Agent skills

The best agent skills, with install commands

Skills teach an AI agent how to do one job well: edit a Word file, follow React best practices, debug before guessing, set up Stripe the recommended way. Here are 151 from 50 repos, 135 of them from the company behind the tool, each with the command for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more. Checked at the source on 2026-10-24.

Good first skills

  • Frontend Design: Steers UI work toward deliberate visual direction and typography instead of generic template looks.
  • Skill Creator: Helps write new skills, refine existing ones and test how well they trigger and perform.
  • Web App Testing: Uses Playwright to drive a local web app, check behavior, read console logs and take screenshots.
  • PDF: Extracts text and tables, merges, splits, fills forms and creates PDF files.
  • React Best Practices: Vercel's performance rules for React and Next.js code: rendering, data fetching, bundle size.
  • Systematic Debugging: A root-cause-first process for bugs and failing tests before any fix is attempted.
  • Postgres Best Practices (Supabase): Postgres rules for schema design, indexes, RLS and migrations, usable on any Postgres host.
  • Stripe Best Practices: Helps choose the right Stripe APIs for payments, subscriptions, Connect, tax and key handling.

Categories

14

All agent skills

151

Official publishers first, then by the stars of the repo the skill lives in.

151 of 151 skills

Skill collections

50 repos

Install a whole collection with npx skills add owner/repo (it asks which skills and agents). Repos marked plugin marketplace also install in Claude Code with /plugin marketplace add.

  • A software development methodology packaged as skills: brainstorming, planning, TDD, debugging, subagents and code review.

    community · Jesse Vincent (obra) · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • Anthropic's reference skills: Office documents and PDF, design and art, MCP building, testing and skill authoring.

    official · Anthropic · pushed 2026-10-09 · plugin marketplace

  • shadcn-ui/ui★ 126k

    The shadcn/ui component repo, which ships a skill for adding and working with shadcn components.

    official · shadcn · pushed 2026-10-24

  • Skills for Obsidian file formats: Obsidian Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas and the Obsidian CLI. Published from the personal account of Obsidian's CEO.

    community · Steph Ango (kepano) · pushed 2026-09-15 · plugin marketplace

  • A browser automation CLI for agents, shipped with a skill that teaches agents to use it.

    official · Vercel · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • GitHub-hosted community collection of Copilot customizations, including several hundred contributed skills.

    community · GitHub (community contributions) · pushed 2026-10-23

  • Vercel's skills for React, Next.js and React Native performance, UI review and deploying to Vercel.

    official · Vercel · pushed 2026-10-14

  • OpenAI's Codex skill catalog: system skills bundled with Codex plus curated ones for GitHub, security, docs, design tools and deploys.

    official · OpenAI · pushed 2026-09-08

  • Google's large skill collection for Google Cloud, BigQuery, Ads, Analytics and identity products.

    official · Google · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • The Playwright CLI for agents, with a skill describing how to drive browsers and tests with it.

    official · Microsoft (Playwright) · pushed 2026-10-19

  • Hugging Face skills for the Hub CLI, datasets, model training, Gradio, Spaces and Transformers.js.

    official · Hugging Face · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • Trail of Bits' security auditing skills: static analysis, Semgrep and CodeQL, diff review, crypto and smart contract checks.

    official · Trail of Bits · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • .NET team skills for C#, MSBuild, testing, diagnostics, upgrades, MAUI and Blazor.

    official · Microsoft (.NET) · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • Remotion's skills for making and rendering videos with React.

    official · Remotion · pushed 2026-10-22

  • Google's skills for coding against the Gemini API and Gemini Live API.

    official · Google (Gemini) · pushed 2026-10-13 · plugin marketplace

  • Browserbase's skills for cloud browser automation, fetching pages and UI testing.

    official · Browserbase · pushed 2026-09-29 · plugin marketplace

  • Cloudflare's skills for Workers, Wrangler, Agents SDK, Durable Objects, Next.js hosting and web performance.

    official · Cloudflare · pushed 2026-10-19 · plugin marketplace

  • Expo's skills for building, upgrading, updating and shipping Expo and React Native apps.

    official · Expo · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • Supabase's skills for its platform and for Postgres best practices.

    official · Supabase · pushed 2026-10-02 · plugin marketplace

  • Apify's skills for building Actors, generating schemas and scraping with Apify.

    official · Apify · pushed 2026-10-19 · plugin marketplace

  • Figma's guide and skills for its MCP server: reading designs into code and writing designs back into Figma.

    official · Figma · pushed 2026-10-20

  • stripe/ai★ 2k

    Stripe's AI tooling monorepo; its skills cover integration best practices, docs lookup, upgrades and Connect, mirrored per agent.

    official · Stripe · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • Callstack's React Native skills: performance, upgrades, brownfield migration, navigation and CI.

    community · Callstack · pushed 2026-10-08 · plugin marketplace

  • Microsoft's Azure skills for preparing, deploying, diagnosing and costing apps on Azure, AKS and Foundry.

    official · Microsoft (Azure) · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • LangChain's skills for LangChain, LangGraph and Deep Agents in Python and TypeScript.

    official · LangChain · pushed 2026-10-21 · plugin marketplace

  • Skills Sentry's own engineers use: commits, PR writing, bug finding, security and code review.

