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Best context engineering skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that curate what goes into an agent's context window and keep it from degrading.
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Context engineering skills, ranked

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Context engineering skills, ranked
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Routes large command, file, API and browser output through context-mode tools so only the needed result enters the agent's context, instead of dumping it via Bash.

mksglu/context-mode26k—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
2

Connects Claude Code to Memori Cloud for long-term memory, recalling stored context before substantive replies and saving new context afterward.

MemoriLabs/Memori17k—~2kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknown4 days ago
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Guidance for creating, updating and reviewing Picoclaw skills, from the SKILL.md structure to organizing bundled scripts, references and assets.

sipeed/picoclaw30k—~4.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT13 days ago
4

Adds optional capabilities to Pydantic AI agents from pydantic-ai-harness, led by Code Mode, which runs many tool calls as one sandboxed Python script.

pydantic/pydantic-ai20k—~4.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
5

Semantic code search and index management with the ccc CLI: the agent initializes, indexes and queries the project by concept, filtering by language or path.

cocoindex-io/cocoindex-code2.7k—~938Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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Routing rules for using context-mode MCP tools in Antigravity CLI: sandboxed code runs, file analysis, indexed search and web fetches that keep large output out of the conversation.

mksglu/context-mode26k—~850Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
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Audit a Claude Code or Codex setup for context-window waste, then fix it and measure the savings.

alexgreensh/token-optimizer2.5k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown2 days ago
8

Optimizes agent context setup. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3.

abashev/vfs-s31069 repos~2.6kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.07 days ago
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This skill should be used to explain or reason about the foundational concepts of context engineering: what context is, the anatomy of a context window, how attention mechanics work, the U-shaped…

guanyang/open-agent-hub9732 repos~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
10

A skill your agent uses when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain.

DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices2.4k—~7.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
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Adds structured long-term memory to OpenClaw agents, built automatically from sessions, with tools the agent calls to recall facts, summaries and decisions.

MemoriLabs/Memori17k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 days ago
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Navigates a codebase through the code-review-graph MCP tools: architecture overview, symbol search, caller and callee tracing, flows and oversized functions.

tirth8205/code-review-graph32k1 repo~335Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Packs a local directory or remote GitHub repository into one AI-friendly file with Repomix, then searches it to explore structure, find patterns and count tokens.

yamadashy/repomix29k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT4 days ago
14

Recalls earlier decisions, patterns and surprises from MemPalace memory before planning, behind a config gate that never blocks the planning step.

open-gsd/gsd-core10k1 repo~1.5kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
15

This skill should be used when building agent evaluation systems: deterministic checks, regression suites, multi-dimensional rubrics, quality gates, production monitoring, baseline comparison, and…

guanyang/open-agent-hub9732 repos~4.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
16

Guides changes to the cursor-byok server so provider conversation history stays append-only and each turn's history remains an exact prefix of the next, protecting prefix caches.

leookun/cursor-byok3.2k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
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Controls which GSD skills are exposed to the agent at runtime by applying a profile, listing clusters or disabling and enabling them without a reinstall.

open-gsd/gsd-core10k1 repo~1.6kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
18

Builds AI chat interfaces and conversational UI with streaming responses, context management, and multi-modal support.

ancoleman/ai-design-components5261 repo~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT10 mo ago
19

Keeps a task plan, findings and progress log in markdown files on disk so long agent tasks survive context resets, with Gemini hooks and helper scripts.

OthmanAdi/planning-with-files27k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
20

Download, split, and deeply read academic PDFs. An agent skill from scunning1975/MixtapeTools.

scunning1975/MixtapeTools4692 repos~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
21

Explains how to design and write skills for Claude Code plugins: SKILL.md frontmatter, bundled scripts, references and assets, and descriptions that trigger at the right time.

anthropics/claude-plugins-official37k9 repos~5.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
22

Controls the RTK filter set and context-handling settings in OmniRoute, with endpoints to try compression on sample text and read back retained output.

diegosouzapw/OmniRoute74k1 repo~618Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Saves a user's project decisions, rules and preferences into a project-local mdbase so later sessions and other agents can recover the intent.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repo~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Writes a HANDOFF.md capturing goal, state, files, failed attempts and next steps so a fresh agent session can continue exactly where this one stopped.

thedotmack/claude-mem97k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
25

This skill should be used for project-level decisions about LLM-powered systems: whether an LLM is the right primitive for the task at hand, the shape of a multi-stage batch or agent pipeline, token…

guanyang/open-agent-hub9732 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Coach mode for the base CLI: teaches what to do and why, rather than just answering.

