Best Claude skills for AI engineering
AI engineering skills help you build with models: prompt design, evals, fine-tuning, RAG, agent architecture and skill authoring itself. Hugging Face, Google and Orchestra Research publish large packs, and meta-skills help you write better skills.
606 ai engineering skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropic
MCP 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…
Pack192k3.8MScore 93 - 2#2
Anthropic
Skills
Skill Creator
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…
Pack192k3.8MScore 93 - 3#3
Matt Pocock
Domain Modeling
Build and sharpen a project's domain model. Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a GLOSSARY.md, or recording or editing an ADR.
Pack321k33MScore 92 - 4#4
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Subagent Driven Development
Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session
Pack316k3.9MScore 92 - 5#5
Anthropic
Skills
Claude API
Reference for the Claude API / Anthropic SDK — model ids, pricing, params, streaming, tool use, MCP, agents, caching, token counting, model migration. TRIGGER — read BEFORE opening the…
Pack192k3.8MScore 91 - 6#6
affaan-m
Agent Architecture Audit
Full-stack diagnostic for agent and LLM applications. Audits the 12-layer agent stack for wrapper regression, memory pollution, tool discipline failures, hidden repair loops, and rendering…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 7#7
Agentic Os
Build persistent multi-agent operating systems on Claude Code. Covers kernel architecture, specialist agents, slash commands, file-based memory, scheduled automation, and state management…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 8#8
AI Regression Testing
Regression testing strategies for AI-assisted development. Sandbox-mode API testing without database dependencies, automated bug-check workflows, and patterns to catch AI blind spots where…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 9#9
JuliusBrussee
Caveman Setup
Wire a repository through the Caveman Cloud gateway so every LLM request is measured, with no behavior change. Use for "set up caveman" or adding LLM spend observability.
Pack119k4.8MScore 88 - 10#10
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Haines
Marketing Psychology
When the user wants to apply psychology to marketing, or asks why buyers behave or value things as they do, or whether a persuasion tactic is honest: biases, mental models, anchoring…
Pack60k6.3MScore 86
What makes a great ai engineering skill.
Eval steps so changes are measured, not vibed.
Current library versions and APIs.
Cost and context awareness for long-running agents.
All 606 ai engineering skills.
davila7agents-langchain
Framework for building LLM-powered applications with agents, chains, and RAG. Supports multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), 500+ integrations, ReAct agents, tool calling, memory…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanbenchmark-models
Cross-model benchmark for gstack skills. (gstack)
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicbuild-mcp-server
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…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIchatgpt-apps
Build, scaffold, refactor, and troubleshoot ChatGPT Apps SDK applications that combine an MCP server and widget UI. Use when Codex needs to design tools, register UI resources, wire the MCP…
OpenMontagecreate-video
Create videos from a text prompt using HeyGen's Video Agent. Use when: (1) Creating a video from a description or idea, (2) Generating explainer, demo, or marketing videos from a prompt…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Taneval-plan
Preregister a paid eval (bars, arms, decoys, stop rules), dry-run it at zero cost, then run a three-item priced pilot whose spend table gates approval. (gstack)
Composiomcp-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…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIopenai-docs
Use when the user asks how to build with OpenAI products or APIs, asks about Codex itself or choosing Codex surfaces, needs up-to-date official documentation with citations, help choosing…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIskill-creator
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Codex's capabilities with specialized…
Microsoftmicrosoft-foundry
Build, deploy, evaluate, optimize, fine-tune, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end to end. USE FOR: foundry, azd ai agent, azd provision/deploy, hosted agent…
AgriciDanielseo-agentic
Audit and fix agent readiness: the Lighthouse Agentic Browsing fraction, accessibility tree for agents, robots.txt and Content-Signal for AI agents, WAF treatment of agent traffic…
AgriciDanielseo-dataforseo
Live SEO data via DataForSEO MCP server: SERP analysis, keyword research (volume, difficulty, intent, trends), backlink profiles, on-page analysis, competitor and content analysis, business…
OpenMontagefish-audio-tts
Generate expressive, multilingual narration with fish.audio (S1 / S2-generation models) and reuse cloned voices via reference_id. Use when the user prefers fish.audio/Fish Audio TTS, wants…
AgriciDanielseo-flow
FLOW framework integration: evidence-led SEO using the Find → Leverage → Optimize → Win loop. Surfaces stage-specific AI prompts from the FLOW knowledge base (41 prompts, CC BY 4.0). Use…
Composioskill-creator
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized…
phurynbusiness-model
Generate a Business Model Canvas with all 9 building blocks. Use when creating a business model, documenting how a business creates value, or analyzing an existing business model.