    official · Sentry · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • HashiCorp's skills for Terraform (style, tests, providers, stacks) and Packer image builds.

    official · HashiCorp · pushed 2026-10-05 · plugin marketplace

  • Shopify's AI toolkit; one current skill covers all Shopify developer surfaces, with older per-API skills marked deprecated.

    official · Shopify · pushed 2026-10-22 · plugin marketplace

  • Docker's skills for Dockerfiles, Compose, Docker sandboxes and agent deployment.

    official · Docker · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • n8n's skills for building workflows: expressions, code nodes, AI nodes, error handling and debugging.

    official · n8n · pushed 2026-10-17 · plugin marketplace

  • ElevenLabs' skills for speech synthesis, transcription, voice agents, music and sound effects.

    official · ElevenLabs · pushed 2026-10-24

  • Firebase's skills for the CLI, Firestore, auth, hosting, Crashlytics and security rules.

    official · Firebase (Google) · pushed 2026-10-20 · plugin marketplace

  • Railway's single skill for provisioning and deploying on Railway.

    official · Railway · pushed 2026-10-15 · plugin marketplace

  • Svelte's AI tooling with skills for writing Svelte 5 code, packaged for several agents.

    official · Svelte · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • OpenRouter's skills for its SDKs, model catalog, analytics, images, audio and agent building.

    official · OpenRouter · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • Grafana Labs' skills for dashboards, PromQL, Loki, Tempo, k6 load tests and Grafana Cloud.

    official · Grafana Labs · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • Sentry's skills for setting up the Sentry SDK, instrumenting apps and debugging Sentry issues.

    official · Sentry · pushed 2026-10-23

  • Better Auth's skills for configuring and scaffolding authentication in TypeScript apps.

    official · Better Auth · pushed 2026-10-19 · plugin marketplace

  • Notion's cookbook repo; includes skills for Notion MCP clients plus skills bundled in app and worker templates.

    official · Notion · pushed 2026-10-24

  • Resend's skills for sending email, React Email templates, the Resend CLI and deliverability.

    official · Resend · pushed 2026-10-17 · plugin marketplace

  • Sanity's skills for content modeling, GROQ, Portable Text, Studio upgrades and migrations.

    official · Sanity · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • MongoDB's skills for schema design, query tuning, connections, search and Atlas features.

    official · MongoDB · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • Firecrawl's skills for web search, scraping, crawling and research workflows via its CLI.

    official · Firecrawl · pushed 2026-10-22 · plugin marketplace

  • Neon's skills for serverless Postgres: connections, branching, auth and cost control.

    official · Neon · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • Clerk's skills for adding Clerk auth across web and mobile frameworks, webhooks, orgs and billing.

    official · Clerk · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • Prisma's skills for the Prisma CLI, Client API, Postgres setup and version upgrades.

    official · Prisma · pushed 2026-10-22

  • PostHog's skills for installing analytics, feature flags, error tracking, logs and LLM analytics per framework, plus internal team skills.

    official · PostHog · pushed 2026-10-24 · plugin marketplace

  • Convex's skills for building, deploying, migrating and operating apps on the Convex backend.

    official · Convex · pushed 2026-10-13

  • Auth0's single skill for adding and configuring Auth0 authentication.

    official · Auth0 (Okta) · pushed 2026-10-23 · plugin marketplace

  • Upstash's skills for its Redis, QStash, rate limiting, vector, search and workflow SDKs.

    official · Upstash · pushed 2026-10-22 · plugin marketplace

Skills give know-how; MCP servers give tools (see MCP servers by app). More: AI coding agents compared · vibe coding tools.

FAQ

What are agent skills?+

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file: a name, a one-line description, and instructions (plus optional scripts and reference files). The agent only reads the description up front and loads the rest when a task needs it, so you can install many skills without filling the context window. Anthropic introduced them for Claude; the format is now an open standard (agentskills.io) read by Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf and others.

Agent skills vs MCP servers: what is the difference?+

An MCP server gives the agent new tools, such as access to Jira or a database, through a running process or a URL. A skill gives it know-how: how to do a task well with what it already has (write a .docx, follow a framework's best practices, debug step by step). They work together: some vendors ship a skill that teaches the agent to use their MCP server.

How do I install an agent skill?+

With the cross-agent skills CLI: npx skills add owner/repo --skill name (add -a claude-code, -a codex... to pick the agent, -g for all projects). Or copy the skill folder into your agent's skills folder: ~/.claude/skills for Claude Code, .agents/skills for Codex, .github/skills or ~/.copilot/skills for Copilot. Each skill page has the exact command per agent.

Where do skills go in Claude Code?+

~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md for all your projects, or .claude/skills/<name>/ in a repo to share with the team. Repos that are plugin marketplaces install with /plugin marketplace add owner/repo and /plugin install <plugin>@<marketplace>.

Are agent skills safe?+

A skill can include scripts the agent runs, so treat it like code: read the SKILL.md and any scripts first, prefer official publishers, and keep approval prompts on. GitHub's gh skill and the skills CLI both warn that skills are not verified.

Where does this list come from?+

Picked by hand from the publishers' own GitHub repos. Every SKILL.md is checked at its source on each refresh (last 2026-10-24), with stars and last push from the GitHub API. Community repos need 300+ stars and a push in the last year. Summaries are ours, not copied from the skill or from other directories.