CLAUDE July 24, 2026

The July 2026 Skills Explosion — Karpathy Skill Hits 144K, Video-Shotcraft Goes Viral

WHAT CHANGED

The Claude skills ecosystem doubled in July 2026. Karpathy Behavioural Skill (by Forrest Chang) hit 144K GitHub stars in weeks — the fastest-growing AI workflow repo ever. Video-shotcraft (launched July 19) hit 2.3K stars in 5 days at 260 stars/day. Agency-agents crossed 136K stars with a signed desktop app that installs skills into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI in one click. ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills index surfaced on GitHub's daily trending — 1,000+ skills catalogued.

WHY IT MATTERS

Skills have moved from 'copy a text file' to 'checkbox in a desktop app'. The install pattern is standardizing: `claude plugin marketplace add <repo>` for provider-native installs, `npx skills add <name>` for community skills. The most-installed skills of July 2026 lean hard in specific directions: video generation (video-shotcraft, seedance2, handdraw-story-video), behavioral guardrails (Karpathy, i-have-adhd, learning-opportunities), and vertical integrations (Supabase agent-skills, Apify Agent Skills, Expo-Skills).

HOW TO USE IT

Karpathy Behavioural Skill: drop the CLAUDE.md into your project root. Video-shotcraft: `claude plugin marketplace add Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft` then storyboard product videos through Remotion. Agency-agents: download the signed desktop app (v0.3.0+) for one-click multi-agent installs. Browse the full 1,000+ skills at github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills.

CLAUDE / BASH

# Install Karpathy Behavioural Skill (144K stars)
curl -o CLAUDE.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/forrestchang/karpathy-skills/main/CLAUDE.md

# Install video-shotcraft via Claude Code
claude plugin marketplace add Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
claude plugin install video-shotcraft

# Install text-to-cad
claude plugin marketplace add earthtojake/text-to-cad
claude plugin install cad@text-to-cad

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ORIGINAL SOURCE

https://www.firecrawl.dev/blog/best-claude-code-skills

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Two big ecosystem shifts happened in July:

First, agency-agents shipped a native desktop app (Tauri 2) that browses the agent roster and installs skills into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and roughly a dozen other agents with one click. It reached v0.3.0 in early July with signed macOS builds and Linux/Windows packages. Installing a skill used to mean reading a README and copying files into the right directory. Now there’s a checkbox.

Second, ComposioHQ’s awesome-claude-skills index — a directory of more than 1,000 skills — surfaced on GitHub’s daily trending. A curated list drawing that much attention is its own signal: enough skills now exist that people need a map.

Under the radar: andrej-karpathy-skills went from zero to 169 stars in 3 days as a second guardrail pack. Caspian SDK (giving an AI agent one identity across Slack/Discord/Telegram/WhatsApp/Instagram/email/SMS/X) hit 213 stars in 4 days.

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