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.
performance-review
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Structure a performance review with self-assessment, manager template, and calibration prep. Use when review season kicks off and you need a self-assessment template, writing a manager review for a direct report, prepping rating distributions and promotion cases for calibration, or turning vague feedback into specific behavioral examples.
data-context-extractor
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Generate or improve a company-specific data analysis skill by extracting tribal knowledge from analysts. BOOTSTRAP MODE - Triggers: "Create a data context skill", "Set up data analysis for our warehouse", "Help me create a skill for our database", "Generate a data skill for [company]" → Discovers schemas, asks key questions, generates initial skill with reference files ITERATION MODE - Triggers: "Add context about [domain]", "The skill needs more info about [topic]", "Update the data skill with
legal-risk-assessment
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Assess and classify legal risks using a severity-by-likelihood framework with escalation criteria. Use when evaluating contract risk, assessing deal exposure, classifying issues by severity, or determining whether a matter needs senior counsel or outside legal review.
memory-management
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Two-tier memory system that makes Claude a true workplace collaborator. Decodes shorthand, acronyms, nicknames, and internal language so Claude understands requests like a colleague would. CLAUDE.md for working memory, memory/ directory for the full knowledge base.
recruiting-pipeline
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Track and manage recruiting pipeline stages. Trigger with "recruiting update", "candidate pipeline", "how many candidates", "hiring status", or when the user discusses sourcing, screening, interviewing, or extending offers.
interview-prep
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Create structured interview plans with competency-based questions and scorecards. Trigger with "interview plan for", "interview questions for", "how should we interview", "scorecard for", or when the user is preparing to interview candidates.
meeting-briefing
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Prepare structured briefings for meetings with legal relevance and track resulting action items. Use when preparing for contract negotiations, board meetings, compliance reviews, or any meeting where legal context, background research, or action tracking is needed.
runbook
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Create or update an operational runbook for a recurring task or procedure. Use when documenting a task that on-call or ops needs to run repeatably, turning tribal knowledge into exact step-by-step commands, adding troubleshooting and rollback steps to an existing procedure, or writing escalation paths for when things go wrong.
variance-analysis
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.
audit-support
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Support SOX 404 compliance with control testing methodology, sample selection, and documentation standards. Use when generating testing workpapers, selecting audit samples, classifying control deficiencies, or preparing for internal or external audits.
call-prep
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Prepare for a sales call with account context, attendee research, and suggested agenda. Works standalone with user input and web research, supercharged when you connect your CRM, email, chat, or transcripts. Trigger with "prep me for my call with [company]", "I'm meeting with [company] prep me", "call prep [company]", or "get me ready for [meeting]".
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.
contract-review
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Lightweight NDA, MSA, and vendor contract review for SMBs without legal on staff. Reads contracts from local files, Gmail attachments, or DocuSign envelopes; flags non-standard terms; explains risks in plain English; and outputs a marked-up redline as a separate DOCX. Use when the user says "review this contract," "what am I signing," "red flags," "flag any concerns," "check the payment terms," or uploads/forwards a contract or legal agreement.
cowork-plugin-customizer
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Customize a Claude Code plugin for a specific organization's tools and workflows. Use when: customize plugin, set up plugin, configure plugin, tailor plugin, adjust plugin settings, customize plugin connectors, customize plugin skill, tweak plugin, modify plugin configuration.
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.
documentation
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Write and maintain technical documentation. Trigger with "write docs for", "document this", "create a README", "write a runbook", "onboarding guide", or when the user needs help with any form of technical writing — API docs, architecture docs, or operational runbooks.
guideline-generation
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
This skill generates, creates, or builds brand voice guidelines from source materials. It should be used when the user asks to "generate brand guidelines", "create a style guide", "extract brand voice", "create guidelines from calls", "consolidate brand materials", "analyze my sales calls for brand voice", "build a brand playbook from documents", "synthesize a voice and tone guide", or uploads brand documents, transcripts, or meeting recordings for brand analysis. Also triggers when the user has
journal-entry-prep
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Prepare journal entries with proper debits, credits, and supporting documentation for month-end close. Use when booking accruals, prepaid amortization, fixed asset depreciation, payroll entries, revenue recognition, or any manual journal entry.
product-brainstorming
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Brainstorm product ideas, explore problem spaces, and challenge assumptions as a thinking partner. Use when exploring a new opportunity, generating solutions to a product problem, stress-testing an idea, or when a PM needs to think out loud with a sharp sparring partner before converging on a direction.
reconciliation
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Reconcile accounts by comparing GL balances to subledgers, bank statements, or third-party data. Use when performing bank reconciliations, GL-to-subledger recs, intercompany reconciliations, or identifying and categorizing reconciling items.
risk-assessment
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks. Trigger with "what are the risks", "risk assessment", "risk register", "what could go wrong", or when the user is evaluating risks associated with a project, vendor, process, or decision.
scientific-problem-selection
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
This skill should be used when scientists need help with research problem selection, project ideation, troubleshooting stuck projects, or strategic scientific decisions. Use this skill when users ask to pitch a new research idea, work through a project problem, evaluate project risks, plan research strategy, navigate decision trees, or get help choosing what scientific problem to work on. Typical requests include "I have an idea for a project", "I'm stuck on my research", "help me evaluate this
scvi-tools
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Deep learning for single-cell analysis using scvi-tools. This skill should be used when users need (1) data integration and batch correction with scVI/scANVI, (2) ATAC-seq analysis with PeakVI, (3) CITE-seq multi-modal analysis with totalVI, (4) multiome RNA+ATAC analysis with MultiVI, (5) spatial transcriptomics deconvolution with DestVI, (6) label transfer and reference mapping with scANVI/scArches, (7) RNA velocity with veloVI, or (8) any deep learning-based single-cell method. Triggers inclu
sequence-load
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Find leads matching criteria and bulk-add them to an Apollo outreach sequence. Handles enrichment, contact creation, deduplication, and enrollment in one flow.
single-cell-rna-qc
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Performs quality control on single-cell RNA-seq data (.h5ad or .h5 files) using scverse best practices with MAD-based filtering and comprehensive visualizations. Use when users request QC analysis, filtering low-quality cells, assessing data quality, or following scverse/scanpy best practices for single-cell analysis.
task-management
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Simple task management using a shared TASKS.md file. Reference this when the user asks about their tasks, wants to add/complete tasks, or needs help tracking commitments.
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.
ui-toolkit/web
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Reference skill for Zoom Video SDK UI Toolkit. Use after routing to a web video workflow when you want prebuilt React UI instead of building a fully custom Video SDK interface.
weekly-prep-brief
✓★ 22,378by anthropic
Generate a comprehensive weekly briefing for all external calls in the next 7 days. Triggers on 'weekly prep brief', 'prepare my week', 'what calls do I have this week', 'Monday prep', or any weekly planning request.