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The 25 best Claude skills (2026)

Claude skills are reusable SKILL.md instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized capabilities. The best ones encode hard-won workflow knowledge, how to review code, generate tests, handle a deployment, into a portable file you can install in one command. Below are 25 of the most-installed and highest-rated Claude skills on skills-hub.ai right now, ranked by adoption and grouped by what they do.

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How this list is ranked

Skills are sorted by install count on skills-hub.ai, filtered to skills that publish a Claude Code platform tag and have passed our automated security scan. Every skill links to its detail page where you'll see the security grade, version history, upstream GitHub source (when applicable), and the install command.

The list

  1. 01.code-review

    374 installs

    Thorough code review — checks correctness, security, performance, readability, and test coverage. Gives actionable feedback ranked by severity.

    Review
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install code-review

  2. 02.ui-design-system

    218 installs

    UI design system toolkit for Senior UI Designer including design token generation, component documentation, responsive design calculations, and developer handoff tools. Use when creating design systems, generating design tokens, maintaining visual consistency, or facilitating design-dev collaboration and developer handoff.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-ui-design-system

  3. 03.senior-frontend

    154 installs

    Frontend development skill for React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS applications. Use when building React components, optimizing Next.js performance, analyzing bundle sizes, scaffolding frontend projects, implementing accessibility, or reviewing frontend code quality.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-senior-frontend

  4. 04.frontend-design

    112 installs

    Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.

    Buildfrom Anthropic
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install anthropic-frontend-design

  5. 05.markitdown

    108 installs

    Convert heterogeneous documents and selected URIs to Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown for text analysis, search, and LLM/RAG ingestion. Covers safe local conversion, streams, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server.

    Researchfrom Scientific Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install scientific-skills-markitdown

  6. 06.web-research-agent

    102 installs

    A comprehensive autonomous web research agent that performs targeted searches, fetches and parses web content, summarizes findings, and generates structured reports, adhering to industry best practices for accuracy, security, and robustness.

    Analysis
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install web-research-agent

  7. 07.self-improving-agent

    85 installs

    Curate Claude Code's auto-memory into durable project knowledge. Analyze MEMORY.md for patterns, promote proven learnings to CLAUDE.md and .claude/rules/, extract recurring solutions into reusable skills. Use when: (1) reviewing what Claude has learned about your project, (2) graduating a pattern from notes to enforced rules, (3) turning a debugging solution into a skill, (4) checking memory health and capacity.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-self-improving-agent

  8. 08.Skill Finder

    81 installs

    Workflow orchestrator. Decomposes a task into ordered steps, finds or installs the right skill for each step, runs the chain, and offers to save it as a reusable skill.

    Combo
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install skill-finder

  9. 09.senior-backend

    72 installs

    Designs and implements backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, database architectures, authentication flows, and security hardening. Use when the user asks to "design REST APIs", "optimize database queries", "implement authentication", "build microservices", "review backend code", "set up GraphQL", "handle database migrations", or "load test APIs". Covers Node.js/Express/Fastify development, PostgreSQL optimization, API security, and backend architecture patterns.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-senior-backend

  10. 10.security-review

    66 installs

    Security audit and vulnerability assessment for any codebase. Scans for authentication bypasses, missing auth middleware, broken JWT validation (algorithm confusion, weak secrets, missing expiry), OAuth state and PKCE flaws, IDOR and horizontal privilege escalation.

    Reviewfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install security-review

  11. 11.using-superpowers

    63 installs

    Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions

    Buildfrom Superpowers
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install superpowers-using-superpowers

  12. 12.quickstart

    63 installs

    Zero to power user in one invoke — detects OS, installs Homebrew/apt/Node.js/Python, sets up Claude Code, authenticates skills-hub CLI, connects MCP servers, and installs recommended skills based on your project..

    Productivity
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install quickstart

  13. 13.refactor

    58 installs

    Systematic code refactoring — extract functions, reduce complexity, eliminate duplication, improve naming, and split large files. Preserves behavior with tests.

    Review
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install refactor

  14. 14.unit-test

    57 installs

    Generate comprehensive unit tests with edge cases, error paths, and boundary values. Triggers: you need to add unit tests, increase code coverage, test edge cases, or verify error handling paths.

    Testfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install unit-test

  15. 15.design-to-code

    55 installs

    Turn a design into production-quality frontend code: extract a design system with tokens and components, make layouts responsive across breakpoints, add dark mode with WCAG-compliant theming, then run a UX audit to validate everything..

    Combofrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install design-to-code

  16. 16.social-media-manager

    54 installs

    When the user wants to develop social media strategy, plan content calendars, manage community engagement, or grow their social presence across platforms. Also use when the user mentions 'social media strategy,' 'social calendar,' 'community management,' 'social media plan,' 'grow followers,' 'engagement rate,' 'social media audit,' or 'which platforms should I use.' For writing individual social posts, see social-content. For analyzing social performance data, see social-media-analyzer.

    Marketingfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-social-media-manager

  17. 17.pptx

    51 installs

    Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx or .potx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates (.potx), layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx or .potx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx or .potx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.

    Creativefrom Anthropic
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install anthropic-pptx

  18. 18.marketing-strategy-pmm

    45 installs

    Product marketing skill for positioning, GTM strategy, competitive intelligence, and product launches. Use when the user asks about product positioning, go-to-market planning, competitive analysis, target audience definition, ICP definition, market research, launch plans, or sales enablement. Covers April Dunford positioning, ICP definition, competitive battlecards, launch playbooks, and international market entry. Produces deliverables including positioning statements, battlecard documents, launch plans, and go-to-market strategies.

    Marketingfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-marketing-strategy-pmm

  19. 19.security-audit

    32 installs

    Scan a codebase for security vulnerabilities — OWASP Top 10, secrets in code, dependency CVEs, auth flaws, injection risks, and misconfigurations. Fixes what it finds.

    Review
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install security-audit

  20. 20.humanizer

    31 installs

    Multi-pass editor that removes AI-writing tells from drafted content — eliminates filler phrases, balances sentence length, restores opinion and voice, and strips em-dash overuse so posts sound human and opinionated rather than ChatGPT-generic..

    Analysisfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install humanizer

  21. 21.docx

    30 installs

    Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', '.dotx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx or .dotx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.

    Creativefrom Anthropic
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install anthropic-docx

  22. 22.swot-analysis

    30 installs

    Perform a detailed SWOT analysis — strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats with actionable recommendations. Use when doing strategic assessment, competitive analysis, or evaluating a product or business position.

    Productfrom Product Management Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install pm-skills-swot-analysis

  23. 23.research-proposal

    29 installs

    Use when the user asks to write or draft a PhD / doctoral research proposal, research plan, 研究计划书, or 开题报告 — a forward-looking plan of background, gap, research questions, methodology, timeline, and significance, in English or Chinese. Triggers: "write a research proposal", "PhD proposal", "doctoral proposal", "研究计划书", "开题报告", "写博士研究计划". Not for backward-looking literature reviews / 综述 / surveys (use medical-imaging-review), nor grant forms bound to a funder's own template (国自然/NSF).

    Researchfrom Research Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install research-skills-research-proposal

  24. 24.skill-creator

    27 installs

    Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better triggering accuracy.

    Metafrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install skill-creator

  25. 25.design-animate

    27 installs

    Add purposeful motion to interfaces using modern CSS — scroll-driven animations, view transitions, @starting-style, and GPU-accelerated transforms. Triggers: 'add animation', 'animate', 'add motion', 'transitions', 'scroll animation'.

    UXfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install design-animate

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