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Best shell scripting skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that write safe, portable shell scripts and command-line one-liners.
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Shell scripting skills, ranked

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Shell scripting skills, ranked
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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
2

Retries failed network commands through proxychains4 and a local proxy when it sees timeouts, DNS failures or blocked access.

2025Emma/vibe-coding-cn23k1 repo~1.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT9 mo ago
3

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
4

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
5

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
6

Master defensive Bash programming techniques for production-grade scripts.

promovaweb/setupvibe10113 repos~572Automated safety check: PassGPL-3.01 mo ago
7

Explains how to add a new in-process builtin command to Crush's embedded POSIX shell, so it is intercepted before reaching the OS, with context polling and exit-status rules.

charmbracelet/crush29k—~790Automated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
8

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
9

Writes unit tests for shell scripts with Bats: error-condition tests, fixtures and mocks, cross-shell checks, parallel runs, helper files and CI integration.

wshobson/agents40k11 repos~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
10

Explains how shellm's bash-based recursive LLM shell fits together - its core engine, identity system, memory, skills and trajectory log.

laude-institute/headlong1.2k—~2kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0today
11
11.Cpp

Comprehensive C/C++ programming reference covering everything from C11-C23 and C++11-C++23, system programming, CUDA GPU computing, debugging tools, Rust interop, and advanced topics.

crazyguitar/cppcheatsheet290—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
12

Adds copyright headers to files based on file type. An agent skill from flutter/devtools.

flutter/devtools1.7k—~640Automated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clausetoday
13

Create, list, update, complete, tag, and search macOS Reminders via the rem CLI.

BRO3886/rem154—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
14

Bash scripting workflow for creating production-ready shell scripts with defensive patterns, error handling, and testing.

promovaweb/setupvibe1014 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.01 mo ago
15

Build terminal UIs with Charmbracelet (Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Gum).

Dicklesworthstone/meta_skill205—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown2 days ago
16

Load this skill before using the execute tool. An agent skill from jeremyosih/pi-executor.

jeremyosih/pi-executor104—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
17

A skill your agent uses when writing shell scripts, Python automation, or any unattended batch job.

aiming-lab/MetaClaw3.5k—~225Automated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
18

Runs OpenAI Codex CLI as a non-interactive worker for CI, Docker, Kubernetes or remote servers, with sandbox modes and JSONL-friendly output.

XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code14k—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
19

Develop and test changes to coreos-assembler itself -- build mantle Go binaries (kola, ore, plume), iterate on Python/shell scripts, or do full container rebuilds

coreos/coreos-assembler395—~2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
20

Write PowerShell scripts using CLI for Microsoft 365 commands to automate Microsoft 365 management tasks.

pnp/cli-microsoft365-mcp-server131—~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
21

Guides writing and debugging Claude Code status line scripts that read session JSON from stdin and print one line of text.

lexler/skill-factory239—~872Automated safety check: PassApache-2.01 mo ago
22

Works around Claude Code filtering private-use Unicode so agents can read and write Nerd Font icons in Starship, tmux and prompt configs.

malob/nix-config463—~697Automated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
23

Master of defensive Bash scripting for production automation, CI/CD pipelines, and system utilities.

promovaweb/setupvibe1019 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.01 mo ago
24

Automated code review bash script for SWPM. An agent skill from deinsoftware/swpm.

deinsoftware/swpm125—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
25

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create bash scripts", "automate Linux tasks", "monitor system resources", "backup files", "manage users", or "write production shell scripts".

zebbern/claude-code-guide4.6k7 repos~3.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
26

Runs the mechanical quality gates that the arcgentic state machine requires for state transitions.

Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic286—~653Automated safety check: PassMIT5 days ago
27

Adds new AI providers to claude-council, configures provider API settings, troubleshoots provider connections, and documents the provider script interface.

hex/claude-council843—~635Automated safety check: PassMITyesterday
28

Migrate only uloop V2 CLI option syntax in agent skills, Markdown, POSIX shell scripts, and PowerShell scripts to V3 syntax.

hatayama/unity-cli-loop576—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
29

Before building anything, justify the tool choice and complexity level.

ferrumclaudepilgrim/claude-code-android266—~538Automated safety check: NotesMIT2 mo ago
30

Handles npm registry tasks such as whoami checks, package name availability, name reservation and publishing, with credentials pulled from 1Password.

steipete/agent-scripts7.3k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
31

Critical Bitcoin terminology rules to prevent confusion between bech32m (encoding) and taproot (address type).

hiromaily/go-crypto-wallet128—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
32

Master ShellCheck static analysis configuration and usage for shell script quality. Use when setting up linting infrastructure, fixing code issues…

wshobson/agents40k10 repos~403Automated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
33

Automated release bash script for SWPM. An agent skill from deinsoftware/swpm.

deinsoftware/swpm125—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
34

A skill your agent uses when: running terminal commands, writing or debugging shell/PowerShell scripts, choosing or installing CLI tools, or diagnosing command failures, quoting/escaping errors, or…

owent/libatbus234—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT26 days ago
35

Fully automated new Mac setup for fullstack web developers and AI engineers.

swyxio/skills172—~4.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
36

Tool discovery and shell one-liner reference for sysadmin, DevOps, and security tasks.

aAAaqwq/AGI-Super-Team1052 repos~775Automated safety check: PassMIT10 days ago
37

A recovery routine for agents whose sandboxed code runner keeps failing: save the Python script to disk, then run it through the shell and read the output.

HKUDS/OpenSpace7.7k—~652Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
38

Create and validate Browser4 plugins, skills, JS scripts, and shell scripts; and develop Browser4 ITSELF (self-development): build modules, extract live skeletons, analyze impact, plan dev tasks…

platonai/Browser41.2k—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
39

Makes a repository Superset-ready by writing .superset/config.json with setup, teardown and run scripts, then proving it with a real throwaway workspace.

superset-sh/superset15k—~577Automated safety check: NotesUnknowntoday
40

Build automated AI workflows combining multiple models and services.

NeverSight/learn-skills.dev2161 repo~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassNo licenceyesterday
41

MUST use when writing PowerShell scripts. An agent skill from windmill-labs/windmill.

windmill-labs/windmill18k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknowntoday
42

Create and refactor Bash scripts following conventions (strict mode, fct naming, quoting).

archibate/dotfiles-opencode107—~413Automated safety check: PassNo licence5 mo ago
43

Multi-GPU setup for PerforatedAI with DataParallel or DistributedDataParallel (DDP).

PerforatedAI/PerforatedAI237—~5.5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
44

Microsoft 365 tenant administration for Global Administrators.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills28k1 repo~2.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
45
45.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
46

A skill your agent uses whenever the user wants to make HTTP requests, test APIs, call REST endpoints, debug web services, or interact with any HTTP/HTTPS API using the HTTPie CLI tool (http command).

jjmartres/opencode133—~2kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT5 mo ago
47

Prepare SkiaSharp release branches with the repository-owned PowerShell script.

mono/SkiaSharp5.6k—~670Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
48

Current Fish shell scripting, functions, abbreviations, completions, variables, events, configuration, plugins, testing, and safety guidance.

shepherdjerred/monorepo112—~2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0today

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best shell scripting skill?

Mole Bug Patterns from tw93/Mole ranks first of the 90 shell scripting skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 69k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Proxychains Network Fallback and Papercuts.

Which shell scripting skills are official?

5 of the 90 shell scripting skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Hugging Face API Tool Builder, Batch Files, Code Review, Developer Security and Doca Pcc Counters.

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.