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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 | A skill your agent uses whenever the user mentions Horizon by name in a Laravel context. | coollabsio/ | 63k | 4 repos | ~898 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Hardens code against vulnerabilities. An agent skill from penpot/penpot. | penpot/ | 61k | 6 repos | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MPL-2.0 | today |
| 4 | NestJS best practices and architecture patterns for building production-ready applications. | rolling-scopes/ | 10k | 6 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 5 | Manages a Sub2API deployment from the command line: accounts, redeem and invitation codes, groups, proxies, imports, exports and raw admin API calls. | Wei-Shaw/ | 43k | 1 repo | ~717 | Automated safety check: Pass | LGPL-3.0 | today |
| 6 | Gets Firecrawl working in a project: signs you in through the browser, saves FIRECRAWL_API_KEY to .env and picks the first SDK or REST path. | firecrawl/ | 189k | 1 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | ISC | today |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Create and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries. | Atmosphere/ | 3.8k | 22 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 | yesterday |
| 11 | ACTIVATE when the user works on authentication in Laravel. An agent skill from coollabsio/coolify. | coollabsio/ | 63k | 4 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | A skill your agent uses for Laravel MCP development. An agent skill from coollabsio/coolify. | coollabsio/ | 63k | 1 repo | ~949 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Adds Firecrawl's /scrape endpoint to application code to pull markdown, HTML, links, screenshots or structured data from a single known URL. | firecrawl/ | 189k | 1 repo | ~944 | Automated safety check: Pass | ISC | today |
| 14 | Adds web search, scraping, structured extraction and browser interaction to application code using Firecrawl's scrape, search and interact endpoints. | firecrawl/ | 189k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | ISC | today |
| 15 | A skill your agent uses when creating new agent skills or improving existing ones - ensures skills are discoverable, scannable, and effective through proper structure, discovery optimization, and… | NangoHQ/ | 13k | 3 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 16 | Turns an API description, such as an OpenAPI file or a Postman collection, into a connector plugin for ToolJet's marketplace and checks it with the repo's validator. | ToolJet/ | 41k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 17 | General Supabase skill for database, auth, Edge Functions, Realtime and storage work, plus client libraries, migrations, security audits, debugging and reading logs. | supabase/ | 2.7k | 3 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 18 | Reviews backend code under api/ for concrete, reproducible defects, routes to rule packs for architecture, schema, repositories and SQLAlchemy, and ranks findings from P0 to P3. | langgenius/ | 158k | — | ~676 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 19 | A skill your agent uses when implementing or debugging ANY network request, API call, or data fetching. | CherryHQ/ | 4k | 6 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 20 | 20.Step Parts Find, evaluate, and download common purchasable CAD parts from step.parts, including named off-the-shelf actuators, servos, motors, electronics boards, connectors, screws, bolts, nuts, washers… | earthtojake/ | 18k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | Guides adding Firecrawl's /interact endpoint to product code for pages that need clicks, forms, pagination or logged-in flows beyond plain scraping. | firecrawl/ | 189k | 1 repo | ~731 | Automated safety check: Pass | ISC | today |
| 22 | Sets layered architecture and coding rules for Node.js, Express and TypeScript microservices, covering routes, controllers, services, repositories, Prisma, Sentry and Zod. | diet103/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 23 | 23.API Designer Designs REST and GraphQL APIs from resource modeling to an OpenAPI 3.1 contract, with versioning, pagination and RFC 7807 error handling. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 2 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 24 | Drives headless Chrome through Cloudflare Browser Rendering over a CDP WebSocket to take screenshots, navigate and scrape pages, and record multi-page videos. | cloudflare/ | 9.9k | — | ~742 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 mo ago |
| 25 | Apply this skill whenever writing, reviewing, or refactoring Laravel PHP code. | anonaddy/ | 4.9k | 13 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 26 | Set up, repair, or migrate to Cloudflare Turnstile bot verification in an existing frontend and backend, including server-side Siteverify. | cloudflare/ | 3k | 4 repos | ~7.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 27 | Guidance for adding Firecrawl's /search endpoint to product code and agent workflows when a feature starts from a query rather than a URL. | firecrawl/ | 189k | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | ISC | today |
