Awesome skills: a searchable list of agent skills worth installing
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Most of my blog and app work now happens with an AI agent in the terminal. The agent is smart, but it doesn’t know my way of working. Agent skills fill that gap.
Good skills are spread across hundreds of GitHub repos, and my bookmarks became a mess. So I put the ones worth installing into one catalog you can search and filter, like my blockchain keyword note.
What is an agent skill?
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file. The file has a short header, a name and a description, followed by plain Markdown instructions. It can also include scripts and templates.
The agent reads only the name and description at first. It loads the full skill when your task needs it, so you can install many skills without filling the context. Skills follow the open Agent Skills standard, so the same folder works in Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and more.
How I picked them
I checked every repo on October 7, 2026, and kept a skill only when it had:
A real skill: a working SKILL.md, not just a prompt in a README.
Recent updates: a commit in the last six months.
A clear job: one sentence tells you when to use it.
A known license: noted on each card, with the non-open-source ones flagged.
Stars helped me find candidates, but they didn’t decide the list.
The catalog
Search by name or use case (press /), pick a Need, click tags to narrow down, or filter by agent. The link keeps your filters, so you can share a filtered view.
Reviews pull requests using Sentry engineering practices, covering security, performance, testing and design.
Use when: You are reviewing a pull request and want a consistent checklist.
npx skills add getsentry/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot⚖️ Apache-2.0🕒 2026-10-02
No skill matches these filters.
Two skills that started this list
Diagram Design
Diagram Design makes diagrams that look designed, not auto-generated. It covers 42 diagram types and outputs one HTML file with inline SVG, in light, dark, or editorial style.
It can redraw your draw.io, Mermaid, or Excalidraw files and export PNG or SVG. It can also read your site’s colors and fonts, so the diagram matches your blog. Notice how the messy boxes and crossing lines become one clean flow:
Rough sketch in, designed diagram out
Book to Skill
Book to Skill turns a book (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, and more) into a skill. Instead of a summary, it pulls out frameworks, decision rules, and anti-patterns, split into chapter files the agent loads only when needed.
The last step is the one to watch. The agent doesn’t read the whole book, only the chapter your question needs:
The agent loads one chapter, not the book
Your agent answers from the book you trust instead of guessing.
The README reports 24 to 51 times fewer tokens than pasting the whole book. It runs locally, so use it only with books you own.
A skill can run scripts with your permissions. Read SKILL.md and every script before you install it, prefer known authors, and pin a version.
Check the license, too. Anthropic’s docx, pdf, pptx, and xlsx skills are source-available, not open source. Trail of Bits uses CC-BY-SA-4.0. A few repos have no license file, shown as See repo in the catalog.
Conclusion
A good skill is small. It teaches the agent one job and loads only when that job comes up. I’ll keep this list updated as I try more skills.
Each catalog card links to the exact skill folder. Stars, licenses, and dates were checked on October 7, 2026.
Disclaimer & Product Attribution
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This note is for learning and research. I’m not affiliated with any project listed, and the list is not an endorsement. All product names, logos, and trademarks (including Anthropic, Claude, Claude Code, OpenAI, Codex, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Vercel, Supabase, Sentry, Microsoft, Playwright, Remotion, and Trail of Bits) belong to their respective owners.