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.
All Standalone skills
265 standalone skillsbrand-guidelines
✓★ 158,491by Anthropic
Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.
canvas-design
✓★ 158,491by Anthropic
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
mcp-builder
✓★ 158,491by Anthropic
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).
frontend-design
✓★ 158,491by 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.
frontend-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.
mcp-builder
★ 66,917by ComposioHQ
Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).
canvas-design
★ 66,917by ComposioHQ
Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.
brand-guidelines
★ 66,917by ComposioHQ
Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.
parallel-feature-development
★ 37,559by wshobson
Coordinate parallel feature development with file ownership strategies, conflict avoidance rules, and integration patterns for multi-agent implementation. Use this skill when decomposing a large feature into independent work streams, when two or more agents need to implement different layers of the same system simultaneously, when establishing file ownership to prevent merge conflicts in a shared codebase, when designing interface contracts so parallel implementers can build against each other's
workflow-orchestration-patterns
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design durable workflows with Temporal for distributed systems. Covers workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constraints. Use when building long-running processes, distributed transactions, or microservice orchestration.
nodejs-backend-patterns
★ 37,559by wshobson
Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. Use when creating Node.js servers, REST APIs, GraphQL backends, or microservices architectures.
design-system-patterns
★ 37,559by wshobson
Build scalable design systems with design tokens, theming infrastructure, and component architecture patterns. Use when creating design tokens, implementing theme switching, building component libraries, or establishing design system foundations.
langchain-architecture
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design LLM applications using LangChain 1.x and LangGraph for agents, memory, and tool integration. Use when building LangChain applications, implementing AI agents, or creating complex LLM workflows.
postgresql-table-design
★ 37,559by wshobson
Use this skill when designing or reviewing a PostgreSQL-specific schema. Covers best-practices, data types, indexing, constraints, performance patterns, and advanced features
brand-landingpage
★ 37,559by wshobson
Brand-first landing page designer — runs a brand-identity interview (colors, typography, shape language), then generates and iterates on a polished landing page via Stitch with deployment-ready HTML. Use when the user asks to create, design, or build a landing page, homepage, or marketing page and has no established visual direction. Skip when they have a design mockup, need a dashboard or app UI, are working at component level, building a multi-page app, or restyling with known design tokens —
multi-cloud-architecture
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design multi-cloud architectures using a decision framework to select and integrate services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Use when building multi-cloud systems, avoiding vendor lock-in, or leveraging best-of-breed services from multiple providers.
recsys-pipeline-architect
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design composable recommendation, ranking, and feed pipelines using the six-stage Source→Hydrator→Filter→Scorer→Selector→SideEffect framework popularized by xAI's open-sourced X For You algorithm. Use when building any system that picks "the top K items for a (user, context)" — content feeds, search ranking, RAG rerankers, task prioritizers, notification triage, ad selection.
mobile-ios-design
★ 37,559by wshobson
Master iOS Human Interface Guidelines and SwiftUI patterns for building native iOS apps. Use when designing iOS interfaces, implementing SwiftUI views, or ensuring apps follow Apple's design principles.
interaction-design
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design and implement microinteractions, motion design, transitions, and user feedback patterns. Use when adding polish to UI interactions, implementing loading states, or creating delightful user experiences.
sql-optimization-patterns
★ 37,559by wshobson
Master SQL query optimization, indexing strategies, and EXPLAIN analysis to dramatically improve database performance and eliminate slow queries. Use when debugging slow queries, designing database schemas, or optimizing application performance.
team-composition-analysis
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design optimal team structures, hiring plans, compensation strategies, and equity allocation for early-stage startups from pre-seed through Series A. Use this skill when planning headcount, determining which roles to hire next, setting compensation or equity ranges, designing org structure, or building a hiring budget aligned to funding milestones.
wcag-audit-patterns
★ 37,559by wshobson
Conduct WCAG 2.2 accessibility audits with automated testing, manual verification, and remediation guidance. Use when auditing websites for accessibility, fixing WCAG violations, or implementing accessible design patterns.
react-native-design
★ 37,559by wshobson
Master React Native styling, navigation, and Reanimated animations for cross-platform mobile development. Use when building React Native apps, implementing navigation patterns, or creating performant animations.
tailwind-design-system
★ 37,559by wshobson
Build scalable design systems with Tailwind CSS v4, design tokens, component libraries, and responsive patterns. Use when creating component libraries, implementing design systems, or standardizing UI patterns.
openapi-spec-generation
★ 37,559by wshobson
Generate and maintain OpenAPI 3.1 specifications from code, design-first specs, and validation patterns. Use when creating API documentation, generating SDKs, or ensuring API contract compliance.
kpi-dashboard-design
★ 37,559by wshobson
Design effective KPI dashboards with metrics selection, visualization best practices, and real-time monitoring patterns. Use this skill when building an executive SaaS metrics dashboard tracking MRR, churn, and LTV/CAC ratios; designing an operations center with live service health and request throughput; creating a cohort retention analysis view for a product team; or debugging a dashboard where metrics contradict each other due to inconsistent calculation methodology.
python-project-structure
★ 37,559by wshobson
Python project organization, module architecture, and public API design. Use when setting up new projects, organizing modules, defining public interfaces with __all__, or planning directory layouts.
mobile-android-design
★ 37,559by wshobson
Master Material Design 3 and Jetpack Compose patterns for building native Android apps. Use when designing Android interfaces, implementing Compose UI, or following Google's Material Design guidelines.
python-error-handling
★ 37,559by wshobson
Python error handling patterns including input validation, exception hierarchies, and partial failure handling. Use when implementing validation logic, designing exception strategies, handling batch processing failures, or building robust APIs.
prompt-engineering-patterns
★ 37,559by wshobson
This skill should be used when the user asks to "optimize a prompt", "improve prompt performance", "design a prompt template", "write better prompts", "debug prompt issues", "use chain-of-thought", "structured prompting", "few-shot prompting", or wants to apply advanced prompt engineering patterns for production LLM applications.