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Top Skills for Claude Code
Anthropic's terminal CLI for coding agents. Filesystem skills, plugin marketplace, subagents.
About Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-first coding agent — a CLI that drives a working Claude session with full filesystem access, shell execution, multi-agent workflows, and native SKILL.md support. Skills installed in Claude Code run with the broadest available capability surface: read and write files, run Bash commands, drive a preview server, query MCP servers, and dispatch subagents through the Agent and Workflow primitives.
The install model is simple — Skills live as folders inside `~/.claude/skills/` or the project's `.claude/skills/`, and the agent loads each Skill's SKILL.md frontmatter at session start to decide when to trigger. Plugins bundle several Skills together for one-shot install via the plugin marketplace. Most Anthropic-authored Skills (code-review, simplify, verify, init, security-review, docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx, mcp-builder, skill-creator) ship pre-installed.
Claude Code is the deepest target for any Skill — the longest-running agent integrations, the most thoroughly tested Skills, and the highest install counts almost always trace back to Claude Code first. We rank Claude Code Skills with provenance, install count, install ergonomics, and recency as the dominant signals.
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Best Skills for Claude Code
Every skill below is verified to work with Claude Code. Ranked by composite score.
1,234+ skills in one bundle. Single install across AI coding assistants.
Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting.
Programmatic video done right. Idiomatic Remotion patterns auto-activate when detected.
Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely.
Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand.
Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance.
Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering.
Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration.
Find vendors and partners for a job-to-be-done — and, where supported, let the agent purchase and consume the service.
Hookdeck's webhook playbook: 40 provider-specific skills covering signature verification, idempotency, and event handling — each with runnable examples.
Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys.
Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email.
Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in.
Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform.
Open-source marketing stack for AI coding agents. SEO, content, email, ads, analytics in one bundle.
Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta.
Composio's official skill for connecting agents to 1000+ external apps: auth configs, per-user connections, tool execution, and triggers.
Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths.
Drop-in WorkOS widgets with backend token wiring across every major framework.
Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses.
1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions.
ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives.
Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix.
The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff.
Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update.
Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.
System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale.
Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog.
Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile.
Ship to a live Vercel URL from chat — auto-detects the framework, returns a claim link.
One-command productivity bootstrap. Memory, tasks, dashboard.
Cited research reports from fanned-out web search with adversarial verification.
Real feature verification — run the app, drive it, prove it works.
Bootstrap the right plugin stack for your role in one guided pass.
Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run.
Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them.
End-to-end blog pipeline. 30 sub-skills, 5 agents, a 5-gate quality contract that blocks publish below 90/100.
Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion.
Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.
Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.
Microcopy that respects the user. Errors, empty states, CTAs, onboarding.
Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns.
Tailwind that scales. Token mapping, responsive variants, dark mode, plugins.
Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing.
Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns.
Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.
Pre-merge security sweep on the current branch's diff.
The canonical Anthropic code review. Effort levels from quick to ultra.
Bootstrap a CLAUDE.md so future sessions start informed.
Edit settings.json safely. Hooks, perms, env, behaviors.
Rebind keys and add chords without reading the keymap docs.
Cuts the permission-prompt friction by learning your safe-tool patterns.
Cron for remote Claude Code agents. Set it and forget it.
Single seed prompt → cohesive token system. Tokens that look intentional, not generated.
Test local webapps with Playwright. Generation, run, report — end-to-end.
Review for reuse, quality, efficiency. Catches over-abstraction and dead code before merge.
Netlify-authored deploy flow. Auth, site linking, Deploy Previews, production promotes.
Cloudflare-authored. Workers and Pages deploys, Wrangler config, KV/D1/R2 from chat.
Turn raw research into themes, segments, and a prioritized next-steps list.
Research-ops in a skill. Plan the study, run it, synthesize the findings.
Brand-voice QA before content ships. Severity-ranked findings with rewrites.
Launch-ready campaign brief in one pass. Calendar, channels, metrics included.
Battlecards on demand. Positioning gaps, content holes, threat assessment.
Channel-correct content with SEO and CTA awareness baked in.
Channel-specific draft + headline options. SEO-aware out of the box.
End-to-end drip campaigns. Copy + timing + branching + benchmarks.
Executive-ready performance reports with next-period priorities.
Full SEO health check with quick wins vs strategic investments split.
Workplace memory that actually understands your team's shorthand.
Lightweight task tracking in a single markdown file.
100+ accessibility and UX rules from Vercel, applied as a structural audit on your UI code.
57 React/Next.js performance rules, applied as a structural review on your code.
Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows.
Web scraping, search, and browser automation built to be agent-friendly.
Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research.
PlanetScale's schema branching and index-aware queries, packaged for agents.
shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.
Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes.
Lock generated UIs to a brand. Anthropic's own guidelines, formalized as a skill.
Word documents end-to-end. Create, edit, comment, track-change.
Excel spreadsheets with real formulas, charts, and formatting — not flat CSV exports.
PowerPoint decks with layouts, charts, speaker notes — programmatic from prose.
