Agent skills: tools for developers

Skills, extensions and integrations for coding agents and assisted IDEs. An entry can appear under several use cases when its topics or description provide several explicit signals.

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Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

  1. 1

    MCP
    Active

    Local-first, agent-native control plane for ComfyUI — MCP server + sidebar agent that generates images, video & audio, authors and runs workflows, and edits your live graph in natural language on ANY LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, offline…

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • claude-code
    • claude-plugin
    • comfyui

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    721GitHub stars+24 (+3.4 %)
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

    illo skill — an AI agent skill that turns ideas and articles into original print-style editorial illustrations, starring a recurring mascot. 30+ characters packs, with ability to create your own.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • illustration
    • image-generation
    • skill

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/tmchow/illo-skill ~/.claude/skills/illo-skill

    370GitHub stars+12 (+3.4 %)
  3. 3

    Skill
    Active

    DeepPaperNote is an agent skill for deep-reading a single paper and generating high-quality Obsidian-style research notes. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • copilot
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/917Dhj/DeepPaperNote ~/.claude/skills/DeepPaperNote

    1 034GitHub stars+33 (+3.3 %)
  4. 4

    MCP
    Active

    Open-source, local-first desktop AI research workbench for scientific computing with Python/R, MCP bioinformatics tools, SSH/WSL/GPU runtimes, and OpenAI/Anthropic models.

    RustLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • ai-assistant
    • ai-for-science
    • ai4science

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 094GitHub stars+27 (+2.5 %)
  5. 5

    Skill
    Active

    Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-agents
    • antigravity
    • ast
    • claude-code
    • code-analysis

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify ~/.claude/skills/graphify

    114 805GitHub stars+2 468 (+2.2 %)
  6. 6

    Skill
    Active

    817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 6 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, NIST AI RMF & MITRE F3 (Fight Fraud) · agentskills.io standard · Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI,…

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-agents
    • claude-code
    • cloud-security
    • cybersecurity
    • devsecops

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

    32 183GitHub stars+547 (+1.7 %)
  7. 7

    Skill
    Active

    Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • antigravity
    • claude-code
    • codex
    • cursor

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/agent-skills

    92 299GitHub stars+1 539 (+1.7 %)
  8. 8

    Skill
    Active

    🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landing pages, dashboards, slides, images & video — real files,…

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-skills
    • ai-design
    • byok
    • claude-code-for-design
    • claude-design

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design ~/.claude/skills/open-design

    94 118GitHub stars+1 471 (+1.6 %)
  9. 9

    Skill
    Active

    Fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI &…

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • code-review
    • code-review-assistant
    • harness

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review ~/.claude/skills/open-code-review

    21 933GitHub stars+302 (+1.4 %)
  10. 10

    Skill
    Active

    Agent skills for solving CTF challenges - web exploitation, binary pwn, crypto, reverse engineering, forensics, OSINT, and more

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills
    • codex
    • codex-cli

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/ljagiello/ctf-skills ~/.claude/skills/ctf-skills

    3 174GitHub stars+38 (+1.2 %)
  11. 11

    Skill
    Active

    claude-red is a curated library of offensive security skills designed for the Claude skills system. Each skill is a structured SKILL.md file that primes Claude with expert-level methodology for a specific attack surface — from SQLi to…

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • claude-ai
    • claude-pt
    • claude-skills
    • redteam
    • redteam-tools

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/SnailSploit/Claude-Red ~/.claude/skills/Claude-Red

    3 026GitHub stars+27 (+0.90 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

  1. 1

    Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库，覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI 20分钟完成一篇可复现的规范实证论文，并支持用户上传 Skills。-- Maintained by CoPaper.AI from Stanford…

    Stata
    • academic-research
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • awesome-list
    • communication
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    3 678GitHub stars+80 (+2.2 %)
  2. 2

    cc-skills-golang

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    🧑‍🎨 A collection of Golang agentic skills that works

    GoLicense: MIT
    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • antigravity
    • claude
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang ~/.claude/skills/cc-skills-golang

    Resourcemeasured growth
    3 173GitHub stars+67 (+2.2 %)
  3. 3

    Awesome-Journal-Skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的 Claude Code/Codex 期刊技能包，从选题、识别策略到表格规范与审稿回复全流程，助你快速发论文。

    StataLicense: MIT
    • academic-research
    • academic-writing
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 064GitHub stars+21 (+2.0 %)
  4. 4

    agent-skills-standard

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A collection of Agent Skills Standard and Best Practice for Programming Languages, Frameworks that help our AI Agent follow best practies on frameworks and programming laguages

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-
    • agentic-ai
    • android
    • angular
    • best-practices
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard ~/.claude/skills/agent-skills-standard

    Resourcemeasured growth
    559GitHub stars+11 (+2.0 %)
  5. 5

    Awesome-Scientific-Skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    An open, curated collection of Agent Skills for scientific research — clone it, use it, extend it!

