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title: Agent skills
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Skills are folders with a `SKILL.md` that teach an agent a workflow (see [[skills-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; the rest have the upstream link and a one-line note. 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 | [[skill-no-ai-slop]] |
| 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 | [[skill-human-review]] |
| asd-ste100 | Rewrite into Simplified Technical English so agents and tools cannot misread it | https://github.com/danyuchn/asd-ste100-skill | MIT | [[skill-asd-ste100]] |
| ste100-skill | Another STE100 skill, for OpenCode, Claude, and ChatGPT (runbook style) | https://github.com/sdsheeks/ste100-skill | MIT |  |
| writing-styles | Agent skills for specific writing styles, including an asd-ste100 style | https://github.com/cfcosta/writing-styles | MIT |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| govuk-style | GOV.UK plain-English house style as a skill (gist) | https://gist.github.com/fofr/505e225f9bf5e839d30c12ba6bfa0be2 | none found | [[skill-govuk-style]] |
| i-have-adhd | Lead with the next action, number steps, no tangents: ADHD-friendly output | https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd | MIT | [[skill-i-have-adhd]] |
| caveman | Talk like caveman; cuts about 65% of output tokens | https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman | MIT (skills) | [[skill-caveman]] |
| claudish-to-english | Plugin that shows a plain-English rewrite of each assistant message | https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english | MIT | [[skill-claudish-to-english]] |
| 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 | Tweet: "Always talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Always read CONTEXT.md files" | https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2084753070437609606 | post |  |
| levelsio: STE memory | Tweet: saving "always use ASD-STE100" in memory stopped Claude getting more unintelligible | https://x.com/levelsio/status/2086046112142545061 | post |  |
| dctanner: GOV.UK style | Reply pointing to the govuk-style gist as a writing standard | https://x.com/dctanner/status/2086117473573573089 | post |  |
| Andrew Carr: STE thread | Thread listing the STE skill, STE kit, writing-styles, runbook skill, and checker above | https://x.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2082453463712018658 | post |  |
| Karpathy: ramble sessions | Tweet: switch to voice and ramble for 10 minutes; LLMs reconstruct incoherent rambles well; not a skill | 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 | [[skill-hallmark]] |
| taste-skill (tasteskill.dev) | Anti-slop frontend framework skill, v2 design-taste-frontend plus brandkit, brutalist, minimalist variants | https://www.tasteskill.dev | MIT | [[skill-taste-skill]] |
| architecture-diagram | Dark-themed system/cloud/network diagrams as standalone HTML+SVG | https://github.com/Cocoon-AI/architecture-diagram-generator | MIT | [[skill-architecture-diagram-generator]] |
| diagram-design | 38 editorial diagram and chart types, self-contained HTML | https://github.com/cathrynlavery/diagram-design | MIT | [[skill-diagram-design]] |
| archify | Validated architecture/workflow/sequence/data-flow diagrams with motion and export | https://github.com/tt-a1i/archify | MIT | [[skill-archify]] |
| frontend-slides | Animation-rich HTML presentations from scratch or from PPTX | https://github.com/zarazhangrui/frontend-slides | MIT | [[skill-frontend-slides]] |
| guizang-ppt-skill | Single-file HTML decks in magazine or Swiss style with presenter view (Chinese) | https://github.com/op7418/guizang-ppt-skill | AGPL-3.0 | [[skill-guizang-ppt]] |
| 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 | [[skills-threejs-awesome-graphics-agent-skills]] |
| Jay Scambler: isometric system map | Prompt: "Analyze [repo] at latest main. Create an isometric system map with legend and explainer panel; infrastructure as 3D buildings on a grid; dependencies tracing real control/data paths; cite files." | https://x.com/JayScambler/status/2088356230968287547 | post |  |
| eli5 (Anthropic internal) | Tweet: "/eli5 <topic>": explain like I know nothing, as an HTML artifact with big pictures and few words. No public repo | 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 | [[skill-video-use]] |
| claude-video (/watch) | Let the agent watch a video: yt-dlp, frames, transcript | https://github.com/bradautomates/claude-video | MIT | [[skill-claude-video]] |
| Recordly | Desktop app (Mac/Windows/Linux) for polished demo videos: auto-zoom, cursor polish, webcam bubble, timeline; not a skill | https://github.com/webadderallorg/Recordly | AGPL-3.0 |  |
| 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 | Tweet: unreleased skill that extracts slides from YouTube videos and writes notes, images, transcript into an Obsidian vault | 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 | [[skill-last30days]] |
| scientific-agent-skills | 163 validated science skills and 100+ databases (bio, chem, medicine) | https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | MIT | [[skills-scientific-agent-skills]] |
| academic-research-skills | Research, write, review, revise, finalize pipeline for papers | https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | [[skills-academic-research-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 | [[skills-auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep]] |
| notebooklm-py | Python API, CLI, and skill for Google NotebookLM | https://github.com/teng-lin/notebooklm-py | MIT | [[skill-notebooklm-py]] |
| notebooklm-skill | Smaller skill that lets Claude Code talk to your NotebookLM notebooks | https://github.com/PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill | MIT |  |
| book-to-skill | Turn a book PDF into a skill of its frameworks and techniques | https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill | MIT | [[skill-book-to-skill]] |
| anydoc | Convert Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to Markdown | https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc | MIT | [[skill-anydoc]] |
| Skill_Seekers | Turn docs sites, repos, and PDFs into skills with conflict detection | https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers | MIT | [[skill-skill-seekers]] |
| graphify | Codebase and docs to a queryable knowledge graph; installs always-on instructions | https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify | Apache-2.0 | [[tool-graphify]] |
| dair-academy-plugins | learn, llm-council, wiki-builder and other teaching-style plugins | https://github.com/dair-ai/dair-academy-plugins | MIT | [[skills-dair-academy-plugins]] |
| obsidian-skills | Obsidian CLI, Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas, defuddle | https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills | MIT | [[skills-obsidian-skills]] |
| 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 |  |
| Taiwan.md | Tweet: AI-native open knowledge base about Taiwan, 656 articles, llms.txt; an example of an agent-friendly corpus, not a skill | https://x.com/chenzeling4/status/2051862981374312681 | post |  |
| Dan Koe: remember what you read | X article "How to remember everything you read (stop trying)"; essay, not a skill | 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 | [[skill-claude-seo]] |
| marketingskills | 50 marketing skills: CRO, copywriting, SEO, ads, email, social, pricing | https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills | MIT | [[skills-marketingskills]] |
| pm-skills | 100+ product-management skills, commands, and plugins | https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills | MIT | [[skills-pm-skills]] |
| "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 | Tweet listing his daily skills: /grill-me, /humanizer, /fact-checker and more, offered via his newsletter; no repo link | https://x.com/rubenhassid/status/2082420878785089799 | post |  |
| Corey Ganim: sellable plugin | Video tweet: the Claude plugin he would build and sell for $1,000 to $2,000; no repo | 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 | [[skills-anthropic-cybersecurity-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 | [[skill-memu]] |
| Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering | Skills about context management, memory, multi-agent design, evaluation | https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering | MIT | [[skills-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 | [[skill-planning-with-files]] |
| vision | Draft and stress-test a VISION.md so agents stop needing you as the bottleneck | https://github.com/kunchenguid/vision | MIT | [[skill-vision]] |
| 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 | [[skill-loop-me]] |
| loopy | Library and skill for repeatable, audited agent loops | https://github.com/Forward-Future/loopy | MIT | [[skill-loopy]] |
| mattpocock/skills | grill-me, grill-with-docs, handoff, tdd, domain-modeling, improve-codebase-architecture, retro | https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills | MIT | [[skills-mattpocock-skills]] |
| distilly (colleague-skill) | Distill how a person thinks into an evidence-grounded reusable profile | https://github.com/titanwings/colleague-skill | MIT | [[skill-distilly]] |
| 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 | Tweet explaining the grill-me / grilling / grill-with-docs / domain-modeling bundle | https://x.com/shannholmberg/status/2080659768688169323 | post |  |
| vikvang1: grill-me | Tweet: /grill-me is barely 10 lines of text, very bitter-lesson | https://x.com/vikvang1/status/2088065672735555684 | post |  |
| Matt Pocock: /handoff | Tweet: "/handoff might be my new favourite skill" | https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2052489881088049407 | post |  |
| pvncher: multi-agent orchestration | X article "Practical multi-agent orchestration in Codex"; essay, not a skill | 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 | [[skills-superpowers]] |
| andrej-karpathy-skills | One CLAUDE.md of Karpathy-derived rules against LLM coding pitfalls | https://github.com/multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills | MIT | [[skill-karpathy-guidelines]] |
| Matt Pocock: /improve-codebase-architecture | Tweet: the skill that rescued a vibe-coded app; lives in mattpocock/skills | 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 |  |
| 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 | Tweet listing anthropics/skills, superpowers, planning-with-files, x-article-publisher, notebooklm-skill | https://x.com/yanhua1010/status/2010690881397940340 | post |  |

