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Agent Skills Directory for Claude, Codex and Cursor

An Agent Skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that teaches an AI assistant one task and loads only when it is needed. This directory lists official and community skills, each described in plain words so you can choose before you install.

Updated Nov 12, 2026

171 skills

Agent Skills

Academy Guide

Official
Productivity

Recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy when you ask how to use Claude or its features.

Algorithmic Art

Official
Design & Media

Creates original generative art with p5.js: an algorithmic philosophy document plus a self-contained interactive HTML viewer with seeded randomness and sliders.

Brand Guidelines

Official
Design & Media

Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to documents and slides so they match the company's visual style.

Canvas Design

Official
Design & Media

Create original visual art, posters and designs as .png or .pdf files, guided by a custom design philosophy.

Claude Api

Official
AI & ML

Helps build and maintain applications that call the Claude API, with up-to-date model IDs, pricing, parameters, streaming, tool use, and migration guidance.

Discernment Nudge

Official
Productivity

Adds 2-3 short follow-up questions after substantive answers, helping users check facts, assumptions, and missing context before acting.

Doc Coauthoring

Official
Productivity

Guides you through a three-stage workflow to co-author docs, specs, proposals and decision documents with iterative refinement.

Docx

Official
Productivity

Lets the assistant create, read, edit, and convert Word documents (.docx), including tracked changes, comments, and templates.

Frontend Design

Official
Design & Media

Guides the assistant to design distinctive, non-templated visual interfaces with intentional typography, color, layout, and copy.

Internal Comms

Official
Business

Helps write internal company communications like 3P updates, newsletters, FAQs, status reports, and incident reports using your company's preferred formats.

Mcp Builder

Official
Developer Tools

Guides the assistant through building high-quality MCP servers in Python or TypeScript, from planning and coding to testing and evaluations.

Pdf

Official
Productivity

Lets the assistant work with PDF files: extract text and tables, merge, split, rotate, watermark, create, fill forms, encrypt, and OCR scanned documents.

Pptx

Official
Productivity

Create, edit, read and check PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations, including templates, charts, images and speaker notes.

Skill Creator

Official
Developer Tools

Guides the assistant through creating, testing, evaluating, and improving new skills, including optimizing their descriptions for better triggering.

Slack Gif Creator

Official
Design & Media

Helps create animated GIFs sized and optimized for Slack, including emoji GIFs, using Python drawing and animation tools.

Theme Factory

Official
Design & Media

Applies one of ten pre-set color and font themes, or a custom-generated theme, to slides, documents, reports and HTML pages.

Web Artifacts Builder

Official
Developer Tools

Builds elaborate multi-component claude.ai artifacts with React, Tailwind and shadcn/ui, bundled into a single HTML file.

Webapp Testing

Official
Developer Tools

Lets the assistant test local web apps by writing and running Playwright scripts to click through pages, take screenshots, and read browser logs.

Xlsx

Official
Productivity

Lets the assistant create, edit, fix, and analyze Excel and CSV spreadsheet files, including formulas, formatting, charts, and data cleaning.

Agent Introspection Debugging

Community
AI & ML

Guides the assistant through a structured four-phase self-debugging workflow when an agent run fails, loops, or burns tokens without progress.

Agent Sort

Community
Developer Tools

Analyzes a code repository and sorts skills, commands, rules, and hooks into DAILY vs LIBRARY buckets to build a trimmed, evidence-backed install plan.

Agentic Engineering

Community
Developer Tools

Guides AI-assisted engineering with eval-first workflows, task decomposition, cost-aware model routing, and focused code review practices.

Api Design

Community
Developer Tools

Guides the assistant to design and review REST APIs using best practices for naming, status codes, pagination, errors, versioning, and rate limiting.

Api Design

Community
Developer Tools

Guides the assistant in designing consistent, production-ready REST APIs following naming, status code, pagination, error, and versioning best practices.

What are Agent Skills?

Agent Skills are a lightweight, open format for giving an AI agent specialised knowledge and workflows. The format was originally developed by Anthropic and released as an open standard. A skill teaches one job, such as filling in a PDF form, writing in a house style or reviewing code against a checklist, and the agent loads it only when the task calls for it.

Inside a SKILL.md file

A skill is a folder. The only required file is SKILL.md:

---
name: brand-guidelines
description: Apply the company's colours, fonts and tone to documents and slides.
---

# Brand guidelines

When creating a document or slide deck, use these colours...
  • name: lowercase letters and hyphens, matching the folder name.
  • description: what the skill does and when to use it. This is what the

agent reads to decide whether to load it.

  • Optional folders: scripts/ for code, references/ for longer documents

and assets/ for templates or images.

How to install a skill

WhereHow
Claude CodeCopy the folder to .claude/skills/ (this project) or ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects)
Claude Code, official skills/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills, then /plugin install the set you want
Claude appsThe example skills are available on paid plans
Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLICopy the folder to .agents/skills/ in your project
Any supported agentnpx skills add <owner/repo> installs a skill from a repository

Skills vs MCP

SkillMCP server
What it addsKnow-how and proceduresA connection to a service or data
What it isA folder with SKILL.mdA program your assistant talks to
Where it runsInside the agent's contextLocally or on a remote server
Example"Write release notes our way"Read and create issues in GitHub

They combine well: a skill can tell the agent how to use the tools an MCP server provides. New to MCP? Start with what MCP is. Skills are used by the agents in our guide to AI agents and by the tools in AI coding CLIs compared.

How skills are listed

We collect skills from public repositories, read their SKILL.md and write each listing with AI from that public information. We do not develop or audit them, so read a skill before installing it. Published a skill? Email envia@mcpteca.com and we will list it for free.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Claude skill?

A folder of instructions, and optionally scripts and files, that Claude loads when a task needs it, such as working with spreadsheets or following a brand style.

What is SKILL.md?

The one required file in a skill: a short YAML header with a name and a description, followed by the instructions in Markdown.

Are skills only for Claude?

No. Agent Skills are an open standard. Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, VS Code and OpenCode are among the supported tools.

How do I install a skill in Claude Code?

Copy the skill folder into .claude/skills/ in your project, or ~/.claude/skills/ for every project. Official Anthropic skills can be added with the /plugin commands.

Should I use a skill or an MCP server?

Use a skill to teach a procedure or know-how, and an MCP server to connect to an external service or data. Many workflows combine both.

Do skills use up the context window?

Very little until used: only the name and description, around 100 tokens, are loaded at startup. The full instructions load when the skill is activated.

Are skills free?

The skills listed here are published openly, but licenses vary. Check each skill's license before you reuse it.

Are skills safe?

A skill can include scripts that your assistant runs. Read a skill before installing it, especially from an unknown author.