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Top Skills for Claude Code

Anthropic's terminal CLI for coding agents. Filesystem skills, plugin marketplace, subagents.

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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.

Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written.

ReactTailwindDesign
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Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely.

StripePaymentsSubscriptions
Code

Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand.

StripeProvisioningInfra
Code

Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance.

EmailDeliverabilitySPF/DKIM/DMARC
Code

Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering.

React EmailTemplatesTransactional
Code

Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration.

StripeMigrationSDK
Code

Find vendors and partners for a job-to-be-done — and, where supported, let the agent purchase and consume the service.

StripeDiscoveryPayments
Code

Hookdeck's webhook playbook: 40 provider-specific skills covering signature verification, idempotency, and event handling — each with runnable examples.

WebhooksSignature VerificationIdempotency
Code

Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys.

ResendEmailTransactional
Code

Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email.

Inbound EmailAgent SecurityWebhooks
Code

Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in.

TDDMulti-agentPlans
Code

Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform.

PaddleSubscriptionsMerchant of Record
Code

Open-source marketing stack for AI coding agents. SEO, content, email, ads, analytics in one bundle.

SEOContentGrowth
Code

Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta.

TwilioSMSWhatsAppVoice
Code

Composio's official skill for connecting agents to 1000+ external apps: auth configs, per-user connections, tool execution, and triggers.

ComposioTool RouterIntegrations
Code

Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths.

WorkOSAuthSSO
Code

1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions.

OAuthSaaSAction-taking
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ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives.

ADRArchitectureDesign
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Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix.

DebugDiagnosisTroubleshooting
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Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update.

DocumentationWritingREADME
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Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.

IncidentPostmortemOn-call
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System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale.

System DesignArchitectureAPI
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Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog.

Tech DebtRefactorAudit
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Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile.

TestingStrategyCoverage
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Official

One-command productivity bootstrap. Memory, tasks, dashboard.

SetupProductivityOnboarding
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Cited research reports from fanned-out web search with adversarial verification.

ResearchWeb SearchSynthesis
Code
Official

Real feature verification — run the app, drive it, prove it works.

VerifyPreviewE2E
Code

Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run.

Reactshadcn/uiArtifacts
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Official

Extract, fill, merge. PDF manipulation with bundled scripts so Claude does not waste tokens generating them.

PDFFormsRead-write
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End-to-end blog pipeline. 30 sub-skills, 5 agents, a 5-gate quality contract that blocks publish below 90/100.

BlogSEOGEOSchema
Code

Senior-designer feedback on demand. Hierarchy, usability, consistency, motion.

DesignCritiqueReview
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Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly.

HandoffSpecsTokens
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Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend.

Design SystemAuditDocumentation
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Microcopy that respects the user. Errors, empty states, CTAs, onboarding.

UX CopyMicrocopyWriting
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Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns.

PostgresRLSRealtime
Code

Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing.

StripePaymentsWebhooks
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Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns.

ShopifyCommerceHydrogen
Code

Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.

SentryErrorsObservability
Code
Official

One-command app launch tailored to your project type.

RunLaunchDev
Code

Pre-merge security sweep on the current branch's diff.

SecurityReviewOWASP
Code

The canonical Anthropic code review. Effort levels from quick to ultra.

Code ReviewBuilt-inQuality
Code

Bootstrap a CLAUDE.md so future sessions start informed.

InitCLAUDE.mdBootstrap
Code

PR review with inline GitHub comments via gh.

PRReviewGitHub
Code
Official

Recurring task runner. Self-paced or interval-based.

LoopRecurringSchedule
Code

Cron for remote Claude Code agents. Set it and forget it.

ScheduleCronAutomation
Code

Single seed prompt → cohesive token system. Tokens that look intentional, not generated.

TokensDesign systemTheming
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Test local webapps with Playwright. Generation, run, report — end-to-end.

