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Windsurf Skills

Windsurf skills are reusable instructions that extend Codeium's Windsurf IDE with code review, testing, deployment, and more. Install 4,900+ skills from Anthropic, Google, Vercel, and 100+ official sources in one command, they appear as MCP prompts inside Windsurf's chat and Cascade flows.

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

Or connect Windsurf directly to https://api.skills-hub.ai/mcp , no local install needed.

Top skills for Windsurf

  1. 01code-review

    38 installs

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

    Review
  2. 02quickstart

    20 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. 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'.

    Productivity
  3. 03ui-design-system

    19 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.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
  4. 04marketing-strategy-pmm

    13 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
  5. 05Skill Finder

    13 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
  6. 06security-review

    13 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, 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.

    Reviewfrom Skills Hub
  7. 07self-improving-agent

    12 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. 08social-media-manager

    11 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
  9. 09swot-analysis

    11 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
  10. 10senior-frontend

    11 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
  11. 11pptx

    11 installs

    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.

    Creativefrom Anthropic
  12. 12web-research-agent

    10 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
  13. 13design-to-code

    10 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.

    Combofrom Skills Hub
  14. 14markitdown

    10 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.

    Researchfrom Scientific Skills
  15. 15unit-test

    10 installs

    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.

    Testfrom Skills Hub
  16. 16preflight

    9 installs

    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.

    QAfrom Skills Hub
  17. 17senior-backend

    9 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
  18. 18seo-audit

    9 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.

    Marketingfrom Multi-Domain Skills

Frequently asked questions about Windsurf skills

What are Windsurf skills?

Windsurf skills are reusable SKILL.md instructions that extend Codeium's Windsurf IDE with specialized capabilities, code review, test generation, deploy automation, security scanning. They follow the open Agent Skills standard, so the same SKILL.md works in Windsurf, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and any MCP-compatible tool.

What's the difference between Windsurf skills and .windsurfrules?

.windsurfrules is a single project-level file that loads on every conversation as ambient context (your stack, conventions, forbidden patterns). Skills are versioned, portable, on-demand instruction sets installed from a registry. Most teams use both, rules for project context, skills for specific recurring jobs.

How do I install a Windsurf skill from skills-hub?

Add the skills-hub MCP server to Windsurf, connect to npx @skills-hub-ai/mcp locally, or to the remote endpoint at https://api.skills-hub.ai/mcp. Every installed skill then appears as an MCP prompt inside Windsurf's chat and Cascade flows.

Does Windsurf's Cascade work with skills?

Yes. Cascade flows can invoke MCP prompts from the skills-hub server, so any installed skill becomes a step in a multi-stage Cascade run. Pair Cascade orchestration with skills-hub's quality-scored skill library for production-grade workflows.

Can I share Windsurf skills across my team?

Yes. Commit your project's .skills.json lockfile and teammates run npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install (no args) to install every skill at the exact version you pinned. Organization-scoped private skills are available via skills-hub.ai organizations.

Are Windsurf skills portable to other tools?

Yes, they follow the open Agent Skills standard (SKILL.md). The same skill runs unchanged in Windsurf, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot, Cline, and any MCP-compatible tool. Skills-hub converts to the appropriate per-tool format at install time.

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