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 nightly · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Matt Pocock
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 98 - 2#2
Codebase Design
Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules. Use when the user wants to design or improve a module's interface, find deepening opportunities, decide where a seam goes, make code more…
Pack321k33MScore 98 - 3#3
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 98 - 4#4
JuliusBrussee
Caveman
Terse caveman voice: answer first, fluff gone, every technical fact kept. Use for /caveman, "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "be brief", "less tokens". Stays on until "stop caveman" or…
Pack119k4.8MScore 93 - 5#5
Caveman Commit
Write a Conventional Commits message compressed to intent only. Use for "write a commit", "commit message", /commit or /caveman-commit.
Pack119k4.8MScore 93 - 6#6
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 93 - 7#7
morluto
Rea Analysis Optimization
Optimize REA providers and shared analysis workflows for agent context, latency, CPU, and memory while preserving correctness and Evidence. Use for analysis bottlenecks and cache or query…
Pack450k29kScore 93 - 8#8
Rea Ci Tests Audit
Audit REA CI and test suites for correctness, fixture drift, false passes, and measured performance; use for suite or workflow investigations and efficiency changes, rather than ordinary…
Pack450k29kScore 93 - 9#9
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
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 - 10#10
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
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.
zhaoxuya520competition-bundle-sourcemap-recovery
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for source maps, build manifests, chunk registries, emitted bundles, obfuscated loader flow, and frontend…
zhaoxuya520competition-cloud-metadata-path
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for cloud metadata services, instance identity, workload identity, link-local credential paths, role assumption…
zhaoxuya520competition-container-runtime
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for live container runtime analysis, mounted secrets, sidecars, namespaces, init containers, entrypoint drift…
zhaoxuya520competition-custom-protocol-replay
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for custom binary or text protocol recovery, handshake reconstruction, framing, sequence control, checksums…
zhaoxuya520competition-dpapi-credential-chain
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for DPAPI masterkeys, vault blobs, browser credential stores, protected secrets, domain backup keys, and…
zhaoxuya520competition-file-parser-chain
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for file uploads, imports, previews, archive extraction, format conversion, parser invocation, and…
zhaoxuya520competition-firmware-layout
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for firmware images, partition tables, boot chains, update packages, extracted filesystems, embedded configs…
zhaoxuya520competition-forensic-timeline
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for DFIR chronology, cross-artifact correlation, persistence chains, and incident timeline reconstruction. Use…
zhaoxuya520competition-identity-windows
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, OAuth, enterprise messaging, Windows host forensics, credential material…
zhaoxuya520competition-ios-runtime
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for IPA runtime analysis, Frida hooks, Objective-C or Swift method tracing, Keychain inspection, SSL pinning…
zhaoxuya520competition-jwt-claim-confusion
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for JWT, JWS, and JWE validation paths, header parsing, key selection, claim acceptance, audience and issuer…
zhaoxuya520competition-k8s-control-plane
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for Kubernetes API analysis, service-account trust, RBAC edges, admission and controller behavior, cluster…
zhaoxuya520competition-kerberos-delegation
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for Kerberos delegation, SPN trust edges, S4U abuse, RBCD, constrained or unconstrained delegation, and…
zhaoxuya520competition-kernel-container-escape
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for kernel attack surface, namespace and cgroup boundaries, container isolation assumptions, syscall paths, and…
zhaoxuya520competition-linux-credential-pivot
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for Linux credential artifacts, service tokens, SSH material, cloud and container secrets, socket-level trust…
zhaoxuya520competition-lsass-ticket-material
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for LSASS-resident secrets, Windows logon sessions, Kerberos ticket caches, DPAPI-backed material, SSP…
zhaoxuya520competition-mailbox-abuse
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for enterprise mail abuse, OAuth consent, inbox or forwarding rules, transport rules, shared mailbox access…
zhaoxuya520competition-malware-config
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for malware configuration recovery, staged payload boundaries, beacon parameter extraction, and IOC decoding…
zhaoxuya520competition-oauth-oidc-chain
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for OAuth, OIDC, redirect flows, state or nonce handling, PKCE, token exchange, refresh logic, claim mapping…
zhaoxuya520competition-pcap-protocol
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for packet capture analysis, session reconstruction, application-protocol decoding, stream reassembly, beacon…
zhaoxuya520competition-queue-worker-drift
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for queues, async workers, cron jobs, delayed tasks, retry behavior, worker-only config drift, and…
zhaoxuya520competition-race-condition-state-drift
Internal downstream skill for ctf-sandbox-orchestrator. CTF-sandbox workflow for race windows, ordering bugs, idempotency failures, lock gaps, concurrent worker drift, and state…
morlutoreverse-engineer-anything
Reverse engineer native, managed, Electron/JavaScript, packaged, firmware, and browser targets with REA, and build agent environments (AgentEnv bundles) of web applications from a live…
zhaoxuya520reverse-skill-router
Routes reverse engineering, exploitation, penetration testing, malware, mobile, firmware, browser automation, documentation, and security tasks to the appropriate specialist skill. Use when…
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-figma
Analyze a Figma file via the Figma REST API and generate an interactive design knowledge graph (pages, screens, components, component sets, instances, design tokens) with a kind:"design"…
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.
tt-a1iarchify-review
Review Archify issues, PRs, or code through value, cost, and impact to support evidence-based maintenance decisions. Use for issue triage, change reviews, and code quality assessments.
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)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancaptain
Run a crew of coding agents from one controller (also /crew): lanes send READY blocks and never merge; the controller merges through trains, keeps the digest, relays approvals, fixes flakes…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tancso
Security audit: supported static findings; qualified profiles add reproduction and repair candidates. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandesign-consultation
Design consultation: understands your product, researches the landscape, proposes a complete design system (aesthetic, typography, color, layout, spacing, motion), and generates font+color…
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandesign-shotgun
Design shotgun: generate multiple AI design variants, open a comparison board, collect structured feedback, and iterate. (gstack)
Garry Tan
Gstack
Garry Tandocument-generate
Generate missing documentation from scratch for a feature, module, or entire project. (gstack)
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)
davila7graph-query
Query the code graph database to understand component relationships, dependencies, and change impact. Use when the user asks to "find callers", "check dependencies", "what uses this", "show…
Coding skills, explained.
Also searched as: claude code skills, best claude code skills, software engineering skills, superpowers.
What are the best Claude skills for coding?
Right now the top-ranked coding skills on Alyn are Code Review (Matt Pocock), Codebase Design (Matt Pocock), Diagnosing Bugs (Matt Pocock). Rankings combine popularity, quality checks, momentum and freshness, and update every night.
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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