Agent Skills
Instruction packs that give your AI agent know-how — some work anywhere, some only with the tool they came with.
✦ Standalone skills3,373
Self-contained. Install one into any project and it works on its own — no other software needed.
🧰 Tool add-ons952
Come bundled with a specific tool and only work together with it — they teach your agent how to operate that tool.
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59 standalone skillsfrontend-design
✓★ 136,353by anthropic
Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.
agentic-eval
✓★ 36,202by github
Patterns and techniques for evaluating and improving AI agent outputs. Use this skill when: - Implementing self-critique and reflection loops - Building evaluator-optimizer pipelines for quality-critical generation - Creating test-driven code refinement workflows - Designing rubric-based or LLM-as-judge evaluation systems - Adding iterative improvement to agent outputs (code, reports, analysis) - Measuring and improving agent response quality
morning-note
✓★ 33,111by anthropics
Draft concise morning meeting notes summarizing overnight developments, trade ideas, and key events for coverage stocks. Designed for the 7am morning meeting format — tight, opinionated, actionable. Triggers on "morning note", "morning meeting", "what happened overnight", "trade idea", "morning call prep", or "daily note".
teaser
✓★ 33,111by anthropics
Draft anonymous one-page company teasers for sell-side M&A processes. Creates a compelling summary without revealing the company's identity, designed to gauge buyer interest before NDA execution. Triggers on "teaser", "blind teaser", "anonymous profile", "one-pager for process", or "draft teaser for sell-side".
build-mcp-server
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "build an MCP server", "create an MCP", "make an MCP integration", "wrap an API for Claude", "expose tools to Claude", "make an MCP app", or discusses building something with the Model Context Protocol. It is the entry point for MCP server development — it interrogates the user about their use case, determines the right deployment model (remote HTTP, MCPB, local stdio), picks a tool-design pattern, and hands off to specialized skills.
frontend-design
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.
maintainer-review
✓★ 27,670by openai
Review a GitHub issue or pull request URL as an openai-agents-python maintainer, with a staged assessment of whether the claim is real, practically important, already solvable with supported functionality, correctly scoped, better served by another design, and worth maintainer and contributor effort. Use when assessing issue validity or severity, deciding whether an issue should be prioritized or closed, determining whether a requested feature represents an unmet need rather than a discoverabili
winui-app
✓★ 23,283by openai
Bootstrap, develop, and design modern WinUI 3 desktop applications with C# and the Windows App SDK using official Microsoft guidance, WinUI Gallery patterns, Windows App SDK samples, and CommunityToolkit components. Use when creating a brand new app, preparing a machine for WinUI, reviewing, refactoring, planning, troubleshooting, environment-checking, or setting up WinUI 3 XAML, controls, navigation, windowing, theming, accessibility, responsiveness, performance, deployment, or related Windows
architecture
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Create or evaluate an architecture decision record (ADR). Use when choosing between technologies (e.g., Kafka vs SQS), documenting a design decision with trade-offs and consequences, reviewing a system design proposal, or designing a new component from requirements and constraints.
testing-strategy
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Design test strategies and test plans. Trigger with "how should we test", "test strategy for", "write tests for", "test plan", "what tests do we need", or when the user needs help with testing approaches, coverage, or test architecture.
canva-creator
✓★ 22,378by anthropics
Takes an approved content brief and executes a campaign end-to-end: builds the posting calendar, generates Canva designs for social posts, drafts caption and email copy, and stages social sends in HubSpot. Canva is used for social posts only (Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn) — email content is drafted as plain text and surfaced inline for the owner to send from their own tool. Every step requires explicit owner approval. Use when the user says "make the content," "generate the posts," "create t
create-cowork-plugin
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Guide users through creating a new plugin from scratch in a cowork session. Use when users want to create a plugin, build a plugin, make a new plugin, develop a plugin, scaffold a plugin, start a plugin from scratch, or design a plugin. This skill requires Cowork mode with access to the outputs directory for delivering the final .plugin file.
data-visualization
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Create effective data visualizations with Python (matplotlib, seaborn, plotly). Use when building charts, choosing the right chart type for a dataset, creating publication-quality figures, or applying design principles like accessibility and color theory.
org-planning
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Headcount planning, org design, and team structure optimization. Trigger with "org planning", "headcount plan", "team structure", "reorg", "who should we hire next", or when the user is thinking about team size, reporting structure, or organizational design.
