Anthropic
The best skills for Claude Code.
Claude Code is where agent skills started, and it supports the most features: skills, plugins with bundled skills, hooks and forked context. Claude loads only each skill's name and description at startup (about 100 tokens) and reads the full SKILL.md when a task matches.
- Project skills
- .claude/skills/
- Global skills
- ~/.claude/skills/
- skills CLI flag
- -a claude-code
How to install skills in Claude Code.
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Install with the skills CLI
Works for any public GitHub repo. Pick skills and target Claude Code.
npx skills add heydamir/unslop -a claude-code02
Or install a plugin marketplace
Repos that ship a Claude Code plugin can be added as a marketplace inside Claude Code.
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills03
Or copy the folder
Put the skill folder (with its SKILL.md) in your personal or project skills directory.
cp -r my-skill ~/.claude/skills/- Official Claude Code skills docs
Top skills for Claude Code. Ranked live.
Matt Pocockdiagnosing-bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
Matt Pocockask-matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
Matt Pocockcode-review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentwriting-skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
affaan-magent-self-evaluation
Use after completing any non-trivial task. The agent self-rates its output on 5 axes — accuracy, completeness, clarity, actionability, conciseness — with concrete evidence per criterion…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicalgorithmic-art
Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicdocx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicmcp-builder
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…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentbrainstorming
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it (a talk, a…
Leonxlnxdesign-taste-frontend
tasteskill 2.5.1, the anti-slop frontend skill. Builds professional company websites at the level of figma.com and x.ai: plain copy in a voice of its own, one system, one section per…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentdiagnosing-superpowers
Use when a superpowers session went wrong and your human partner wants to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a skill that didn't fire, "it took too long", "why…
affaan-mangular-developer
Generates Angular code and provides architectural guidance. Trigger when creating projects, components, or services, or for best practices on reactivity (signals, linkedSignal, resource)…
Official skills from the companies behind the tools
Vercel
Skills
Verceltriage
Identify focused, evidence-backed skills CLI bug fixes worth quuu's attention.
Vercel
Skills
Vercelfind-skills
Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending…
Vercel
Skills
Vercelpr-labeling
Classify a skills CLI pull request from its description and patch, while respecting existing labels.
Remotion
Skills
Remotionremotion-markup
Content, animation and effects best practices
Remotion
Skills
Remotionremotion-best-practices
Router for all Remotion skills
Remotion
Skills
Remotionremotion-interactivity
Structure Remotion markup for interactivity
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicalgorithmic-art
Creating algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration. Use this when users request creating art using code, generative art, algorithmic art, flow…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropicdocx
Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word…
Best Claude Code skills by job
Claude Code skills FAQ
Does Claude Code support agent skills?
Yes. Claude Code is where agent skills started, and it supports the most features: skills, plugins with bundled skills, hooks and forked context. Claude loads only each skill's name and description at startup (about 100 tokens) and reads the full SKILL.md when a task matches.
Where does Claude Code store skills?
Project skills go in .claude/skills/ and global skills in ~/.claude/skills/.
How do I use a skill in Claude Code?
Ask for the task in plain words. Claude picks the matching skill from its description. You can also name it: "use the pdf skill to fill this form".
What are the best skills for Claude Code?
The most installed skills right now include Matt Pocock's skills, Superpowers, Taste Skill, Caveman and Anthropic's official skills. See the live list on this page.