Agent Skills

Enabling your agents to complete tasks more accurately and efficiently.

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Discover through AI search, categorized by use cases, industry leaders, or community trends. Read the standard SKILL.md, and ready to deploy.

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Anthropic Agent Skills

Agent Skills were introduced by Anthropic and serve as the reference standard.

slack-gif-creator

74.8K
slack-gif-creator
@anthropics/skills
Knowledge and utilities for creating animated GIFs optimized for Slack. Provides constraints, validation tools, and animation concepts. Use when users request animated GIFs for Slack like "make me a GIF of X doing Y for Slack.

internal-comms

74.8K
internal-comms
@anthropics/skills
A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal communications (status reports, leadership updates, 3P updates, company newsletters, FAQs, incident reports, project updates, etc.).

template-skill

74.8K
template-skill
@anthropics/skills
Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.

brand-guidelines

74.8K
brand-guidelines
@anthropics/skills
Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.

web-artifacts-builder

74.8K
web-artifacts-builder
@anthropics/skills
Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies (React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui). Use for complex artifacts requiring state management, routing, or shadcn/ui components - not for simple single-file HTML/JSX artifacts.

theme-factory

74.8K
theme-factory
@anthropics/skills
Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc. There are 10 pre-set themes with colors/fonts that you can apply to any artifact that has been creating, or can generate a new theme on-the-fly.

doc-coauthoring

74.8K
doc-coauthoring
@anthropics/skills
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.

algorithmic-art

74.8K
algorithmic-art
@anthropics/skills
Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow fields, or particle systems. Create original algorithmic art rather than copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

canvas-design

74.8K
canvas-design
@anthropics/skills
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

mcp-builder

74.8K
mcp-builder
@anthropics/skills
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

webapp-testing

74.8K
webapp-testing
@anthropics/skills
Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser logs.

xlsx

74.8K
xlsx
@anthropics/skills
Use this skill any time a spreadsheet file is the primary input or output. This means any task where the user wants to: open, read, edit, or fix an existing .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv, or .tsv file (e.g., adding columns, computing formulas, formatting, charting, cleaning messy data); create a new spreadsheet from scratch or from other data sources; or convert between tabular file formats. Trigger especially when the user references a spreadsheet file by name or path — even casually (like \\"the xlsx in my downloads\\") — and wants something done to it or produced from it. Also trigger for cleaning or restructuring messy tabular data files (malformed rows, misplaced headers, junk data) into proper spreadsheets. The deliverable must be a spreadsheet file. Do NOT trigger when the primary deliverable is a Word document, HTML report, standalone Python script, database pipeline, or Google Sheets API integration, even if tabular data is involved.

Github Top Agent Skills

Ranked by GitHub stars. The most popular Agent Skills in Community.

What Can Agent Skills Enable?

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently. Build once, deploy across multiple agent products.

Domain Expertise

Package specialized knowledge into reusable Agent Skills - from legal review processes to data analysis pipelines. Give agents the procedural knowledge they need for real work.

New Capabilities

Give agents new capabilities with Agent Skills: creating presentations, building MCP servers, analyzing datasets, and more. Skills extend agent capabilities based on the task at hand.

Repeatable Workflows

Turn multi-step tasks into consistent and auditable workflows with Agent Skills. Combine independent skill modules for complex, repeatable processes.

Interoperability

Reuse the same Agent Skills across different skills-compatible products. The open format works with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and leading AI development tools.

Portable & Version-Controlled

Capture organizational knowledge in portable, version-controlled Agent Skills packages. Deploy capabilities across teams and enterprises without lock-in.

Open Standard

Agent Skills format was developed by Anthropic and released as an open standard. Adopted by a growing ecosystem - contribute and integrate with SKILL.md specification.

Testimonials

What Users Say About Agent Skills

Hear from developers and enterprises building powerful AI agents with Agent Skills and experiencing automation capabilities.

Emily Johnson

Software Engineer

Agent Skills helped me automate our entire document processing workflow. Reusable skill modules saved hours of repetitive work, and the code execution capability perfectly handles complex Excel operations.

Michael Rodriguez

DevOps Engineer

The composability of Agent Skills is fantastic. I combine multiple skills to create complex automation workflows that would take weeks to build manually. Everything works seamlessly.

Sarah Chen

Product Manager

Agent Skills changed how our team handles brand guidelines. We packaged our entire style guide into skills, and Claude automatically follows them—output consistency is now guaranteed.

David Thompson

Startup Founder

The portability of Agent Skills is incredible. I build skills once and use them across web, API, and SDK with zero changes. Agent Skills has become the cornerstone of our AI automation strategy.

Rachel Kim

Data Analyst

Sub-agents changed everything. I equipped specialized agents for different data analysis tasks, each with custom tools and models. My productivity increased 10x with Agent Skills.

James Wilson

Enterprise Architect

Agent Skills powered by Claude is the future of work automation. We replaced countless manual processes with intelligent agents that understand context and execute flawlessly.
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Agent Skills

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What exactly are Agent Skills and how do they work?

Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use to do things more accurately and efficiently. A simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise - agents load skills on demand based on the task they're working on.

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Why Agent Skills? What problem do they solve?

Agents often lack the context needed for real work. Agent Skills solve this by providing procedural knowledge and company-, team-, and user-specific context. For skill authors: build once, deploy across multiple agent products. For enterprises: capture organizational knowledge in portable, version-controlled packages.

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What can Agent Skills enable?

Agent Skills enable domain expertise, new capabilities, repeatable workflows, and interoperability. Package specialized knowledge, give agents new abilities like creating presentations or analyzing datasets, turn multi-step tasks into auditable workflows, and reuse the same skill across skills-compatible agent products.

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Which tools and platforms support Agent Skills?

Agent Skills are supported by leading AI development tools including Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and GitHub. The format was originally developed by Anthropic and released as an open standard - view the specification and examples on GitHub.

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How do I create and use Agent Skills?

Agent Skills use the SKILL.md format specification. Package your instructions, scripts, and resources into a skill folder. Compatible agents discover and load skills when needed. Browse example skills and the reference library on GitHub to get started.

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What types of tasks can I automate with Agent Skills?

Agent Skills can automate document processing, data analysis, code generation, report creation, file manipulation, API integrations, and more. Any repetitive task that follows patterns - from legal review to building MCP servers - can be packaged as Agent Skills.

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How does Agent Skills compare to other AI automation tools?

Agent Skills is an open standard format, not a proprietary platform. Build capabilities once and deploy across multiple agent products. The modular, portable approach ensures interoperability and avoids vendor lock-in - skills work with any skills-compatible agent.

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