Best agent skills for building AI agents
We found 122 agent skills for building AI agents in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. reverse-engineer-anything, plano-agent-skills and pi-upgrade lead it. kibana-agent-builder is published by the company that makes it. reverse-engineer-anything comes from the largest repository here (377,435 stars). 11 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 122
- 1reverse-engineer-anything
morluto
Reverse engineer native, managed, Electron/JavaScript, packaged, firmware, and browser targets with REA, and build agent environments (AgentEnv bundles) of…
- Largest repository here (377,435 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 377.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2plano-agent-skills
katanemo
Best practices for building agents and agentic applications with Plano, including configuration, routing, orchestration, guardrails, observability, and…
- Repository has 7.1K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 7.1KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3pi-upgrade
mrclrchtr
Check for available upgrades to the pi coding agent framework by comparing the current `@earendil-works/pi-*` or legacy `@mariozechner/pi-*` version in…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 103Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4composio
melandlabs
Use 1000+ external apps via Composio - either directly through the CLI or by building AI agents and apps with the SDK
- Repository has 1K stars
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 1KLast active Aug 31, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 5kibana-agent-builder
elasticOfficial
Create and manage Kibana Agent Builder agents and custom tools.
- Published by the vendor
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 600Last active Sep 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 6evaluation
muratcankoylan
This skill should be used when building agent evaluation systems: deterministic checks, regression suites, multi-dimensional rubrics, quality gates…
- Repository has 18.2K stars
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 18.2KLast active Jun 29, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 7agent-sdk-builder
OpenHands
Guided workflow for building custom AI agents using the OpenHands Software Agent SDK.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 173Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8openhands-sdk
OpenHands
Reference skill for the OpenHands Software Agent SDK - the Python framework for building AI agents that write software.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 173Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9agentic-development
alinaqi
Build AI agents with Pydantic AI (Python) and Claude SDK (Node.js)
- Open source (MIT)
★ 711Last active Sep 8, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10agents-sdk
s0ld13rr
Build AI agents on Cloudflare Workers using the Agents SDK.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 883Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11pydanticai-docs
Douglas Trajano
Use this skill whenever the user is working with the Pydantic AI framework — including building AI agents, defining structured outputs with Pydantic models…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 381Last active Oct 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12agent-framework-azure-ai-py
sickn33
Build persistent agents on Azure AI Foundry using the Microsoft Agent Framework Python SDK.
- Repository has 48.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13ai-agent-development
sickn33
AI agent development workflow for building autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, and agent orchestration with CrewAI, LangGraph, and custom agents.
- Repository has 48.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14claude-api-ops
claude-mods
Building applications ON Claude - the Anthropic API and Claude Agent SDK.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 75Last active Oct 14, 2026Claude Code
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 15workflow-state-machines
VoDaiLocz
Use when designing, implementing, or debugging complex agentic workflows using state machine patterns.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 28Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet