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Official (32 skills)
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Batch-triage and act on a set of node-redis PRs (or issues) by filter — fan out the maintainer-review methodology across them, present a one-word verdict plus a tldr to the user one at a time for… | redis/ | 18k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 4 | Designs and verifies a deterministic grader that measures whether a GitHub Agentic Workflow run reached its real-world or repository outcome. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~6.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Orchestrates Aspire distributed applications using the Aspire CLI for running, debugging, and managing distributed apps. | microsoft/ | 196 | 4 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Builds reusable command line scripts that fetch, enrich or process data from the Hugging Face API, aimed at chained, repeated or automated tasks. | huggingface/ | 11k | 5 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 7 | Record or regenerate the mcpc demo GIFs (the README hero docs/images/mcpc-demo.gif and the focused tapes in docs/vhs/) with VHS. | apify/ | 981 | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 8 | Run the required final formatting, lint, type, and test checks after eligible SDK changes pass review. | openai/ | 30k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | A skill your agent uses when the user wants to use the UCP CLI to find, compare, buy, or track products from online merchants, or to set up and troubleshoot the local UCP profile required for… | Shopify/ | 588 | — | ~6.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 10 | Use the mcpc CLI to work with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers from the shell - connect to a server as a persistent session, then list and call tools, read resources, get prompts, and run async… | apify/ | 981 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 11 | Critical patterns for cross-platform path handling in this VS Code extension. | microsoft/ | 141 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | Set up NuGet trusted publishing (OIDC) on a GitHub Actions repo — replaces long-lived API keys with short-lived tokens. | dotnet/ | 5.6k | 2 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Extracts all container image references (registry, image, tag) from the microsoft/aspire source code and produces a JSON data file for the aspire.dev Astro site. | microsoft/ | 196 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | Analyze a repository to generate recommended Claude Code settings.json permissions. | getsentry/ | 1k | 4 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 15 | Find bugs in the Stitch SDK using a real API key. An agent skill from google-labs-code/stitch-sdk. | google-labs-code/ | 1.8k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| 16 | How and when to delegate work to subagents via the subagent tool (Explore, Plan, General). | PostHog/ | 179 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 17 | Runs an autonomous review-and-fix improvement loop over any code target — a skill, plugin, module, or directory — using a reviewer the user names: any installed skill or agent. | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 18 | Runs an autonomous review-and-fix improvement loop over the current branch's changes until a PR review comes back clean, scoped mechanically to the directories the branch touched. | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 19 | Runs an autonomous review-and-fix improvement loop over a Claude Code skill until a review comes back clean, with a cross-round findings ledger, escalation when fixes stop converging, and a… | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 20 | Expert-level Windows batch file (.bat/.cmd) skill for writing, debugging, and maintaining CMD scripts. | github/ | 40k | 1 repo | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | Performs comprehensive Rust security review for safe/unsafe boundary issues, memory safety in unsafe blocks, concurrency hazards, panic-induced DoS, FFI safety, and async runtime mistakes. | trailofbits/ | 7.4k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 22 | Process and manipulate images using ImageMagick. An agent skill from github/awesome-copilot. | github/ | 40k | 1 repo | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 23 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "test this website", "run exploratory testing", "check for accessibility issues", "verify the login flow works", "find bugs on this page", or requests… | github/ | 40k | 1 repo | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 24 | Security best practices for gh-aw workflows and Go code: template injection prevention, shell script security, supply chain hardening, and static analysis integration. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 25 | Operate safely and efficiently inside a gh-aw workflow with a restricted tools/bash allowlist, and correctly triage tool-denial events before they exhaust the session's denial budget. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 26 | Run CLI commands, tests, and debugging inside the skillshare devcontainer. | JetBrains/ | 363 | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