ChristopherKahler/base287—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
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Manage cs (claude-statusbar) — switch theme/style/density, override severity colors, preview combinations, run doctor, reset config, install, upgrade (cs upgrade — the only supported upgrade path)…

leeguooooo/claude-code-usage-bar377—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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28.Rlm

Process large codebases (100 files) using the Recursive Language Model pattern.

BowTiedSwan/rlm-skill1821 repo~928Automated safety check: PassNo licence8 mo ago
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Replaces grep, cat, find and ls with the tilth CLI, which returns AST-aware outlines, definitions, usages and callers across many languages in one call.

jahala/tilth352—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT10 days ago
30

Externalize working memory and logical state into the lemmalog Datalog engine (MCP).

JordyZomer/lemmalog329—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 days ago
31

Routes UI tasks to the smallest useful set of UI Skills through the ui-skills CLI, picking a category and loading at most three skills before implementing.

ibelick/ui-skills9.4k2 repos~362Automated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Persistent memory enhancement for AI agents. An agent skill from sopaco/cortex-mem.

sopaco/cortex-mem312—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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Visualize and diagnose OpenClaw context window usage. An agent skill from jzOcb/context-doctor.

jzOcb/context-doctor119—~642Automated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
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Suggests manual context compaction at logical intervals to preserve context through task phases rather than arbitrary auto-compaction.

hellangleZ/burn-in-cceverywhere-ralph1128 repos~514Automated safety check: PassNo licence8 mo ago
35

Rules for choosing Qdrant-Indexer semantic search over grep or file reads when exploring code, debugging or asking where and why questions.

Context-Engine-AI/Context-Engine402—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
36

Keeps a task plan, findings and progress log as Markdown files in the project so long multi-step agent work survives context resets.

OthmanAdi/planning-with-files27k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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37.Bad

BMad Autonomous Development — orchestrates parallel story implementation pipelines.

stephenleo/bmad-autonomous-development107—~7.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
38

Discover reusable implementations and tests before architecture design, substantial changes, or test work.

Ai-Eastern/reuse-before-build101—~5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT11 days ago
39

Explains how cognee stores session memory by session_id and bridges it into the permanent graph with improve(), including the stages, results and settings.

topoteretes/cognee32k—~3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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Diagnoses a recurring failure such as a stuck task, repeated CI error or frequent reverts by sending sub-agents through the logs and returning one root-cause diagnosis.

yologdev/yoyo-evolve1.9k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
41

Set up and improve harness engineering (AGENTS.md, docs/, lint rules, eval systems, project-level prompt engineering) for AI-agent-friendly codebases.

10xChengTu/harness-engineering1021 repo~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence2 mo ago
42

A comprehensive collection of Agent Skills for context engineering, harness engineering, multi-agent architectures, and production agent systems.

muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering18k—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 days ago
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Record every behavior-changing feature addition, fix, and adjustment as durable, evidence-based repository knowledge, then use that ledger to continue accurately across AI windows, tools, Git…

gviiisen/repo-context-ledger105—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
44

Generate coding-aider plans as created by the IntelliJ coding-aider plugin.

p-wegner/coding-aider105—~1.7kAutomated safety check: NotesGPL-3.06 mo ago
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Picks a small, graph-based slice of source with Trailmark and hands a focused code task to a smaller or local model without exposing the whole repository.

trailofbits/skills7.4k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassCC-BY-SA-4.05 days ago
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Repeats a long task as a series of scheduled wake-ups, each re-entering with fresh context and calling harness-work for one task per cycle.

Chachamaru127/claude-code-harness3.2k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT2 days ago
47

Loads one section of a Markdown file by its path#h2-slug address with a bundled resolver script, for use outside OpenRig's context library.

mvschwarz/openrig5.5k—~341Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
48

Task management for AI agents across context windows. An agent skill from marcus/td.

marcus/td250—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best context engineering skill?

Context Mode Output Sandbox from mksglu/context-mode ranks first of the 297 context engineering skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 26k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 4.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Memori Long-Term Memory and Picoclaw Skill Creator.

Which context engineering skills are official?

13 of the 297 context engineering skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Pydantic AI Harness, Plugin Skill Development Guide, Code Context Slicing, Deep Agents, Gws Agent CLI Operations and 8 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.