    License: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • awesome-list
    • openclaw-skills
    • scientific-data
    • scientific-discovery
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/InternScience/Awesome-Scientific-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Awesome-Scientific-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    534GitHub stars+9 (+1.7 %)
  6. 6

    Pretty-mermaid-skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    AI Agent Skill to generate and render beautiful Mermaid diagrams as SVG or terminal ASCII — 15 themes, 6 diagram types, batch CLI, no browser.

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • ascii-art
    • claude-code
    • codex
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/imxv/Pretty-mermaid-skills ~/.claude/skills/Pretty-mermaid-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 182GitHub stars+18 (+1.5 %)
  7. 7

    awesome-agent-skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A curated collection of 1000+ agent skills from official dev teams and the community, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more.

    License: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • awesome
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/awesome-agent-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    33 767GitHub stars+493 (+1.5 %)
  8. 8

    Agent-Skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Curated Agent Skills for Microsoft & Azure – giving AI coding assistants structured, real-time expertise from Microsoft Learn docs.

    • agent
    • agent-skills
    • agentic-skills
    • agentskill
    • ai
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills ~/.claude/skills/Agent-Skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    734GitHub stars+10 (+1.4 %)
  9. 9

    claude-code-skills-zh

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    面向中文开发者的 Claude Code Skills / Agents / Plugins 精选与原创技能库｜按场景分类｜复制即装｜持续更新

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-agent
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    • claude-skills
    • developer-tools
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/laolaoshiren/claude-code-skills-zh ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-skills-zh

    Resourcemeasured growth
    817GitHub stars+11 (+1.4 %)
  10. 10

    awesome-claude-plugins

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Automated collection of Claude Code plugin adoption metrics across GitHub repositories using n8n workflows

    TypeScript
    • awesome-list
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • claude-code-plugins
    • claude-code-plugins-marketplace
    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add quemsah/awesome-claude-plugins

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 265GitHub stars+17 (+1.4 %)
  11. 11

    engram

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Evidence-based learning engine — first-principles curricula, free-recall verification with receipts, FSRS-scheduled memory, and explorable artifacts. Learn anything; keep it.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-plugin
    • education
    • fsrs
    • learning
    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add nagisanzenin/engram

    Resourcemeasured growth
    1 395GitHub stars+17 (+1.2 %)
  12. 12

    awesome-hermes-agent

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Independent directory of useful skills, plugins, memory providers, tools, surfaces, and guides for Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent.

    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • ai-tools
    • awesome
    • awesome-list
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/0xNyk/awesome-hermes-agent ~/.claude/skills/awesome-hermes-agent

    Resourcemeasured growth
    5 556GitHub stars+58 (+1.1 %)
  13. 13

    nihaisha-nishi-tcm

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    倪海厦中医课程资料的 Agent Skill：支持课程检索、方证穴位辨析、学习笔记整理与板书截图证据索引。 | An Agent Skill for Ni Haisha TCM course study, formula-pattern lookup, acupoint reference, and screenshot evidence indexing.

    Python
    • acupuncture
    • agent-skills
    • claude-code-skills
    • codex-skill
    • nihaisha
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/JuneYaooo/nihaisha-nishi-tcm ~/.claude/skills/nihaisha-nishi-tcm

    Resourcemeasured growth
    2 050GitHub stars+19 (+0.94 %)
  14. 14

    dbt-agent-skills

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A curated collection of Agent Skills for working with dbt, to help AI agents understand and execute dbt workflows more effectively.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
      github

      Install git clone https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-agent-skills ~/.claude/skills/dbt-agent-skills

      Resourcemeasured growth
      701GitHub stars+6 (+0.86 %)