Agent skills
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Skills are folders with a SKILL.md that teach an agent a workflow (see Agent Skills specification (agentskills/agentskills) for the format). This page indexes every skill, collection, and related post from the operator's list, grouped by what you would use it for. Items with a wiki page carry the skill text (when the licence allows copying) so you can read it here without fetching; collection pages link to one page per skill inside the repository; the rest have the upstream link and a one-line note. Posts from X are quoted in full. Fetched 2026-09-10.
How to install any of these. npx skills add <owner>/<repo> puts a repo's skills into the folder your agent reads (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and others), or copy the SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. Each wiki page has the raw URL. Read Untrusted content and security first: a skill is instructions you will follow.
Writing and anti-slop
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no-ai-slop | Edit drafts into sharper, more human writing, or just flag AI-slop patterns | https://github.com/petergyang/no-ai-slop | MIT | no-ai-slop skill (Peter Yang) |
| human-review | Open HTML/Markdown in a visual editor; user edits and comments come back to the agent | https://github.com/petergyang/human-review | MIT | human-review skill (Peter Yang) |
| asd-ste100 | Rewrite into Simplified Technical English so agents and tools cannot misread it | https://github.com/danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill | MIT | asd-ste100 skill (Simplified Technical English) |
| ste100-skill | Another STE100 skill, for OpenCode, Claude, and ChatGPT (runbook style) | https://github.com/sdsheeks/ste100-skill | MIT | ste100 skill (sdsheeks/ste100-skill) |
| writing-styles | Agent skills for specific writing styles, including an asd-ste100 style | https://github.com/cfcosta/writing-styles | MIT | writing-styles: asd-ste100 skill (cfcosta/writing-styles) |
| asd-ste100-checker | Checks text against STE rules (dictionary and rule checks) with a companion skill | https://github.com/sourdough-bread/asd-ste100-checker | Apache-2.0 | asd-ste100-checker skill (sourdough-bread/asd-ste100-checker) |
| The cure for AI slop (STE kit) | Video episode and prompt kit on using STE against AI slop | https://github.com/woosal1337/blog/tree/main/videos/ep01-the-cure-for-ai-slop | unknown | |
| i-have-adhd | Lead with the next action, number steps, no tangents: ADHD-friendly output | https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd | MIT | i-have-adhd skill |
| caveman | Talk like caveman; cuts about 65% of output tokens | https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman | MIT (skills) | caveman skill (terse token-saving output) |
| claudish-to-english | Plugin that shows a plain-English rewrite of each assistant message | https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english | MIT | claudish-to-english plugin (plain-English rewrite of agent output) |
| Every: AI style guides | Article on writing a style guide so a model writes like you (tone, structure, deal-breakers); not a skill file | https://every.to/guides/ai-style-guide | article | |
| Matt Pocock: STE in CLAUDE.md | @mattpocockuk (verbatim): "Experimenting with a rare addition to my global CLAUDE.md: / "Always talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Always read CONTEXT.md files, and use their ubiquitous language."" | https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2084753070437609606 | post | |
| levelsio: STE memory | @levelsio (verbatim): "This finally stopped Claude's crazy pursuit of talking more and more unintelligible every passing day / > Save in memory to always use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when you talk to me / Thank god!" | https://x.com/levelsio/status/2086046112142545061 | post | |
| dctanner: GOV.UK style | @dctanner (verbatim): "@levelsio This is also terrific for written output. The UK gov has very clearly witting standards. / https://gist.github.com/fofr/505e225f9bf5e839d30c12ba6bfa0be2" | https://x.com/dctanner/status/2086117473573573089 | post | |
| Andrew Carr: STE thread | @andrew_n_carr (verbatim): "Claude and codex have gotten to the point where they invent their own project specific vocab. I use the Simplified Technical English prompt often when it gets out of hand. / That seems to reasonate, the community put together skills and guides based on that idea / Claude skill: / https://github.com/danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill / STE skill kit: / https://github.com/woosal1337/blog/tree/main/videos/ep01-the-cure-for-ai-slop / Writing styles: / https://github.com/cfcosta/writing-styles / Runbook skill: / https://github.com/sdsheeks/ste100-skill / STE checker: / https://github.com/sourdough-bread/asd-ste100-checker / Enjoy! Happy slop combat" | https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2082453463712018658 | post | |
