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Skills for Aide

CodeStory's AI-first IDE built on the open-source Sidecar agent runtime. skills-hub.ai is the open registry of installable SKILL.md files, install one into Aide in a single command, versioned and security-scanned.

$ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install <slug> --target aide

Skills install to ~/.aide/skills/ and load when their triggers match, no manual prompt engineering.

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Showing the most-installed skills overall, every skill on skills-hub.ai installs cleanly into Aide via the CLI.

code-review

SignedCurrent

by skills-hub

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

Trusted Author
Review57 installs

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

Trusted Author
Build27 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.

Trusted Author
Build22 installs

quickstart

SignedCurrent

by tinh2

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. Cross-platform (macOS, Linux, WSL). Idempotent. Use when: 'quickstart', 'setup machine', 'new machine setup', 'install everything', 'get started', 'onboard me', 'setup skills-hub', 'fresh install'.

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Productivity22 installs

Convert files and office documents to Markdown. Supports PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images (with OCR), audio (with transcription), HTML, CSV, JSON, XML, ZIP, YouTube URLs, EPubs and more.

Trusted Author
Research19 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.

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Marketing17 installs

by skills-hub

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.

Trusted Author
Combo16 installs

security-review

OfficialSignedCertifiedCurrent

by Skills Hub

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, vertical privilege escalation via role manipulation, SQL injection, NoSQL injection, XSS (stored, reflected, DOM), command injection, path traversal, SSRF, CSRF, hardcoded secrets and API keys (sk_live_, AKIA, ghp_), .env and credential file exposure, PII leaking in logs and error responses, overfetching sensitive fields, CORS misconfiguration, session fixation, missing secure/httpOnly/sameSite cookie flags, and Firebase/Firestore rule weaknesses. Produces a severity-ranked findings report with exploit scenarios and fix recommendations. Covers OWASP Top 10.

Trusted Author
Review15 installs

pptx

OfficialSignedCertifiedCurrent

by Anthropic

Use this skill any time a .pptx 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 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, layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.

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Creative15 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.

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Marketing15 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.

Trusted Author
Build14 installs

web-research-agent

SignedCurrent

by unitysky

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.

A
Analysis14 installs

unit-test

OfficialSignedCertifiedCurrent

by Skills Hub

Generate comprehensive unit tests with edge cases, error paths, and boundary values. Auto-detects test framework (Vitest, Jest, pytest, go test, flutter_test, RSpec, cargo test, JUnit), scans for untested functions by priority, adopts existing test conventions, generates tests with proper mocks, runs them, and self-heals failures in up to 3 iterations. Measures coverage before and after. Use when you need to add unit tests, increase code coverage, test edge cases, or verify error handling paths.

Trusted Author
Test14 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. Use when implementing UI from Figma, adding theming, making an app responsive, or overhauling frontend design consistency.

Trusted Author
Combo13 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.

Trusted Author
Build13 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.

Trusted Author
Product12 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.

Trusted Author
Build10 installs

When the user wants to audit, review, or diagnose SEO issues on their site. Also use when the user mentions "SEO audit," "technical SEO," "why am I not ranking," "SEO issues," "on-page SEO," "meta tags review," or "SEO health check." For building pages at scale to target keywords, see programmatic-seo. For adding structured data, see schema-markup.

Trusted Author
Marketing10 installs

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

Trusted Author
Build10 installs

preflight

OfficialSignedCertifiedCurrent

by Skills Hub

Pre-deploy verification gate. Checks git status, build, tests, migrations, secrets, and commit conventions. Reports READY or NOT READY. Read-only, no changes. Trigger words: preflight, pre-deploy check, ready to deploy, deployment checklist.

Trusted Author
QA9 installs

by skills-hub

Stop overthinking. Ship the thing. The Ralph Wiggum approach to software delivery: naive boldness backed by the confidence that you can fix anything after it lands. For when your inner perfectionist needs to sit down.

Trusted Author
Build9 installs

refactor

SignedCurrent

by skills-hub

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

Trusted Author
Review8 installs

Generate comprehensive market research reports (50+ pages) in the style of top consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Gartner). Features professional LaTeX formatting, extensive visual generation with scientific-schematics and generate-image, deep integration with research-lookup for data gathering, and multi-framework strategic analysis including Porter Five Forces, PESTLE, SWOT, TAM/SAM/SOM, and BCG Matrix.

Trusted Author
Research8 installs

When the user wants to plan content marketing across channels, define content types and formats, or create a content repurposing strategy. Also use when the user mentions "content marketing strategy," "content types," "content formats," "content repurposing," "content calendar," "content mix," "owned content," "content distribution," "content funnel," or "content planning across channels." For SEO calendar, use content-strategy.

Trusted Author
Marketing8 installs

Installing a skill into Aide

# Install one skill
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install code-review --target aide

# Reproduce a teammate's full setup from the lockfile
npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install

Files land in ~/.aide/skills/. The lockfile .skills.json tracks every install, commit it and your team gets reproducible skills with one command.

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