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.
- 1#1
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.
Microsoftint-reference
Reference tables for Copilot Studio YAML authoring: triggers, actions, variables, entities, Power Fx functions, templates. Preloaded by author and advisor agents.
Microsoftmanage-agent
Push/pull Copilot Studio agent content via the VS Code extension's LanguageServerHost LSP binary. Handles authentication (interactive browser login for push/pull, device code flow for chat…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-fazang
Use when user asks about 华严宗, 法界缘起, 四法界, 事事无碍, 十玄门, 六相圆融, 金师子章, 一即一切, 因陀罗网, 华严经, 五教判, or wants teaching in 法藏大师 Fazang's voice. Triggers include phrases like "华严"、"法藏"、"贤…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-huineng
Use when user asks about 禅宗, 六祖, 坛经, 顿悟, 见性成佛, 直指人心, 不立文字, 自性, 本心, 无念, 无相, 无住, 般若, 定慧一体, 明心见性, 南宗禅, or wants teaching in 慧能大师 Huineng's voice. Triggers include phrases like…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-kumarajiva
Use when user asks about 中观, 三论宗, 般若, 空性, 中道, 八不, 缘起性空, 法华经, 金刚经, 维摩诘, 不二法门, 一佛乘, 大智度论, or wants teaching in 鸠摩罗什 Kumārajīva's voice. Triggers include phrases like "中观"、"…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-mahasi-sayadaw
Use when user asks about 南传, 上座部, 缅甸内观, Mahasi Method, 标记法, Noting Method, 腹部起伏, 毗婆舍那, vipassanā, 四念处, 七清净, 十六观智, 刹那定, 行舍智, 马哈希尊者, Mahasi Sayadaw, Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha, IMS, or wants…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-milarepa
Use when user asks about 藏传佛教, 噶举派, 大手印, phyag chen, 拙火, tummo, 那洛六法, 苦行, 闭关, 道歌, mgur, 米拉日巴, 玛尔巴, 上师瑜伽, 出离, 暇满, 中阴, 气脉明点, 觉受, nyams, 本觉, rig pa, or wants teaching in 米拉日巴尊者 Milarepa's…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-nagarjuna
Use when user asks about 中观, 空性, 缘起性空, 八不中道, 二谛, 世俗谛, 第一义谛, 戏论, 毕竟空, 不可得, 如幻, 离四句, 破自性, 难行道易行道, 龙树, or wants teaching in 龙树菩萨 Nāgārjuna's voice. Triggers include phrases like…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-tsongkhapa
Use when user asks about 藏传, 格鲁派, Gelug, 黄教, 三主要道, 菩提道次第广论, lam rim, 密宗道次第广论, 应成中观, 缘起性空, 辨了不了义, 宗喀巴, Tsongkhapa, Je Rinpoche, 甘丹寺, 戒律, 因明, 月称, 入中论, or wants teaching in 宗喀巴大师 Tsongkhapa's…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-xuanzang
Use when user asks about 唯识, 法相宗, 阿赖耶识, 末那识, 三性, 遍计所执, 依他起, 圆成实, 五位百法, 因明, 转识成智, 种子, 熏习, 瑜伽师地论, 成唯识论, or wants teaching in 玄奘法师 Xuanzang's voice. Triggers include phrases like…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-xuyun
Use when user asks about 虚云, 参禅, 话头, 念佛是谁, 疑情, 开悟, 桶底脱落, 禅七, 行香, 丛林, 五宗兼嗣, 临济, 曹洞, 沩仰, 云门, 法眼, 老实修行, 头陀行, 持戒, 禅净双修, 云居山, 南华寺, or wants teaching in 虚云老和尚 Xuyun's voice. Triggers include…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-yinguang
Use when user asks about 印光大师, 净土, 念佛, 持名念佛, 十念法, 摄耳谛听, 老实念佛, 信愿行, 带业往生, 仗佛慈力, 自力他力, 竖出横超, 往生, 极乐, 阿弥陀佛, 净土三经, 敦伦尽分, 闲邪存诚, 因果报应, 文钞, 一函遍复, or wants teaching in 印光大师 Yinguang's voice…
xr843
Master Skill
xr843master-zhiyi
Use when user asks about 天台宗, 止观, 一念三千, 三谛圆融, 五时八教, 摩诃止观, 法华经, or wants teaching in 智者大师 Zhiyi's voice. Triggers include phrases like "天台"、"智者大师"、"止观怎么修"、"三谛"、"法华"、"一心三观"、"判教"、"圆教"、"四种三昧" —…
zhnnky329math-figure-generator
Generate and render-verify publication-quality mathematical-modeling figures from saved evidence, using the approved figure plan, source data, claim, type, and consistent visual system.
Microsoftnew-topic
Create a new Copilot Studio topic YAML file. Use when the user asks to create a new topic, conversation flow, or dialog for their agent.
P4nda0s
Reverse Skills
P4nda0srev-ios-dump
Dump decrypted iOS app binaries (砸壳) from jailbroken devices using frida-ios-dump. Activate when the user wants to decrypt an iOS app, dump an IPA from a device, or extract a decrypted…
aiskillstore
Marketplace
aiskillstoretemplate-skill
Replace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.
laolaoshiren
Claude Code Skills Zh
laolaoshirenzh-docgen
中文文档生成器 - 从代码库自动生成中文技术文档
Microsoftadd-generative-answers
Add generative answer nodes (SearchAndSummarizeContent or AnswerQuestionWithAI) to a Copilot Studio topic. Use this instead of /add-node when the user asks to add grounded answers…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-document-project
BROWNFIELD planning input. Scans an existing codebase READ-ONLY and writes project-documentation.md — ground truth for stack, structure, key flows, conventions, and integration points — so…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-help
Orchestration spine and "what do I do next?" router for the BMAD Planning & Orchestrator plugin. Detects current planning state by scanning the output folder for which artifacts exist…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-investigate
Forensic bug and issue triage. Produces a graded investigation case file: symptoms, evidence (graded A/B/C by confidence), ranked hypotheses, suspected components, and a recommended…
aj-geddes
Claude Code Bmad Skills
aj-geddesbmad-spec
Distills ANY messy input — brain dump, transcript, long PRD, stakeholder notes, feature request, voice memo — into a tight five-field SPEC.md kernel that any downstream planning skill can…
zhnnky329problem-parser
Parse a mathematical-modeling problem into goals, objects, data, constraints, outputs, subquestions, dependencies, variables, relationships, and human-confirmed success criteria before any…
zhnnky329result-report-generator
Summarize modeling experiment evidence, compare the approved main method with a usable baseline, surface fallback triggers, and produce a decision-point or final report without creating…
P4nda0s
Reverse Skills
P4nda0srev-unicorn-debug
Debug and emulate specific code fragments or functions using the Unicorn engine. Activate when the user wants to emulate a function with Unicorn, trace binary execution without running the…
AI-Builder-Clubsetup-codebase-harness
Master skill — set up the full agent harness for any repo so an agent can work it reliably: legible (map-not-manual docs + custom lints), executable (one-command dev stack), verifiable (e2e…
zhnnky329solution-package-builder
Assemble a submission-ready writer package from final method, result, robustness, figure, and human-decision artifacts, then freeze approved numerical claims with provenance.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-autonomous-orchestrator
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majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-checkpoint-manager
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-commit-manager
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-criteria-validator
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-lock
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-master-controller
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-master-controller-adaptationio-skrillz-3
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
majiayu000
Claude Skill Registry
majiayu000ac-stop-hook-analyzer
This page used to hold an archived copy of this skill. The archive now lives in the registry's data repository.
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 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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