Agent skills

The 10 most popular agent skills, one install away

The most-starred SKILL.md packs for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and 70+ other coding agents. Nothing is copied: every skill installs from its original repository and keeps its author and license. Stars as of 2026-09-04, refreshed from the GitHub API.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aiescu/agent-skills/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --agent claude-code

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#1 · ★ 281.7k · 14 skills · MIT

Superpowers by Jesse Vincent (obra)

An opinionated software-development methodology delivered as composable skills: brainstorm, plan, TDD, debug, review, ship. Session hooks make the agent actually use them.

Flagship skill: brainstorming. Forces intent and requirements exploration before any creative work. The entry point to the whole methodology.

npx skills@1 add obra/superpowers

#2 · ★ 249.4k · 37 skills · MIT

Skills for Real Engineers by Matt Pocock

Small, composable engineering skills straight from Matt's .agents directory. Explicitly against process-owning frameworks.

Flagship skill: grill-with-docs. Interrogates you to close the alignment gap before building, then writes a shared-language CONTEXT.md and ADRs.

npx skills@1 add mattpocock/skills

#3 · ★ 210.1k · 1 skill · Unlicensed (README says MIT)

Andrej Karpathy Skills by multica-ai (formerly forrestchang)

A single skill distilled from Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls: think first, simplicity, surgical changes, goal-driven execution.

Flagship skill: karpathy-guidelines. Four rules that measurably reduce over-engineering.

npx skills@1 add multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills

License note: No LICENSE file in the repo. We link only.

#4 · ★ 174.0k · 19 skills · Per-skill (Apache-2.0 / proprietary)

Anthropic Agent Skills by Anthropic

The official reference collection, the Agent Skills spec, and the skill template. Home of skill-creator and mcp-builder.

Flagship skill: skill-creator. Scaffolds and validates new skills. Apache-2.0.

npx skills@1 add anthropics/skills

License note: docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx are all-rights-reserved and may not be redistributed. We link only; nothing is copied.

#5 · ★ 124.9k · 7 skills · MIT

UI/UX Pro Max by nextlevelbuilder

Design intelligence for building professional UI across platforms: 192 reasoning rules, 79 searchable styles, a design-system generator.

Flagship skill: ui-ux-pro-max. The umbrella design skill; design-system is the v2 headline.

npx skills@1 add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill

License note: Requires Python 3 for its local search script (stdlib only, no network).

#6 · ★ 103.4k · 20 skills · MIT (skills) / BSL-1.1 (engine, proxy)

Caveman by Julius Brussee

Cuts about 65% of output tokens by making the agent talk like a caveman while keeping technical accuracy. Plus subagent presets and memory-file compression.

Flagship skill: caveman. The namesake compression mode with lite, full and ultra intensities.

npx skills@1 add JuliusBrussee/caveman

License note: "Caveman" and the rock logo are trademarks of Julius Brussee. The optional CLI sends telemetry by default (DO_NOT_TRACK=1 disables it).

#7 · ★ 92.2k · 25 skills · MIT

Agent Skills by Addy Osmani by Addy Osmani

Production-grade engineering skills organized as a lifecycle: define, plan, build, verify, review, ship. Includes slash commands and agent personas.

Flagship skill: spec-driven-development. Spec before code; the head of the documented lifecycle.

npx skills@1 add addyosmani/agent-skills

License note: Per-skill npx install drops the shared references/ dir (upstream issue #361). Install the whole repo.

#8 · ★ 84.3k · 13 skills · MIT

Taste Skill by Leonxlnx

Gives your AI good taste: stops generic frontend slop with brief inference, variance/motion/density dials, and a design-system map.

Flagship skill: design-taste-frontend. The default anti-slop frontend skill (v2).

npx skills@1 add Leonxlnx/taste-skill

#9 · ★ 74.5k · 865 skills · Unlicensed (README says Apache-2.0)

Awesome Claude Skills by Composio

A curated awesome-list of about 180 skills plus 800+ app-automation skills for Composio's MCP gateway.

Flagship skill: connect-apps. Lets the agent take real actions across 1000+ apps via Composio.

License note: No LICENSE file. Contains vendored copies of Anthropic's restricted document skills. We link only.

#10 · ★ 27.1k · 1 skill · MIT

I Have ADHD by ayghri

Ten output rules that stop the agent burying the answer: lead with the next action, number steps, cap lists at five, no preamble.

Flagship skill: i-have-adhd. The only skill here about the shape of answers, and it helps everyone, not only ADHD users.

npx skills@1 add ayghri/i-have-adhd

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