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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 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.

Skill Cabinet is a local catalog for agent skills installed on a machine. It scans user-level skill locations such as .agents, .claude, .codex, .cursor plugins, Hermes profiles, and other ~/.* /skills folders, then lets users filter skills by drawer, metadata, risk, invocation mode, and status; inspect rendered or source bodies, YAML frontmatter, extra files, symlinks, duplicates, origins, and broken links; and review disk usage. It runs with Node 20 or later through npx skill-cabinet, starting a server bound to 127.0.0.1 and opening the catalog in a browser. Users can quarantine skills to ~/.skill-cabinet/quarantine and restore them, or delete individual skills or groups; deletion removes folders, files, or symlinks from the scanned locations, while a symlink's target is retained. The project is distributed under the MIT license.

self-learning-skills is a meta-skill for AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and agents that read AGENTS.md or similar standing-instruction files. It recognizes hard-won, reusable procedures such as non-obvious commands and recurring operational workflows, then captures them as skills, rules, or project instructions for later sessions. The capture includes known dead ends and excludes one-off details and secret values. The project stores learned procedures as new skills/<name>/SKILL.md files for Claude Code, Codex, and Agent Skills clients; as .cursor/rules/learned/<name>.mdc files for Cursor; or in AGENTS.md or project notes for other agents. It can be installed with the community skills CLI, as a Claude Code plugin, or manually by copying the relevant files.

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.