more → TutorialHow to Install Skills: Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Cursor
Three-step installation per client, with a verification step once you're set up.
Read more → TutorialCreate Your Own Skill: Write a SKILL.md from Scratch
Four steps to your first Skill: structure, best practices, testing, and common pitfalls.
Read more → AdvancedSKILL.md Writing Guide: 10 Copy-and-Paste Templates
Field-by-field breakdown plus 10 ready-to-use templates for meetings, email, weekly reports and more.
Read more →Featured Skill Projects
Star counts as of the 2026-09-02 snapshotA Skills collection from Matt Pocock, a leading educator in the TypeScript community. High quality, well regarded — a top pick for front-end developers.
Turns Andrej Karpathy's (former Director of AI at Tesla) engineering philosophy into installable Agent Skills — a unique entry point for learning AI engineering thinking.
Anthropic's official Agent Skills repository and the source of the Skills standard. Includes official examples for document processing (docx/pdf/pptx/xlsx), MCP building and testing. A must-read for learning Skills.
Anthropic's official terminal-based coding agent and one of the most important hosts in the Skills and MCP ecosystem. Start here to understand the ecosystem.
A huge collection of system prompts from well-known AI tools — the best resource for studying how leading products write prompts, and closely aligned with this site's prompt theme.
An all-star collection of LLM apps: 300+ production-grade AI application examples covering RAG, chatbots, agents and customer support. The best reference library for learning AI app development.
A cross-platform config switcher: manage configuration and keys for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other AI coding tools from one panel. A practical boost for multi-tool users.
A Skill purpose-built for UI/UX work: lets AI agents produce professional interface design and interaction solutions — a game-changer for indie developers without a formal design background.
A Skills collection from Addy Osmani of the Google Chrome team — authoritative, battle-tested practice in web performance and front-end engineering.
A curated directory of Claude Skills, resources and tools organized by workflow scenario — a navigation site for finding ready-made Skills.
A complete resource hub for the Claude Code ecosystem: skills, plugins, configuration, prompts and workflows all in one place. A must-save list for serious Claude Code users.
Note-taking Skills from the CEO of Obsidian: lets AI agents deeply understand and operate your Obsidian vault. Essential for heavy note-takers.
A curated collection of agentic Skills: high-quality AI agent capabilities and workflows organized by use case. Install them to level up your agent instantly.
The official GitHub-maintained curated list for Copilot: plugins, commands, prompts and best practices — everything you need to get the most out of GitHub Copilot.
Anthropic's officially maintained directory of high-quality Claude Code plugins — a vetted distribution channel for plugins and Skills.
A Skills collection built for agent workflows: focused on AI agent automation, with carefully selected reusable skill packs and flow templates that are quick to adopt.
Agent Skills from Vercel's official labs, built around front-end deployment and modern web engineering pipelines. Ideal for full-stack front-end developers.
A Chinese-friendly collection of Agent Skills: curated agent capabilities and resources that help you quickly understand and adopt the open SKILL.md standard ecosystem.
A collection for the Hermes Agent ecosystem: skills, plugins and tools centered on the Hermes agent. A treasure list for extending agent capabilities.
A navigation list of Agent Skills resources: curates common Claude Code skills, config snippets, workflows and real-world experience. An engineering-oriented checklist.
A huge collection of ChatGPT-related repositories: thousands of tools, prompts and application-level projects. An index for exploring the OpenAI ecosystem.
Skills built for the finance industry: covering financial statement analysis, investment research and research-report writing. Worth saving for research-and-investment professionals.
A complete guide to getting started with Claude Code: from installation and skills to advanced configuration — beginner-friendly and easy to follow step by step.
A collection of design-oriented Agent Skills: UI/UX guidelines, branding and visual review capability packs. Suited to designers and design teams.
Project-management Claude Skills: capability packs for requirement decomposition, Gantt charts, OKR and weekly reports. Built for product managers.
A treasure trove of Claude Code abilities: practical skills and prompt assets shared by the community. A high-quality resource collection.