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Best skill authoring skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Skill authoring skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. | Azure/ | 794 | 89 repos | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 2 | A guide to creating and managing Claude Code skills with auto-activation: skill-rules.json triggers, hooks, enforcement levels, YAML frontmatter and progressive disclosure. | diet103/ | 10k | 10 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 3 | Researches a person or theme and distills how they think into a runnable persona skill with mental models, decision rules and a characteristic voice. | alchaincyf/ | 34k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 4 | Scores SKILL.md files on a nine-dimension rubric, then improves them in a keep-or-revert loop with independent judge agents, test prompts, git history and human checkpoints. | alchaincyf/ | 6.2k | 1 repo | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 19 days ago |
| 5 | Explains how to write Claude Code slash commands: Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, arguments, file references, bash context and interactive prompts. | anthropics/ | 37k | 10 repos | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 6 | Converts books and documents in PDF, EPUB, DOCX, HTML, Markdown, text, RTF or MOBI form into agent skills built from frameworks, principles, techniques and anti-patterns. | virgiliojr94/ | 34k | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | Explains the directory layout, plugin.json manifest and component organization of a Claude Code plugin, including auto-discovery and portable paths. | anthropics/ | 37k | 10 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 8 | Evaluates an Agent Skill bundle before release for structure, trigger quality, artifact improvement, script correctness, safety, installed-tree integrity and host portability. | rohitg00/ | 65k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | Guides creating, installing and updating agent skills in a workspace: SKILL.md frontmatter, bundled scripts and references, with scripts to scaffold, validate and package. | zhayujie/ | 47k | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 10 | Create agent skills for Microsoft technologies using official documentation. | MicrosoftDocs/ | 1.9k | 3 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 8 days ago |
| 11 | Builds new skills from scattered docs, specs or code, and refactors existing skills for clear triggers, reliable activation and a quality checklist. | 2025Emma/ | 23k | 2 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 9 mo ago |
| 12 | Guides writing a new agent skill or improving an existing one, covering how to keep it concise, how much freedom to give the agent and how to lay out bundled resources. | shareAI-lab/ | 5.2k | 1 repo | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 13 | 13.Make Skill Turns reusable decisions, templates or workflows from the current conversation into a new workspace skill through plan, approval, draft, validation and publication. | agentscope-ai/ | 35k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 14 | Starts three parallel reviewer subagents over the current conversation transcript, then turns their findings into concrete edits to existing skills. | cursor/ | 10k | 5 repos | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 15 | Meta-skill that turns docs, APIs, code or specs into a reusable skill with references and a quality gate, and refactors skills that are unclear or misfire. | tradecatlabs/ | 17k | 1 repo | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 16 | Distills source material about a colleague, a relationship or a celebrity into reusable Person Profiles that an agent can later work from, in English or Chinese. | titanwings/ | 25k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 17 | Interactive guide for creating, reviewing and fixing agent skills (SKILL.md folders), covering structure, frontmatter rules, trigger phrases and validation before sharing. | XiaomiMiMo/ | 14k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 18 | Detects the type of a knowledge source and uses the Skill Seekers MCP tools to turn docs, repos, PDFs or videos into packaged AI skills. | yusufkaraaslan/ | 15k | — | ~760 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 19 | 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 | 12 days ago |
| 20 | Creates, revises, evaluates and publishes skills in the Open-Science app through its native host.skills composer, with optional test prompts and benchmarks. | aipoch/ | 5.4k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 21 | Guides creating, scaffolding and validating agent skills for the deepagents CLI, covering skill locations, precedence, structure and concise writing. | Illuminated2020/ | 121 | 4 repos | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 22 | Distills a book, video transcript, podcast, course or interview into a set of atomic, executable agent skills through a staged, verified pipeline. | kangarooking/ | 11k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 23 | 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 | 9 days ago |
