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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 | Walks the last step of a branch: confirm tests pass, detect the git environment, ask how to integrate, carry out your choice and clean up the worktree. | obra/ | 296k | 5 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 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 | yesterday |
| 4 | Browser automation CLI for AI agents. Use when the user needs to interact with websites, including navigating pages, filling forms, clicking… | vercel-labs/ | 44k | 24 repos | ~864 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 5 | Master TypeScript's advanced type system including generics, conditional types, mapped types, template literals, and utility types for building type-safe applications. | rolling-scopes/ | 10k | 24 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MPL-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Explores a web app with the agent-browser CLI to find bugs and UX problems, then writes a report with screenshots, repro videos and step-by-step reproduction for each issue. | vercel-labs/ | 44k | 8 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Gives the agent Postgres rules to consult before writing or changing tables, queries, indexes, RLS policies or migrations, and when diagnosing slow queries. | supabase/ | 2.7k | 24 repos | ~808 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 11 | Watches an open GitHub pull request until it merges, handling review comments, diagnosing CI failures and retrying flaky checks along the way. | openinterpreter/ | 69k | 3 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 12 | 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 | yesterday |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Reviews code against a five-part checklist covering security, correctness, performance, maintainability and testing, and reports findings in a fixed format. | shareAI-lab/ | 78k | 5 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 15 | Deploys a project to Vercel with one script and no login, then returns a live preview URL and a claim link for moving the deployment into your own Vercel account. | bytedance/ | 83k | 10 repos | ~797 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 16 | Rules for structuring React components with composition instead of boolean props, covering compound components, lifted state, variants and React 19 changes. | vercel-labs/ | 1.7k | 58 repos | ~721 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 | yesterday |
| 20 | 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 | yesterday |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Researches a GitHub repository over four rounds using the GitHub API and web search, then writes a structured markdown report with timeline, metrics and Mermaid diagrams. | bytedance/ | 83k | 5 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 23 | 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 | yesterday |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Tests local web applications with Python Playwright scripts, checking frontend behavior, capturing screenshots and reading browser console logs. | anthropics/ | 180k | 51 repos | ~966 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| 26 | 26.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 |
| 27 | 27.Greploop Iteratively improves a PR (GitHub), MR (GitLab), or shelved changelist (Perforce) until Greptile gives it a 5/5 confidence score with zero unresolved comments. | onyx-dot-app/ | 32k | 4 repos | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Replay-first debug flow for SGLang serving problems. An agent skill from sgl-project/sglang. | sgl-project/ | 37k | 3 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 30 | 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 |
| 31 | Process the local ignored ai-tdesktop inbox into durable, independently testable Telegram Desktop task records while task execution worktrees remain active. | telegramdesktop/ | 33k | 2 repos | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 32 | Collects motion rules, scene blueprints, transitions and runtime adapters for HyperFrames video compositions, with GSAP as the default animation runtime. | heygen-com/ | 58k | 3 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 33 | 33.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 |
| 34 | 34.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 | yesterday |
| 35 | 35.Guidelines Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. An agent skill from akash-network/node. | akash-network/ | 1.1k | 22 repos | ~577 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 36 | 36.JSON Canvas Create and edit JSON Canvas files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections. | heyitsnoah/ | 2.6k | 18 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 37 | Automates a real browser through short TypeScript scripts that keep page state between runs, for navigating, filling forms, taking screenshots and extracting data. | MemTensor/ | 12k | 3 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| 38 | Creates interactive architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow and lifecycle diagrams as standalone HTML with inline SVG, themes and image or video export. | tt-a1i/ | 79k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 39 | Generates music from text descriptions with MusicGen and sound effects with AudioGen, using Meta's AudioCraft PyTorch library with melody and style conditioning. | Orchestra-Research/ | 13k | 9 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 40 | 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 |
| 41 | 41.Nx Import Import, merge, or combine repositories into an Nx workspace using nx import. | nrwl/ | 29k | 5 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 42 | Automates browser interactions for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction. | sanity-io/ | 6.4k | 18 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 43 | 43.Nx Workspace Explore and understand Nx workspaces. An agent skill from nomcopter/react-mosaic. | nomcopter/ | 4.8k | 7 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 9 days ago |
| 44 | 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 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | 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 |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | 48.Minimax DOCX Professional DOCX document creation, editing, and formatting using OpenXML SDK (.NET). | poco-ai/ | 1.4k | 7 repos | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 15 days ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best agent skill for developers?
MCP Server Builder (official) from anthropics/skills ranks first of the 38,025 agent skills for developers 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 Finishing a Development Branch and Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins.
Which agent skills for developers are official?
2,939 of the 38,025 agent skills for developers are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: MCP Server Builder, Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins, Agent Browser CLI, Dogfood Exploratory QA, Supabase Postgres Best Practices and 2,934 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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Categories for developers
Popular topics
- MCP servers2,017
- Pull requests1,927
- Refactoring1,154
- Debugging1,154
- Deployment1,152
- Changelog and release notes1,147
- Code review1,053
- Subagents1,015
- Technical documentation998
- Backend development928
- CI/CD921
- Unit testing863
- Linting and formatting830
- Git workflow809
- Diagrams801
- REST APIs783
- End-to-end testing783
- Project scaffolding742
- Agent instruction files737
- Containers723
- Browser testing667
- Authentication646
- Root cause analysis610
- Test generation590
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- Frontend Developers7,059
- DevOps and SRE Engineers6,088
- Data Scientists5,683
- Designers4,940
- Marketers5,433
- SEO Specialists1,464
- Writers and Editors5,934
- Product Managers2,123
- Founders and Solopreneurs6,564
- Researchers6,678
- Students and Educators2,072
- Lawyers and Compliance Teams1,346
- Accountants and Finance Teams2,516