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Best shaders skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that write and debug GPU shaders and visual effects.
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Shaders skills, ranked
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Extract, define, and apply design DNA across three dimensions: design system (tokens), design style (qualitative feel), and visual effects (Canvas, WebGL, 3D, particles, shaders, scroll effects…

zanwei/design-dna1.9k1 repo~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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Generates WebGL shaders for video effects, transitions, masks and color grades in the OpenChatCut editor, trying built-in catalog effects such as zoom before making anything new.

0xsline/OpenChatCut2.2k1 repo~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.02 days ago
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Use this skill first for ANY PixiJS v8 task; it routes to the right specialized skill for the job.

RSamaium/CanvasEngine4012 repos~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT10 days ago
4

Create a new experiment in TresJS Lab with all necessary files

Tresjs/tres3.8k—~782Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
5

List all shaders available in the project assets and packages, sorted by name.

IvanMurzak/Unity-MCP4.4k—~435Automated safety check: PassApache-2.03 days ago
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GPU frame debugging with RenderDoc via rdc-cli. An agent skill from rudybear/renderdoc-skill.

rudybear/renderdoc-skill211—~4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 mo ago
7

RenoDX HLSL/Slang shader workflow for proven shader-side SDR tonemap, hard clip, LUT, color grade, and HDR bridge changes.

clshortfuse/renodx4.4k—~7.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
8

Walks an Unreal Engine MCP agent through building materials, Niagara particle systems, Chaos destruction, and curve assets with inspect-then-edit steps.

flopperam/unreal-engine-mcp1.1k—~927Automated safety check: PassNo licence3 mo ago
9

A skill your agent uses when working with RenderDoc capture files (.rdc), analyzing GPU frames, tracing shaders, inspecting draw calls, or running CI assertions against GPU captures.

BANANASJIM/rdc-cli180—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
10

Write Metal/MPS kernels for PyTorch operators. An agent skill from pytorch/pytorch.

pytorch/pytorch104k—~4.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
11

Creates, edits and compiles Unreal Engine 5.8 material assets as one HLSL Custom node through the UMG MCP bridge, instead of editing .uasset files directly.

winyunq/UnrealMotionGraphicsMCP207—~913Automated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
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RenoDX DevKit workflow for tracing swapchain/output passes, SwapChainPass, RGBA8U/UNORM limits, RGBA16F proxy resources, gamma-space float pipelines, HDR10-preferred SDR/HDR output toggles, rare…

clshortfuse/renodx4.4k—~5.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
13

Sokol.NET framework development — use for ANY work in this repo: creating or debugging examples, building/running for desktop/Android/iOS/Web, writing or compiling shaders, adding a new C/C++…

elix22/Sokol.NET154—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Builds and edits Unreal Engine UMG interfaces through the Unreal Motion Graphics MCP, covering widget trees, HLSL materials, Sequencer animations and readback checks.

winyunq/UnrealMotionGraphicsMCP207—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
15

Provides patterns and best practices for TouchDesigner via MCP API - operator creation, network layout, rendering, GLSL shaders, data conversion (CHOP/SOP/POP/TOP/DAT).

satoruhiga/claude-touchdesigner127—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence7 mo ago
16

Advanced SwiftUI visuals - Metal shaders (.colorEffect, .layerEffect, .distortionEffect), .visualEffect, Liquid Glass (iOS 26), Canvas, holographic and CRT effects.

AThevon/genjutsu4162 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
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17.P5js

Production pipeline for interactive and generative visual art using p5.js.

Tommy-yw/RunbookHermes5461 repo~6.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
18

Extract visual content from a BibiGPT video (slides, OCR, on-screen text) and generate a mind map from a saved summary.

JimmyLv/bibigpt-skill128—~583Automated safety check: PassNo licence28 days ago
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Creates and edits Defold resource and component files that use Protobuf Text Format (.collection, .go, .atlas, .sprite, .gui, .collisionobject, .convexshape, .label, .font, .material, .model, .mesh…

selimanac/defold-astar111—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence5 mo ago
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Decides whether an interface effect belongs in CSS, SVG, Canvas 2D, WebGL or WebGPU, then builds, debugs and visually verifies focused GPU effects inside product UIs.

v2space-labs/shader-for-interfaces115—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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Run jobs on the fly.ai compute network and pay for them - fly connectome experiments, or the user's own WebAssembly programs and WGSL GPU shaders, run by browser miners.

alextitonis/fly.ai138—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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RenoDX pull request code review checklist for HDR/SDR matching, neutral defaults, tonemap/LUT shaders, SDR LUT clipping/domain mistakes, renodx::lut tooling, SwapChainPass, HDR10-preferred SDR/HDR…

clshortfuse/renodx4.4k—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
23

Add the Shaders WebGPU mouse effect used for the Tidal Commons hero: a white twinkling halftone cursor trail driven by ChromaFlow, masked through a DotGrid, finished with chromatic ripples and film…

nirholas/three.ws2261 repo~760Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
24

TypeGPU is type-safe WebGPU in TypeScript. An agent skill from software-mansion-labs/skills.

