Agent Skills
Instruction packs that give your AI agent know-how. Three different kinds — pick the right one below.
✦ Standalone skills4,610
Self-contained. Install one into any project and it works on its own — no other software needed.
🧰 Tool add-ons1,006
Come bundled with a specific tool and only work together with it — they teach your agent how to operate that tool.
mcp-integration
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "add MCP server", "integrate MCP", "configure MCP in plugin", "use .mcp.json", "set up Model Context Protocol", "connect external service", mentions "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} with MCP", or discusses MCP server types (SSE, stdio, HTTP, WebSocket). Provides comprehensive guidance for integrating Model Context Protocol servers into Claude Code plugins for external tool and service integration.
playground
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
Creates interactive HTML playgrounds — self-contained single-file explorers that let users configure something visually through controls, see a live preview, and copy out a prompt. Use when the user asks to make a playground, explorer, or interactive tool for a topic.
plugin-settings
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks about "plugin settings", "store plugin configuration", "user-configurable plugin", ".local.md files", "plugin state files", "read YAML frontmatter", "per-project plugin settings", or wants to make plugin behavior configurable. Documents the .claude/plugin-name.local.md pattern for storing plugin-specific configuration with YAML frontmatter and markdown content.
command-development
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a slash command", "add a command", "write a custom command", "define command arguments", "use command frontmatter", "organize commands", "create command with file references", "interactive command", "use AskUserQuestion in command", or needs guidance on slash command structure, YAML frontmatter fields, dynamic arguments, bash execution in commands, user interaction patterns, or command development best practices for Claude Code.
hook-development
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hook", "add a PreToolUse/PostToolUse/Stop hook", "validate tool use", "implement prompt-based hooks", "use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}", "set up event-driven automation", "block dangerous commands", or mentions hook events (PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, SubagentStop, SessionStart, SessionEnd, UserPromptSubmit, PreCompact, Notification). Provides comprehensive guidance for creating and implementing Claude Code plugin hooks with focus on advance
writing-hookify-rules
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hookify rule", "write a hook rule", "configure hookify", "add a hookify rule", or needs guidance on hookify rule syntax and patterns.
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.
build-mcpb
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user wants to "package an MCP server", "bundle an MCP", "make an MCPB", "ship a local MCP server", "distribute a local MCP", discusses ".mcpb files", mentions bundling a Node or Python runtime with their MCP server, or needs an MCP server that interacts with the local filesystem, desktop apps, or OS and must be installable without the user having Node/Python set up.
build-mcp-app
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user wants to build an "MCP app", add "interactive UI" or "widgets" to an MCP server, "render components in chat", build "MCP UI resources", make a tool that shows a "form", "picker", "dashboard" or "confirmation dialog" inline in the conversation, or mentions "apps SDK" in the context of MCP. Use AFTER the build-mcp-server skill has settled the deployment model, or when the user already knows they want UI widgets.
agent-development
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create an agent", "add an agent", "write a subagent", "agent frontmatter", "when to use description", "agent examples", "agent tools", "agent colors", "autonomous agent", or needs guidance on agent structure, system prompts, triggering conditions, or agent development best practices for Claude Code plugins.
example-skill
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
This skill should be used when the user asks to "demonstrate skills", "show skill format", "create a skill template", or discusses skill development patterns. Provides a reference template for creating Claude Code plugin skills.
skill-creator
✓★ 31,611by anthropic
Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.
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.
writing-guidelines
★ 28,711by vercel
Review docs/prose for Writing Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my docs", "check writing style", "audit prose", "review docs voice and tone", or "check this page against the writing handbook".
vercel-react-view-transitions
★ 28,711by vercel
Guide for implementing smooth, native-feeling animations using React's View Transition API (`<ViewTransition>` component, `addTransitionType`, and CSS view transition pseudo-elements). Use this skill whenever the user wants to add page transitions, animate route changes, create shared element animations, animate enter/exit of components, animate list reorder, implement directional (forward/back) navigation animations, or integrate view transitions in Next.js. Also use when the user mentions view
vercel-composition-patterns
★ 28,711by vercel
React composition patterns that scale. Use when refactoring components with
web-design-guidelines
★ 28,711by Vercel
Review UI code for Web Interface Guidelines compliance. Use when asked to "review my UI", "check accessibility", "audit design", "review UX", or "check my site against best practices".
vercel-react-native-skills
★ 28,711by vercel
React Native and Expo best practices for building performant mobile apps. Use
final-release-review
✓★ 27,670by openai
Perform a release-readiness review by locating the previous release tag from remote tags and auditing the diff (e.g., v1.2.3...<commit>) for breaking changes, regressions, improvement opportunities, and risks before releasing openai-agents-python.
test-coverage-improver
✓★ 27,670by openai
Improve test coverage in the OpenAI Agents Python repository: run `make coverage`, inspect coverage artifacts, identify low-coverage files, propose high-impact tests, and confirm with the user before writing tests.
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
prior-auth-packet-builder
✓★ 27,670by openai
Build a concise prior authorization packet from local case files and payer policy docs.
csv-workbench
✓★ 27,670by openai
Analyze CSV files in /mnt/data and return concise numeric summaries.
playwright
✓★ 27,670by openai
Use when the task requires capturing or automating a real browser from the terminal.
docs-sync
✓★ 27,670by openai
Analyze main branch implementation and configuration to find missing, incorrect, or outdated documentation in docs/. Use when asked to audit doc coverage, sync docs with code, or propose doc updates/structure changes. Only update English docs under docs/** and never touch translated docs under docs/ja, docs/ko, or docs/zh. Provide a report and ask for approval before editing docs.
openai-knowledge
✓★ 27,670by openai
Use when working with the OpenAI API (Responses API) or OpenAI platform features (tools, streaming, Realtime API, auth, models, rate limits, MCP) and you need authoritative, up-to-date documentation (schemas, examples, limits, edge cases). Prefer the OpenAI Developer Documentation MCP server tools when available; otherwise guide the user to enable `openaiDeveloperDocs`.
analyze-market
★ 25,749by langchain-ai
Perform a market analysis for a product category or segment. Trigger on: market analysis, market size, TAM SAM SOM, market opportunity, industry analysis.
note
★ 25,749by langchain-ai
Take a note.
cuml-machine-learning
★ 25,749by langchain-ai
Use for GPU-accelerated machine learning on tabular data using NVIDIA cuML. Triggers when tasks involve classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, or model training on datasets.
data-visualization
★ 25,749by langchain-ai
Use for creating publication-quality charts and multi-panel analysis summaries. Triggers when tasks involve visualizing data, plotting results, creating charts, or producing visual reports from analysis output.