Skills real projects publish on GitHub, most starred first. Each one says what it will make an agent do before you copy it.
n8n-ioSkilln8n-io/n8n/.agents/skills/create-skill/SKILL.md
Guides users through creating effective Agent Skills. Use when you want to create, write, or author a new skill, or asks about skill structure, best practices, or SKILL.md format.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/extensions/copilot/assets/prompts/skills/troubleshoot/SKILL.md
Investigate unexpected chat agent behavior by analyzing direct debug logs in JSONL files. Use when users ask why something happened, why a request was slow, why tools or subagents were used or skipped, or why instructions/skills/agents did not load.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/.github/skills/agent-host-logs/SKILL.md
Analyze Agent Host debug log exports. Use when given an ah-logs or ahp-logs zip/folder, an Export Agent Host Debug Logs bundle, events.jsonl, AHP JSONL transport logs, Agent Host.log, remote-agenthost.log, or copilot-logs.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/.github/skills/code-oss-logs/SKILL.md
Find and read timestamped process logs from Code OSS dev builds, including main.log, renderer.log, extension host logs, and agenthost.log. For bundles produced by Export Agent Host Debug Logs, use agent-host-logs.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/.github/skills/component-fixtures/SKILL.md
Use when creating or updating component fixtures for screenshot testing, or when designing UI components to be fixture-friendly. Covers fixture file structure, theming, service setup, CSS scoping, async rendering, and common pitfalls.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/.github/skills/issue-grouping/SKILL.md
Group similar issues.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/.github/skills/validate-ui-scenario/SKILL.md
Use when reproducing a UI bug or verifying a fix by driving a real VS Code window end to end and capturing evidence. Writes a scenario file, runs it against a dev build or installed Insiders, and produces a captioned video, per-step screenshots, a Playwright trace, and an HTML report to attach to an issue or pull request.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/src/vs/sessions/skills/create-draft-pr/SKILL.md
Create a draft pull request for the current session. Use when the user wants to open a draft PR with the session's changes.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode/src/vs/sessions/skills/create-pr/SKILL.md
Create a pull request for the current session. Use when the user wants to open a PR with the session's changes.
AnthropicSkillanthropics/skills/skills/claude-api/SKILL.md
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 target file; don't skip because it "looks like a one-liner" — whenever: the prompt names Claude/Anthropic in any form (Claude, Anthropic, Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku, `anthropic`, `@anthropic-ai`, `claude-*`, `us.anthropic.*`, `[1m]`); the user asks about an LLM (pricing/model choice/limits/caching) — never answer from memory; OR the task is LLM-shaped with provider unstated (agent/MCP/tool-definition/multi-agent/RAG/LLM-judge/computer-use; generate/summarize/extract/classify/rewrite/converse over NL; debugging refusals/cutoffs/streaming/tool-calls/tokens). SKIP only when another provider is being worked on (overrides all triggers): OpenAI/GPT/Gemini/Llama/Mistral/Cohere/Ollama named in the query; OR `grep -rE 'openai|langchain_openai|google.generativeai|genai|mistralai|cohere|ollama'` over the project hits (run this grep FIRST if no provider named — don't Read the file).
AnthropicSkillanthropics/skills/skills/doc-coauthoring/SKILL.md
Guide users through a structured workflow for co-authoring documentation. Use when user wants to write documentation, proposals, technical specs, decision docs, or similar structured content. This workflow helps users efficiently transfer context, refine content through iteration, and verify the doc works for readers. Trigger when user mentions writing docs, creating proposals, drafting specs, or similar documentation tasks.
AnthropicSkillanthropics/claude-code/plugins/plugin-dev/skills/plugin-structure/SKILL.md
This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a plugin", "scaffold a plugin", "understand plugin structure", "organize plugin components", "set up plugin.json", "use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}", "add commands/agents/skills/hooks", "configure auto-discovery", or needs guidance on plugin directory layout, manifest configuration, component organization, file naming conventions, or Claude Code plugin architecture best practices.
AnthropicSkillanthropics/claude-code/plugins/plugin-dev/skills/skill-development/SKILL.md
This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on skill structure, progressive disclosure, or skill development best practices for Claude Code plugins.
VercelSkillvercel/next.js/skills/next-dev-loop/SKILL.md
Verify Next.js runtime behavior after editing app code. Use this skill to confirm a change actually works in a running app — not just that it compiles or type-checks. Combines /_next/mcp (Next.js's view) with agent-browser (the browser's view). Requires a running `next dev`.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/PowerToys/.github/skills/release-note-generation/SKILL.md
Toolkit for generating PowerToys stable or preview release notes from GitHub milestones, commit ranges, or Azure DevOps release-candidate builds. Use when asked to create release notes, summarize milestone PRs, generate changelog, prepare a draft preview release, calculate PR deltas across main and stable, update release documentation, manage PR milestones, or prepare and validate release assets.
garrytanSkillgarrytan/gstack/design-consultation/SKILL.md
Design consultation: understands your product, researches the landscape, proposes a complete design system (aesthetic, typography, color, layout, spacing, motion), and generates font+color preview... (gstack)
garrytanSkillgarrytan/gstack/design-html/SKILL.md
Design finalization: generates production-quality Pretext-native HTML/CSS. (gstack)
garrytanSkillgarrytan/gstack/design-review/SKILL.md
Designer's eye QA: finds visual inconsistency, spacing issues, hierarchy problems, AI slop patterns, and slow interactions — then fixes them. (gstack)
garrytanSkillgarrytan/gstack/design-shotgun/SKILL.md
Design shotgun: generate multiple AI design variants, open a comparison board, collect structured feedback, and iterate. (gstack)
garrytanSkillgarrytan/gstack/diagram/SKILL.md
Turn an English description (or mermaid source) into a diagram triplet: the source, an editable .excalidraw file you can open on excalidraw.com, and rendered SVG + PNG. (gstack)
A folder with a SKILL.md file: a name, a description of when to use it, and instructions. Claude loads a skill only when the task matches its description.
Copy the folder into your project's .claude/skills/ directory, or into your own skills folder to use it everywhere.
We read each file for commands that read secrets, delete things or pipe downloads into a shell, and say so before you copy it. No warning is not a promise that a file is safe.
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