| 28 | Guides changes to an existing Twenty app: adding or editing objects, layouts, logic functions and front components, with a plan stated before multi-entity edits. | twentyhq/ | 58k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 29 | 29.Obsidian CLI Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. | Atmosphere/ | 3.8k | 13 repos | ~795 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 30 | Build, refactor, and troubleshoot Laravel Actions using lorisleiva/laravel-actions. | coollabsio/ | 63k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 31 | 31.Paperclip Interact with the Paperclip control plane API for task coordination and governance. | paperclipai/ | 98k | — | ~9.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 32 | Comprehensive guide for implementing NetworkPolicy, PodSecurityPolicy, RBAC, and Pod Security Standards in Kubernetes. | Cybereason-Public/ | 280 | 11 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| 33 | 33.Go Pedantry This skill should be used when the user is writing Go code and needs guidance on Go-specific pedantry: error wrapping with fmt.Errorf and %w, interface design (accept interfaces return structs)… | chromedp/ | 13k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 34 | Enforces that every error in a service is captured to Sentry v8, with patterns for controllers, routes, cron jobs and database performance spans instead of console logging alone. | diet103/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 35 | Execute read-only Ruby/Rails commands against Gumroad's production database for debugging and investigation. | antiwork/ | 9.8k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 36 | Build production-ready Node.js backend services with Express/Fastify, implementing middleware patterns, error handling, authentication, database integration, and API design best practices. | ever-works/ | 158 | 17 repos | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| 37 | Turns an OpenAPI or Swagger spec into an MCP server with the mcp-use TypeScript SDK, mapping each operation to a tool, wiring auth, testing and deploying. | mcp-use/ | 11k | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 38 | Sets the backend TypeScript and Cloud VM rules for cmux: Effect-based services, thin route handlers, Postgres as source of truth, migrations and provider secrets. | manaflow-ai/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~682 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 39 | 39.Use Yaak A skill your agent uses when the user mentions Yaak, a Yaak workspace, or the yaak command, or asks to call, hit, or smoke test HTTP/REST endpoints, save or organize API requests for reuse or manual… | mountain-loop/ | 19k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | Reference help for the CCXT library covering crypto exchange APIs, market data, trading and order management across 150+ exchanges in JavaScript, Python and PHP. | 2025Emma/ | 23k | 2 repos | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 41 | 41.Payload A skill your agent uses when working with Payload projects (payload.config.ts, collections, fields, hooks, access control, Payload API). | payloadcms/ | 45k | 5 repos | ~6.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 42 | A skill your agent uses when adding authentication, handling user input, working with secrets, creating API endpoints, or implementing payment/sensitive features. | jewbetcha/ | 116 | 17 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 43 | Read and update global application settings: system prompts, thinking budget, IP filters, payload rules, combo defaults, and require-login… | diegosouzapw/ | 74k | 1 repo | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 44 | A skill your agent uses to analyze how a Laravel application is actually written and record its conventions as shared rules. | anonaddy/ | 4.9k | 5 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 45 | Configure Better Auth server and client, set up database adapters, manage sessions, add plugins, and handle environment variables. | latitude-dev/ | 4.7k | 7 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 46 | Creates and queries KubeSphere users, workspaces and projects and assigns built-in roles, defaulting to least privilege and never deleting anything. | kubesphere/ | 17k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 mo ago |
| 47 | Guides building, debugging and testing LangBot plugins: components, SDK calls, README and locale rules, SDK pitfalls and WebSocket-based testing. | langbot-app/ | 18k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 48 | 48.Crossposting Crosspost Wasp blog articles (MDX) to DEV.to and Medium. An agent skill from wasp-lang/wasp. | wasp-lang/ | 19k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best backend and API skill?
MCP Server Builder (official) from anthropics/skills ranks first of the 6,424 backend and API 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 Configuring Horizon and Security And Hardening.
Which backend and API skills are official?
471 of the 6,424 backend and API skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: MCP Server Builder, MCP Integration for Plugins, Supabase Development and Debugging, Cloudflare Browser Rendering, Turnstile Spin and 466 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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- Backend development928
- REST APIs783
- Authentication646
- Authorization and RBAC519
- OAuth and OpenID Connect482
- Webhooks460
- OpenAPI specifications439
- Smart contracts404
- Third-party API integration348
- GraphQL343
- Caching327
- Event-driven systems311
- Microservices303
- API design281
- Realtime and WebSockets277
- File uploads and storage276
- Rate limiting257
- Serverless229
- Transactional email165
- Background jobs156
- gRPC and Protobuf149
- Search implementation117
- Multi-tenancy93
- Payments and billing57
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Other categories
- Development15,057
- Frontend & Design5,859
- Testing & QA4,904
- DevOps & Cloud5,486
- Databases2,270
- Data & Analytics3,530
- AI & LLM Engineering4,913
- Agent Workflows8,317
- 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