--- title: Top Skills for Engineering slug: engineering type: vertical-category canonical: https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-engineering skills: 126 rubric: 1.0 updated: 2026-09-06 --- # Top Skills for Engineering **frontend-design** is the top-ranked engineering Skill at 92/100: Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written. Skills for software engineers: code review, refactoring, testing, debugging, infra. This page lists the Skills useful in this domain, including general-purpose tooling commonly used here — not only Skills built for it. Where a general-purpose Skill outranks the domain-native ones, the introduction below says so. 126 Skills indexed, ranked by a published composite score (https://top-agent-skills.com/about/methodology). Content last changed 2026-09-06. ## The ranking ### 1. frontend-design — score 92/100 (official-anthropic) Escape generic AI-generated UIs. Forces a bold, distinctive design direction before any code is written. - Best for: Greenfield landing pages, marketing sites, and any UI that should feel intentional rather than templated. - Not ideal for: Ports of an existing design system — frontend-design pushes a bold direction that may overwrite established tokens. - Publisher: Anthropic · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, claude-ai, claude-api, cursor, codex, gemini-cli, antigravity ```bash npx skills add github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/frontend-design.md) ### 2. docling — score 66/100 (verified-org) One skill covering every document format the category exists for — including scanned PDFs and RAG chunking — from the maintainers of the parser itself. - Best for: Reading or converting documents the agent cannot open directly, at 65K stars and MIT: scanned PDFs, Office formats, tables, and chunking a corpus for retrieval. - Not ideal for: Producing polished Office files. Docling is a reader and converter — for generating a styled DOCX, XLSX or PPTX, the Anthropic document skills are the better fit. - Publisher: Docling project (LF AI & Data) · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash pip install docling && uvx library-skills --claude ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/docling.md) ### 3. hyperframes — score 64/100 (verified-org) Write HTML, render video. Agent-native, deterministic, no build step. - Best for: Programmatic video an agent can iterate on — release clips, motion graphics, captioned explainers. - Not ideal for: Generative video from a text prompt; that is a model API, not a renderer. - Publisher: HeyGen · Apache-2.0 - Verified on: claude-code ```bash npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hyperframes (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hyperframes.md) ### 4. superpowers — score 61/100 (community) Structured multi-step development. Brainstorm → spec → plan → build → review → merge — TDD baked in. - Best for: Long-running engineering tasks where you want each phase to handoff cleanly. - Not ideal for: Quick one-shot tasks — the orchestration overhead is not worth it. - Publisher: obra · MIT - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex ```bash npx skills add obra/superpowers ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/superpowers (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/superpowers.md) ### 5. firebase-hosting-basics — score 61/100 (verified-org) Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting. - Best for: Web apps already in the Google/Firebase ecosystem (Firestore, Auth) that want the agent to handle hosting setup and the deploy step without leaving chat. - Not ideal for: Static-only sites with no Firebase dependency — a generic static host (Pages, Netlify) is simpler and avoids the Firebase project requirement. - Publisher: Firebase (Google) · Apache-2.0 - Verified on: claude-code, cursor, codex, gemini-cli, antigravity ```bash claude plugin marketplace add firebase/agent-skills ``` Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/firebase-hosting.md) ### 6. zeabur-agent-skills — score 61/100 (verified-org) Deploy and register the domain in the same session — Zeabur is its own registrar, so both are one CLI. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/zeabur-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/zeabur-agent-skills.md) ### 7. playwright-cli — score 60/100 (verified-org) Microsoft's first-party Playwright skill, invoked through the CLI — the reference implementation for driving a real browser, with no credentials required. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/playwright-cli (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/playwright-cli.md) ### 8. stripe-best-practices — score 59/100 (verified-org) Stripe's own integration playbook: pick the right API, set up Connect and billing, and handle keys and webhooks securely. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-best-practices.md) ### 9. stripe-projects — score 59/100 (verified-org) Provision a Postgres, Redis, auth, or LLM provider through the Stripe Projects catalog rather than signing up by hand. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-projects (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-projects.md) ### 10. resend — score 59/100 (verified-org) Resend's own API skill: send transactional and batch email, handle inbound webhooks, and manage domains, templates, and keys. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/resend-email (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/resend-email.md) ### 11. email-best-practices — score 59/100 (verified-org) Resend's deliverability playbook: SPF/DKIM/DMARC, spam avoidance, bounce handling, and CAN-SPAM/GDPR/CASL compliance. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/email-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/email-best-practices.md) ### 12. react-email — score 59/100 (verified-org) Build cross-client HTML emails as React components, with a visual editor and Resend-ready rendering. