Best Claude skills for coding
Coding skills change how your agent works, not only what it writes: brainstorm before building, write a plan, test first, review its own diff, and finish branches cleanly. Packs like Superpowers, Matt Pocock's skills, Addy Osmani's agent skills and Garry Tan's gstack are the most starred skills on GitHub.
1747 coding skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
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Matt Pocock
Diagnosing Bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
Pack321k33MScore 97 - 2#2
Ask Matt
Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.
Pack321k33MScore 95 - 3#3
Code 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…
Pack321k33MScore 95 - 4#4
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Writing Skills
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Pack316k3.9MScore 94 - 5#5
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Brainstorming
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…
Pack316k3.9MScore 92 - 6#6
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Diagnosing 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…
Pack316k3.9MScore 92 - 7#7
JuliusBrussee
Caveman Learn
Act on a Caveman learn report - review the ranked token sinks, apply cost-lowering fixes with per-edit consent, and report what those fixes returned. Use when asked to lower an agent's…
Pack119k4.8MScore 90 - 8#8
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 - 9#9
Agent Sort
Build an evidence-backed ECC install plan for a specific repo by sorting skills, commands, rules, hooks, and extras into DAILY vs LIBRARY buckets using parallel repo-aware review passes…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 10#10
Android Clean Architecture
Clean Architecture patterns for Android and Kotlin Multiplatform projects — module structure, dependency rules, UseCases, Repositories, and data layer patterns. Use when structuring…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89
What makes a great coding skill.
A workflow (plan, implement, verify) rather than a list of tips.
Explicit stop conditions so the agent asks instead of guessing.
Skills that compose: planning, testing and review that hand off to each other.
All 1747 coding skills.
sickn33
Agentic Awesome Skills
sickn33active-directory-attacks
Assess Active Directory attack paths using scoped configuration review and controlled synthetic lab validation; identify prerequisites, evidence and mitigations.
Shubhamsaboodependency-doctor
Checks requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, and package.json dependency manifests for surface-level direct-dependency footguns: standard-library shadowing pins, abandoned backports, unpinned…
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…
DietrichGebertponytail-audit
Quality audit of a whole repo: bugs, security holes, what breaks under real load, risky code without tests, slow paths, and what to delete, merge or split. Ranked, each finding explained in…
DietrichGebertponytail-review
Quality review of a change: is the logic right, is it safe, does it hold under real load, is risky code tested, is it fast enough, and is every line needed. Reads the connected code, not…
tt-a1isimplify-codebase
Simplification audit or authorized codebase simplification whose stated objective is to remove accidental complexity. Use for evidence-backed deletion or consolidation of dead code…
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropictemplate-skill
Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicagent-development
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"…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanautoplan
Auto-review pipeline — runs the CEO, design, eng (architecture, edge cases, failure modes, tests) and DX reviews (lean run: one reviewer), auto-deciding. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tanbrowse
Drive a real browser through Aside: open a page, read it, click through a flow, take screenshots, check console errors. (gstack)
Graphifygraphify
Use for any question about a codebase, its architecture, file relationships, or project content — especially when graphify-out/ exists, where the question should be treated as a graphify…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropichook-development
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}"…
Anthropic
Claude Plugins Official
Anthropicmath-olympiad
"Solve competition math problems (IMO, Putnam, USAMO, AIME) with adversarial verification that catches the errors self-verification misses. Activates when asked to 'solve this IMO problem'…
Vercel
Agent Skills
Vercelvercel-react-best-practices
React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering. This skill should be used when writing, reviewing, or refactoring React/Next.js code to ensure optimal…
Skills
Googleagent-platform-access-audit
Audits AI agent data access, blast radius, and blocked policy operations in Google Cloud by querying Cloud Audit Logs via BigQuery. Use when investigating what resources or services an…
Skills
Googleagent-platform-architecture
Designs, engineers, and validates enterprise Gemini platform architectures. Use when designing multi-project hierarchies (Host, Central Governance Hub, Runtime Spoke, Tool/MCP Spoke)…
Skills
Googleagent-platform-troubleshooting
Troubleshoots Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform issues across Agent Gateway, Agent Connectivity Templates (ACT), Agent Registry, Agent Identity, Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanihivemind
Use when delegating grunt work to free opencode workers instead of spending Claude tokens: one worker or a scout, coder and tester swarm in worktrees. Triggers on 'spawn a worker', 'swarm'…
Yuan1z0825nature-ref-verifier
对学术文献逐条执行多源交叉验证，逐字段对比作者、标题、年份、卷期、页码， 标记卷年/DOI年冲突、作者顺序异常、页码偏差等问题，输出结构化验证报告。 可批量处理整篇论文/开题报告的参考文献列表，也可单条校验，支持与 Zotero 同步修正。
DietrichGebertponytail
Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a reply a busy human understands in one read. Use on any coding task (writing, fixing, refactoring, reviewing…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAImigrate-to-codex
Migrate supported instruction files, skills, agents, and MCP config into Codex project and global files.
