Skill

skills

anthropics/skills · Python · Apache-2.0

The canonical Skill library — copy any SKILL.md and your agent gains a capability.

Anthropic's official repo is the gold-standard reference for the Agent Skills format, with vetted examples for docs, web, PDFs, design and more that run across 30+ agent tools.

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Setup at a glance

DeployCopy
GPUNo GPU needed
API keyNeeds a paid API key
Works withClaude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI
UI languagesen
Doc languagesen
Install
cp -r skills/<name> ~/.claude/skills/

Deep dive

anthropics/skills is Anthropic's official repository of Agent Skills — the reference implementation of the open skill format, with example skills covering documents, data, creative work and development tasks.

The repo doubles as the format documentation: what skills are, how to use them in Claude, and how to create your own custom skills, cross-linked to the support articles that define the standard.

For anyone building agent tooling, this is the canonical place to see how a well-formed skill is structured — instructions, bundled resources and the metadata that lets a host discover and invoke it.

Use cases

Learn the Skill format from battle-tested examples
Grab a ready skill for PDFs, Word, Excel or web research
See how to write a portable, cross-tool skill

Good for / Not ideal for

Good for

Anyone building or curating agent skills
Teams standardising on the open Skill spec
Developers who want a trusted starting point

Not ideal for

You want a turnkey product (these are building blocks)
You need domain-specific vertical skills

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