Notes on skills that find, create, analyze, and ship other skills.
Note
Still figuring out how the meta-skills ecosystem works. This is what I've found so far.
Part curation, part learning log. I'll keep pushing what I learn here. Star the repo to follow along.
- Skills originated from Anthropic's Claude Code as a reusable SKILL.md instruction file format.
- The format spread. OpenAI adopted AGENTS.md for Codex. Cursor has its own rules format.
- Same idea across platforms: a standing brief the agent reads before work starts.
- Context determines agent quality. Skills are reusable instruction files (SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md) that inject domain knowledge, coding standards, and workflow patterns at execution time.
- Without skills, every session starts from zero. With skills, agents carry institutional knowledge across conversations, teams, and projects.
Organized loosely. Sections grow as I dig in.
- Find: discovery tools and CLIs
- Create: scaffold, generate, template
- Analyze: lint, audit, validate, security
- Portfolios: curated collections and awesome-lists
- Platforms: registries, specs, package managers
- Resources: blog posts, papers, official docs
Tools and CLIs that help you discover and install skills.
| Name | Author | ⭐ | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| find-skills | vercel-labs | 10.2k | npx skills — the leading CLI for finding and installing agent skills across platforms. |
| directories | leerob | 3.9k | Search engine for rules and MCP servers. Successor to cursor.directory. |
Tools that scaffold, generate, and template agent skills and rules.
| Name | Author | ⭐ | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skill-creator | anthropics | 93.2k | Anthropic's official skill creator. The reference implementation for building Claude Code skills. |
| refly | refly-ai | 7.0k | Open-source agent skills builder. Define skills by vibe workflow, run on Claude Code, Cursor, Codex. |
Lint, audit, validate, and security-review skills before you ship them.
| Name | Author | ⭐ | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| claude-reflect | BayramAnnakov | 816 | Self-learning system that captures corrections and preferences, syncs to CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md. |
| skill-scanner | getsentry | 402 | Sentry's skill scanner for auditing and validating agent skills. Part of Sentry's skills repo. |
| clawsec | prompt-security | 750 | Security skill suite: drift detection, security recommendations, automated audits, skill integrity verification. |
Curated collections and awesome-lists of skills, rules, and agent configs.
| Name | Author | ⭐ | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-mcp-servers | punkpeye | 83.1k | The definitive MCP server collection. |
| awesome-claude-skills | ComposioHQ | 43.9k | Curated list of Claude Skills, resources, and tools. |
| awesome-cursorrules | PatrickJS | 38.4k | Configuration files that enhance Cursor AI with custom rules. |
| awesome-openclaw-skills | VoltAgent | 37.2k | 5,400+ skills filtered and categorized from OpenClaw Skills Registry. |
| awesome-claude-code | hesreallyhim | 28.1k | Skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, plugins for Claude Code. |
| awesome-copilot | github | 25.1k | Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, configs for GitHub Copilot. |
| awesome-agent-skills | VoltAgent | 11.2k | 500+ agent skills from official dev teams and community, multi-platform. |
| awesome-claude-code-subagents | VoltAgent | 13.8k | 100+ specialized Claude Code subagents. |
| agents.md | agentsmd | 18.9k | AGENTS.md — a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. |
Registries, specs, and package managers that power the skill ecosystem.
| Name | Author | ⭐ | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| skills | anthropics | 93.2k | Official Anthropic public repository for Agent Skills. |
| openclaw | openclaw | 312k | Personal AI assistant platform with built-in skills registry. |
| superpowers | obra | 82.5k | Agentic skills framework and software development methodology. |
| claude-mem | thedotmack | 34.8k | Claude Code plugin that captures session context and reinjects it into future sessions. |
| skills | openai | 14.2k | Skills Catalog for Codex. OpenAI's official skill registry. |
| agentskills | agentskills | 13.1k | The Agent Skills specification and documentation. Aims to be the OpenAPI of agent skills. |
| claude-plugins-official | anthropics | 11.0k | Official Anthropic-managed directory of Claude Code Plugins. |
- Claude Code: Complete Guide to Building Skills: Anthropic's official skill authoring guide. (2025)
- Cursor: Dynamic Context Discovery: how Cursor discovers and loads skill files. (2025)
- Context Engineering for AI Agents: Anthropic's research on how context shapes agent behavior. The theoretical foundation for why skills work. (2025)
- Claude Skills: Simon Willison's analysis of the Claude skills system. Clear-eyed take on what works and what's hype. (2025)
- Lessons from Building Claude Code: How We Use Skills: Thariq (Anthropic) on skill taxonomy (9 categories), authoring tips (gotchas sections, progressive disclosure, on-demand hooks), distribution via plugin marketplaces, and measuring skill usage with PreToolUse hooks. (2026)
See contributing.md for submission guidelines.
Short version: open an issue first. One skill per PR. Include why it's awesome, not just what it does.
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