Awesome Agent Skills 
Curated resources for building and using Agent Skills.
Contents
- What Are Agent Skills
- Start Here
- Phase 1: Learn the Fundamentals
- Phase 2: Use Existing Skills
- Phase 3: Build and Integrate
- Phase 4: Benchmarks and Research
- Frequently Asked Questions
What Are Agent Skills
Agent Skills are modular, standardized SKILL.md packages that give agents on-demand capabilities via progressive disclosure: lightweight metadata can load early, full instructions load only when relevant, and supporting resources are accessed when needed.
agent-skills · ai-agents · skill-md · progressive-disclosure · context-management.
Start Here
If you are new to Agent Skills, start with these quick primers.
- What are skills - Guide: Beginner-friendly introduction to Agent Skills.
- Using skills in Claude - Guide: Quick start for enabling skills in Claude.
Phase 1: Learn the Fundamentals
Concepts, comparisons, and explainers to build a solid mental model.
Key Articles
- Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills - Original announcement from Anthropic Engineering.
- Claude Skills vs MCP: Complete Guide - Comparison of Agent Skills and Model Context Protocol.
- The Great AI Agent Configuration Confusion - Overview of SKILL.md, AGENTS.md, and related standards.
- Using skills with Deep Agents - How frameworks apply the skills pattern.
- 5 Agent Skill design patterns every ADK developer should know - How to structure the logic inside Agent Skills.
- Lessons from Building Claude Code: How We Use Skills - Lessons learned about using skills at Anthropic.
Video Introductions
- Claude's new Agent Skills - One-minute overview.
- Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead - Anthropic talk on skills as a scalable abstraction.
- Intro to Agent Skills - By Google's Anti-Gravity team on X.
- Claude Agent Skills Tutorial and Demo - Intro tutorial and hands-on demo.
- Claude Code Skills built me an AI Agent Team - Extended beginner guide.
Courses
- Agent Skills with Anthropic - Short course from DeepLearning.AI
Phase 2: Use Existing Skills
Platforms that support skills today, plus ready-to-use skill catalogs.
Supported Platforms and IDEs
- Claude Code - Platform: Anthropic's coding tool with skills support (docs).
- OpenAI Codex - Platform: OpenAI's CLI agent with skills support (docs).
- Gemini CLI - Gemini in the terminal with skills support (docs).
- Cursor - AI-powered editor with native skills integration (docs).
- VS Code - Editor with Agent Skills support (docs).
- GitHub Copilot - Coding assistant with Agent Skills support (docs).
- Mistral Vibe - CLI coding agent with Agent Skills support by Mistral (docs)
- Manus - Autonomous AI agent, now supporting Agent Skills (blog)
- OpenCode - AI development tool with built-in Agent Skills support (docs).
- Amp - AI coding assistant with Agent Skills support (docs).
- Goose - Open source agent framework with extensions support (docs).
- Letta - Stateful LLM agents with memory (docs).
- Roo Code - VS Code extension and cloud agents with skills integration (docs).
Ready-to-Use Skill Libraries
Top Picks
- Anthropic skills - Official skills catalog from Anthropic.
- OpenAI skills - Official skills catalog from OpenAI.
- Microsoft skills - Skills for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry.
- Google Workspace skills - Agent Skills for using Google Workspace products.
- Google Agent skills - Agent Skills for Google products and technologies
- Vercel skills - Collection of skills reflecting best practices in web development from Vercel.
- Supabase skills - Agent Skills to help developers using AI agents with Supabase.
- Hugging Face skills - Community skills catalog with broad compatibility.
- OpenClaw skills - Skills for OpenClow agents (formerly Clawd and Moltbot).
Popular Collections
- muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering - A collection of Agent Skills for context engineering (from Anthropic).
- Orchestra-Research/AI-research-SKILLs - A collection of AI/ML research and engineering skills.
- phuryn/pm-skills - A collection of PM Skills
Skill Marketplaces & directories
- SkillsMP - Marketplace for discovering and sharing Agent Skills.
- agentskill.sh - Directory of 44k+ skills with two-layer security scanning and
/learninstaller. - Skillstore - Curated marketplace for Agent Skills.
- SkillsDirectory - Directory of popular Agent Skills.
- skills.sh - A directory and leaderboard for Agent Skills.
Phase 3: Build and Integrate
Guides and tools for authoring, validating, and distributing skills.
How to Build Skills
- A Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude - Guide: comprehensively covers how to build, test, and distribute skills.
- How to create custom skills - Article: Step-by-step instructions for authoring skills.
- Skills API Quickstart - Docs: API reference for implementing skills.
- How I Built Agent Skills for Claude Code - Tutorial: Practical walkthrough for building custom skills.
- Claude Agent Skills Tutorial - Video: End-to-end walkthrough with examples.
Developer Tools
- LangChain Multi-Agent Skills - Docs: Implementing skills in LangChain.
- SkillCheck - Tool: Scanner for common risks in skill packages.
- OpenSkills - Tool: Universal loader for integrating skills with many agents.
- LangChain Deep Agents - Framework: Agent harness with a skills-oriented workflow.
- IntentKit - Framework: Intent-driven agent building.
- Agentica - Framework: TypeScript function-calling utilities for agents.
Phase 4: Benchmarks and Research
Evaluation frameworks and deeper technical reading.
Benchmarks and Evaluation
- huggingface/upskill - Library: Use Upskill to Generate and evaluate agent skills for code agents.
- benchflow-ai/SkillsBench - Library: Use Benchflow for Measuring skills performance on real workflows.
- Practical Guide to Evaluating and Testing Agent Skills - Blog: A guide for testing agent skills
Advanced Engineering
- Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive - Article: Detailed