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Claude Skills

Claude skills are reusable SKILL.md instructions that extend Claude Code with new capabilities. Install free Claude skills from Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Vercel, Stripe, and the developer community, in one command, with security scanning and version control built in.

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

What are Claude skills?

A Claude skill is a Markdown file with frontmatter, a SKILL.md, that tells Claude Code how to do one specific job well. Code review. Test generation. Deploying to Render. Auditing for HIPAA. Generating an API spec. The format is plain text, the standard is open, and the file is portable across every AI tool that supports the Agent Skills spec.

What makes skills different from a system prompt is conditional loading. A system prompt sits in every conversation, eating context. A skill is invoked only when its triggers match the task, so you can install hundreds of Claude skills without bloating the model's context window. Claude reads the skill, follows its instructions, and unloads it when the task is done.

What makes Claude skills different from Cursor rules, Copilot instructions, or any other tool-specific format is portability. The same SKILL.md works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and any MCP-compatible client. Write once, run in every tool.

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The most-installed Claude skills on skills-hub.ai right now. Every skill is versioned, security-scanned, and linked to its upstream GitHub repository.

  1. 01code-review

    375 installs

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

    Review
  2. 02ui-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
  3. 03senior-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
  4. 04frontend-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
  5. 05markitdown

    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
  6. 06web-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
  7. 07self-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
  8. 08Skill 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
  9. 09senior-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
  10. 10security-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
  11. 11using-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
  12. 12quickstart

    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
  13. 13refactor

    58 installs

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

    Review
  14. 14unit-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
  15. 15design-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
  16. 16social-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
  17. 17pptx

    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
  18. 18marketing-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
  19. 19security-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
  20. 20humanizer

    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
  21. 21docx

    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
  22. 22swot-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
  23. 23research-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
  24. 24skill-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

Claude skills by category

Browse Claude skills organized by what they do. Each category covers the most common tasks in modern AI-assisted development.

How to install Claude skills

  1. 1. Pick a skill from the catalog

    Open /browse, filter by Claude Code, sort by installs or quality, and pick a skill that matches your task. Every skill page shows a security grade, a quality score, and a link to the upstream GitHub repository.

  2. 2. Run the install command

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

    The CLI writes the SKILL.md to the right directory (.claude/skills/ for Claude Code) and adds an entry to .skills.json so your team gets the same skill at the same version.

  3. 3. Use the skill

    Open Claude Code and describe a task that matches the skill's triggers, for example, "review this PR" or "deploy to Render." Claude loads the skill on demand, follows its instructions, and unloads it when finished. No need to manage context yourself.

  4. 4. Optional: install via MCP

    If your tool supports MCP, install @skills-hub-ai/mcp and the entire registry becomes searchable as MCP prompts, no per-skill install needed.

Publish your own Claude skill

Built a great workflow in Claude Code? Publish it as a skill, get install counts and ratings, and let other developers run your work with one command. Sign in with GitHub, upload a SKILL.md, or generate one from a natural-language description.

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Frequently asked questions about Claude skills

What are Claude skills?

Claude skills are reusable instruction files (SKILL.md) that extend Claude Code with specialized capabilities like code review, testing, deployment, security scanning, or documentation. Claude loads a skill on demand when its trigger conditions match the task at hand, so your context window stays focused on the work, not the boilerplate. Skills follow the open Agent Skills standard and work in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and any MCP-compatible tool.

How do I install a Claude skill?

Run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <skill-slug>` in your project. The CLI writes the SKILL.md file to the right directory for Claude Code (`.claude/skills/`), Cursor, Codex CLI, or any other supported tool, and adds an entry to your `.skills.json` lockfile so your team gets the same skills at the same versions. No API key required.

Where can I find the best Claude skills?

skills-hub.ai indexes Claude skills from 198 official sources, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Vercel, Stripe, Cloudflare, Trail of Bits, Prisma, Supabase, OpenAI, Hugging Face, and more, plus community contributions. Every skill is versioned, security-scanned with an A, F grade, and linked to its upstream GitHub repository.

Are Claude skills free?

Yes. Every skill on skills-hub.ai is free to install and use. The open Agent Skills standard is built on plain Markdown, so skills are portable and you keep ownership of any skills you publish.

How are Claude skills different from system prompts or Cursor rules?

A system prompt is loaded into every Claude conversation by default. A Claude skill is loaded only when its trigger conditions match, so you can have hundreds of skills installed without bloating your context window. Compared to Cursor rules (Cursor-specific, .cursorrules files), skills are tool-agnostic: the same SKILL.md works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Copilot, and MCP tools.

Can I publish my own Claude skill?

Yes. Sign in with GitHub, click Publish, and either upload your existing SKILL.md or generate one from a natural-language description. Once published your skill is searchable, installable in one command, and tracked with install counts, ratings, and a quality score.

Is SKILL.md an official Anthropic format?

Anthropic introduced the Agent Skills standard in late 2025 and publishes its own skills openly at github.com/anthropics/skills. The format has been adopted by 26+ AI tools and platforms. skills-hub.ai mirrors Anthropic's official skills daily and indexes skills from 198 other companies and community publishers, all conforming to the same standard.

How does skill composition work?

Composition lets you chain multiple Claude skills into a single workflow with dependency ordering and parallel execution, for example, lint → test → security-scan → build. Each skill declares its expected inputs and outputs as structured metadata so the chain is validated before it runs. skills-hub.ai is the only Claude-skills platform that supports composition natively.