PlaywrightE2ETesting
Code

Review for reuse, quality, efficiency. Catches over-abstraction and dead code before merge.

ReviewRefactorDRY
Code

Netlify-authored deploy flow. Auth, site linking, Deploy Previews, production promotes.

NetlifyDeploy PreviewsCLI
Code

Cloudflare-authored. Workers and Pages deploys, Wrangler config, KV/D1/R2 from chat.

CloudflareWorkersPagesWrangler
Code

Turn raw research into themes, segments, and a prioritized next-steps list.

ResearchSynthesisUX
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Research-ops in a skill. Plan the study, run it, synthesize the findings.

ResearchInterviewsSurveys
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Brand-voice QA before content ships. Severity-ranked findings with rewrites.

BrandVoiceEditorial
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Launch-ready campaign brief in one pass. Calendar, channels, metrics included.

CampaignPlanningStrategy
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Battlecards on demand. Positioning gaps, content holes, threat assessment.

CompetitivePositioningBattlecards
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Channel-correct content with SEO and CTA awareness baked in.

ContentCopywritingSEO
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Channel-specific draft + headline options. SEO-aware out of the box.

DraftingCopyMarketing
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Executive-ready performance reports with next-period priorities.

ReportingAnalyticsKPIs
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Full SEO health check with quick wins vs strategic investments split.

SEOAuditKeywords
All surfaces

Workplace memory that actually understands your team's shorthand.

MemoryProductivityContext
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Lightweight task tracking in a single markdown file.

TasksTodoMarkdown
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Official

Periodic memory + task refresh from real activity.

SyncMemoryTasks
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Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows.

CodeQLSemgrepAudit
Code

Web scraping, search, and browser automation built to be agent-friendly.

ScrapingSearchWeb
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Web search + 36 authoritative data sources. SEC, PubMed, ChEMBL, FRED — agent-grade research.

SearchSECPubMed
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PlanetScale's schema branching and index-aware queries, packaged for agents.

SchemaMigrationsMySQL
Code

shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default.

shadcnComponents
Code

Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes.

Next.jsReactApp Router
Code

Lock generated UIs to a brand. Anthropic's own guidelines, formalized as a skill.

BrandGuidelinesIdentity
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Official

Word documents end-to-end. Create, edit, comment, track-change.

WordReportsRead-write
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Official

Excel spreadsheets with real formulas, charts, and formatting — not flat CSV exports.

ExcelFormulasCharts
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Official

PowerPoint decks with layouts, charts, speaker notes — programmatic from prose.

PowerPointSlidesDecks
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Build new MCP servers. The official scaffold + design walkthrough.

MCPServerScaffold
Code

Build new skills interactively. Output is a clean SKILL.md ready to publish.

AuthoringSKILL.md
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Always-current Claude API reference and SDK docs. Bundled with Claude Code.

APISDKDocs
Code

p5.js algorithmic art with particle systems and procedural geometry.

p5.jsGenerativeArt
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Visual art from prose. PNG and PDF outputs that look intentionally designed.

CanvasPNGPDF
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Internal comms that read consistent. Newsletters, status reports, FAQs, updates.

NewsletterStatusFAQ
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Multi-author edits with suggestion mode and conflict resolution.

EditingTrack-changes
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Repo-to-live-URL on GitHub Pages: Actions workflow, custom domain, Jekyll, troubleshoot.

GitHub PagesStatic SiteJekyllGitHub Actions
Code

Boolean prop hell → compound components. Cleaner React component APIs by construction.

ReactPatternsAPI design
Code

20 SEO + GEO skills in one bundle. Keyword research, audits, rank tracking, AI search optimization.

SEOGEOContent
Code

Expo workflows: navigation, EAS, OTA, native modules.

ExpoReact NativeEAS
Code
Community

TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough.

TDDTypeScript
Code

Copywriting + SEO bundle. SEO audits, schema markup, programmatic-SEO patterns, Ogilvy-school copy.

