awesome-claude-skills

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

More community skills coming soon! Submit a PR to add your skill.

Tools

• yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers - Convert documentation websites into Claude Skills

✏️ Creating Your First Skill

Step-by-Step Guide

Method 1: Use skill-creator (Recommended)

The easiest way to create a skill is to use the built-in skill-creator:

1. Enable the skill-creator skill in Claude

2. Ask Claude: "Use the skill-creator to help me build a skill for [your task]"

3. Answer the interactive questions about your workflow

4. Claude generates the complete skill structure for you

Method 2: Manual Creation

1. Create folder structure:

   my-skill/
   ├── SKILL.md          # Main skill file with frontmatter
   ├── scripts/          # Optional executable scripts
   │   └── helper.py
   └── resources/        # Optional supporting files
       └── template.json

2. Create SKILL.md with frontmatter:

   ---
   name: my-skill
   description: Brief description for skill discovery (keep concise)
   ---
   
   # Detailed Instructions
   
   Claude will read these instructions when the skill is activated.
   
   ## Usage
   Explain how to use this skill...
   
   ## Examples
   Provide clear examples...

3. Add executable scripts (optional):

   • Python, JavaScript, or other scripts Claude can execute

   • Reference them in your SKILL.md instructions

4. Test locally:

   • Install the skill in Claude Code or Claude Desktop

   • Test with relevant tasks

   • Iterate and refine

5. Share:

   • Publish to GitHub

   • Submit to this awesome list via PR

   • Share with your team via git repos or internal distribution

Best Practices