CLAUDE SKILLS DIRECTORY

7-line SKILL.md by Dillon Mulroy that restates the agent's last message in plain English, no jargon. Went viral on Hacker News August 4, 2026. Sometimes the most useful skill is the smallest one.

22.9K stars — turns any technical book (PDF, EPUB, DOCX) into a Claude Code skill. Extracts frameworks, principles, and anti-patterns. Claims 24–51× fewer tokens than dumping the book into context. By virgiliojr94.

366 stars — makes Claude check real arXiv papers for prior art before designing a new architecture. Fetches category-specific papers in parallel, clusters findings, and returns one cited recommendation with known failure modes. Zero from-scratch hallucination. By UditAkhourii. Created August 5, 2026.

71K+ stars — the canonical index of 1,000+ production-ready Claude Skills and Plugins. Covers Claude.ai, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more. Hit GitHub Daily Trending. The starting point for skill discovery.

144K stars — fastest-growing Claude skill of 2026. Encodes Karpathy's viral LLM coding pitfall observations into 4 behavioural rules: no silent assumptions, minimal solutions first, orthogonal-change prevention, verify before executing. Single CLAUDE.md file, zero runtime dependencies.

6.2K stars. Keeps coding-agent answers direct, concise, and easy to scan. Removes throat-clearing, over-explanation, and marketing-adjacent language. Works with Claude Code and Codex.

🆕 Launched July 19, 2026. 2.3K stars in 5 days (260/day pace). Turns Claude Code or Codex into a motion-design studio. Describe a shot, agent writes React, Remotion renders locally. 106 shot recipe cards, 161 motion previews, production-ready template. By Vincentwei1021.

6.3K stars. Open-source harness for generating CAD models. Collection of agent skills for CAD, robotics, and hardware design. Native provider plugin installs for Codex and Claude Code.

6.3K stars. Gives Claude agent the ability to use a web browser. Essential for agents that need to research, verify, or interact with live web content.

6.0K stars. HTML PPT Studio — 24 themes, 31 layouts, 20+ animations for building professional HTML presentations. Alternative to PowerPoint that renders as HTML.

1,000+ skills catalogue by ComposioHQ. Surfaced on GitHub daily trending in July 2026. Curated index organized by category — video, behavioral, security, marketing, coding, orchestration. Start here if you're new to the ecosystem.

6.0K stars. Comprehensive paid advertising audit and optimization skill for Claude Code. Covers Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads with audit workflows and optimization playbooks.

Hardens Claude Code against the 'Agentjacking' attack disclosed June 14, 2026. 85% exploitation rate found in field tests. Adds explicit approval requirements for file writes and curl operations triggered by error analysis. Critical for anyone pasting Sentry traces into Claude Code.

Production pattern for AI workloads that need resilience to provider outages and export controls. Routes between Anthropic, OpenAI, and Sakana Fugu via abstracted model selection. Released as community pattern after the June 12 Fable 5 suspension.

Pattern for dual-model agents — route routine queries to Opus 4.8, escalate hard tasks to Fable 5. Cuts costs ~60% on agent stacks since Fable 5 is 2x Opus 4.8 pricing. Released as community skill June 12, 2026.

Anthropic's multi-agent orchestration skill. Manager agent delegates to parallel worker agents. Build a full site faster than a single agent — frontend + backend + tests in parallel. Shipped at Code with Claude 2026.

Lets Claude reason in the background during idle time. Pre-computes context and plans for tasks you might run next. Reduces latency on multi-step agentic work by ~30%.

10 pre-built financial agents from Anthropic. Due diligence, financial modeling, deal memos, earnings analysis, KYC, compliance review. Runs inside your data perimeter.

Extracts a complete design system from your existing codebase or Figma file. Auto-applies colors, typography, spacing tokens to every Claude Design project. Solves the #1 pain point of AI design tools — brand inconsistency.

Enhanced frontend-design skill with 17 design commands: /polish, /audit, /distill, /bolder. Curated anti-patterns for refined output. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI.

Official Anthropic skill. Scans your Claude Code transcripts, identifies read-only operations you always approve, and builds a permission allowlist automatically. Shipped April 22, 2026.

Community skills for R data users. Includes tidyverse code generation, Quarto best practices, R package release workflows, and auto-generating _brand.yml files. Released April 20, 2026 by Alistair Bailey, Cat Hicks, Stephen Turner, and the Posit team.

Official Anthropic plugin that connects Claude Code to Figma. Share a Figma URL, ask Claude to implement the design. Extracts design tokens, component metadata, and produces pixel-perfect code.