Expo
Skills
Expoexpo-skill-eval
Evaluate Expo skills in this repo end-to-end - trigger accuracy, generated code quality, and runtime screenshots on iOS simulator and Android emulator via Expo Go (web optional). Use when…
OpenMontageflux-best-practices
Comprehensive guide for BFL FLUX image generation models. Covers prompting, T2I, I2I, structured JSON, hex colors, typography, multi-reference editing, and model-specific best practices for…
Microsoftazure-ai
Build and troubleshoot Azure AI Search, Speech, OpenAI, and Document Intelligence apps. WHEN: AI Search, query search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, speech-to-text…
Microsoftazure-resource-lookup
List, find, and show Azure resources across subscriptions or resource groups. Handles prompts like "list the websites in my subscription", "list my web apps", "show my app services", "list…
Jeffallan
Claude Skills
Jeffallanfine-tuning-expert
Use when fine-tuning LLMs, training custom models, or adapting foundation models for specific tasks. Invoke for configuring LoRA/QLoRA adapters, preparing JSONL training datasets, setting…
Remotion
Skills
Remotionremotion-create
Create a new Remotion video
Cloudflare
Skills
Cloudflareagents-sdk
Build, debug, or review Cloudflare Agents SDK applications using the agents package.
NVIDIA
Skills
NVIDIAcodonfm-embed
Validate coding-sequence CSVs, extract public CodonFM/Encodon embeddings, and choose checkpoints for downstream property modeling.
Orchestra Research
AI Research SKILLs
Orchestra Researchgrpo-rl-training
Expert guidance for GRPO/RL fine-tuning with TRL for reasoning and task-specific model training
NVIDIA
Skills
NVIDIAkermt-continue-pretrain
Continue KERMT pretraining on a custom SMILES corpus with a grover_base, cmim, or hybrid checkpoint. Use a local checkpoint or optionally download a pinned Hugging Face model bundle using…
NVIDIA
Skills
NVIDIAkermt-embed
Extract per-molecule embeddings from any encoder-bearing KERMT checkpoint. Use a local checkpoint or optionally download a pinned Hugging Face model bundle using HF_TOKEN if configured. Run…
dotnet
Skills
dotnettechnology-selection
Guides technology selection and implementation of AI and ML features in .NET 8+ applications using ML.NET, Microsoft.Extensions.AI (MEAI), Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), GitHub Copilot…
MengToarticle-prompts-to-skills
Convert an article, tutorial, or prompt pack into focused reusable AgentSkills, one independent capability per skill, with portable instructions, example prompts, working demos, preview…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyincitation-crosscheck
Double-blind bibliographic cross-check: one agent extracts each cited entry verbatim from the local .bib, a second independently re-fetches the same paper's record from the web while blind…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinfigure-spec
Generate deterministic publication-quality architecture, workflow, and pipeline diagrams from structured JSON (FigureSpec) into editable SVG. Use when user says "架构图", "workflow 图"…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehf-cloud-sagemaker-iam-preflight
Ensure a usable SageMaker execution role exists before deploying or training. Use this skill whenever about to create a SageMaker endpoint, model, training job, or any resource that…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehf-cloud-sagemaker-production-defaults
Create a SageMaker endpoint (real-time, real-time scale-to-zero, or async) with autoscaling, CloudWatch alarms, and tagging enabled by default. Use this skill whenever about to create a…
Hugging Face
Skills
Hugging Facehf-cloud-serving-image-selection
Pick the right serving container for a SageMaker model deployment and find its current image URI. Use this skill whenever about to deploy a model to a SageMaker endpoint and an image URI…
phurynpricing-strategy
Analyze and design pricing strategies including pricing models, competitive pricing analysis, willingness-to-pay estimation, and price elasticity. Use when setting prices, evaluating…
dotnet
Skills
dotnetcreate-skill
Scaffolds new agent skills for the dotnet/skills repository. Use when creating a new skill, generating SKILL.md files, writing a skill description that the runtime will actually route to…
AI engineering skills, explained.
Also searched as: llm skills, prompt engineering skill, fine-tuning skills, skill creator, hugging face skills.
What are the best Claude skills for AI engineering?
Right now the top-ranked ai engineering skills on Alyn are MCP Builder (Anthropic), Skill Creator (Anthropic), Domain Modeling (Matt Pocock). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
How do I create my own skill?
Write a folder with a SKILL.md file: YAML frontmatter with name and description, then instructions. See Alyn's guide on creating skills.
Do self-written skills help?
The SkillsBench study found curated skills raised pass rates by 16.2 points on average, while skills the model wrote for itself gave no benefit on average. Quality matters.
How do I install a ai engineering skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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