| 24 | 24.Skill Judge Evaluates the design quality of an agent skill against official specifications and patterns from existing examples, scoring it and suggesting improvements. | shareAI-lab/ | 5.2k | 4 repos | ~7.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 25 | Authors and structures professional-grade agent skills following the agentskills.io spec. | mgechev/ | 2.3k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 26 | Create or improve skills, turn a conversation into reusable SKILL.md instructions, and validate their behavior. | Chevey339/ | 4.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 27 | 「說人話」:繁體中文的去 AI 味改寫 skill。審查與改寫文字,去除 AI 味道、校正中國用語與半形標點,讓文字讀起來像真人寫的。 | Raymondhou0917/ | 1k | 1 repo | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | Create or edit a Cindy Skill, search the SkillHub public marketplace or your organization's Skills, upload your own Skill, or publish a new version of a Skill you authored. | makecindy/ | 2.9k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 29 | Scores a skill across description, content organization, writing style and structure, then produces letter grades and a prioritized improvement plan. | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | 1 repo | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 30 | 30.Skillforge A skill your agent uses when creating, improving, finding, or auditing agent skills - the user says 'create a skill', 'do I have a skill for X', 'improve the X skill', 'which skill should I use'… | tripleyak/ | 905 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 31 | Walks through creating a new Claude skill from scratch or improving an existing one, asking what it should do, when it should trigger, and in what format. | pretend1111/ | 494 | 1 repo | ~591 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 mo ago |
| 32 | Creates a focused workspace skill from the current conversation in QwenPaw, moving through a planning, approval, drafting, validation and publishing script pipeline. | agentscope-ai/ | 35k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 33 | Diagnoses where an agent failed across runs and turns the findings into new skills, system prompt patches and knowledge entries, using the A-Evolve loop. | aiming-lab/ | 15k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 34 | Dynamic academic writing skill generator. An agent skill from WantongC/journal-adapt-writing-skill. | WantongC/ | 793 | 1 repo | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 35 | Generates a complete agent skill for a target tool, API, library or workflow through a seven-phase pipeline that ends with testing, tuning and packaging for several platforms. | AgentSkillOS/ | 471 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 36 | Create, synthesize, and iteratively improve agent skills following the Agent Skills specification. | getsentry/ | 414 | 1 repo | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 6 days ago |
| 37 | 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 | 9 days ago |
| 38 | Facilitates deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding. | DrCatHicks/ | 2.5k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 39 | Explains how to design and write DeepTutor skills: the SKILL.md anatomy, a trigger-focused description, concise content and progressive disclosure into reference files. | HKUDS/ | 41k | — | ~840 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 40 | A skill your agent uses when the user wants to create, author, write, or design a new Agent Skill (a SKILL.md) — for OpenKnowledge or for their editors — including requests like 'help me write a… | inkeep/ | 4.4k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 41 | Turns a problem you keep running into into a single installable, tested skill, and prepares a GitHub repository only when you ask to share it. | dontbesilent2025/ | 10k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 9 days ago |
| 42 | Guide for creating effective skills. An agent skill from JetBrains/skills. | JetBrains/ | 363 | 120 repos | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 43 | Guides repo-local skill creation and updates. An agent skill from ccusage/ccusage. | ccusage/ | 19k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 44 | Create or update skills. An agent skill from HKUDS/OpenOPC. | HKUDS/ | 1.8k | — | ~980 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 45 | 45.Daily Logs Track daily activity logs and summaries for the user. An agent skill from memodb-io/Acontext. | memodb-io/ | 3.7k | — | ~243 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 46 | Shows how to build a Vibe plugin package in the Agent Plugins 1.0 format, with a plugin.json manifest and optional skills, MCP servers, hooks and other components. | mistralai/ | 5.1k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 47 | Create new agent skills following the Agent Skills specification. | deadlock-mod-manager/ | 473 | 1 repo | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 48 | Create new agent skills with proper structure, progressive disclosure, and bundled resources. | sanity-io/ | 6.4k | 13 repos | ~757 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill authoring skill?
Skill Creator (official) from Azure/azqr ranks first of the 502 skill authoring skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 794 GitHub stars, 89 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 8.2k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Claude Code Skill Developer Guide and Nuwa Thinking-Style Skill Builder.
Which skill authoring skills are official?
32 of the 502 skill authoring skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Skill Creator, Claude Code Command Development, Claude Code Plugin Structure, Microsoft Skill Creator, Reflect on Session Learnings and 27 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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