user-research
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Plan, conduct, and synthesize user research. Trigger with "user research plan", "interview guide", "usability test", "survey design", "research questions", or when the user needs help with any aspect of understanding their users through research.
project-setup-info-local
✓★ 9,980by microsoft
Comprehensive setup steps to help the user create complete project structures in a VS Code workspace; this tool is designed for full project initialization and scaffolding, not for creating individual files. When to use this tool: user wants to create a new complete project from scratch; setting up entire project frameworks (TypeScript projects, React apps, Node.js servers, etc.); initializing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with full structure; creating VS Code extensions with proper scaff
project-setup-info-context7
✓★ 9,980by microsoft
Comprehensive setup steps to help the user create complete project structures in a VS Code workspace. This tool is designed for full project initialization and scaffolding, not for creating individual files. When to use this tool: when the user wants to create a new complete project from scratch; when setting up entire project frameworks (TypeScript projects, React apps, Node.js servers, etc.); when initializing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with full structure; when creating VS Code exte
canva-translate-design
✓★ 4,081by openai
Translate the text in a Canva design into another language while preserving the original layout as much as possible. Use when the user wants a localized or translated version of an existing Canva design and expects the original file to remain unchanged.
gantt-chart-visualization
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design, critique, route, and implement Gantt charts and schedule visualizations. Use when the user mentions Gantt charts, project schedules, roadmaps with task spans, milestones, dependencies, predecessors, critical path, baselines, WBS, resource plans, capacity timelines, MS Project, Primavera P6, Jira Advanced Roadmaps, GitHub Projects, Smartsheet, monday.com, Asana, ClickUp, Azure DevOps iterations, or importing/exporting project-management data for a timeline chart.
ios-app-intents
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design App Intents, app entities, and App Shortcuts for iOS system surfaces. Use when exposing app actions or content to Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight, widgets, or controls.
boltz-protein-design
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design new protein binders with Boltz. Use when generating protein, peptide, antibody, nanobody, or custom binder candidates for a target. Not for screening existing proteins or small molecules.
boltz-small-molecule-design
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design new small-molecule binders with Boltz. Use when generating novel ligands or hits for a target without a fixed compound library. Not for screening existing molecules or one-off docking.
boltz-small-molecule-screen
✓★ 4,081by openai
Screen existing small-molecule libraries with Boltz. Use when docking, scoring, or ranking a supplied SMILES or compound library against a target; also returns free Tier-1 ADME/ADMET (solubility, permeability, lipophilicity/logD) per molecule. Not for de novo molecule design, one-off docking, or ADME on bare SMILES with no target (use boltz-small-molecule-adme).
brainstorming
✓★ 4,081by openai
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.
dashboards-and-real-time-visualization
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design dashboards and live visualization systems. Use when the user needs monitoring views, streaming charts, coordinated interactions, downsampling, or performance-aware operational visualization.
data-visualization
✓★ 4,081by openai
Route web data visualization work. Use when the user needs chart choice, visual critique, dashboards, maps or geospatial views, Gantt timelines, UML/software diagrams, scrollytelling, reports or exports, testing, accessibility, browser implementation, or concept-first visual design.
magicpath
✓★ 4,081by openai
Use when the user mentions MagicPath, designs, UI components, themes, canvas selections, or repo-to-canvas UI work; run magicpath-ai to search, inspect, install, or author components.
ngs-bulk-rnaseq-differential-expression
✓★ 4,081by openai
Run or plan bulk RNA-seq differential-expression analysis from count matrices with replicate, design formula, contrast, batch, normalization, QC plot, and result-table checks.
scrollytelling-and-parallax-data-visualization
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design and implement parallax scrolling and scrollytelling data visualizations. Use when the user asks for parallax scrolling, scrollytelling, scroll-driven timelines, sticky graphics, Scrollama, ScrollTrigger, ScrollTimeline, view timelines, rich-media timelines, moviescrollers, scroll-scrubbed charts, staged narrative reveals, or interactive visual stories where scrolling changes a data visualization or media scene.
statistical-and-uncertainty-visualization
✓★ 4,081by openai
Design statistically honest and uncertainty-aware visualizations. Use when the user needs help showing distributions, intervals, confidence, missingness, sampling effects, or analytical rigor in charts and dashboards.