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.
foryourhealth111-pixelcommit-with-reflection
Git提交与调试反思报告生成技能。用于分析开发过程中的错误、调试步骤和解决方案,生成结构化的中文反思报告,并创建包含报告引用的Git提交。显式请求词:反思提交、智能提交、生成调试报告、commit with reflection。
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alirezarezvanics-backend-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-backend-engineer.md
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../../../agents/c-level/cs-ceo-advisor.md
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../../../agents/marketing/cs-content-creator.md
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alirezarezvanics-cto-advisor
../../../agents/c-level/cs-cto-advisor.md
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alirezarezvanics-demand-gen-specialist
../../../agents/marketing/cs-demand-gen-specialist.md
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alirezarezvanics-engineer-grill
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alirezarezvanics-engineering-lead
../../../agents/engineering-team/cs-engineering-lead.md
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alirezarezvanics-financial-analyst
../../../agents/finance/cs-financial-analyst.md
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Master discrete mathematics, logic, formal proofs, and computational thinking. Build the mathematical foundation for all computer science.
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alirezarezvanics-frontend-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-frontend-engineer.md
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alirezarezvanics-frontend-review
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alirezarezvanics-fullstack-engineer
../../../agents/engineering/cs-fullstack-engineer.md
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alirezarezvanics-growth-strategist
../../../agents/business-growth/cs-growth-strategist.md
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../../../agents/engineering/cs-karpathy-reviewer.md
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alirezarezvanics-product-analyst
../../../agents/product/cs-product-analyst.md
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alirezarezvanics-product-manager
../../../agents/product/cs-product-manager.md
mxyhidiagnosing-bugs
Diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Use when the user says "diagnose"/"debug this", or reports something broken/throwing/failing/slow.
mxyhidomain-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.
petrkindlmannexploratory-testing
Design and execute structured exploratory testing sessions. Covers Session-Based Test Management (SBTM), charter writing, heuristic-based exploration (HICCUPS, FEW HICCUPS), bug discovery…
mxyhigrilling
Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
kerpopulejev-setup
Use when Jev is not working yet, a Jev tool reports no_key or auth_failed, or the person asks to connect or fix Jev. Gets their TypeSafe or OpenRouter key into the secret store, unseen by…
kerpopulejev-skill-select
Use when unsure which of many installed skills applies to a request, if any, or when asked to make skill loading cheaper or more accurate. Jev ranks the whole catalog and may say no skill…
mxyhiledger-tasks-yylo
Durable in-repo task state for coding agents — Kanban tasks with stable IDs, evidence-backed status marks, blocked-by dependencies, and next-ready selection. Use when starting, selecting…
mxyhiponytail
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…
petrkindlmannqa-project-bootstrap
Onboard a new QA engineer to an existing codebase, or audit an existing test architecture. Produces a 30-day ramp plan: codebase orientation, framework walkthrough, test architecture audit…
posit-dev
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posit-devshiny-bslib
Build modern Shiny dashboards and applications using bslib (Bootstrap 5). Use when creating new Shiny apps, modernizing legacy apps (fluidPage, fluidRow/column, tabsetPanel, wellPanel…
posit-dev
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posit-devshiny-py-optimize
Diagnose and fix performance problems in Shiny for Python apps — slow startup, sluggish interactions, blocking operations, and apps that struggle beyond a handful of concurrent users. Use…
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posit-devshiny-r-optimize
Diagnose and fix performance problems in Shiny for R apps — slow startup, sluggish interactions, long-running blocking operations, and apps that struggle beyond a handful of concurrent…
OpenSenseNovasn-proactive-agent
安装、启动和使用 Proactive Agent，记录项目进展并在合适时机提醒下一步。
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 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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