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:

1. Metadata loading (~100 tokens): Claude scans available Skills to identify relevant matches
2. Full instructions (<5k tokens): Load when Claude determines the Skill applies
3. 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

1. Go to Settings > Capabilities
2. Enable Skills toggle
3. Browse available skills or upload custom skills
4. 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-plan commands 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

• 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-marketplace plugin

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