book-to-skill

Skills is a command-line tool for the open agent skills ecosystem. It installs reusable instruction sets defined in SKILL.md files into supported coding agents such as OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others. The `npx skills` CLI resolves skills from GitHub, GitLab, other Git URLs, local paths, or direct file and archive URLs; lists available skills, selects individual skills, and installs them project-wide or globally by symlink or copy. It can also generate a prompt for a skill without installing it, launch a supported agent with that prompt, search for skills, update or remove installations, and create new SKILL.md templates. Skills use YAML frontmatter with a name and description, and the CLI discovers them in standard agent and repository skill directories. The project is licensed under the MIT License.

Cangjie Skill is an open-source pipeline that distills methodologies from books, long-form videos, podcasts, interviews, and courses into callable AI Agent Skills rather than summaries. The resulting skills package evidence, examples, executable steps, and usage boundaries so coding agents can invoke the extracted methodology. Its capability-bundle workflow extracts stable capability cards and metadata before compiling installable output. It supports a single router-style Skill or a compact pack containing a router and promoted standalone Skills. The unified local toolchain includes diagnostics, compilation, output replanning, incremental updates, repair, rollback, evaluation, and benchmarking, while content-addressed preprocessing, source diffs, impact analysis, transactional patches, snapshots, and edit detection support controlled evolution. The repository also provides a standalone installation package for DeepSeek Harness.

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.

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.

Awesome Claude Skills is a curated GitHub resource covering reusable Claude Skills, plugins, tools, and related resources for Claude.ai, Claude Code, the Claude API, and other coding agents such as Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and Windsurf. It organizes examples by areas including document processing, development, data analysis, communication, media, productivity, project management, security, and SaaS-app automation through Composio. The repository explains Skills as folders containing a SKILL.md file with YAML metadata and Markdown instructions, optionally accompanied by scripts, references, and assets. It documents progressive loading: agents initially see a skill's name and description, load the full instructions when relevant, and load supporting files on demand. It also distinguishes Skills, which define workflows and guardrails, from MCP servers and tools, which provide system access and individual actions. The list accepts contributions through documented quality and pull-request guidelines. The repository is licensed under Apache 2.0, while individual skills may use different licenses.