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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.

36 skills Stars checked on 2026-10-07

Diagram Design

cathrynlavery/diagram-design · cathrynlavery
★ 44.1k
🎨 Design & Diagrams

Creates branded, editorial-style diagrams as self-contained HTML and SVG, and can redraw Mermaid, draw.io or Excalidraw sources.

Use when: You need an architecture diagram, flowchart or sequence chart that looks designed, not auto-generated.

/plugin marketplace add cathrynlavery/diagram-design
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Copilot + any Agent Skills host ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Book to Skill

virgiliojr94/book-to-skill · virgiliojr94
★ 34.0k
📚 Knowledge & Learning

Converts books and document folders (PDF, EPUB, DOCX and more) into a structured agent skill with frameworks, principles and techniques.

Use when: You want your agent to answer from a specific technical book instead of guessing.

npx skills add virgiliojr94/book-to-skill
🤖 Copilot, Claude Code, OpenCode + any Agent Skills host ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-05

Word Documents (docx)

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
📄 Documents & Office

Creates, reads and edits Word documents and templates, including formatting, tables and tracked changes.

Use when: You need to produce or fix a .docx file from the terminal.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Source-available 🕒 2026-10-05

PDF Toolkit

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
📄 Documents & Office

Extracts text and tables from PDFs, merges, splits and rotates pages, fills forms and creates new PDF files.

Use when: You need to read, combine or generate PDF files.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Source-available 🕒 2026-10-05

PowerPoint Slides (pptx)

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
📄 Documents & Office

Builds, reads and edits PowerPoint decks, from pitch decks to extracting text from existing presentations.

Use when: You need a slide deck made or changed as a real .pptx file.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Source-available 🕒 2026-10-05

Excel Spreadsheets (xlsx)

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
📄 Documents & Office

Opens, edits, cleans and creates spreadsheets (.xlsx, .csv, .tsv) with formulas and formatting.

Use when: Your main input or output is a spreadsheet file.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Source-available 🕒 2026-10-05

Frontend Design

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
🖼 Frontend & UI

Guides distinctive visual design for new or existing UI: aesthetic direction, typography, and choices that avoid templated defaults.

Use when: You are building a web page or component and want it to look intentional, not generic.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-05

Canvas Design

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
🎨 Design & Diagrams

Creates original static visual art and posters as PNG or PDF files, guided by a written design philosophy.

Use when: You want a poster or one-off visual made from a prompt.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-05

Skill Creator

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
🧩 Skill Building

Helps you create new skills, improve existing ones, and measure skill performance with evals and benchmarks.

Use when: You are writing or tuning your own SKILL.md and want to test that it triggers.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-05

MCP Builder

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
🧩 Skill Building

A guide for building high-quality MCP servers that let an LLM use external services through well-designed tools.

Use when: You are wrapping an API or service as an MCP server.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-05

Web App Testing

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
🧪 Testing & Browser

Tests local web apps with Playwright: checks frontend behavior, captures screenshots and reads browser logs.

Use when: You need the agent to open your local app and check that it works.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-05

Doc Co-authoring

anthropics/skills · Anthropic
★ 179.9k
✍️ Research & Writing

A structured workflow for co-writing docs, proposals and specs: gather context, refine through iteration, then check the draft.

Use when: You are drafting a spec or decision doc and want a guided process.

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
🤖 Claude Code ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-05

Test-Driven Development

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Enforces test-first development: write a failing test, then the implementation, for every feature or bugfix.

Use when: You are about to implement a feature or bugfix and want tests first.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Systematic Debugging

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🧭 Coding Workflow

A disciplined debugging process: investigate the root cause before proposing any fix to a bug or failing test.

Use when: Something is broken and you want to stop the agent guessing at fixes.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Brainstorming

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Explores intent, requirements and design with you before any implementation starts.

Use when: You have a feature idea and want it shaped before code is written.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Writing Plans

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Turns a spec or requirements into a clear multi-step implementation plan before anyone touches code.

Use when: You have a spec for a multi-step task and need a plan.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Subagent-Driven Development

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Executes an implementation plan by handing independent tasks to fresh subagents in the current session.

Use when: You have a plan with independent tasks and want parallel, reviewed execution.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Using Git Worktrees

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Makes sure feature work runs in an isolated workspace, using native tools or a git worktree fallback.

Use when: You are starting feature work and want it isolated from your current branch.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Requesting Code Review

obra/superpowers · obra
★ 296.1k
🔍 Code Quality & Review

Runs a review of finished work against the requirements before you merge.

Use when: You finished a major feature and want a review pass before merging.

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Grill Me

mattpocock/skills · mattpocock
★ 278.3k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Runs a relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design before you build it.

Use when: You have a plan that feels half-baked and want hard questions first.

npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Codex ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Improve Codebase Architecture

mattpocock/skills · mattpocock
★ 278.3k
🔍 Code Quality & Review

Scans a codebase for deepening opportunities, shows them as a visual HTML report, then grills you through the one you pick.

Use when: Your codebase is getting messy and you want a prioritized refactor map.

npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Codex ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Diagnosing Bugs

mattpocock/skills · mattpocock
★ 278.3k
🧭 Coding Workflow

A diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions, triggered when something is broken, failing or slow.

