Data through 8 October 2026·Updated daily

The Skill Leaderboard

An independent ranking of agent skills
from open GitHub repositories.
36.7kSkills tracked
431kStars gained / last 30 days
9.7kCommits / last 30 days
8.1MSKILL.md lines analyzed
RankRepositoryStars7 days30 days
1
obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework for brainstorming designs, dispatching parallel agents, and standardizing AI-assisted development processes.

Stars297k
7 days+2.9k stars+1.0%
30 days+13.5k stars+4.8%
2
mattpocock/skills

A set of engineering skills for domain modeling, architectural design, bug diagnosis, and standards-based code review.

Stars281k
7 days+7k stars+2.6%
30 days+23.8k stars+9.3%
3
multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

Behavioral guidance for writing, reviewing, and refactoring code with explicit assumptions, minimal scope, and verifiable success criteria.

Stars218k
7 days+1.4k stars+0.7%
30 days+6.3k stars+3.0%
4
anthropics/skills

A set of agent skills for implementing API integrations, behavioral nudges, and p5.js algorithmic art generation.

Stars180k
7 days+872 stars+0.5%
30 days+4.9k stars+2.8%
5
DietrichGebert/ponytail

Audits repositories for over-engineering, tracks shortcut comments in a debt ledger, and measures the impact of code simplification.

Stars158k
7 days+8.3k stars+5.5%
30 days+26.3k stars+19.9%
6
nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill

Generates multi-platform banners and creative assets using specific art direction styles and platform dimensions.

Stars134k
7 days+1.8k stars+1.3%
30 days+8k stars+6.3%
7
Graphify-Labs/graphify

Converts codebases, docs, and media into a persistent knowledge graph with tools for architecture analysis and GraphRAG JSON export.

Stars125k
7 days+1.9k stars+1.5%
30 days+8.9k stars+7.7%
8
JuliusBrussee/caveman

A token optimization toolkit that compresses LLM prompts and agent communications to reduce consumption.

Stars110k
7 days+1.8k stars+1.7%
30 days+6.2k stars+6.0%
9
addyosmani/agent-skills

A set of engineering skills for AI agents covering API design, interface contracts, and context engineering.

Stars103k
7 days+2.9k stars+2.9%
30 days+10.2k stars+11.0%
10
Leonxlnx/taste-skill

A design-focused skill collection for premium frontend direction, visual generation, redesigns, brand systems, and motion-led implementation.

Stars93.7k
7 days+2k stars+2.2%
30 days+8.3k stars+9.7%
11
Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything

A knowledge graph tool for visualizing codebase structure, extracting domain flows, and analyzing pull request risks.

Stars85.6k
7 days+659 stars+0.8%
30 days+3.8k stars+4.6%
12
pbakaus/impeccable

A frontend design skill for auditing UX, optimizing visual hierarchy, and implementing advanced UI effects and reusable design tokens.

Stars78.5k
7 days+5.1k stars+7.0%
30 days+11.9k stars+17.9%
13
ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

A library of 864 Claude skills covering automation, artifact creation, brand styling, changelog generation, ad extraction, and composio MCP integrations for over 100 services.

Stars76.7k
7 days+410 stars+0.5%
30 days+2k stars+2.7%
14
mvanhorn/last30days-skill

Aggregates posts and engagement from major social platforms and the web to research public sentiment from the last 30 days.

Stars63.7k
7 days+407 stars+0.6%
30 days+2.1k stars+3.5%
15
ayghri/i-have-adhd

Adjusts AI output for ADHD users by leading with next actions, numbering steps, and suppressing verbose tangents.

Stars55.6k
7 days+3k stars+5.7%
30 days+26.9k stars+93.6%
16
blader/humanizer

A writing tool that removes AI-specific structural patterns, stock phrasing, and filler to make generated text read more naturally.

Stars54.8k
7 days+1.5k stars+2.9%
30 days+9.5k stars+21.1%
17
coreyhaines31/marketingskills

Guidance for designing A/B tests, managing experiment backlogs with ICE scoring, and implementing growth experimentation programs.

Stars53.7k
7 days+1.6k stars+3.0%
30 days+5.1k stars+10.5%
18
Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

A suite of agents for academic writing, citation checking, and multi-perspective peer review simulation.

Stars50.9k
7 days+811 stars+1.6%
30 days+3.9k stars+8.2%
19
kepano/obsidian-skills

A suite of skills for AI agents to manage Obsidian vaults, edit JSON Canvas files, and debug plugin development.

Stars49.3k
7 days+213 stars+0.4%
30 days+1.2k stars+2.6%
20
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

Interfaces with the Adaptyv Bio Foundry API to design, submit, and monitor protein characterization experiments including affinity assays and thermostability tests.

Stars48k
7 days+721 stars+1.5%
30 days+4.2k stars+9.5%
21
sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

A large-scale repository of agentic skills and templates for AI automation, including tools for solution architecture, security auditing, and 3D web development.

Stars47.4k
7 days+208 stars+0.4%
30 days+1.2k stars+2.6%
22
cathrynlavery/diagram-design

Generates branded architecture, data flow, and process diagrams including UML, ER models, and user journey maps with support for Mermaid and Excalidraw imports.

