anthropics/skills is the official reference repo; awesome-agent-skills and agentskills/agentskills help you discover and standardize skills across the ecosystem.
Extract, fill, and manipulate PDFs with your agent
document-skills bundle from anthropics/skills: PDF, DOCX, PPTX, and spreadsheets—useful for document automation.
Create new SKILL.md files with your agent
Official meta-skill: helps structure frontmatter, description, and body for new skills compatible with agentskills.io.
Anthropic's official skill library
Reference repository with dozens of skills: documents, frontend, testing, MCP, and templates to build your own.
Curated list with online search
Awesome list with hundreds of skills for Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and Windsurf—including the spec and install guides.
Marketplace with 250+ skills and SKILL.md preview
Curated pack with a web marketplace to browse skills, preview SKILL.md inline, and copy install commands.
Open standard at agentskills.io
Agent Skills specification repository: SKILL.md format, progressive disclosure, and multi-tool best practices.
.cursorrules collection—a complement to skills
Massive collection of cursor rules: useful alongside SKILL.md skills for persistent context in Cursor.
Editor with a built-in agent and native skill support
Cursor loads skills from .cursor/skills/ and is where most skills on this list were tested. A free plan is available.
Anthropic CLI with plugins and skills
Claude Code discovers skills in .claude/skills/ and via /plugin marketplace—a natural fit with anthropics/skills.
Need the tool, not the skill? Compare AI SaaS products
Skills teach the agent; products like ChatGPT and Jasper are separate tools. On Best AI you compare AI SaaS offerings side by side.
A folder with SKILL.md (YAML + instructions) that teaches the agent to perform a task — for example testing a site or humanizing text. Different from a SaaS tool like ChatGPT.
Copy the skill folder to .cursor/skills/skill-name/ in your project (or ~/.cursor/skills/ globally). The agent uses the description field in the frontmatter to decide when to load it.
Read SKILL.md and any scripts in scripts/ before installing. Prefer anthropics/skills, vercel-labs/agent-skills and trailofbits/skills; avoid repos without a clear license.
No. A skill guides the agent in the editor (Cursor, Claude Code). Tools like Jasper or ChatGPT are separate products — compare them on Best AI.
Yes. Many skills use .claude/skills/ or plugins (/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills). The SKILL.md format follows the same Agent Skills standard.
