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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guides the design and implementation of Model Context Protocol servers in TypeScript or Python, from tool naming and error messages to evaluation. | anthropics/ | 180k | 62 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 2 | Design and build AI agents for any domain. An agent skill from shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code. | shareAI-lab/ | 78k | 6 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 3 | Explains how to write Claude Code plugin hooks, both prompt-based checks and bash commands, for events such as PreToolUse, Stop and SessionStart. | anthropics/ | 37k | 11 repos | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 4 | Guides a conversation that takes a vague idea through divergent and convergent thinking and ends in a markdown one-pager covering scope and assumptions. | addyosmani/ | 102k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 5 | A skill your agent uses when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring Skill tool invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions | farm-fe/ | 5.6k | 34 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 6 | Has the agent carry out an implementation plan itself, task by task in the current session, keeping a ledger, proving each step with a test and ending with one whole-branch review. | obra/ | 296k | 2 repos | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | Explains how to write agents for Claude Code plugins: the markdown file with YAML frontmatter, trigger descriptions, model and color settings, and system prompt design. | anthropics/ | 37k | 8 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 8 | Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. | Azure/ | 794 | 89 repos | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 9 | Investigates a session where Superpowers went wrong, reads the transcripts on disk and produces an evidence-cited report, optionally prepared as a bug report for the maintainers. | obra/ | 296k | 3 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 10 | A guide to creating and managing Claude Code skills with auto-activation: skill-rules.json triggers, hooks, enforcement levels, YAML frontmatter and progressive disclosure. | diet103/ | 10k | 10 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 11 | Shows how Claude Code plugins keep per-project settings and state in .claude/plugin-name.local.md files with YAML frontmatter and a markdown body. | anthropics/ | 37k | 7 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 12 | Walks through building MCP servers in Python or TypeScript that expose tools, resources and prompts to Claude, with templates, registration and testing. | shareAI-lab/ | 78k | 5 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 13 | 13.Interview Me Asks one question at a time, each with a best guess attached, until the agent is about 95 percent sure what you really want, before any plan, spec or code. | addyosmani/ | 102k | 6 repos | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 14 | Keeps a TSV decision log for long or unattended agent runs, one row per decision with what, why, evidence and result, so a reviewer can check the work later. | cursor/ | 10k | 9 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 15 | 15.Grilling Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. | bestofjs/ | 3.1k | 30 repos | ~464 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 16 | 16.Orca CLI Operate Orca-managed worktrees, folder contexts, terminals, repos, automations, artifacts, skill sharing, worktree comments, and Orca's embedded… | stablyai/ | 87k | 2 repos | ~593 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 17 | Reach into past AI conversation history through the trellis mem CLI. | mindfold-ai/ | 15k | 4 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| 18 | Adds persistent memory to AI apps with the Mem0 Python and TypeScript SDKs: store, search, update and delete user memories, with framework integrations. | mem0ai/ | 67k | 1 repo | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 19 | Walks you through a complete OpenSpec workflow cycle with narration while doing real work in your codebase. | Fission-AI/ | 71k | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 20 | You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. | xpinjection/ | 112 | 54 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 21 | Explains how to bundle Model Context Protocol servers in a Claude Code plugin, covering config files, stdio, SSE, HTTP and WebSocket server types, and authentication. | anthropics/ | 37k | 11 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 22 | Researches a person or theme and distills how they think into a runnable persona skill with mental models, decision rules and a characteristic voice. | alchaincyf/ | 34k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 23 | Verify implementation matches OpenSpec change artifacts. An agent skill from Fission-AI/OpenSpec. | Fission-AI/ | 71k | 2 repos | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 24 | Show ponytail's measured impact as a compact scoreboard: less code, less cost, more speed, from the agentic benchmark averages. One-shot display… | DietrichGebert/ | 157k | — | ~501 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 25 | Scores SKILL.md files on a nine-dimension rubric, then improves them in a keep-or-revert loop with independent judge agents, test prompts, git history and human checkpoints. | alchaincyf/ | 6.2k | 1 repo | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 19 days ago |
