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.

DocumentsAnthropic

pdf — PDF processing

The official PDF skill: fill forms, extract text and tables, merge and split files, and generate new PDFs.

DocumentsAnthropic

pptx — presentations

Builds and edits PowerPoint decks: layouts, speaker notes, charts and brand-consistent slides straight from a prompt.

DocumentsAnthropic

xlsx — spreadsheets

Creates and edits Excel workbooks with formulas, pivot-ready tables and charts instead of flat CSV dumps.

DocumentsAnthropic

skill-creator

The skill that writes skills: scaffolds a new skill's folder, frontmatter and instructions from a description of the job.

MetaAnthropic

mcp-builder

Guides Claude through building a working MCP server, from tool definitions to a runnable package.

MetaAnthropic

canvas-design

Design-on-canvas skill for composing visual layouts, posters and graphics with real design judgment.

DesignAnthropic

frontend-design

Raises the craft of generated UI: typography, spacing, color and layout rules applied to every frontend Claude writes.

DesignAnthropic

theme-factory

Generates coherent visual themes — palettes, type pairings and tokens — ready to apply across a product.

DesignAnthropic

brand-guidelines

Keeps generated copy and design on brand by encoding a company's voice and visual rules as a reusable skill.

WritingAnthropic

doc-coauthoring

A structured co-writing workflow: Claude drafts, revises and tracks a document with you instead of one-shot generating it.

WritingAnthropic

webapp-testing

Teaches Claude to drive and verify web apps in a browser while it builds, catching what code review can't see.

CodingAnthropic

web-artifacts-builder

Builds polished single-file web artifacts — interactive pages, tools and demos — with sound structure baked in.

CodingAnthropic

algorithmic-art

Generative art skill: seeded randomness, palettes and composition rules for producing algorithmic artwork.

DesignAnthropic

Superpowers

The best-known community skill library: a full methodology of composable skills for planning, debugging, testing and shipping with Claude Code.

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Agent Skills documentation

The official reference for how skills work: anatomy, frontmatter, loading rules and authoring best practices.

LearnAnthropic

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.

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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.

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