software-mansion-labs/skills2912 repos~5.6kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence9 days ago
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Extract, reproduce, and locally replay a single WebGL / WebGPU / Canvas / shader / animated-3D visual effect from a web page — the GPU-rendered surface that DOM/CSS cloning is blind to.

cth9191/site-clone127—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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Create Framer Code Components and Code Overrides. An agent skill from fredm00n/framerlabs.

fredm00n/framerlabs135—~5.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
27

Write a new DreamShader source from a plain-language description — a material, material function, layer, material instance or Custom Pass pipeline — then check and compile it headlessly to prove it…

TypeDreamMoon/DreamShader106—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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28.Tsl

Implement, migrate, review, debug, or verify Three.js Shading Language (TSL) materials, node graphs, WebGPU compute work, and post-processing.

pmndrs/glyph392—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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ALWAYS use when porting an existing D3D11 engine or renderer to AGFX — translating ID3D11Device/DeviceContext/InputLayout/state-object code to agfxDevice/agfxCommandBuffer/agfxRenderPipeline calls…

AmelieHeinrich/agfx144—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
30

Architecture and gotchas for packages/stage — the Threlte/Three.js map renderer (layers, two-pass rendering, shaders, coordinate flips, performance tiers, disposal).

Siege-Perilous/tableslayer122—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
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Build small, always-on WebGL visuals (identity avatars, ambient orbs, glass and iridescent surfaces, animated textures) that ship inside a normal web app UI without wrecking performance…

flornkm/skills113—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
32

A skill for developing the Vulkan renderer in Yamagi Quake II Remaster.

yquake2/yquake2remaster113—~482Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
33

Export an existing Unreal material, material function, layer, layer blend, material instance or Custom Pass pipeline back into DreamShaderLang source headlessly, so a hand-built material graph or…

TypeDreamMoon/DreamShader106—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
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Add a new compute or surface shader for sensor data processing or visualization.

lge-ros2/cloisim176—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
35

ALWAYS use when porting an existing D3D12 engine or renderer to AGFX — translating ID3D12Device/CommandList/PipelineState/RootSignature/DescriptorHeap code to…

AmelieHeinrich/agfx144—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
36

Three.js materials - PBR, basic, phong, shader materials, material properties.

OWWZO/ai-agent1855 repos~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence18 days ago
37

Resolve a DreamShader compile error or warning — look its DSH code up, explain the cause, and fix the source — or find out why a DreamShader material silently comes out wrong.

TypeDreamMoon/DreamShader106—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
38

Get naga WGSL validation working in a repo — installs the naga/jq toolchain, a PostToolUse hook that compiles every .wgsl on write, and a batch validate-shaders script, so shader checking then…

oframe/ogpu151—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnlicense10 days ago
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ALWAYS use when porting an existing OpenGL (or OpenGL ES) engine or renderer to AGFX — translating glGenTextures/glBindTexture/glBufferData/glUseProgram/FBO code to…

AmelieHeinrich/agfx144—~3.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
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Build 2D browser games with Phaser 4: WebGL-first rendering, scenes, filters, lighting, shaders, DynamicTexture and RenderTexture, tilemaps, SpriteGPULayer, TilemapGPULayer, and Phaser 3 to 4…

chongdashu/vibejam-starter-pack149—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence5 mo ago
41

Three.js post-processing - EffectComposer, bloom, DOF, screen effects.

OWWZO/ai-agent1855 repos~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence18 days ago
42

Create and debug Minecraft 26.x and 1.21.x resource packs, including pack metadata, textures, models, blockstates, item definitions, sounds, fonts, animations, and shaders.

Jahrome907/minecraft-agent-skills166—~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT24 days ago
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Rewrite DreamShaderLang 1.x sources (.dsm / .dsf / .dsh) as 2.0 .dss with dsc migrate, which proves each rewrite builds the same graph before it writes anything.

TypeDreamMoon/DreamShader106—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
44

ALWAYS use when porting an existing Vulkan engine or renderer to AGFX — translating VkDevice/VkCommandBuffer/VkPipeline/VkDescriptorSet/VkRenderPass code to…

AmelieHeinrich/agfx144—~4.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT9 days ago
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Implement custom GLSL or TSL materials in React Three Fiber, including uniforms and vertex deformation.

EnzeD/r3f-skills126—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
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46.Hlsl

HLSL code generation, StringBuilder patterns, builtin headers, and DXIL embedding.

LuisaGroup/LuisaCompute1.1k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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A skill your agent uses when writing custom shaders, uniforms, filters, or batchers in PixiJS v8.

netaart/cohub570—~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
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Three.js shaders - GLSL, ShaderMaterial, uniforms, custom effects.

OWWZO/ai-agent1855 repos~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence18 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best shaders skill?

Design Dna from zanwei/design-dna ranks first of the 130 shaders skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 1.9k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Video Shader Generator and Pixijs.

Which shaders skills are official?

2 of the 130 shaders skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Slang Shader Engineer and Webgpu Threejs Tsl.

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.