Topic · Agent Workflows
Best agent instruction files skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Agent instruction files skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta-skill for choosing which workflow skill fits the task at hand, plus always-on habits: surface assumptions, stop on confusion, push back, keep it simple and stay in scope. | addyosmani/ | 103k | 4 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 2 | Authors and edits file-based Warp software factory definitions rooted at factory.yaml, covering agents, automations, scorers and webhooks, and validates them before a pull request. | warpdotdev/ | 65k | 1 repo | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 3 | Self-learning system that captures corrections during sessions and reminds users to run /reflect to update CLAUDE.md. | BayramAnnakov/ | 1.7k | 2 repos | ~627 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 4 | Writing documents for agents. An agent skill from bestofjs/bestofjs. | bestofjs/ | 3.1k | 19 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Monitors task execution for skill improvement opportunities. | rebelytics/ | 3.2k | 1 repo | ~12k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 7 | Load Ansible project development guidelines, testing conventions, PR review processes, and code structure reference into context | ansible/ | 71k | — | ~427 | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 8 | A skill your agent uses when English text must be parsed without a human to resolve ambiguity — tool descriptions, error messages, inter-agent instructions, system prompts, status reports — and… | danyuchn/ | 4k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Runs an on-demand or nightly sleep cycle that reviews past Claude Code sessions and proposes validated updates to CLAUDE.md and skills. | microsoft/ | 18k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 11 | Finds every CLAUDE.md file in a repository, scores each against quality criteria, shows a report, then makes targeted updates after you approve. | anthropics/ | 38k | 5 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 12 | Adds short, pointed workplace reminders drawn from two Chinese essays on corporate culture, nudging the agent to prove results with evidence instead of polished reports. | tanweai/ | 20k | — | ~556 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 13 | Designs a project-specific agent harness: defines specialist agents, writes the skills they follow, picks an execution mode and model for each, and keeps the setup maintained. | revfactory/ | 9.1k | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 14 | Optimizes agent context setup. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3. | abashev/ | 106 | 9 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 15 | Audit a session-metrics JSON export for token-usage waste and produce a plain-English findings report. | centminmod/ | 2.7k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | Loads a project's loop-constraints.md before any other action and blocks pushes, edits or merges that violate the rules it defines. | cobusgreyling/ | 11k | 1 repo | ~475 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 17 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "organize the project rules", "clean up scattered documentation", "把规则迁移到 skills 目录", "优化 skill 路由", "提高 description 命中率", or "减少薄壳重复维护". | WoJiSama/ | 603 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 18 days ago |
| 18 | Compress natural language memory files (CLAUDE.md, todos, preferences) into caveman format to save input tokens. | vishiri/ | 409 | 9 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 19 | Write and maintain repository guidance across AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and .agents/skills. | EpicenterHQ/ | 4.8k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 20 | Collects feedback on how an agent harness performed, generalizes it, and updates the harness agents, skills and orchestrator along with a change-history table. | revfactory/ | 9.1k | — | ~855 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 10 days ago |
| 21 | A skill your agent uses when adding or editing dsh-web README files, docs, AGENTS.md instructions, user-facing configuration text, or bilingual documentation pairs. | zhu1090093659/ | 8.5k | — | ~479 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 22 | Audit, design, and implement AI agent harnesses for any codebase. | OdradekAI/ | 125 | 1 repo | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 23 | 23.Ktx Installs and configures ktx, the open-source context layer for data agents — runs ktx setup non-interactively with hidden CLI flags, configures database connections and embeddings, installs agent… | Kaelio/ | 1.6k | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 27 days ago |
