Guides
Agent Skills guides
Everything you need to use SKILL.md agent Skills well: what a skill is, how to install one on each agent, how to write your own, how skills relate to subagents, MCP servers, and plugins, the best skill for each developer job, and how to deploy a website from chat.
Fundamentals
Understand and use Skills
- What is a Claude skill?
The definition, how skills load in three tiers, and how they differ from prompts and MCP servers.
- Skills vs subagents vs MCP vs plugins
The four Claude Code primitives separated, with a comparison table and decision tree.
- Skill vs MCP vs Plugin
The shorter three-way primer for when you do not need subagents in the picture.
- How to install a skill
The install command for each agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity.
- How to create a skill
Write your own SKILL.md — folder, trigger-rich description, instructions, and a copy-paste template.
- Anatomy of a SKILL.md
The frontmatter fields, when to add scripts, and the description pattern that makes a skill trigger.
Best by use case
The best skill for each job
- Best Claude Code & agent Skills, by use case
The best verified SKILL.md agent Skills for each developer job — code review, security, testing, DevOps, frontend, SEO, and marketing — with the top pick per task, who maintains it, and which agents it runs on.
- Best agent Skills for code review
The best agent Skills for reviewing code before merge — structured, severity-tagged reviews and security-first passes across Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
- Best agent Skills for security & auditing
The best agent Skills for security review and vulnerability detection — firm-grade static analysis (CodeQL, Semgrep), Kubernetes hardening, and real-exploit validation.
- Best agent Skills for testing & QA
The best agent Skills for writing and running tests — Playwright web-app testing, browser automation patterns, and test-driven-development workflows.
- Best agent Skills for DevOps & infrastructure
The best agent Skills for DevOps work — CI/CD, containers, blue-green and canary deploys, Terraform, and Kubernetes hardening across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Best agent Skills for frontend & UI design
The best agent Skills for building production-grade UIs — distinctive design direction, brand systems, theming, and shadcn/Tailwind defaults that avoid generic AI output.
- Best agent Skills for SEO & content
The best agent Skills for SEO and content ops — keyword research, technical audits, GEO/AEO for AI search, blog drafting, and AI-text humanization.
- Best agent Skills for marketing & growth
The best agent Skills for marketing teams — landing-page CRO, copywriting, LinkedIn content, email sequences, and the SEO/GEO bundle that powers organic growth.
Deploy & publish
Ship a website from chat
- How to deploy a website with AI agent Skills
The complete guide to deploying and publishing a website from chat using SKILL.md agent Skills — which skill to use per host (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Firebase, GitHub Pages), per agent, with step-by-step and a platform matrix.
- Best agent Skills for deploying websites
The six best verified agent Skills for deploying and publishing websites in 2026, ranked by what they deploy, who maintains them, and which agents they support.
- Deploy a website to Vercel from chat with an AI agent
Use the vercel-deploy-claimable Skill to ship a site to a live Vercel URL from Claude Code or Cursor, then claim it into your own account.
- Deploy a website to Netlify with an AI agent
Use Netlify's first-party netlify-deploy Skill to authenticate, create Deploy Previews, and promote a production deploy from Claude Code.
- Deploy a website to Cloudflare Workers & Pages with an AI agent
Use Cloudflare's first-party platform Skill to deploy Workers and Pages, configure Wrangler, and manage KV/D1/R2 from chat.
- Deploy a static site to GitHub Pages with an AI agent
Use the github-pages Skill to enable Pages, generate the GitHub Actions workflow, and set up a custom domain for a static site straight from a repo.
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