Stars45.6k
7 days+2.6k stars+6.1%
30 days+11.5k stars+33.6%
23
emilkowalski/skills

Implements high-performance animations and gestures in Expo using Reanimated, Gesture Handler, and expo-haptics.

Stars44.2k
7 days+1.6k stars+3.7%
30 days+8k stars+22.2%
24
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill

Security workflows for AI agent prompt injection, APK hooking, and Active Directory certificate abuse within sandbox environments.

Stars40.2k
7 days+993 stars+2.5%
30 days+5.1k stars+14.5%
25
github/awesome-copilot

A prompt library for repository documentation, agentic workflow routing, and technical code review.

Stars39.8k
7 days+213 stars+0.5%
30 days+1k stars+2.7%
26
virgiliojr94/book-to-skill

A converter that extracts frameworks and principles from documents to create structured skills for AI coding assistants.

Stars34.2k
7 days+938 stars+2.8%
30 days+5.1k stars+17.4%
27
mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

A library of 818 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents, covering red-teaming tasks such as DPAPI decryption and Active Directory privilege escalation.

Stars33.9k
7 days+300 stars+0.9%
30 days+1.5k stars+4.7%
28
vercel-labs/agent-skills

A set of skills for implementing React composition patterns, optimizing React Native applications, and executing Vercel deployments.

Stars32.1k
7 days+286 stars+0.9%
30 days+1.1k stars+3.6%
29
feder-cr/invisible_dots

Open-source, self-hosted alternative to OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot. Built to be undetectable by anti-bot systems.

Stars31.8k
7 days—History unavailable
30 days—History unavailable
30
Nutlope/hallmark

A design skill for extracting visual DNA from URLs or screenshots and applying intentional UI patterns to AI-generated pages.

Stars29.8k
7 days+378 stars+1.3%
30 days+1.5k stars+5.2%
31
openai/skills

A set of curated skills for developing ASP.NET Core applications and ChatGPT Apps SDK integrations using official guidance.

Stars27.9k
7 days+104 stars+0.4%
30 days+1.6k stars+6.0%
32
alirezarezvani/claude-skills

A library of over 800 AI skill definitions covering agent orchestration, accessibility auditing, marketing optimization, and engineering workflows.

Stars27.8k
7 days+727 stars+2.7%
30 days+2.1k stars+8.3%
33
OthmanAdi/planning-with-files

Provides persistent planning via task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md files to support session recovery and state tracking for multi-step agent tasks.

Stars27.3k
7 days+101 stars+0.4%
30 days+611 stars+2.3%
34
phuryn/pm-skills

A code review methodology that identifies actionable defects by verifying implementation against boundary agreements and forcing violating executions.

Stars26.8k
7 days+118 stars+0.4%
30 days+722 stars+2.8%
35
JimLiu/baoyu-skills

Automates versioning, changelog generation, and GitHub Releases for multiple languages alongside translation utilities.

Stars26.4k
7 days+178 stars+0.7%
30 days+674 stars+2.6%
36
cloudflare/security-audit-skill

Conducts security audits and vulnerability research across codebases, APIs, services, and CLI tools.

Stars26.4k
7 days+2.9k stars+12.1%
30 days+23.2k stars+713.6%
37
Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

A comprehensive suite of 74 skills for game development, featuring studio-hierarchy coordination, technical decision tracking, and project auditing.

Stars25.9k
7 days+282 stars+1.1%
30 days+999 stars+4.0%
38
titanwings/distilly

Creates reusable Person Profiles from source material about colleagues, relationships, or celebrities.

Stars25.4k
7 days+195 stars+0.8%
30 days+960 stars+4.6%
39
google/skills

A collection of skills for AI agents to perform gcloud CLI operations and manage Google Cloud authentication and authorization.

Stars21k
7 days+483 stars+2.4%
30 days+1.4k stars+7.1%
40
AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

Combines Ahrefs API analysis for backlinks and keywords with AI generation of OG images, hero banners, and SEO visuals.

Stars18.5k
7 days+419 stars+2.3%
30 days+1.9k stars+11.7%
41
earthtojake/text-to-cad

A set of tools for generating parametric CAD models and exporting them to 3D printers.

Stars18.4k
7 days+1.8k stars+11.1%
30 days+3.6k stars+24.4%
42
muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering

A collection of agent skills for context engineering, harness engineering, and the development of production-ready multi-agent systems.

Stars18.1k
7 days+38 stars+0.2%
30 days+146 stars+0.8%
43
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

A research automation suite for searching academic papers, analyzing ML experiment results, planning ablation studies, and generating technical diagrams.

Stars17.1k
7 days+257 stars+1.5%
30 days+1.2k stars+7.8%
44
composio-community/awesome-codex-skills

A library of automation skills for the Codex CLI and API, including utilities for IDE deep linking and brand guideline application.

Stars16.8k
7 days+69 stars+0.4%
30 days+489 stars+3.0%
45
greensock/gsap-skills

Eight skills covering GSAP core, timelines, ScrollTrigger, performance, framework integration, plugins, and utility methods for web animation development.