| Karpathy: ramble sessions | @karpathy (verbatim): "One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on." | https://x.com/karpathy/status/2079610838143623371 | post | |
| AI-writing detection / Pangram / watermarks | Named in the request with no URL: statistical detectors of AI text (Pangram Labs, token-distribution and watermark methods). No open skill found; a starting point is the detection mode in no-ai-slop | n/a |
Design, diagrams, and slides
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hallmark | Anti-AI-slop design skill: greenfield pages, audits, redesigns, design extraction | https://github.com/Nutlope/hallmark | MIT | hallmark skill (anti-AI-slop design) |
| taste-skill (tasteskill.dev) | Anti-slop frontend framework skill, v2 design-taste-frontend plus brandkit, brutalist, minimalist variants | https://www.tasteskill.dev | MIT | taste-skill (design-taste-frontend) |
| architecture-diagram | Dark-themed system/cloud/network diagrams as standalone HTML+SVG | https://github.com/Cocoon-AI/architecture-diagram-generator | MIT | architecture-diagram skill (Cocoon AI) |
| diagram-design | 38 editorial diagram and chart types, self-contained HTML | https://github.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design | MIT | diagram-design skill (38 editorial diagram types) |
| archify | Validated architecture/workflow/sequence/data-flow diagrams with motion and export | https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify | MIT | archify skill (verifiable architecture diagrams) |
| frontend-slides | Animation-rich HTML presentations from scratch or from PPTX | https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides | MIT | frontend-slides skill (HTML presentations) |
| Threejs-Awesome-Graphics-Agent-Skills | 24 three.js skills for scenes and effects, with a router skill | https://github.com/scottstts/Threejs-Awesome-Graphics-Agent-Skills | MIT | scottstts/Threejs-Awesome-Graphics-Agent-Skills |
| Jay Scambler: isometric system map | @JayScambler (verbatim): "If you're looking for a skill/prompt try this: / Analyze [repo] at latest main. Create an isometric system map with legend and explainer panel. Show infrastructure as varied 3D buildings on a grid, with dependencies and payloads tracing real control/data paths. Cite files." | https://x.com/JayScambler/status/2088356230968287547 | post | |
| eli5 (Anthropic internal) | @trq212 (verbatim): "a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5 / /eli5 <what you want explained> / "explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"" | https://x.com/trq212/status/2090884854590382515 | post |
Video, demos, and media
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| video-use | Edit any video by conversation: transcribe, cut, grade, overlays, subtitles | https://github.com/browser-use/video-use | MIT | video-use skill (edit video by conversation) |
| claude-video (/watch) | Let the agent watch a video: yt-dlp, frames, transcript | https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video | MIT | watch skill (claude-video: let the agent watch a video) |
| Record and replay (ChatGPT/Codex docs) | Docs page on recording a browser session and replaying it as an automation in ChatGPT apps; closed product docs | https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/extend/record-and-replay | docs | |
| omarsar0: YouTube slides to Obsidian | @omarsar0 (verbatim): "Just built an insane new agent skill. / It can perfectly extract slides from YT videos, then write notes, images, transcripts, and slides into Obsidian vaults. / An HTML artifact allows me to navigate and add more notes as I listen. / Should I release the skill?" | https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2059281679961768442 | post |
Research, science, and knowledge
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| last30days | What people said about a topic in the last 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, and more | https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill | MIT | last30days skill (what people said about a topic recently) |
| scientific-agent-skills | 163 validated science skills and 100+ databases (bio, chem, medicine) | https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | MIT | K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (AI Scientist skills) |
| ARIS (Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep) | Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research, review loops, and paper pipelines | https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep | MIT | ARIS: Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep |
