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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | For a non-trivial pull request, write a self-contained HTML design doc under the temporary .pr/ directory and link a visibility-appropriate preview in the PR description, so maintainers grasp the… | OpenHands/ | 90k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 50 | Reviews WooCommerce code changes against the project's standards, flagging backend PHP architecture, naming, documentation, data integrity and testing violations. | woocommerce/ | 11k | 3 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 51 | 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 | today |
| 52 | A skill your agent uses when a Payload pull request needs a concise visual walkthrough for reviewers. | payloadcms/ | 45k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 53 | Write or rewrite technical text with the rules of ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English so it is clear, unambiguous, and free of AI slop. | moeru-ai/ | 50k | 2 repos | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 54 | Comprehensive guide for developing in the Astro monorepo. An agent skill from withastro/astro. | withastro/ | 63k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 55 | Create Excalidraw diagram JSON files that make visual arguments. | coleam00/ | 5k | 2 repos | ~6.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 56 | Build and sharpen a project's domain model. An agent skill from fossasia/eventyay-interpretation. | fossasia/ | 1.6k | 31 repos | ~821 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 57 | Refactor high-complexity React components in Langflow frontend. | langflow-ai/ | 156k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 58 | 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/ | 42k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 59 | Explains the directory layout, plugin.json manifest and component organization of a Claude Code plugin, including auto-discovery and portable paths. | anthropics/ | 38k | 10 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 60 | Gives an in-depth explanation of one file, function or module by reading the project's knowledge graph and checking that the graph is still fresh. | Egonex-AI/ | 86k | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 61 | Merges external GitHub pull requests while keeping the original author credited, and fixes conflicts after the merge instead of rewriting the contribution. | HKUDS/ | 16k | 1 repo | ~847 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 62 | A skill your agent uses when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for… | farm-fe/ | 5.6k | 34 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 63 | A skill your agent uses when a user says "minimize this ty ecosystem change", "reproduce this ecosystem result", "investigate a primer difference", "investigate a mypyprimer difference"… | astral-sh/ | 50k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 64 | Fetches current documentation for third-party APIs and SDKs with the chub CLI before the agent writes code against them, instead of relying on remembered API shapes. | andrewyng/ | 14k | 2 repos | ~775 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 65 | Moves a package from another TryGhost repository into Ghost as an internal workspace package while keeping its Git history, with checkpoints for the steps that need an administrator. | TryGhost/ | 55k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 66 | Enforces red-green-refactor for Rust work, with idiomatic test patterns, a naming convention and a pre-commit gate of cargo fmt, clippy and test. | rtk-ai/ | 83k | — | ~753 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 67 | Keeps IdeaVim documentation in sync with code changes. An agent skill from JetBrains/ideavim. | JetBrains/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 68 | Linear ticket work through Orca's CLI. Use when working from a linked Linear issue, finishing work with a PR/MR link and a completion comment… | stablyai/ | 87k | 1 repo | ~522 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 69 | 69.Nx Generate Generate code using nx generators. An agent skill from nomcopter/react-mosaic. | nomcopter/ | 4.8k | 7 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 9 days ago |
| 70 | Captures screenshots of the running Mailspring dev app for docs, PRs or visual checks by launching it with a debugging port, driving the UI and clipping to an element. | Foundry376/ | 18k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 71 | Debug failed or wrong-output workflow executions using executions tools. | n8n-io/ | 207k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 72 | 72.Aoti Debug Debug AOTInductor (AOTI) errors and crashes. An agent skill from pytorch/pytorch. | pytorch/ | 104k | 1 repo | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 73 | Creates and edits editable draw.io diagrams from descriptions, code, infrastructure files, SQL and API schemas, with sync, review, test and export tools. | Agents365-ai/ | 10k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 74 | Runs the ocr command-line tool to review Git changes, a commit or a branch comparison with an AI model, returning line-level comments and optionally applying fixes. | alibaba/ | 44k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 75 | 75.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 |
