Agent skills for writing agent skills in Claude Code
354 agent skills for writing agent skills in the catalog list Claude Code as a supported host. These are the 15 that rank highest, ordered by adoption, freshness and documentation. skill-creator, skill-creator and webiny-skill-creator lead the list. Claude Code reads them from .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the project, or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for every project. A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file; Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description. Every listing links to its source and shows a freshness grade.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
How to install in Claude Code
npx skills add <owner>/<repo> --skill <name> -a claude-code
Where it goes: .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md in the project, or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ for every project.
The host's docs describe copying a folder with a SKILL.md into a skills directory; the npx skills command is a third-party shortcut for the same thing.
Each listing page has the exact command for that listing.
Top 15 of 354
- 1skill-creator
langchain-aiOfficial
Guide for creating effective skills that extend agent capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 30.6K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2skill-creator
PrimeIntellect-ai
Create, validate, and install Prime Agent skills - both markdown skills and Python-backed skills callable from the Python kernel.
- Repository has 22.3K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 22.3KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3webiny-skill-creator
webiny
Generate, refresh, and maintain Webiny MCP server skills from source documentation and codebase.
- Repository has 8K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 8KLast active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4skill-creator
Luong NGUYEN <luongnv89@gmail.com>
Create a skill or bring an existing one up to the same standard (validate + asm eval fix loop); run evals, tune triggering.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 959Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5skill-upstream-pr
luongnv89
Improve an open-source GitHub skill and open a friendly suggestion PR upstream: fork, run skill-creator's retrofit, attach asm eval before/after metrics.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 959Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6skill-install-improved
luongnv89
Install an improved variant of one named skill: resolve it by local path, repo, or name, run skill-creator's retrofit on a throwaway copy, then install the…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 959Last active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7skill-creator
snykOfficial
Guide for creating effective skills.
- Published by the vendor
- Repository has 3.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.2KLast active Oct 20, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8skill-creator
ghbalf
Create new FreeCAD AI skills, modify existing skills, and iteratively improve them.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (LGPL-2.1)
★ 587Last active Oct 10, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9skill-creator
spinabot
Create, edit, improve, or audit AgentSkills.
- Repository has 11.4K stars
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 11.4KLast active Sep 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10level-7-the-skill-quest
kylesnowschwartz
Claude Code Hero Level 7: The Skill Quest of Doom -- create a skill directory with SKILL.md in .claude/skills/
★ 108Last active Aug 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 11skill-creator
openclaw
Author or review AgentSkills: create, repair, validate, or restructure SKILL.md files and bundled resources.
- Largest repository here (392,925 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 392.9KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12pm-skill-creator
deanpeters
Design a new PM skill through guided conversation.
- Repository has 7.6K stars
★ 7.6KLast active Aug 10, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 13skill-creator-primer
sammcj
You **MUST** load this skill before the skill-creator skill AND before making ANY change to, or conducting a review of ANY Agent Skill.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 167Last active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14confluent-skill-creator
confluentOfficial
Create Confluent-specific skills for external users.
- Published by the vendor
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 59Last active Sep 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 15skill-creator
HybridAIOne
Create and update SKILL.md-based skills with strong trigger metadata, lean docs, and reliable init, validate, package, and publish workflows.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 159Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet
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