Use when: A bug or slowdown has resisted your first few attempts.

npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Codex ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-06

Karpathy Guidelines

multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills · multica-ai (originally forrestchang)
★ 217.3k
🔍 Code Quality & Review

Behavior rules that reduce common LLM coding mistakes: avoid overcomplication, make surgical changes, state assumptions, define success checks.

Use when: You want the agent to write less, change less and verify more.

/plugin marketplace add forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
🤖 Claude Code, Cursor ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-04-20

React Best Practices

vercel-labs/agent-skills · Vercel
★ 32.0k
🖼 Frontend & UI

React and Next.js performance guidelines from Vercel Engineering, applied when writing or reviewing components and data fetching.

Use when: You are writing or reviewing React or Next.js code for speed.

npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills
🤖 any Agent Skills host ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-08-28

Web Design Guidelines

vercel-labs/agent-skills · Vercel
★ 32.0k
🖼 Frontend & UI

Reviews UI code against the Web Interface Guidelines for accessibility, UX and design best practices.

Use when: You want an audit of your UI code against solid guidelines.

npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills
🤖 any Agent Skills host ⚖️ See repo 🕒 2026-08-28

Deploy to Vercel

vercel-labs/agent-skills · Vercel
★ 32.0k
⚙️ Data & DevOps

Deploys apps and websites to Vercel, including preview deployments, and returns the live link.

Use when: You want to push a project live or get a preview URL.

npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills
🤖 any Agent Skills host ⚖️ See repo 🕒 2026-08-28

UI UX Pro Max

nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill · nextlevelbuilder
★ 133.6k
🖼 Frontend & UI

A searchable design-intelligence database of styles, palettes, font pairings and UX rules for web and mobile interfaces.

Use when: You are designing or reviewing an interface and need concrete style and UX choices.

/plugin marketplace add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
🤖 Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-03

Remotion Best Practices

remotion-dev/skills · Remotion
★ 4.9k
🎬 Media & Video

The router for Remotion Agent Skills: best practices for creating, animating, captioning and rendering programmatic videos in React.

Use when: You are making a video with Remotion and want the agent to follow its patterns.

npx skills add remotion-dev/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor ⚖️ See repo 🕒 2026-10-05

Differential Review

trailofbits/skills · Trail of Bits
★ 7.4k
🛡 Security

Security-focused review of PRs, commits and diffs, scaled to codebase size, with blast-radius counts and a markdown report.

Use when: You are reviewing a pull request and want a security-minded pass.

/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Codex ⚖️ CC-BY-SA-4.0 🕒 2026-10-02

Semgrep Security Scan

trailofbits/skills · Trail of Bits
★ 7.4k
🛡 Security

Runs a Semgrep security scan: detects languages, proposes rulesets for your approval, then runs them in batches.

Use when: You want a static security scan of a codebase with a plan you approve first.

/plugin marketplace add trailofbits/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Codex ⚖️ CC-BY-SA-4.0 🕒 2026-10-02

Playwright CLI

microsoft/playwright-cli · Microsoft
★ 13.8k
🧪 Testing & Browser

Lets a coding agent drive a browser from the command line: automate pages, run tests and work with Playwright tests.

Use when: Your agent needs to click through a real browser to test or inspect a page.

npm install -g @playwright/cli@latest && playwright-cli install --skills
🤖 Claude Code, Copilot + any Agent Skills host ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-09-28

Humanizer

blader/humanizer · blader
★ 54.4k
✍️ Research & Writing

Rewrites AI-sounding text to read like the writer, based on Wikipedia's Signs of AI writing, without changing the meaning.

Use when: A draft sounds machine-written and you want the tells removed.

/plugin marketplace add blader/humanizer
🤖 Claude Code, Codex + any Agent Skills host ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-09-28

last30days

mvanhorn/last30days-skill · mvanhorn
★ 63.6k
✍️ Research & Writing

Researches what people said about any topic in the last 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, GitHub and the web.

Use when: You need fresh, grounded research on a topic or person.

npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
🤖 Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI + any Agent Skills host ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-07

Postgres Best Practices

supabase/agent-skills · Supabase
★ 2.7k
⚙️ Data & DevOps

Postgres best practices from Supabase for schema design, column types and migrations, for Postgres running anywhere.

Use when: You are creating or changing tables, queries or migrations in Postgres.

npx skills add supabase/agent-skills --skill supabase-postgres-best-practices
🤖 Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor ⚖️ MIT 🕒 2026-10-02

Sentry Commit

getsentry/skills · Sentry
★ 1.0k
🧭 Coding Workflow

Writes Sentry-style conventional commit messages with issue references for every commit request.

Use when: You are about to commit and want a clean, consistent message.

npx skills add getsentry/skills
🤖 Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot ⚖️ Apache-2.0 🕒 2026-10-02

Sentry Code Review

getsentry/skills · Sentry
★ 1.0k
🔍 Code Quality & Review

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

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:

Diagram Design turns a rough Mermaid, draw.io, or Excalidraw sketch into a clean HTML and SVG diagram in your site's colors, with no dependencies and PNG or SVG export

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:

Book to Skill flow: your book, extract frameworks and rules, a skill folder with SKILL.md and chapter files, then the agent loads only one chapter on demand

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.


Where to start

If you’re not sure what to try first:

Need more? awesome-agent-skills lists over 1,000 skills, and openai/skills is the official catalog for Codex.


Before you install

Warning
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.


References

Official Documentation
Community Research & Prior Art
Disclaimer & Product Attribution
Info
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.

Happy coding!

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