awesome-claude-skills
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A curated list of Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows, especially for Claude Code.
A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows — particularly Claude Code
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What you can do with it
- Discover new skills to extend Claude AI's capabilities for various tasks.
- Find resources and tools to customize your Claude Code agent workflows.
- Explore examples of how Claude Skills are structured and implemented.
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From the README
Awesome Claude Skills
A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows
Claude Skills teach Claude how to perform tasks in a repeatable way
They are specialized folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude dynamically discovers and loads when relevant to tasks.
How Skills Work
Skills employ a progressive disclosure architecture for efficiency:
- Metadata loading (~100 tokens): Claude scans available Skills to identify relevant matches
- Full instructions (<5k tokens): Load when Claude determines the Skill applies
- Bundled resources: Files and executable code load only as needed
This design allows multiple Skills to remain available without overwhelming Claude's context window.
🚀 Getting Started
Claude.ai Web Interface
- Go to Settings > Capabilities
- Enable Skills toggle
- Browse available skills or upload custom skills
- For Team/Enterprise: Admin must enable Skills organization-wide first
Claude Code CLI
# Install skills from marketplace
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
# Or install from local directory
/plugin add /path/to/skill-directory
Claude API
Skills are accessible via the /v1/skills API endpoint. See the Skills API documentation for detailed integration examples.
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Client(api_key="your-api-key")
# See API docs for full implementation details
🎯 Official Skills
Document Skills
Skills for working with complex file formats:
- docx - Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction
- pdf - Comprehensive PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms
- pptx - Create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations with support for layouts, templates, charts, and automated slide generation
- xlsx - Create, edit, and analyze Excel spreadsheets with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization
Design & Creative
- algorithmic-art - Create generative art using p5.js with seeded randomness, flow fields, and particle systems
- canvas-design - Design beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf formats using design philosophies
- slack-gif-creator - Create animated GIFs optimized for Slack's size constraints
Development
- frontend-design - Instructs Claude to avoid "AI slop" or generic aesthetics and to make bold design decisions. Works very well for React & Tailwind.
- web-artifacts-builder - Build complex claude.ai HTML artifacts using React, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui components
- mcp-builder - Guide for creating high-quality MCP servers to integrate external APIs and services
- webapp-testing - Test local web applications using Playwright for UI verification and debugging
Communication
- brand-guidelines - Apply Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to artifacts
- internal-comms - Write internal communications like status reports, newsletters, and FAQs
Skill Creation
- skill-creator - Interactive skill creation tool that guides you through building new skills with Q&A
🌟 Community Skills
[!Warning] Skills can execute arbitrary code in Claude's environment.
See Security & Best Practices for more information
Collections & Libraries
-
obra/superpowers - Core skills library for Claude Code with 20+ battle-tested skills including TDD, debugging, and collaboration patterns
- Features
/brainstorm,/write-plan,/execute-plancommands and skills-search tool - superpowers-skills - Community-editable skills repository
- Blog: Superpowers - Author's overview by Jesse Vincent
- Installation:
/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace
- Features
-
obra/superpowers-lab - Experimental skills for
Claude Code Superpowers(see above)- Uses new techniques that are still being refined and tested (i.e. skills here may change over time)
- Blog post about its development
- Install from
superpowers-marketplaceplugin
Individual Skills
These will be broken down into categories once there are enough community skills available to list
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| ios-simulator-skill | iOS app building, navigation, and testing through automation |
| ffuf-web-fuzzing | Expert guidance for ffuf web fuzzing during penetration testing, includi |