| 26 | A skill your agent uses when design is complete and you need detailed implementation tasks for engineers with zero codebase context - creates comprehensive implementation plans with exact file… | geeksblabla/ | 163 | 56 repos | ~661 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 27 | Set up Claude Code hooks to block dangerous git commands (push, reset --hard, clean, branch -D, etc.) before they execute. | fossasia/ | 1.6k | 12 repos | ~578 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 28 | Explains how to write Claude Code slash commands: Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, arguments, file references, bash context and interactive prompts. | anthropics/ | 37k | 10 repos | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 29 | Validates OpenHarness features by running real multi-turn agent loops with live LLM calls against an unfamiliar codebase, checking actual tool execution. | HKUDS/ | 16k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 30 | Meta-skill for choosing which workflow skill fits the task at hand, plus always-on habits: surface assumptions, stop on confusion, push back, keep it simple and stay in scope. | addyosmani/ | 102k | 4 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 31 | Authors and edits file-based Warp software factory definitions rooted at factory.yaml, covering agents, automations, scorers and webhooks, and validates them before a pull request. | warpdotdev/ | 65k | 1 repo | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 32 | Walks you through creating, installing and verifying a custom claude-mem mode, including note types, tags and optional Telegram alerts for chosen memories. | thedotmack/ | 97k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 33 | A skill your agent uses when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session | Asvarox/ | 261 | 37 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 34 | Self-evolution engine for agents: studies runtime history for failures and inefficiencies, writes improvements, and syncs with the EvoMap Hub through a local proxy mailbox. | EvoMap/ | 9.1k | 1 repo | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| 35 | Implements Manus-style file-based planning for complex tasks. | jd-opensource/ | 313 | 18 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 28 days ago |
| 36 | Converts books and documents in PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, text, RTF or MOBI form into agent skills built from frameworks, principles, techniques and anti-patterns. | virgiliojr94/ | 34k | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 37 | Plans and carries out moving non-host-specific code and its tests from the OpenHuman core into vendored tiny submodule libraries, then releases the submodule and re-pins the host. | tinyhumansai/ | 41k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 38 | Explains the directory layout, plugin.json manifest and component organization of a Claude Code plugin, including auto-discovery and portable paths. | anthropics/ | 37k | 10 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 39 | A skill your agent uses when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies | ultralisp/ | 258 | 40 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 24 days ago |
| 40 | Writes a narrative Journey Into report on a project's whole development history, built from the timeline that claude-mem has recorded. | thedotmack/ | 97k | 1 repo | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 41 | Self-learning system that captures corrections during sessions and reminds users to run /reflect to update CLAUDE.md. | BayramAnnakov/ | 1.7k | 2 repos | ~627 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 42 | Reference for building AI agents with the Cline SDK: the Agent runtime, ClineCore sessions, custom tools, plugins, events, providers, scheduling and multi-agent teams. | cline/ | 70k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 43 | Evaluates an Agent Skill bundle before release for structure, trigger quality, artifact improvement, script correctness, safety, installed-tree integrity and host portability. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 44 | Runs the Cognee AI memory platform in Docker, from a one-file prebuilt image to a full compose stack with UI, MCP server, Postgres and Neo4j. | topoteretes/ | 32k | 1 repo | ~901 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 45 | 45.Clawteam Dev A skill your agent uses when working inside the ClawTeam repository itself: local development, debugging, reviewing, testing, validating multi-agent flows, or checking whether a code change actually… | HKUDS/ | 5.5k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 46 | Guides creating, installing and updating agent skills in a workspace: SKILL.md frontmatter, bundled scripts and references, with scripts to scaffold, validate and package. | zhayujie/ | 47k | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 47 | Benchmarks how much CodeGraph helps a coding agent on a real repository, comparing runs with and without it for a chosen local or published version. | colbymchenry/ | 73k | — | ~950 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 48 | Launches one separate agent through Paseo to give a second opinion on the current task, with a self-contained briefing and no permission to edit files. | getpaseo/ | 20k | 1 repo | ~756 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best agent workflow skill?
MCP Server Builder (official) from anthropics/skills ranks first of the 8,317 agent workflow skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 180k GitHub stars, 62 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.3k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Agent Builder and Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins.
Which agent workflow skills are official?
395 of the 8,317 agent workflow skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: MCP Server Builder, Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins, Claude Code Agent Development, Skill Creator, Plugin Settings Pattern and 390 more.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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Topics in Agent Workflows
- MCP servers2,017
- Subagents1,015
- Agent instruction files737
- Agent memory507
- Multi-agent orchestration504
- Skill authoring502
- Planning495
- Brainstorming467
- Hooks and plugins363
- Autonomous loops325
- Context engineering297
- Session handoff262
- Requirements gathering234
- Task breakdown232
- Skill management205
- Human-in-the-loop approvals203
- Codebase knowledge for agents186
- Verification before completion169
- Agent evaluation and testing131
Products these skills work with
Roles that use these skills
Other categories
- Development15,057
- Frontend & Design5,859
- Backend & APIs6,424
- Testing & QA4,904
- DevOps & Cloud5,486
- Databases2,270
- Data & Analytics3,530
- AI & LLM Engineering4,913
- Documents & Office4,276
- Writing & Content3,844
- Marketing & SEO3,982
- Sales & Support1,788
- Research & Science6,175
- Security3,019
- Productivity & Automation4,118
- Business, Finance & HR4,048
- Legal & Compliance1,640
- Education1,144
- Media & Creative4,289
- Mobile2,786
- Product & Project Management2,437
- Knowledge Management1,458
- Game Development1,703