CopywritingSEOSchema
Code

32+ marketing skills in one bundle. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, email, growth.

CROCopywritingEmail
Code
Community

Strip the AI tells. Multi-pass editing for content that reads opinionated, not generated.

EditingVoiceAEO
Code

Structured PR reviews with severity-tagged findings — bugs, security, perf, style.

ReviewSecurityPR
Code

Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct.

PrismaTypeScriptMigrations
Code

Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks.

RedisCachePerformance
Code

CRO patterns from real teardowns. Hero copy, social proof, friction audits, test design.

CROA/B testingFunnel
Code

Full email sequences with branching, exit conditions, and copy that does not read like an AI wrote it.

EmailLifecycleDrip
Code

Dockerfiles done right. Multi-stage, cache-friendly, distroless, hardened.

DockerContainersSecurity
Code

GitHub Actions workflows with matrix, reusable jobs, OIDC, secrets done right.

GitHub ActionsCI/CDYAML
Code

TypeScript strict mode by default. Discriminated unions, branded types, exhaustive switches.

TypeScriptTypesStrict
Code

Vitest patterns: snapshots, mocks, parallel runs, in-source tests, coverage.

VitestUnit testingTypeScript
Code

Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC.

TerraformIaCAWS
Code

Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds.

CI/CDContainersAWS
Code

Deterministic web control. ref-based clicks/fills, no flaky selectors, parallel sessions.

BrowserAutomationAction-taking
Code

Headless browser as an agent tool. Navigate JS-heavy pages, fill forms, extract content.

HeadlessBrowserJS
Code

Playwright patterns: clicks, fills, waits, retries. The do-it-right defaults.

PlaywrightAutomation
Code
Community

D3.js patterns for interactive viz that does not look stock.

D3.jsVizInteractive
Code

HTML slide decks from prose. Easy to embed, version, and edit later.

SlidesHTMLPresentations
Code

Standup updates from recent commits, PRs, and ticket moves. Yesterday/today/blockers.

StandupReports
Code

MongoDB aggregations and indexing without the foot-guns.

MongoDBAggregationNoSQL
Code

Mermaid diagrams from prose with self-validating syntax. Sequence, flowchart, ER, state.

MermaidDiagramsMarkdown
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LinkedIn posts that read human. Hook patterns, voice modeling, carousel scripts.

LinkedInSocialContent
All surfaces

AWS CDK in TypeScript with stack composition, drift detection, cost-tagged resources.

AWSCDKIaC
Code

Cypress E2E with page objects, custom commands, network stubs, a11y checks.

CypressE2EFrontend testing
Code

Scientific computing + dataset APIs. Reproducible research workflows for agents.

Sciencescikit-learnReproducibility
Code

Drive the iOS Simulator from the agent loop. Build and test iOS apps.

iOSSimulatorMobile
Code

Hierarchical mindmaps from prose. Outputs Markmap, OPML, FreeMind.

MindmapMarkmapBrainstorm
Code

Operate a Lemon Squeezy store from the agent: customer lookup, refunds, discount codes, receipts, and a sales dashboard — six support-and-revops skills.

Lemon SqueezyRefundsRevOps
Code

Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh.

KubernetesRBACOPA
Code
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Real exploits, no false positives. 96.15% exploit success across 50+ vuln types.

PentestExploitationAction-taking
Code

Meta-prompting that keeps the agent on a single outcome until it lands.

FocusMeta-prompting
Code
Community

Multi-agent orchestration. Spawn parallel subagents and merge their outputs reliably.

Multi-agentSubagentsParallel
Code

Full-stack SEO: 19 sub-skills, 12 subagents, schema, GEO/AEO, backlinks, local.

SEOSchemaLocal
Code

ffuf web fuzzing for authorized pentests. Common modes, payloads, and gotchas.

ffufPentestFuzzing
Code

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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