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/react-email (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/react-email.md) ### 13. agent-email-inbox — score 59/100 (verified-org) Give an agent a webhook-driven inbox with the sender-allowlist and content-filtering patterns that block prompt injection from inbound email. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-email-inbox (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agent-email-inbox.md) ### 14. azure-resource-visualizer — score 59/100 (verified-org) Diagrams generated from live infrastructure rather than from a prompt — it reads the actual resource group and draws what is really there. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-resource-visualizer (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-resource-visualizer.md) ### 15. azure-ai-translation-document-py — score 59/100 (verified-org) Batch document translation that preserves layout — the part that breaks when you translate a PDF by extracting text and re-flowing it. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-document-translation (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-document-translation.md) ### 16. browser — score 58/100 (verified-org) Local browser with no credentials, or a hosted Browserbase session with CAPTCHA solving and residential proxies when the target is protected. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/browserbase-browser (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/browserbase-browser.md) ### 17. ui-test — score 58/100 (verified-org) Diff-aware adversarial QA: it reads the git diff and tests only what changed, across correctness, accessibility, layout and UX. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/browserbase-ui-test (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/browserbase-ui-test.md) ### 18. connect-recommend — score 58/100 (verified-org) The marketplace architecture decision, made with a compatibility matrix that blocks invalid Connect configurations instead of describing them. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-connect-recommend (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-connect-recommend.md) ### 19. drawio — score 58/100 (verified-org) The only vendor-official skill from a major diagramming product — and it emits editable .drawio files rather than a throwaway image. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/drawio-diagram-generator (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/drawio-diagram-generator.md) ### 20. upgrade-stripe — score 57/100 (verified-org) Stripe's version-upgrade guide: move API versions and SDKs without breaking your integration. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/upgrade-stripe (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/upgrade-stripe.md) ### 21. create-payment-credential — score 57/100 (verified-org) Stripe's answer to agentic checkout: one-time payment credentials so an agent can buy without ever seeing the underlying card. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-link-checkout (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-link-checkout.md) ### 22. hostinger-agent-skills — score 57/100 (verified-org) The registrar half of the stack: buy the domain, set the DNS, stand up the site — from one plugin. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hostinger-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hostinger-agent-skills.md) ### 23. chrome-devtools — score 57/100 (verified-org) Chrome's own team, giving agents the DevTools protocol: drive it, inspect it, debug it. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/chrome-devtools (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/chrome-devtools.md) ### 24. webhook-skills — score 56/100 (verified-org) Hookdeck's webhook playbook: 40 provider-specific skills covering signature verification, idempotency, and event handling — each with runnable examples. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hookdeck-webhook-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/hookdeck-webhook-skills.md) ### 25. dbhub — score 56/100 (verified-org) One skill across Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB and SQLite — and its actual job is forcing explore-before-query on real schemas. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/dbhub (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/dbhub.md) ### 26. azure-ai-contentunderstanding-py — score 56/100 (verified-org) Multimodal extraction across documents, images, audio and video through one Azure client — Microsoft-authored, with an explicit trigger list. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-content-understanding (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/azure-content-understanding.md) ### 27. speech-to-text — score 56/100 (verified-org) Transcription and subtitle generation as a first-class skill — the media job agents are asked for most and could not previously do well. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-speech-to-text (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/elevenlabs-speech-to-text.md) ### 28. composio — score 55/100 (verified-org) 1,000+ SaaS integrations as one skill. OAuth lifecycle, scoped credentials, structured actions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio.md) ### 29. postgres — score 55/100 (verified-org) The generalist Postgres skill the ecosystem was missing — schema, indexing, extensions and migrations, from a Postgres company. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postgres-aiguide (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postgres-aiguide.md) ### 30. postgres-database-migration — score 55/100 (verified-org) Zero-downtime Postgres migrations, with the locking behaviour spelled out — which ALTER TABLE takes an AccessExclusiveLock and what to do instead. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postgres-migrations (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postgres-migrations.md) ### 31. design-postgres-tables — score 55/100 (verified-org) Schema design decisions made explicitly: data types, key strategy, JSONB versus columns, and when partitioning earns its complexity. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postgres-table-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postgres-table-design.md) ### 32. qdrant-advisor — score 55/100 (verified-org) A self-updating vector-database skill: it fetches current Qdrant guidance at run time instead of shipping a snapshot that rots. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/qdrant-advisor (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/qdrant-advisor.md) ### 33. composio — score 54/100 (verified-org) Composio's official skill for connecting agents to 1000+ external apps: auth configs, per-user connections, tool execution, and triggers. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio-tool-router (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composio-tool-router.md) ### 34. dodo-payments-skills — score 54/100 (verified-org) The deepest MoR skill coverage after Stripe: 17 skills from checkout to go-live. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/dodo-payments-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/dodo-payments-skills.md) ### 35. loops-skills — score 54/100 (verified-org) SaaS email as skills: Loops API, CLI, LMX markup, deliverability practice. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/loops-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/loops-skills.md) ### 36. workos — score 54/100 (official-anthropic) Full-stack WorkOS implementation with auth provider migration paths. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos.md) ### 37. workos-widgets — score 54/100 (official-anthropic) Drop-in WorkOS widgets with backend token wiring across every major framework. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos-widgets (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/workos-widgets.md) ### 38. paddle-agent-skills — score 53/100 (verified-org) Paddle's own integration playbook: ten skills for Checkout, webhooks, pricing pages, and subscription lifecycle on the merchant-of-record platform. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paddle-agent-skills.md) ### 39. twilio — score 53/100 (verified-org) Twilio's official Developer Kit: 55 skills across SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, Verify, SendGrid, and compliance — plus the Twilio MCP. Public beta. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/twilio-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/twilio-skills.md) ### 40. turso-db — score 53/100 (verified-org) The SQLite slot, filled by Turso — and unusually, a skill that actively steers the agent off the stale API surface web search returns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/turso-db (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/turso-db.md) ### 41. liteparse — score 53/100 (verified-org) Local document extraction with no API key — read the file, not the whole file. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/liteparse (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/liteparse.md) ### 42. box — score 53/100 (verified-org) Box as an agent surface, plus the contract-review workflows nothing else in the catalog covers. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/box-for-ai (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/box-for-ai.md) ### 43. web-artifacts-builder — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Self-contained HTML artifacts with React + shadcn/ui — no build step, just paste and run. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-artifacts-builder (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-artifacts-builder.md) ### 44. semgrep — score 52/100 (verified-org) Semgrep's own scanning skill: run the industry-standard SAST engine across 30+ languages, and author custom rules for your codebase's patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/semgrep-scan (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/semgrep-scan.md) ### 45. code-security — score 52/100 (verified-org) A vendor-maintained rule corpus for secure code review — one reference file per vulnerability class, from SQL injection to Terraform misconfiguration. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/semgrep-code-security (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/semgrep-code-security.md) ### 46. weaviate — score 52/100 (verified-org) The vector-database skill that ships executable scripts rather than prose — the agent runs the query instead of describing it. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/weaviate-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/weaviate-skill.md) ### 47. accessibility-review — score 52/100 (official-anthropic) Pre-handoff a11y audit that catches what design QA misses. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/accessibility-review (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/accessibility-review.md) ### 48. supabase-skill — score 51/100 (verified-org) Supabase done right. RLS policies, edge functions, realtime, auth — in idiomatic patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/supabase-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/supabase-skill.md) ### 49. neon-postgres — score 51/100 (verified-org) Neon serverless Postgres done right — branching, pooling, and scale-to-zero, from Neon. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/neon-postgres (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/neon-postgres.md) ### 50. stripe-payments — score 51/100 (verified-org) Stripe done right. Checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, idempotency, metered billing. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-payments (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/stripe-payments.md) ### 51. shopify-storefront — score 51/100 (verified-org) Shopify Storefront API: cart, checkout, metafields, customer accounts, Hydrogen patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shopify-storefront (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shopify-storefront.md) ### 52. block-kit — score 51/100 (verified-org) Slack's own Block Kit skill — and the rare vendor skill that needs no token, because it validates against Slack's public API. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/slack-block-kit (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/slack-block-kit.md) ### 53. visualize-data — score 51/100 (verified-org) OpenAI's chart-design skill: the judgement layer that decides which chart the question actually needs before any plotting code is written. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-visualize-data (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-visualize-data.md) ### 54. build-dashboard — score 51/100 (verified-org) Dashboards with source definitions and a QA step — the parts that separate a monitoring view from a wall of charts nobody trusts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-build-dashboard (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/openai-build-dashboard.md) ### 55. railway-skills — score 51/100 (verified-org) All of Railway in one skill: provision, deploy, debug — listed in the official plugin marketplace. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/railway-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/railway-skills.md) ### 56. architecture — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) ADR authoring + design review. Trade-offs, consequences, alternatives. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/architecture-adr (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/architecture-adr.md) ### 57. debug — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Disciplined debugging loop. Reproduce, isolate, diagnose, fix. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/debug (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/debug.md) ### 58. deploy-checklist — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/deploy-checklist (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/deploy-checklist.md) ### 59. documentation — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Technical writing that engineers will actually read and update. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/documentation (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/documentation.md) ### 60. incident-response — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/incident-response (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/incident-response.md) ### 61. system-design — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) System design from requirements. APIs, data, boundaries, scale. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-design (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-design.md) ### 62. tech-debt — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Honest tech-debt audit with a prioritized cleanup backlog. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tech-debt (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tech-debt.md) ### 63. testing-strategy — score 51/100 (official-anthropic) Layered test plan sized to the change's risk profile. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/testing-strategy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/testing-strategy.md) ### 64. webapp-testing — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Test local webapps with Playwright. Generation, run, report — end-to-end. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/webapp-testing (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/webapp-testing.md) ### 65. simplify — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Review for reuse, quality, efficiency. Catches over-abstraction and dead code before merge. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/simplify (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/simplify.md) ### 66. scan-secrets — score 50/100 (verified-org) GitGuardian's own secret-detection skill — scans history, images and packages, and ships a written remediation doctrine rather than just a list of hits. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/gitguardian-secret-scanning (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/gitguardian-secret-scanning.md) ### 67. postmark-skills — score 50/100 (verified-org) Transactional email the Postmark way: send, inbound, templates, webhooks. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postmark-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/postmark-skills.md) ### 68. verify — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Real feature verification — run the app, drive it, prove it works. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/verify (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/verify.md) ### 69. setup-cowork — score 50/100 (official-anthropic) Bootstrap the right plugin stack for your role in one guided pass. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/setup-cowork (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/setup-cowork.md) ### 70. vercel-web-design-guidelines — score 49/100 (verified-org) 100+ accessibility and UX rules from Vercel, applied as a structural audit on your UI code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-web-design-guidelines (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-web-design-guidelines.md) ### 71. vercel-react-best-practices — score 49/100 (verified-org) 57 React/Next.js performance rules, applied as a structural review on your code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-react-best-practices (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-react-best-practices.md) ### 72. trail-of-bits — score 49/100 (verified-org) Security audits run by a real security firm. CodeQL + Semgrep + audit workflows. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/trail-of-bits (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/trail-of-bits.md) ### 73. planetscale-skills — score 49/100 (verified-org) PlanetScale's schema branching and index-aware queries, packaged for agents. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/planetscale-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/planetscale-skills.md) ### 74. shadcn-context — score 49/100 (verified-org) shadcn/ui context: components, patterns, and the right composition by default. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shadcn-context (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/shadcn-context.md) ### 75. prisma-orm — score 49/100 (verified-org) Prisma migrations and queries by the book. Index-aware, migration-safe, type-correct. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/prisma-orm (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/prisma-orm.md) ### 76. next-js-app-router — score 49/100 (verified-org) Next.js App Router by the book. Server components, streaming, parallel routes. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/next-js-app-router (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/next-js-app-router.md) ### 77. notion-api-skill — score 49/100 (verified-org) Notion API: page/database CRUD, block hierarchies, rich text, schema sync. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/notion-api-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/notion-api-skill.md) ### 78. vercel-deploy-claimable — score 49/100 (verified-org) Ship to a live Vercel URL from chat — auto-detects the framework, returns a claim link. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-deploy-claimable (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/vercel-deploy-claimable.md) ### 79. code-review-security — score 49/100 (verified-org) OWASP-published review, SCA, secrets and threat-modelling skills — the most citable provenance available for security review vocabulary. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/owasp-security-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/owasp-security-skills.md) ### 80. knock-notification-best-practices — score 49/100 (verified-org) The multi-channel notification slot nothing else covers: push, in-app and chat alongside email, with copy guidance per channel. No credentials required. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/knock-notifications (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/knock-notifications.md) ### 81. mapbox-data-visualization-patterns — score 49/100 (verified-org) The geospatial gap, filled by the vendor that defines it: data on a map, done properly. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mapbox-data-visualization (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mapbox-data-visualization.md) ### 82. design-handoff — score 49/100 (official-anthropic) Turn a final design into a spec engineers can implement directly. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-handoff (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-handoff.md) ### 83. design-system — score 49/100 (official-anthropic) Design-system hygiene at speed. Audit, document, extend. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-system (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/design-system.md) ### 84. mcp-builder — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Build new MCP servers. The official scaffold + design walkthrough. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mcp-builder (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/mcp-builder.md) ### 85. claude-api — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Always-current Claude API reference and SDK docs. Bundled with Claude Code. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/claude-api (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/claude-api.md) ### 86. internal-comms — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Internal comms that read consistent. Newsletters, status reports, FAQs, updates. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/internal-comms (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/internal-comms.md) ### 87. sentry-error-handling — score 48/100 (verified-org) Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/sentry-error-handling (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/sentry-error-handling.md) ### 88. snyk-fix — score 48/100 (verified-org) The remediation half of security work: scan, fix, validate the fix, open the PR. Batch mode handles a whole backlog of CVEs in one pass. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/snyk-fix (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/snyk-fix.md) ### 89. pretty-mermaid — score 48/100 (community) Actually renders Mermaid to SVG or ASCII instead of emitting text and hoping something downstream draws it. Bundles the render scripts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/pretty-mermaid (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/pretty-mermaid.md) ### 90. markdown-exporter — score 48/100 (community) The widest format matrix of any conversion skill we catalogue, and it executes the conversion rather than describing it. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/markdown-exporter (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/markdown-exporter.md) ### 91. brightdata — score 48/100 (verified-org) The anti-bot problem, handled: proxies, SERP, and structured extraction at scale. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/brightdata-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/brightdata-skills.md) ### 92. run — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) One-command app launch tailored to your project type. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/run (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/run.md) ### 93. security-review — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Pre-merge security sweep on the current branch's diff. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/security-review (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/security-review.md) ### 94. code-review — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) The canonical Anthropic code review. Effort levels from quick to ultra. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/code-review-builtin (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/code-review-builtin.md) ### 95. init — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Bootstrap a CLAUDE.md so future sessions start informed. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/init-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/init-skill.md) ### 96. review — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) PR review with inline GitHub comments via gh. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/review-pr (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/review-pr.md) ### 97. update-config — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Edit settings.json safely. Hooks, perms, env, behaviors. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/update-config (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/update-config.md) ### 98. keybindings-help — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Rebind keys and add chords without reading the keymap docs. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/keybindings-help (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/keybindings-help.md) ### 99. fewer-permission-prompts — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Cuts the permission-prompt friction by learning your safe-tool patterns. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/fewer-permission-prompts (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/fewer-permission-prompts.md) ### 100. loop — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Recurring task runner. Self-paced or interval-based. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/loop (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/loop.md) ### 101. schedule — score 48/100 (official-anthropic) Cron for remote Claude Code agents. Set it and forget it. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/schedule (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/schedule.md) ### 102. composition-patterns — score 47/100 (verified-org) Boolean prop hell → compound components. Cleaner React component APIs by construction. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composition-patterns (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/composition-patterns.md) ### 103. expo-skills — score 47/100 (verified-org) Expo workflows: navigation, EAS, OTA, native modules. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/expo-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/expo-skills.md) ### 104. paypal-ai-toolkit — score 47/100 (verified-org) The largest payment processor, first-party: checkout to disputes to payouts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paypal-ai-toolkit (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/paypal-ai-toolkit.md) ### 105. tdd-skill — score 46/100 (community) TDD with red/green/refactor as a concrete TypeScript walkthrough. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tdd-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tdd-skill.md) ### 106. duckdb-skills — score 46/100 (verified-org) In-process analytical SQL over CSV, Parquet, and Excel — no warehouse, no server. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/duckdb-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/duckdb-skills.md) ### 107. netlify-deploy — score 46/100 (verified-org) Netlify-authored deploy flow. Auth, site linking, Deploy Previews, production promotes. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/netlify-deploy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/netlify-deploy.md) ### 108. cloudflare — score 46/100 (verified-org) Cloudflare-authored. Workers and Pages deploys, Wrangler config, KV/D1/R2 from chat. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/cloudflare-platform (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/cloudflare-platform.md) ### 109. agentic-seo-skill — score 46/100 (community) The heavyweight audit machine: 88 evidence scripts so SEO findings come from data, not vibes. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agentic-seo-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/agentic-seo-skill.md) ### 110. carbone — score 46/100 (verified-org) Data-driven document generation: one template, a thousand filled documents. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/carbone-templates (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/carbone-templates.md) ### 111. code-review-plugin — score 45/100 (official-anthropic) Structured PR reviews with severity-tagged findings — bugs, security, perf, style. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/code-review-plugin (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/code-review-plugin.md) ### 112. github-pages — score 45/100 (community) Repo-to-live-URL on GitHub Pages: Actions workflow, custom domain, Jekyll, troubleshoot. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/github-pages-deploy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/github-pages-deploy.md) ### 113. apify — score 45/100 (verified-org) Run the marketplace's scrapers, or turn your own scraper into a deployable Actor. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/apify-skills (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/apify-skills.md) ### 114. cowork-plugin-customizer — score 45/100 (official-anthropic) Tailor a plugin to your org's stack in one pass. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/cowork-plugin-customizer (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/cowork-plugin-customizer.md) ### 115. create-cowork-plugin — score 45/100 (official-anthropic) Scaffold a new plugin from scratch with guided prompts. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/create-cowork-plugin (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/create-cowork-plugin.md) ### 116. fhir-developer-skill — score 44/100 (verified-org) The standalone FHIR skill: modeling, validation, SMART on FHIR — without the full healthcare plugin. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/fhir-developer-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/fhir-developer-skill.md) ### 117. render-deploy — score 44/100 (verified-org) Deploy, debug, and scale on Render: Blueprint generation with validation built in. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/render-deploy (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/render-deploy.md) ### 118. tufte — score 44/100 (community) A named design canon for charts, not another plotting wrapper. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tufte-charts (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/tufte-charts.md) ### 119. terraform-claude-skill — score 43/100 (community) Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/terraform-claude-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/terraform-claude-skill.md) ### 120. devops-engineer — score 43/100 (community) Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/devops-engineer (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/devops-engineer.md) ### 121. system-architecture-diagrams — score 42/100 (community) C4, deployment, sequence-of-events architecture diagrams generated from natural-language descriptions. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-architecture-diagrams (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/system-architecture-diagrams.md) ### 122. publishing-astro-websites — score 42/100 (community) Astro from scaffold to live site — content collections, search, i18n, multi-host deploy. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/publishing-astro-websites (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/publishing-astro-websites.md) ### 123. ios-simulator-skill — score 41/100 (community) Drive the iOS Simulator from the agent loop. Build and test iOS apps. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/ios-simulator-skill (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/ios-simulator-skill.md) ### 124. web-asset-generator — score 41/100 (community) Favicons, app icons, social cards — generated at all the right sizes. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-asset-generator (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/web-asset-generator.md) ### 125. k8s-security-policies — score 40/100 (community) Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/k8s-security-policies (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/k8s-security-policies.md) ### 126. excalidraw-generator — score 40/100 (community) Excalidraw JSON diagrams from prose, with rendering self-checks. Full entry: https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/excalidraw-generator (https://top-agent-skills.com/skill/excalidraw-generator.md) ## About this category The best agent Skills for engineering in 2026 start with Anthropic's own frontend-design and superpowers for the day-to-day loop, then add the first-party Skill for whatever you actually run — Vercel, Supabase, Prisma, Stripe, Sentry — because a vendor's own Skill knows its API's edge cases and a general one guesses at them. This is the largest vertical in the catalogue at 124 entries, so treat the primary categories as the real index: pick the capability first, then the vendor. Engineering vertical Skills are the everyday workbench for software engineers — code review, refactoring, testing, debugging, infrastructure, security, documentation. The category aggregates the Skills that ship in Claude Code by default plus the strongest community-published equivalents for Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity. The common workflows are familiar: review a diff before merge, refactor a tangled module, author tests for a new feature, debug a production incident, write the architecture decision record, document a service. Skills here also cover the meta-engineering work — choosing the right model for a task, designing prompts and Skills for your own team, and operating the multi-agent workflows that compose multiple Skills. Full-stack engineers, backend engineers, frontend engineers, platform engineers, SREs, and engineering managers all use these Skills. Composite scoring weights provenance, install count, and how well the Skill respects the day-to-day reality of working on a real codebase — Skills that demand pristine repos or perfect git hygiene lose to those that meet the engineer where they are. ## Common questions **Which Skills ship with Claude Code by default?** code-review, simplify, verify, init, security-review, run, and several others. They cover the core engineering loop — review, simplify, verify, init, secure, run. **Are these Skills useful for Cursor and Codex?** Most are — the SKILL.md spec was adopted by Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity in late 2025. Per-Skill compatibility is verified on each skill's page. **Do these Skills work in a monorepo?** Most handle monorepos cleanly — they respect workspace boundaries and run scoped to the changed package. A few generic Skills assume single-project layout; their pages flag this. **How do I pick between Opus and Sonnet for engineering Skills?** Opus 4.7+ for high-effort review, architecture and complex refactors. Sonnet 4.6 for routine review and quick fixes. Several Skills auto-select based on the work's effort level. **Can I bundle several engineering Skills into a plugin?** Yes — Claude Code plugins package multiple Skills together. The plugin-customizer Skill helps tailor a bundle for your org's stack. --- _Top Agent Skills. Machine-readable twin of https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-engineering._ _JSON: https://top-agent-skills.com/top-skills-for-engineering.json · whole catalog: https://top-agent-skills.com/skills.json (CC BY 4.0)_