| notebooklm-py | Python API, CLI, and skill for Google NotebookLM | https://github.com/teng-lin/notebooklm-py | MIT | notebooklm skill (notebooklm-py) |
| notebooklm-skill | Smaller skill that lets Claude Code talk to your NotebookLM notebooks | https://github.com/PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill | MIT | notebooklm-skill skill (PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill) |
| book-to-skill | Turn a book PDF into a skill of its frameworks and techniques | https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill | MIT | book-to-skill skill |
| anydoc | Convert Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to Markdown | https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc | MIT | convert-documents-to-markdown skill (Firecrawl anydoc) |
| Skill_Seekers | Turn docs sites, repos, and PDFs into skills with conflict detection | https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers | MIT | skill-seekers skill (turn docs and repos into skills) |
| graphify | Codebase and docs to a queryable knowledge graph; installs always-on instructions | https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify | Apache-2.0 | graphify (codebase knowledge graph for agents) |
| dair-academy-plugins | learn, llm-council, wiki-builder and other teaching-style plugins | https://github.com/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins | MIT | dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins |
| obsidian-skills | Obsidian CLI, Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas, defuddle | https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills | MIT | kepano/obsidian-skills (Obsidian CLI and open formats) |
| tyler and other econ skills | Tweet plus page: /tyler converts a folder of academic PDFs into a token-efficient Markdown wiki; Diebolt simulates peer review; EHRstyle applies a journal house style | https://johanfourie.com/econtools.html | see site | |
| x-article-publisher-skill | Publish Markdown articles to X Articles from Claude Code | https://github.com/wshuyi/x-article-publisher-skill | MIT | x-article-publisher skill (wshuyi/x-article-publisher-skill) |
| Taiwan.md | @chenzeling4 (verbatim): "Taiwan.md: AI-native open knowledge base about Taiwan. 656 curated articles across 13 categories, translated into 6 languages. Interactive knowledge graph, resource mindmap, live dashboard. Built with llms.txt for AI friendliness. By frank890417. / 971 stars / #Taiwan #OpenSource" | https://x.com/chenzeling4/status/2051862981374312681 | post | |
| Dan Koe: remember what you read | X article by @thedankoe, "How to remember everything you read (stop trying)" (opening text, verbatim): "If you need to remember it, it’s not important. If it’s important, you will remember it. / For some reason, it’s become an obsession to remember everything you read. There are hundreds of videos about" | https://x.com/thedankoe/status/2081415714636996844 | article | |
| 30-seconds-of-code | Coding articles and snippets; reference material, not a skill | https://github.com/Chalarangelo/30-seconds-of-code | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| app-ideas | Collection of application ideas for practice projects; not a skill | https://github.com/florinpop17/app-ideas | MIT |
Marketing, SEO, and product
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude-seo | Universal SEO skill: 25 sub-skills, 18 sub-agents, GEO/AEO | https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo | MIT | seo skill (claude-seo: 25 sub-skills, 18 sub-agents) |
| marketingskills | 50 marketing skills: CRO, copywriting, SEO, ads, email, social, pricing | https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills | MIT | coreyhaines31/marketingskills (marketing skills for agents) |
| pm-skills | 100+ product-management skills, commands, and plugins | https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills | MIT | phuryn/pm-skills (PM Skills Marketplace) |
| "claude marketing thing / instagram" | Named in the request with no URL. Closest matches: the social skill in marketingskills (Instagram, LinkedIn, X, TikTok) and the Marketing and Sales section of awesome-openclaw-skills | n/a | ||
