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Bash agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Unix shell and scripting language used for automation, CI pipelines and command-line workflows.
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Official (32 skills)

Official Bash skills
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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/claude-plugins-official37k11 repos~4.1kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0today
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/claude-plugins-official37k7 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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/node-redis18k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
4

Designs and verifies a deterministic grader that measures whether a GitHub Agentic Workflow run reached its real-world or repository outcome.

github/gh-aw5.3k—~6.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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5.AspireOfficial

Orchestrates Aspire distributed applications using the Aspire CLI for running, debugging, and managing distributed apps.

microsoft/aspire.dev1964 repos~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/skills11k5 repos~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.06 days ago
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7.Record DemoOfficial

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/mcpc981—~3.3kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0today
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Run the required final formatting, lint, type, and test checks after eligible SDK changes pass review.

openai/openai-agents-python30k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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9.UcpOfficial

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/Shopify-AI-Toolkit588—~6.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
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10.McpcOfficial

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/mcpc981—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
11

Critical patterns for cross-platform path handling in this VS Code extension.

microsoft/vscode-python-environments141—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
12

Set up NuGet trusted publishing (OIDC) on a GitHub Actions repo — replaces long-lived API keys with short-lived tokens.

dotnet/skills5.6k2 repos~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
13
13.Container ImagesOfficial

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/aspire.dev196—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
14

Analyze a repository to generate recommended Claude Code settings.json permissions.

getsentry/skills1k4 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 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/stitch-sdk1.8k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.06 days ago
16

How and when to delegate work to subagents via the subagent tool (Explore, Plan, General).

PostHog/code179—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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17.Code ImproverOfficial

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/skills7.4k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: NotesCC-BY-SA-4.05 days ago
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18.PR ImproverOfficial

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/skills7.4k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesCC-BY-SA-4.05 days ago
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19.Skill ImproverOfficial

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/skills7.4k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: NotesCC-BY-SA-4.05 days ago
20
20.Batch FilesOfficial

Expert-level Windows batch file (.bat/.cmd) skill for writing, debugging, and maintaining CMD scripts.

github/awesome-copilot40k1 repo~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
21
21.Rust ReviewOfficial

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/skills7.4k—~11kAutomated safety check: NotesCC-BY-SA-4.05 days ago
22

Process and manipulate images using ImageMagick. An agent skill from github/awesome-copilot.

github/awesome-copilot40k1 repo~1.7kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
23
23.Scoutqa TestOfficial

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/awesome-copilot40k1 repo~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/gh-aw5.3k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/gh-aw5.3k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
26

Run CLI commands, tests, and debugging inside the skillshare devcontainer.

JetBrains/skills3631 repo~2kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence3 mo ago
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27.Benchmark AgentsOfficial

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/vercel-plugin301—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
28

Run live eval sessions against the vercel-plugin to verify hook behavior, skill injection, dedup correctness, and coverage.

vercel/vercel-plugin301—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
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/skills3.5k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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30.Tmux Long TasksOfficial

Use tmux to launch and manage long-running jobs that must survive beyond the bash tool timeout.

intel/torch-xpu-ops115—~530Automated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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31.Survey SDK AuditOfficial

Audit PostHog survey SDK features and version requirements, and implement survey changes across the backend, UI, and SDK repositories.

PostHog/posthog-foss721—~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
32

Reviews Claude Code agent definition files for tool-access security, triggering quality, and system prompt clarity.

bitwarden/ai-plugins154—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday

Community

Community Bash skills
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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/Mole69k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today
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/khazix-skills21k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 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/ccpm8.4k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 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/crush29k—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
37

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/open-seo23k1 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/ECC274k5 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
39

Reference mapping between Oh My Posh Go segment source code and MDX documentation.

JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh24k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/claude-skills12k1 repo~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
41

Query the ChEMBL database for bioactive molecules, drug targets, bioactivity data, approved drugs, and chemical structures.

google-deepmind/science-skills3.2k2 repos~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.022 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/crush29k—~746Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
43
43.E2E

Agentic end-to-end tests with e2e, the e2e runner. An agent skill from kortix-ai/suna.

kortix-ai/suna20k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
44

Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through steps only they can perform.

bestofjs/bestofjs3.1k11 repos~1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT3 days ago
45

Master defensive Bash programming techniques for production-grade scripts.

promovaweb/setupvibe10113 repos~572Automated safety check: PassGPL-3.01 mo ago
46

Full scaffolding workflow for creating a new Oh My Posh segment.

JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh24k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/tradingview-mcp4.9k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
48

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/Agentkey655—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 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.