Stars16k
7 days+175 stars+1.1%
30 days+974 stars+6.5%
46
AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian

Automates source-grounded research and the filing of cited dossiers into an Obsidian Markdown knowledge graph.

Stars15.4k
7 days+80 stars+0.5%
30 days+670 stars+4.5%
47
latent-spaces/brag

Generates shareable launch videos with music and motion from a project directory or website URL.

Stars14.2k
7 days—History unavailable
30 days—History unavailable
48
nidhinjs/prompt-master

Generates and optimizes tool-specific prompts for LLMs, coding agents, and generative AI tools.

Stars14.2k
7 days+250 stars+1.8%
30 days+1.7k stars+13.2%
49
MiniMax-AI/skills

A library of AI skills covering PR reviews and PowerPoint orchestration, including color palette selection and slide design recipes.

Stars13.7k
7 days+5 stars+0.0%
30 days+152 stars+1.1%
50
Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs

A library of agent skill files covering the AI research lifecycle: autonomous experimentation, model architecture, fine-tuning, mechanistic interpretability, distributed training, safety, optimization, evaluation, inference serving, and MLOps.

Stars13.4k
7 days+185 stars+1.4%
30 days+921 stars+7.4%

What are skills?

A skill is an instruction file that teaches an AI agent how to do one specific job. Drafting a contract. Building a slide deck. Pulling a weekly report. Without one, you re-explain the same context to the model every session. With one, the agent already knows how you work.

How do I open a .skill file?

A .skill file is essentially a zip file with a .skill extension. Rename it to .zip, and extract on macOS or Linux. On Windows, right-click and pick "Extract All." Inside you'll find a SKILL.md file with the instructions, plus whatever scripts, templates, or reference docs the author shipped with it.

Why use skills instead of relying on the base AI?

Skills help agents complete specific tasks more effectively by giving them structured instructions and reusable patterns. A skill bakes the workflow into the agent: which tools to call, which steps to skip, how your team formats things. Output gets more consistent, you waste fewer tokens, and the agent starts behaving more like a teammate.

Is it safe to install skills?

Downloaded skill files should never be added blindly. A skill can include scripts and shell commands that execute on your machine, so review the SKILL.md, any bundled scripts, and referenced tools before installing - the same way you'd vet a browser extension or npm package.

What does a skill include?

A SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter at the top (at minimum, a name and a description) followed by the body of the instructions. Everything else is optional: scripts, reference docs, templates, images, even nested sub-skills. The agent only reads files it actually needs, which keeps the context window from filling up on workflows the user didn't ask for.

When does an agent use a skill?

Using a slash command, which the user has to invoke by hand. The agent can also decide to use a skill on its own if it thinks the skill would be useful. It reads the name and description of every available skill, then decides which one fits the request. The description does most of the work here, because the model uses that text to figure out whether the skill applies.

Do skills only work for coding?

No. Skills started in coding tools like Claude Code and Codex CLI, but the format jumped fences quickly. People use them now for writing, legal review, marketing ops, research, customer support, data analysis, design. If you'd hand the task to a new hire with a one-page onboarding doc, it can probably be a skill.

Which platforms support skills?

Skills are compatible with most AI agents like Claude, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, Openclaw, Manus, Grok, Antigravity, Perplexity Computer, OpenCode, Pi, Amp, Devin.

What's the deal with frontmatter?

Frontmatter is the YAML block at the top of SKILL.md, fenced by --- markers. It holds the metadata the agent reads before anything else: name, description, sometimes version, license, allowed tools. Get it wrong and the agent won't trigger the skill when it should. The spec lists every field.

What are the rules for the skill name?

The name field is lowercase, uses hyphens (no spaces, no underscores), sticks to letters, digits, and hyphens, and caps out at 64 characters per the Agent Skills spec. Treat it like a URL slug: "pdf-form-filler" works, "My Cool Skill!" does not. The name has to match the folder name exactly.

What should the description include?

The description should explain both what the skill does and when it should be triggered. AI agents use the description to decide whether to invoke the skill, so vague descriptions can cause missed or incorrect usage.

Can a skill bundle contain multiple SKILL.md files?

Yes, each skill with their own SKILL.md and frontmatter. This works well for sprawling domains like office/ (one sub-skill each for docx, pptx, xlsx, and pdf) or accounting workflows where every procedure has its own quirks.

How do skills save tokens vs. agent.md or claude.md files?

Skills are designed to load in stages: the agent reads the name and description first, then loads the full instructions when it uses the skill. Supporting files are read as needed. This can keep task-specific instructions out of the context until they're useful. Token usage depends on the agent, the length of the skill, and the files it loads; there is no fixed cost per turn. Files like AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md provide broader project instructions, with loading behavior that also depends on the agent.

How are skills different from MCP?

They're complementary, not competing. MCP is connectivity: raw access to a tool or data source, the query syntax, the API format, the auth. Skills are workflow: which records to check first, how to structure the output, what order the steps go in. MCP is going to Home Depot and buying tools. Skills are knowing how to build the patio.