| 27 | Advanced AI agent benchmark scenarios that push Vercel's cutting-edge platform features — Workflow SDK, AI Gateway, MCP, Chat SDK, Queues, Flags, Sandbox, and multi-agent orchestration. | vercel/ | 301 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 28 | Run live eval sessions against the vercel-plugin to verify hook behavior, skill injection, dedup correctness, and coverage. | vercel/ | 301 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 29 | A skill your agent uses when the user is invoking the DOCA PCC Counters tool — the pcccounters.sh bash script under the DOCA tools directory — to arm and read the fixed firmware/hardware PCC… | NVIDIA/ | 3.5k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 30 | Use tmux to launch and manage long-running jobs that must survive beyond the bash tool timeout. | intel/ | 115 | — | ~530 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 31 | Audit PostHog survey SDK features and version requirements, and implement survey changes across the backend, UI, and SDK repositories. | PostHog/ | 721 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 32 | Reviews Claude Code agent definition files for tool-access security, triggering quality, and system prompt clarity. | bitwarden/ | 154 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
Community
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | A catalog of recurring bug shapes in the Mole Mac cleaner, used to review safety-sensitive diffs for deletion safety, unbounded commands, shell traps and weak tests. | tw93/ | 69k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 34 | 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 |
| 35 | Runs a spec-driven workflow from PRD to epic to GitHub issues to parallel agents, with status, standup and blocked-work reports from bundled scripts. | automazeio/ | 8.4k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 36 | Explains how to configure the Crush coding agent with crushrc or crush.json, covering providers, models, LSPs, MCP servers, hooks, permissions and config precedence. | charmbracelet/ | 29k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 37 | 37.Papercuts Log genuine, recurring repository friction to .agents/PAPERCUTS.md — confusing setup, a flaky repo command or script, a misleading in-repo error, stale generated files, or a non-obvious gotcha that… | every-app/ | 23k | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 38 | Audits your installed Claude skills and commands for quality, with a quick mode for recently changed skills and a full mode that evaluates all of them through subagents. | affaan-m/ | 274k | 5 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 39 | 39.Segment Docs Reference mapping between Oh My Posh Go segment source code and MDX documentation. | JanDeDobbeleer/ | 24k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | Walks through designing, building and polishing a command-line tool: user workflow and command hierarchy, implementation in commander, click, typer or cobra, completions and cross-platform testing. | Jeffallan/ | 12k | 1 repo | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 41 | Query the ChEMBL database for bioactive molecules, drug targets, bioactivity data, approved drugs, and chemical structures. | google-deepmind/ | 3.2k | 2 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 22 days ago |
| 42 | Explains the jq command built into Crush for querying, filtering and reshaping JSON, including its supported flags and where it differs from standard jq. | charmbracelet/ | 29k | — | ~746 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 43 | 43.E2E Agentic end-to-end tests with e2e, the e2e runner. An agent skill from kortix-ai/suna. | kortix-ai/ | 20k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 44 | 44.Wizard Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform. | bestofjs/ | 3.1k | 11 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 45 | Master defensive Bash programming techniques for production-grade scripts. | promovaweb/ | 101 | 13 repos | ~572 | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 46 | Full scaffolding workflow for creating a new Oh My Posh segment. | JanDeDobbeleer/ | 24k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | AI Trading Intelligence — live prices, 30+ technical indicators, backtesting (6 strategies), walk-forward overfitting detection, trade logs, equity curves, licensed news sentiment (Marketaux), and… | atilaahmettaner/ | 4.9k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 48 | 48.Agentkey PROACTIVELY use whenever the user needs data outside your training set or requires a live network call — web search, URL scraping, news, social media (any platform), market prices… | chainbase-labs/ | 655 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best Bash skill?
Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins (official) from anthropics/claude-plugins-official ranks first of the 474 Bash skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 37k GitHub stars, 11 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 4.1k tokens and it has informational notes only in the automated safety check. Next come Plugin Settings Pattern and Maintainer Triage.
Is there an official Bash skill?
32 of the 474 Bash skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Hook Development for Claude Code Plugins, Plugin Settings Pattern, Maintainer Triage, Operational Value Designer, Aspire and 27 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.