| Ruben Hassid: skill library | @rubenhassid (verbatim): "These are the exact Claude Skills I use every day. / I'm giving you the whole library (for free): / A Skill is just a /command that fires itself. / No more re-explaining who you are. / No more "read this file first." / No more rebuilding the same setup every chat. / You type one word. Claude already knows the job. / Here are the ones I use the most: / 1. /grill-me - forces Claude to interview me with 10-15 questions before it builds anything. / 2. /humanizer - kills the em-dashes, the dead giveaway AI words. Finally reads human. / 3. /fact-checker - verifies every claim before I publish. Saved me from bad info more than once. / 4. /prompt-master - restructures my messy brain-dumps before Claude runs the task. / 5. /linkedin-hook - writes the first two lines that decide whether anyone reads the post. / …and the rest of the library, all done, all free. / Stop building Skills from scratch. I already did the days of work. Here's how to get all of them: / Step 1. Subscribe for free at http://how-to-ai.guide. / Step 2. Open the welcome email (don't skip this). / Step 3. Click the Notion link. Open "Skills" folder. / Step 4. Download the whole Skills library. / Step 5. Upload to Claude → Settings → Skills. / That's it. One click, zero weekends. / The best part: Claude only reads the 3-line header of each Skill until you need it. So installing the whole library actually saves tokens. / ♻️ Repost this to save someone a weekend." | https://x.com/rubenhassid/status/2082420878785089799 | post | |
| Corey Ganim: sellable plugin | @coreyganim (verbatim): "The exact Claude skill/plugin I’d build and sell for $1,000-2,000: / Would take about 5 minutes to build lol" | https://x.com/coreyganim/status/2077175964476346676 | post |
Security
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills | 817 cybersecurity skills mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, ATLAS, D3FEND, F3, NIST AI RMF (community project) | https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills | Apache-2.0 | mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (817 security skills) |
Memory, context, and planning
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| memU | Personal memory across agents; SKILL.md installs it into whichever host you are | https://github.com/NevaMind-AI/memU | Apache-2.0 | memU install skill (personal memory across agents) |
| Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering | Skills about context management, memory, multi-agent design, evaluation | https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering | MIT | muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering |
| planning-with-files | task_plan.md, findings.md, progress.md kept on disk with hooks | https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files | MIT | planning-with-files skill |
| vision | Draft and stress-test a VISION.md so agents stop needing you as the bottleneck | https://github.com/kunchenguid/vision | MIT | vision skill (write a VISION.md) |
| loop-me | Grill the user about workflow specs (Matt Pocock) | https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/in-progress/loop-me/SKILL.md | MIT | loop-me skill (Matt Pocock) |
| loopy | Library and skill for repeatable, audited agent loops | https://github.com/Forward-Future/loopy | MIT | loopy skill (repeatable agent loops) |
| mattpocock/skills | grill-me, grill-with-docs, handoff, tdd, domain-modeling, improve-codebase-architecture, retro | https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills | MIT | mattpocock/skills (Skills for Real Engineers) |
| distilly (colleague-skill) | Distill how a person thinks into an evidence-grounded reusable profile | https://github.com/titanwings/colleague-skill | MIT | distilly skill (colleague-skill: distill how a person thinks) |
| deer-flow | ByteDance super-agent harness (sub-agents, memory, sandboxes, skills, message gateway); a platform, not a skill; ships 33 built-in skills | https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow | MIT | |
| Shann Holmberg: grill bundle | @shannholmberg (verbatim): "how @mattpocockuk's 7-line skill bundle improve AI context gathering / its a grill-first workflow for Claude Code (or any other harness), it interview you before agents start working on your codebase to ensure you have the most accurate context / every skill, and what it does: / interview / > /grill-me: a 7-line skill that interviews you 1 question at a time until every decision is resolved / > /grilling: the reusable loop behind grill-me and grill-with-docs / > /grill-with-docs: the same grill, and it builds a CONTEXT .md glossary and ADRs as you go / domain and design / > /domain-modeling: sharpens the project's shared vocabulary and glossary / > /codebase-design: deep-module design, a simple interface that hides deep functionality / > /improve-codebase-architecture: scans for architecture opportunities, writes an HTML report, then grills the one you pick / spec and plan / > /to-spec: collapses the conversation into a spec, no interview, publishes it to your tracker / > /to-tickets: breaks the spec into tracer-bullet tickets, each declaring what blocks it / > /wayfinder: splits work too big for 1 session into a set of investigation tickets on your tracker / > /triage: moves issues through a state machine of triage roles / build / > /implement: builds from the spec or tickets, drives TDD, closes with code-review / > /tdd: red-green at agreed seams, 1 vertical slice at a time / > /prototype: throwaway code to answer a design question / > /research: a background agent investigates against primary sources, leaves a cited file / review and fix / > /code-review: 2 parallel subagents report side by side, 1 on your standards, 1 on the spec / > /diagnosing-bugs: reproduce, minimise, hypothesise, instrument, fix, regression-test / > /resolving-merge-conflicts: resolves conflicts hunk by hunk, by intent / workflow / > /ask-matt: routes you to the skill or flow that fits your situation / > /handoff: compacts a conversation into a doc for the next agent or session / > /teach: multi-session teaching, the directory as a stateful workspace / > /writing-great-skills: a reference for writing and editing skills / > /setup-matt-pocock-skills: configures the repo, run once / the value it brings builders: / grilling comes first. /grill-me and /grill-with-docs interview you 1 question at a time until you've signed off on every decision. only then does /to-spec write the spec, /to-tickets break it up, /implement build it, and /code-review check it twice" | https://x.com/shannholmberg/status/2080659768688169323 | post | |
| vikvang1: grill-me | @vikvang1 (verbatim): "If you haven’t seen the /grill-me skill before it’s barely 10 lines of text / Very bitter-lesson ish" | https://x.com/vikvang1/status/2088065672735555684 | post | |
| Matt Pocock: /handoff | @mattpocockuk (verbatim): "/handoff might be my new favourite skill" | https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2052489881088049407 | post | |
| pvncher: multi-agent orchestration | X article by @pvncher, "Practical multi-agent orchestration in Codex" (opening text, verbatim): "GPT-5.6 Sol gets especially interesting when it has a team to work with. Codex's new Multi-Agent V2 tools give Sol and Terra a natural way to delegate tasks, share updates, and coordinate through" | https://x.com/pvncher/status/2080707291603407077 | article |
Coding methodology
| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| superpowers | Skills framework and dev methodology: brainstorm, plan, TDD, debug, verify | https://github.com/obra/superpowers | MIT | obra/superpowers (skills framework and dev methodology) |
| andrej-karpathy-skills | One CLAUDE.md of Karpathy-derived rules against LLM coding pitfalls | https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills | MIT | Andrej Karpathy coding guidelines (CLAUDE.md) |
| Matt Pocock: /improve-codebase-architecture | @mattpocockuk (verbatim): "Vibed out an app today and I haven't looked at the internals at all / Things are going wrong with it, I'm scared and frustrated / Then I remembered /improve-codebase-architecture / What a lovely, warm bath of a skill" | https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2086838432102228008 | post | |
| gstack | Garry Tan's Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools acting as CEO, designer, eng manager, release manager, doc engineer, and QA (browse, qa, review, ship, plan reviews, design review, investigate). The operator runs it locally; listed under 'Skills by Garry Tan (gstack)' in awesome-agent-skills | https://github.com/garrytan/gstack | MIT | garrytan/gstack (Garry Tan's Claude Code skill suite) |
| SLAP skill | Named in the request with no URL; no public skill by that name found. Possibly the "single level of abstraction principle" as a refactoring rule | n/a | ||
| yanhua1010: installed skills | @yanhua1010 (verbatim): "推荐一些我目前安装的Claude Skills: / 1. Anthropic官方Skills / https://github.com/anthropics/skills / 2. Superpowers / 1.6万Star的Skill精选，从脑暴、写需求文档、开发、测试全包含，口碑相当好。 / https://github.com/obra/superpowers / 3. Planning-with-files / 参考Manus的Agent方法写的Skill。很适合多步骤任务，用这个Skill指导其他Skill工作也挺好。 / https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files / 4. X-article-publisher-skill / 王树义老师写的X文章发布Skill， 这个值得研究下，后续看看能不能实现其他平台的自动化 / https://github.com/wshuyi/x-article-publisher-skill / 5. NotebookLM skill / 自动上传PDF、Youtube链接到NotebookLM，很适合NotebookLM内容的自动化处理 / https://github.com/PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill / 还有一些是自己平时总结的内容创作skills，后续继续分享具体使用场景案例！" | https://x.com/yanhua1010/status/2010690881397940340 | post |
Catalogs and registries
Adding a skill page
Make a page skill-<name> with a one-paragraph "what it does and when", a table (upstream, license, author, fetched date), an install section, and the SKILL.md verbatim under ## SKILL.md (verbatim) only if the licence is MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, MPL-2.0, CC0, CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA; otherwise summarise in your own words and say "Not reproduced". Then add a row here. See How to edit.