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Best context engineering skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Context engineering skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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/ | 26k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 2 | Connects Claude Code to Memori Cloud for long-term memory, recalling stored context before substantive replies and saving new context afterward. | MemoriLabs/ | 17k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 3 | Guidance for creating, updating and reviewing Picoclaw skills, from the SKILL.md structure to organizing bundled scripts, references and assets. | sipeed/ | 30k | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 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/ | 20k | — | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 2.7k | — | ~938 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 6 | 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/ | 26k | — | ~850 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 7 | Audit a Claude Code or Codex setup for context-window waste, then fix it and measure the savings. | alexgreensh/ | 2.5k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 8 | Optimizes agent context setup. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3. | abashev/ | 106 | 9 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 9 | 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/ | 973 | 2 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 2.4k | — | ~7.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 11 | Adds structured long-term memory to OpenClaw agents, built automatically from sessions, with tools the agent calls to recall facts, summaries and decisions. | MemoriLabs/ | 17k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 12 | Navigates a codebase through the code-review-graph MCP tools: architecture overview, symbol search, caller and callee tracing, flows and oversized functions. | tirth8205/ | 32k | 1 repo | ~335 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | 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/ | 29k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 4 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/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 15 | 15.Evaluation 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/ | 973 | 2 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 3.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 days ago |
| 17 | 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/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 18 | Builds AI chat interfaces and conversational UI with streaming responses, context management, and multi-modal support. | ancoleman/ | 526 | 1 repo | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 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/ | 27k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 20 | 20.Split PDF Download, split, and deeply read academic PDFs. An agent skill from scunning1975/MixtapeTools. | scunning1975/ | 469 | 2 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 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/ | 37k | 9 repos | ~5.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 74k | 1 repo | ~618 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 23 | 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/ | 47k | 1 repo | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | 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/ | 97k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 973 | 2 repos | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 26 | 26.Base Help Coach mode for the base CLI: teaches what to do and why, rather than just answering. | ChristopherKahler/ | 287 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 27 | 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/ | 377 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | 28.Rlm Process large codebases (100 files) using the Recursive Language Model pattern. | BowTiedSwan/ | 182 | 1 repo | ~928 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 29 | 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/ | 352 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 days ago |
| 30 | 30.Lemmalog Externalize working memory and logical state into the lemmalog Datalog engine (MCP). | JordyZomer/ | 329 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 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/ | 9.4k | 2 repos | ~362 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 32 | Persistent memory enhancement for AI agents. An agent skill from sopaco/cortex-mem. | sopaco/ | 312 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 33 | Visualize and diagnose OpenClaw context window usage. An agent skill from jzOcb/context-doctor. | jzOcb/ | 119 | — | ~642 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 34 | Suggests manual context compaction at logical intervals to preserve context through task phases rather than arbitrary auto-compaction. | hellangleZ/ | 112 | 8 repos | ~514 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 8 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/ | 402 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 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/ | 27k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 37 | 37.Bad BMad Autonomous Development — orchestrates parallel story implementation pipelines. | stephenleo/ | 107 | — | ~7.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 38 | Discover reusable implementations and tests before architecture design, substantial changes, or test work. | Ai-Eastern/ | 101 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 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/ | 32k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 40 | 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/ | 1.9k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Set up and improve harness engineering (AGENTS.md, docs/, lint rules, eval systems, project-level prompt engineering) for AI-agent-friendly codebases. | 10xChengTu/ | 102 | 1 repo | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 42 | A comprehensive collection of Agent Skills for context engineering, harness engineering, multi-agent architectures, and production agent systems. | muratcankoylan/ | 18k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 43 | 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/ | 105 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 44 | Generate coding-aider plans as created by the IntelliJ coding-aider plugin. | p-wegner/ | 105 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | GPL-3.0 | 6 mo ago |
| 45 | 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/ | 7.4k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 5 days ago |
| 46 | 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/ | 3.2k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 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/ | 5.5k | — | ~341 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 48 | Task management for AI agents across context windows. An agent skill from marcus/td. | marcus/ | 250 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 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.
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