| 76 | Draw diagrams for the Next.js docs in the style of the ones already published there: the light/dark PNGs an mdx references with <Image srcLight="/docs/light/<name.png" srcDark="/docs/dark/<name.png". | vercel/ | 143k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 77 | Creates dark-themed system, cloud, security and network architecture diagrams as self-contained HTML files with inline SVG and CSS. | Cocoon-AI/ | 7.4k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 78 | Opens a GitHub pull request from your current branch with the gh CLI, after reviewing the commits and diff and gathering the details the PR needs. | cline/ | 70k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 79 | Rewrites the title and body of one or more pull requests with gh, leading with why the change was made, then what changed, and describing only the net result. | openinterpreter/ | 69k | 2 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 80 | Walks through adding a new text-to-speech engine to Voicebox end to end: dependency audit, backend, frontend wiring, PyInstaller bundling and frozen-build testing. | jamiepine/ | 57k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 81 | 81.Dep Updates Plan and apply Go dependency updates, including advisory-driven bumps, Trivy/govulncheck validation, and supply-chain review. | trufflesecurity/ | 28k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 82 | Guides an agent through using @pierre/diffs to render syntax-highlighted files and diffs, and to build editing and review surfaces in React or plain JavaScript. | pierrecomputer/ | 6.2k | 2 repos | ~803 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 83 | 83.Analyze Logs Analyze application logs from the .evlog/logs/ directory. An agent skill from activepieces/activepieces. | activepieces/ | 25k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 84 | Brings project docs, agent rule files, authorized memory and leftover workspace files back in line with what the code and runtime actually do at the end of a work session. | KKKKhazix/ | 21k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 85 | Drafts English release notes for a StarRocks patch release from the PRs merged into its release branch, then opens a documentation PR and hands translation to /translate. | StarRocks/ | 12k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 86 | Runs a read-only health check for cmux and explains what it finds, covering the CLI and socket, settings, agent hooks, session restore and notifications. | manaflow-ai/ | 28k | 1 repo | ~819 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 87 | Writes Conventional Commits whose bodies carry action lines recording the intent, decisions and constraints behind a change, not only what changed. | yamadashy/ | 29k | 1 repo | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 88 | Resolves Git merge conflicts with a plan-first workflow that keeps both sides' intent, regenerates lock files and backs up deleted-but-modified files. | tailcallhq/ | 7.6k | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 89 | Runs a disposable, uniquely named Herdr session inside an existing one so runtime, pane, terminal or API bugs can be reproduced without touching the main session. | herdrdev/ | 43k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 90 | A skill your agent uses when cutting, preparing, or debugging a Trilium release — bumping the monorepo version, tagging, or diagnosing a failed "Release" workflow run. | TriliumNext/ | 38k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 91 | Guides refactoring in phases based on Martin Fowler's method: research, test coverage check, planning and small tested steps, with your approval at each phase. | luongnv89/ | 42k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 days ago |
| 92 | Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. | vercel/ | 143k | 6 repos | ~8.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 93 | Looks up current documentation and code examples for any library, framework, SDK or CLI with the Context7 ctx7 command instead of relying on training data. | oss-apps/ | 1.5k | 3 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 94 | 94.Codex A skill your agent uses when the user asks to run Codex CLI (codex exec, codex resume) or references OpenAI Codex for code analysis, refactoring, or automated editing | skills-directory/ | 1.5k | 3 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 24 days ago |
| 95 | 95.Ponytail Forces the laziest solution that actually works, simplest, shortest, most minimal. | DavidObando/ | 565 | 8 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 96 | Splits a change into planner, coder and independent reviewer roles: you confirm a spec, a subagent implements it, and a separate reviewer checks each round's local WIP commit. | openobserve/ | 22k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
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- Pull requests1,950
- Debugging1,176
- Changelog and release notes1,167
- Refactoring1,139
- Code review1,044
- Technical documentation1,012
- Linting and formatting856
- Git workflow811
- Diagrams798
- Project scaffolding747
- Root cause analysis608
- Code quality599
- Commit messages560
- Architecture decision records556
- Git worktrees538
- Performance optimization446
- Design patterns392
- Type safety296
- Software architecture287
- Dependency management278
- Monorepo tooling266
- Error handling256
- Async programming255
- Issue triage234
- Codebase onboarding228
- Spec-driven development204
- Code migrations194
- Domain-driven design133
- Technical debt127
- Code simplification123
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Other categories
- Frontend & Design5,834
- Backend & APIs7,161
- Testing & QA5,085
- DevOps & Cloud5,962
- Databases2,339
- Data & Analytics3,647
- AI & LLM Engineering5,096
- Agent Workflows8,311
- Documents & Office4,273
- Writing & Content3,731
- Marketing & SEO3,910
- Sales & Support1,815
- Research & Science6,075
- Security3,084
- Productivity & Automation4,016
- Business, Finance & HR3,836
- Legal & Compliance1,617
- Education1,065
- Media & Creative4,286
- Mobile2,765
- Product & Project Management2,360
- Knowledge Management1,433
- Game Development1,673