## Catalogs and registries

| Name | What it does | Upstream | License | Wiki page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agent Skills specification | The SKILL.md format and how agents load skills | https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills | Apache-2.0 | [[skills-agentskills]] |
| anthropics/skills | Anthropic official skills (docx, pptx, xlsx, pdf, frontend-design, mcp-builder) | https://github.com/anthropics/skills | per-skill | [[skills-anthropics-skills]] |
| openai/skills | Skills Catalog for Codex | https://github.com/openai/skills | per-skill | [[skills-openai-skills]] |
| awesome-agent-skills | 1000+ skills by official teams and community (VoltAgent) | https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills | MIT | [[skills-awesome-agent-skills]] |
| awesome-openclaw-skills | 5,400+ OpenClaw registry skills, categorised | https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills | MIT | [[skills-awesome-openclaw-skills]] |
| awesome-claude-skills | Composio curated list plus 832 app-integration skills | https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills | Apache-2.0 | [[skills-awesome-claude-skills]] |
| awesome-llm-apps | 100+ agent and RAG apps plus agent_skills | https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps | Apache-2.0 | [[skills-awesome-llm-apps]] |
| agentic-awesome-skills | AAS Core: 2,000+ skills with CLI, MCP, bundles, workflows | https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | MIT | [[skills-agentic-awesome-skills]] |
| vercel-labs/agent-skills | Vercel official skills and the skills CLI | https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills | MIT | [[skills-vercel-agent-skills]] |

## 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]].