Best AI Skills
Skills are reusable instruction packages an agent loads when the task calls for them, written once and portable across Claude, Cursor, Codex and thirty other agents. These are the ones worth installing.
docx — Word documents
Claude's official skill for creating and editing Word documents with tracked changes, comments, formatting and formulas preserved.
pdf — PDF processing
The official PDF skill: fill forms, extract text and tables, merge and split files, and generate new PDFs.
pptx — presentations
Builds and edits PowerPoint decks: layouts, speaker notes, charts and brand-consistent slides straight from a prompt.
xlsx — spreadsheets
Creates and edits Excel workbooks with formulas, pivot-ready tables and charts instead of flat CSV dumps.
skill-creator
The skill that writes skills: scaffolds a new skill's folder, frontmatter and instructions from a description of the job.
mcp-builder
Guides Claude through building a working MCP server, from tool definitions to a runnable package.
canvas-design
Design-on-canvas skill for composing visual layouts, posters and graphics with real design judgment.
frontend-design
Raises the craft of generated UI: typography, spacing, color and layout rules applied to every frontend Claude writes.
theme-factory
Generates coherent visual themes — palettes, type pairings and tokens — ready to apply across a product.
brand-guidelines
Keeps generated copy and design on brand by encoding a company's voice and visual rules as a reusable skill.
doc-coauthoring
A structured co-writing workflow: Claude drafts, revises and tracks a document with you instead of one-shot generating it.
webapp-testing
Teaches Claude to drive and verify web apps in a browser while it builds, catching what code review can't see.
web-artifacts-builder
Builds polished single-file web artifacts — interactive pages, tools and demos — with sound structure baked in.
algorithmic-art
Generative art skill: seeded randomness, palettes and composition rules for producing algorithmic artwork.
Superpowers
The best-known community skill library: a full methodology of composable skills for planning, debugging, testing and shipping with Claude Code.
Agent Skills documentation
The official reference for how skills work: anatomy, frontmatter, loading rules and authoring best practices.
Claude Skills Pack for Beginners
Ten ready-to-use skills that get real work done from day one: writing, email, research, decisions and job search. Free for account holders.
Claude Skills Mini Course
Go from copying other people's skills to designing, building and shipping your own in seven short modules, portable to thirty other agents.

Claude Skills Mini Course
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