OthmanAdiplanning-with-files
Persistent file-based planning for multi-step AI-agent work. Keeps task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk; lifecycle hooks inject selected project planning context. Automatic…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIplugin-creator
Create and scaffold plugin directories for Codex with a required `.codex-plugin/plugin.json`, optional plugin folders/files, and baseline placeholders you can edit before publishing or…
OpenAI
Skills
OpenAIscreenshot
Use when the user explicitly asks for a desktop or system screenshot (full screen, specific app or window, or a pixel region), or when tool-specific capture capabilities are unavailable and…
Egonex-AIunderstand
Analyze a codebase to produce an interactive knowledge graph for understanding architecture, components, and relationships
Egonex-AIunderstand-domain
Extract business domain knowledge from a codebase and generate an interactive domain flow graph. Works standalone (lightweight scan) or derives from an existing /understand knowledge graph.
Egonex-AIunderstand-knowledge
Analyze a Karpathy-pattern LLM wiki knowledge base and generate an interactive knowledge graph with entity extraction, implicit relationships, and topic clustering.
sickn33
Agentic Awesome Skills
sickn33acceptance-orchestrator
Use when a coding task should be driven end-to-end from issue intake through implementation, review, deployment, and acceptance verification with minimal human re-intervention.
Microsoftazure-diagnostics
Debug Azure production issues using AppLens, Azure Monitor, resource health, and safe triage, including evidence-only diagnosis without live access. WHEN: debug production issues…
thedotmackbabysit
Watch a pull request or review cycle until it is ready to merge. Use when asked to babysit, monitor, or keep checking PR comments, reviews, and CI until all actionable issues are resolved.
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvaniboost-asio-pro
Use for any C++ networking code with Boost.Asio or standalone Asio (TCP/UDP, SSL, timers, strands, io_context, co_spawn, awaitable, completion handlers), before writing or reviewing it…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanideepread
Use when the user asks to deeply read a book, article, PDF, or document set; extract claims and evidence; build a knowledge map; or learn through Feynman explanation and recall. Covers…
gamedev-skillsebitengine-game
Create, improve, debug and package playable 2D games in Go with Ebitengine (github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2). Use for Ebitengine game requests: game design translated into a complete loop…
Vercel
Skills
Vercelpr-labeling
Classify a skills CLI pull request from its description and patch, while respecting existing labels.
jakubkrehelteardown
Creates technical illustrations of physical objects and of how things work, such as display pixels or interface layers, with coherent views, fine linework and part fills.
davila7autonomous-agent-patterns
Design patterns for building autonomous coding agents. Covers tool integration, permission systems, browser automation, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Use when building AI agents…
Coding skills, explained.
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What are the best Claude skills for coding?
Right now the top-ranked coding skills on Alyn are Diagnosing Bugs (Matt Pocock), Ask Matt (Matt Pocock), Code Review (Matt Pocock). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
What are the best Claude Code skills?
By stars and installs: Superpowers (obra), Matt Pocock's skills, Addy Osmani's agent-skills, gstack (Garry Tan) and Caveman. Alyn ranks them live.
How many skills should I install?
Start with one workflow pack and two or three task skills. Each skill only costs about 100 tokens until it is used, but overlapping skills can confuse which one runs.
How do I install a coding 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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