An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file of instructions, sometimes with scripts and reference material, that a coding agent such as Claude Code loads when a task calls for it. Skills are how people package a repeatable way of working so the agent does it the same way every time.
These are the skills our team has collected on our GitHub account. We did not write them. Every repository below is a fork of a project created by someone else, and each entry credits the original author with a link to the upstream project. Our fork is linked as well. We describe each one in our own words, and the skill counts and licences were checked on 2026-10-10.
Engineering and quality
Matt Pocock's engineering skills
Forty-one small, composable skills from a working developer's own setup, aimed at real engineering rather than one-shot app generation. They cover test-driven development, diagnosing bugs, code review, refactor planning, writing specs and tickets, domain modelling, triage and git safety guardrails. The author's point is that you adapt them rather than follow a fixed process.
Original project: mattpocock/skills by Matt Pocock · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 41
Vibe Security
One skill that reviews apps built quickly with AI assistants for the security mistakes those assistants tend to make: hard-coded secrets, missing row-level security, trusting prices sent from the browser and keeping tokens in local storage. It loads rules for the technologies a project actually uses, such as Supabase or Stripe.
Original project: raroque/vibe-security-skill by Chris Raroque · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 1
Anthropic's reference skills
Anthropic's own collection of example skills for Claude. It includes skills for Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel files, front-end design, building MCP servers, testing web apps and writing new skills. Anthropic describes the repository as demonstration and educational material, and licensing differs from one skill to the next, so check each folder before reuse.
Original project: anthropics/skills by Anthropic · Licence: varies by skill · SKILL.md files in the repository: 17
Understand-Anything
A Claude Code plugin that analyses a codebase, knowledge base or set of documents and builds an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search and question. Its skills cover onboarding, explaining code, comparing changes and mapping business domains.
Original project: Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything by Egonex AI (originally created by Lum1104) · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 8
Marketing, SEO and growth
Marketing Skills
Thirty-four skills for marketing work done with a coding agent: conversion optimisation for pages, forms, popups and signup flows, copywriting and editing, SEO and schema markup, analytics tracking, pricing, email sequences, paid ads, referral programmes and launch planning. A single product-context skill is read first so the others know your product and audience.
Original project: coreyhaines31/marketingskills by Corey Haines · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 34
SEO-GOD
A skill that turns an agent into an SEO operator for a site you own. It crawls the site with a local OpenSEO container, fixes what it finds inside your repository, reads your Search Console numbers and compares today with yesterday, then repeats on a schedule.
Original project: AKCodez/seo-god by AKCodez · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 1
Design
Taste Skill
Four skills that aim to make AI-written front-end code look designed instead of generic. The main skill covers layout, type, colour, spacing and motion, and a second one is for improving an existing interface by fixing the biggest problems first.
Original project: Leonxlnx/taste-skill by Leonxlnx · Licence: no licence declared · SKILL.md files in the repository: 4
UI UX Pro Max
A single skill that generates a design system for a project. You describe what you are building and it reasons out a layout pattern, visual style, colour palette and typography across web and mobile platforms.
Original project: nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill by NextLevelBuilder · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 1
Pascal image and design skills
Six small skills for working with images and interfaces: extracting colour palettes from screenshots and mock-ups, comparing two images pixel by pixel with a mismatch percentage, checking contrast, turning images into text, web-design guidance and agent collaboration.
Original project: pascalorg/skills by Pascal · Licence: no licence declared · SKILL.md files in the repository: 6
Research and productivity
last30days
A research skill that gathers what people said about any topic over the last 30 days on Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket and the wider web, scores and de-duplicates the results, and writes a synthesis. The author warns that a run takes roughly two to eight minutes.
Original project: mvanhorn/last30days-skill by Matt Van Horn · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 2
Book to Skill
Takes a technical book or a folder of reference documents and turns it into one skill the agent can consult while you work, for GitHub Copilot CLI, Amp or Claude Code.
Original project: virgiliojr94/book-to-skill by Virgilio Jr. · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 1
AI Job Search
A job-application workflow for Claude Code. You fill in a profile, then its skills collect listings, judge fit, tailor a CV, draft cover letters and prepare you for interviews. The author states it is independent and not affiliated with Anthropic.
Original project: MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search by Mads Lorentzen · Licence: MIT · SKILL.md files in the repository: 9
Finance
Claude Trading Skills
Sixty-eight skills for working through equity-market analysis: market breadth, sector and technical analysis, earnings and economic calendars, stock screeners such as CANSLIM and dividend growth, and strategy backtesting. Educational tooling only, and nothing in it is investment advice.
Original project: tradermonty/claude-trading-skills by tradermonty · Licence: no licence declared · SKILL.md files in the repository: 68
Skill catalogues
Awesome Skills
A catalogue of 587 role-based skills, from executives and engineers to chefs and veterinarians, each installed individually. It is an index to browse rather than a tool to run.
Original project: theneoai/awesome-skills by theneoai · Licence: licence not asserted · SKILL.md files in the repository: 587
Awesome Claude Skills
A curated list of Claude skills and resources from the Composio team. A large share of the entries are app-automation skills, and it also describes a plugin for connecting Claude to hundreds of apps.
Original project: ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills by ComposioHQ · Licence: no licence declared
Using any of them
Read the licence and the skill’s instructions before you install it, and run new skills on a copy of your project first. A skill is a set of instructions your agent will follow, so it should come from an author you are comfortable trusting. Looking for tools that are not skills? The ThriveXDNA directory lists AI apps and MCP servers.