Agent Skills

Agent Skills is a curated skill registry and npm-based CLI for extending AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Antigravity with packaged instructions, templates, and reference files. The CLI fetches a catalog, lets users search and select skills, caches downloads locally, and installs them to selected agents by copying or symlinking them at global or project scope; it also supports updating, removing, auditing, and managing cached skills. The repository describes the catalog as an open-source, human-curated library with CI static analysis, content hashing, lockfiles, path isolation, symlink guards, sanitization, audit logging, and Snyk Agent Scan checks. It also includes an MCP server that exposes progressive-disclosure tools for listing, searching, reading, and fetching skill files. The CLI source is MIT-licensed; maintainer-authored skills are generally CC BY 4.0, while third-party skills retain their own licenses.

Awesome Agent Skills is an open-source curated collection of more than 1,000 agent skills from official development teams and the community. Each listing provides a description and source link; the collection includes skills from projects such as Anthropic, Google Labs, Vercel, Stripe, Cloudflare, and others. The skills are documented for use with multiple coding-agent environments, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, and Windsurf.

Skills for Real Engineers is an open-source collection of small, composable agent skills by Matt Pocock for disciplined software development with Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents. The skills support requirements clarification, project-language setup, test-driven development, debugging, code review, specification, planning, triage, and codebase surveys. The collection includes skills such as `/grill-me` and `/grill-with-docs`, which question the user about a proposed change before implementation, and a setup skill that configures an issue tracker, ticket labels, and documentation storage for a repository. It can be installed as a managed Claude Code plugin or copied into a project as editable files through the `skills` installer; the skills are intended to work with any model and can be adapted by the user.

Agent Skills is Google's repository of installable skills for Google products and technologies, including Google Cloud. The skills provide Markdown-based procedures for tasks such as onboarding and authenticating to Google Cloud, deploying and managing AI agents, working with GKE, databases, networking, security, monitoring, analytics, advertising APIs, Firebase, Android, Dart, Flutter, and Google Maps Platform. Skills can be selected and installed with `npx skills add google/skills`; the repository also bundles plugins and MCP servers for agent harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI. The repository accepts bug reports and contributions, and its skills are distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Anthropic's repository of Agent Skills for Claude, including example skills, the Agent Skills specification, and a template for creating custom skills. Each skill is a self-contained folder with a SKILL.md file containing metadata and instructions that Claude loads dynamically for specialized tasks such as document creation, data analysis, web-app testing, MCP server generation, and communications workflows. The repository's skills can be installed as Claude Code plugins, used in Claude.ai, or accessed through the Claude API. It includes document, PDF, presentation, and spreadsheet skills used in Claude's document capabilities; many examples are Apache-2.0 licensed, while those document-creation skills are source-available rather than open source. The repository presents the implementations for demonstration and educational purposes and notes that their behavior may differ across Claude environments.