Build new MCP servers. The official scaffold + design walkthrough.
Build new skills interactively. Output is a clean SKILL.md ready to publish.
Always-current Claude API reference and SDK docs. Bundled with Claude Code.
p5.js algorithmic art with particle systems and procedural geometry.
Visual art from prose. PNG and PDF outputs that look intentionally designed.
Animated GIFs sized and optimized for Slack reactions.
Internal comms that read consistent. Newsletters, status reports, FAQs, updates.
Multi-author edits with suggestion mode and conflict resolution.
Repo-to-live-URL on GitHub Pages: Actions workflow, custom domain, Jekyll, troubleshoot.
Tailor a plugin to your org's stack in one pass.
Scaffold a new plugin from scratch with guided prompts.
Boolean prop hell → compound components. Cleaner React component APIs by construction.
20 SEO + GEO skills in one bundle. Keyword research, audits, rank tracking, AI search optimization.
232+ skills across engineering, marketing, product, compliance, advisory.
Expo workflows: navigation, EAS, OTA, native modules.
TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough.
Copywriting + SEO bundle. SEO audits, schema markup, programmatic-SEO patterns, Ogilvy-school copy.
Astro from scaffold to live site — content collections, search, i18n, multi-host deploy.
32+ marketing skills in one bundle. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, email, growth.
Strip the AI tells. Multi-pass editing for content that reads opinionated, not generated.
Structured PR reviews with severity-tagged findings — bugs, security, perf, style.
Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct.
Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks.
C4, deployment, sequence-of-events architecture diagrams generated from natural-language descriptions.
CRO patterns from real teardowns. Hero copy, social proof, friction audits, test design.
Full email sequences with branching, exit conditions, and copy that does not read like an AI wrote it.
Dockerfiles done right. Multi-stage, cache-friendly, distroless, hardened.
GitHub Actions workflows with matrix, reusable jobs, OIDC, secrets done right.
Ethical scraping at scale. robots.txt respect, rate-limiting, structured extraction.
TypeScript strict mode by default. Discriminated unions, branded types, exhaustive switches.
Vitest patterns: snapshots, mocks, parallel runs, in-source tests, coverage.
Notion API: page/database CRUD, block hierarchies, rich text, schema sync.
Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC.
Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds.
Deterministic web control. ref-based clicks/fills, no flaky selectors, parallel sessions.
Headless browser as an agent tool. Navigate JS-heavy pages, fill forms, extract content.
Playwright patterns: clicks, fills, waits, retries. The do-it-right defaults.
D3.js patterns for interactive viz that does not look stock.
Excalidraw JSON diagrams from prose, with rendering self-checks.
HTML slide decks from prose. Easy to embed, version, and edit later.
Standup updates from recent commits, PRs, and ticket moves. Yesterday/today/blockers.
MongoDB aggregations and indexing without the foot-guns.
Mermaid diagrams from prose with self-validating syntax. Sequence, flowchart, ER, state.
LinkedIn posts that read human. Hook patterns, voice modeling, carousel scripts.
AWS CDK in TypeScript with stack composition, drift detection, cost-tagged resources.
Puppeteer patterns: lifecycle, network interception, PDF generation, anti-flakiness.
Cypress E2E with page objects, custom commands, network stubs, a11y checks.
Scientific computing + dataset APIs. Reproducible research workflows for agents.
Drive the iOS Simulator from the agent loop. Build and test iOS apps.
Favicons, app icons, social cards — generated at all the right sizes.
Hierarchical mindmaps from prose. Outputs Markmap, OPML, FreeMind.
Operate a Lemon Squeezy store from the agent: customer lookup, refunds, discount codes, receipts, and a sales dashboard — six support-and-revops skills.
Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh.
Real exploits, no false positives. 96.15% exploit success across 50+ vuln types.
Meta-prompting that keeps the agent on a single outcome until it lands.
Multi-agent orchestration. Spawn parallel subagents and merge their outputs reliably.
Full-stack SEO: 19 sub-skills, 12 subagents, schema, GEO/AEO, backlinks, local.
ffuf web fuzzing for authorized pentests. Common modes, payloads, and gotchas.
FAQ
Frequently asked
How do I install a Skill on Claude Code?
Drop the Skill folder into `~/.claude/skills/` (user-wide) or `.claude/skills/` (project-scoped), or run the plugin install command. The agent picks up new Skills on next session start.
Which Skills ship with Claude Code by default?
code-review, simplify, verify, init, security-review, run, the Anthropic document Skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx), mcp-builder, skill-creator, and several others. The full list is in your session's available-skills block.
Can Skills run Bash commands?
Yes — Claude Code runs shell commands with your approval. Skills that automate deploys, run tests, or invoke external tools all rely on this.
Do Skills work with subagents?
Yes — Skills can be invoked from within the Agent and Workflow primitives, including in parallel across multiple subagents.
Is Claude Code free?
Claude Code itself is free; usage is billed against your Claude API or Claude.ai subscription. Some plugins and Skills are also free; others are paid — check the Skill page.
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