| 24 | 24.Mspm0 Ccs Tool-neutral CLI agent rules for TI MSPM0 development with Code Composer Studio, Keil/uVision, CMake/GCC/OpenOCD, SysConfig, and DriverLib. | mc3545dada/ | 374 | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 25 | Scans installed skills for principles that recur across them and proposes rule-file changes: append, revise, add a section, create a file or leave as covered. | affaan-m/ | 275k | 2 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 26 | Repo-local workflow skill for large coding tasks. An agent skill from DenisSergeevitch/repo-task-proof-loop. | DenisSergeevitch/ | 730 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 27 | Guides repo-local skill creation and updates. An agent skill from ccusage/ccusage. | ccusage/ | 19k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 28 | Captures learnings, errors, and corrections to enable continuous improvement. | CraftOS-dev/ | 392 | 5 repos | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | Has Leon's agent investigate, change and verify code in a repository with its file, search and shell tools, staying inside the scope the owner authorized. | leon-ai/ | 18k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 30 | Audits a project's agent configuration, instruction drift, hooks, MCP and AI maintainability, then reports prioritized findings with evidence and next actions. | tw93/ | 7.2k | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 31 | Review the current session for errors, issues, snags, and hard-won knowledge, then update the rules/ files (or AGENTS.md if no suitable rule file exists) with actionable learnings. | dyad-sh/ | 22k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 32 | 32.Talk Normal Installs an always-on set of rules into your agent's workspace config that cuts filler, hedging and padded closings from its replies. | hexiecs/ | 1.9k | — | ~784 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 33 | Bootstraps the Day-0 agent-governance + documentation scaffold for ANY project on ANY stack. | SmartSunruiyang/ | 150 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 34 | Routes /teamai requests to the right workflow for syncing team skills and rules, checking status, diagnosing problems and contributing, for users who may not know Git. | Tencent/ | 5.1k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 35 | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a new prompt sample", "add a new prompt sample", "scaffold a new prompt sample", "create a prompt contribution", "add a prompt", or needs to… | pnp/ | 892 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 36 | 36.Intent Layer Set up hierarchical Intent Layer (AGENTS.md files) for codebases. | crafter-station/ | 112 | 1 repo | ~633 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 37 | Onboard a new user into a Symbiotic AI setup by interviewing them one sharp question at a time and writing their own context files (SOUL.md, USER.md, NOW.md, and AGENTS.md) as plain Markdown they… | lout33/ | 737 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 mo ago |
| 38 | A skill your agent uses when maintaining or optimizing OpenClaw workspace files — AGENTS.md, TOOLS.md, SOUL.md, USER.md, IDENTITY.md, HEARTBEAT.md, BOOT.md, MEMORY.md, and related checklists and… | win4r/ | 288 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 39 | Self-update a running firstmate and its secondmates to the latest from origin. | kunchenguid/ | 7.7k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | Generate AI assistant configuration files for a repository — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and Cursor rules (.cursor/rules/.mdc) — from codebase analysis. | divar-ir/ | 766 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 41 | Runs a short adaptive conversation with you and writes a personalized SOUL.md that defines your AI partner's name, personality, communication style and boundaries. | bytedance/ | 83k | 2 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 42 | 42.Talk Normal Installs a set of rules into AGENTS.md that strips filler, hedging and padded closings from your agent's replies, in English and Chinese. | hexiecs/ | 1.9k | — | ~931 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 43 | Measure whether a repository's AI instructions still earn their place, by running the same real task many times with the layer intact and with it stripped, then grading every rule against what… | coleam00/ | 670 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 44 | Build high-quality /goal commands for OpenAI Codex CLI 0.128+ that maximize audit-friendliness and minimize false-completion. | win4r/ | 229 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 45 | 45.Sync Pstack Set up the pstack plugin in a project through an interview, and keep every pstack project on one pinned tag and one shared AGENTS.md overrides block. | udecode/ | 1.2k | — | ~8.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 46 | Perform a structured maintainer-style PR review for the mariadb-operator repository. | mariadb-operator/ | 1k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 47 | Troubleshoot and configure Semantix capabilities: Skills (project/custom/global/builtin priority, discovery dirs), Commands (override order, /dir:file naming), Hooks (11 events, automatic project… | Gnosil/ | 821 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 48 | Looks up official Claude Code documentation stored as reference files instead of guessing about CLI commands, configuration, or plugin APIs. | obra/ | 142 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 10 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best agent instruction files skill?
Using Agent Skills from addyosmani/agent-skills ranks first of the 739 agent instruction files skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 103k GitHub stars, 4 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.4k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Warp Factory Files and Claude Reflect.
Which agent instruction files skills are official?
41 of the 739 agent instruction files skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: SkillOpt Sleep Cycle, CLAUDE.md Improver, Authoring Skills, Squad Agent Collaboration Patterns, Mps MCP Workflow and 36 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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