Validates your web code against the Vercel web interface guidelines. 22K GitHub stars, 133K weekly installs. Reports violations in file:line format for easy fixes.

Forces bold aesthetic direction before touching any code. Outputs production-grade UI with distinctive typography and layouts. Now paired with Claude Design (launched April 17, 2026) for non-coding visual work. Use frontend-design for production code, Claude Design for rapid visual exploration.

Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with tracked changes, formatting preservation, and text extraction.

Extract text and tables from PDFs, merge/split documents, fill forms, and create new PDFs programmatically.

Create, edit, and generate PowerPoint presentations with layouts, templates, charts, and automated slide generation.

Lets Claude control any web interface through stable element refs. Supports clicks, fills, screenshots, and parallel sessions without a clean API.

Spins up isolated cloud sandboxes where Claude builds, hosts, and tests full-stack apps without touching local files or production.

94,000+ GitHub stars. The most popular Claude Code skill. Multi-agent dev framework with 7-phase workflow: Brainstorm → Spec → Plan → TDD → Subagent Dev → Review → Finalize. Literally deletes code written before tests. Built by Jesse Vincent (Anthropic engineer).

Biggest skills library by raw count — 1,340+ agentic skills with installer CLI, workflow packs, official + community collections. Cross-compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity.

Official Anthropic skill for interactively building your own skills. Walks you through SKILL.md authoring with best practices. The easiest way to package your own workflows. Released April 2026.

117,000+ weekly installs. Activates automatically when Claude detects Remotion code. Generates programmatic video with React. Token-efficient — loads only relevant rule files on demand.

A single CLAUDE.md file derived from Andrej Karpathy's published observations on LLM coding pitfalls. Not a skills pack — a calibration prompt that works alongside any other framework. Trending on GitHub since March 2026.

Dynamically exposes all Google Workspace APIs as a unified CLI interface. One command gives Claude full Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets access.

Generates brand-consistent hero images, social graphics, and visual assets. Encodes design standards so outputs are production quality on first pass.

Creates unique, art-directable generative visuals that stand apart from generic AI output. Supports SVG, canvas, and WebGL outputs.

Generates accessible, WCAG-compliant color systems. Validates contrast ratios and outputs design tokens in CSS, Figma, and Tailwind formats.

Generates developer-ready handoff specs with component documentation, spacing tokens, and responsive breakpoint definitions.

Reviews web interface code against the Vercel web interface guidelines (133k weekly installs). Reports violations in file:line format.

Optimizes landing pages for conversions. Diagnoses CTA placement, copy clarity, trust signals, and form friction. Returns scored recommendations.

Writes homepage copy, feature descriptions, and positioning statements for SaaS products. Follows jobs-to-be-done framework.

Creates multi-email welcome and nurture sequences. Handles onboarding, re-engagement, and cancellation flows with personalization tokens.

Sets up GA4 tracking for signups, conversions, and user behavior. Outputs Google Tag Manager configs and event schemas.

Writes B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences that get replies. Uses proven frameworks: AIDA, PAS, and pattern interrupts.

Generates and iterates Google Ads and Meta Ads creative — headlines, descriptions, primary text, and full ad sets at scale.

Marketing skills across 11 categories built on direct-response marketing principles. Conversion-focused copywriting, ad creative, email funnels, content strategy, CRO. Built by Eric Siu (Single Grain founder).

Encodes your writing voice — word choice, sentence structure, tone — so Claude matches your style consistently across every piece.

Downloads YouTube videos, audio, and transcripts in one request. Handles quality selection, format conversion, and subtitle extraction.

Generates brand-consistent hero image prompts for articles. Maintains visual identity across all content with art-directable character consistency.

Audits pages for technical SEO issues: missing meta tags, poor heading hierarchy, slow images, and broken internal links. Returns prioritized fix list.

Optimizes content for AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini). Structures content with clear Q&A blocks, entity markup, and snippet-friendly formatting.

Generates JSON-LD schema markup for any page type: Article, Product, FAQ, HowTo, LocalBusiness. Validates against Google's guidelines.

Part of Claude for Small Business package. Pulls QuickBooks data to project 90-day cash flow. Flags risk weeks, identifies invoice timing levers.

Part of Claude for Small Business package. Identifies overdue invoices, drafts chase emails per customer, queues for owner approval. Pulls from QuickBooks + PayPal.

Part of Claude for Small Business package. Reconciles books, flags discrepancies, drafts month-end statements. Runs across QuickBooks, PayPal, and Stripe data.

Part of Claude for Small Business package. Reviews incoming contracts via Docusign integration. Flags unusual terms, missing protections, dollar amounts vs your historical patterns.