Explore AI Agent Skills & Claude Prompts
Discover open-source agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and any tool that uses SKILL.md.
Enter through keywords, occupations, creators, and GitHub sources to see what kinds of skills are emerging across domains.
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test-writing
by GiggleLiuUse when testing a paper's writing quality from a reader's perspective — simulates first-time readers with calibrated audience profiles who scan, then deep-read section by section, reporting on clarity, confusion points, structure, and flow
learn
by GiggleLiuUse when a student wants to interactively learn a weekly learning sheet — presents material chunk by chunk with contextual questions and brainstorming
generate-week
by GiggleLiuUse when generating a complete week of materials, including learning sheets and test bundles, through adversarial writer-vs-reviewer debate
pivot
by GiggleLiuUse when pivoting a finalized learning sheet's task and examples to a new real-world context, or when scrutinizing its reasoning for logical gaps
review-learning-sheet
by GiggleLiuUse when reviewing a weekly learning sheet for pedagogical quality — evaluates beginner motivation, intuition, example quality, and proof correctness
revise
by GiggleLiuUse when revising a learning sheet interactively — walks through chunk by chunk, checking intuition, rigor, and conciseness, then audits tests for scope/triviality issues
write-learning-sheet
by GiggleLiuUse when writing a new learning sheet from scratch for a specific week — reads textbook sections, follows templates, and produces a single learning-sheet.typ file
bootstrap
by GiggleLiuUse when setting up a new course from a forked template repo — gates on a canonical source (textbook or equivalent), ingests its title-page + ToC for metadata, optionally folds in supplementary syllabus/slides/notes, writes config.toml, extracts textbook chapters, creates the weekly schedule, and enables GitHub Pages deployment when possible
homework-report
by GiggleLiuUse after grade-homework to produce a teacher-facing Typst PDF report that shows each student's submission images side-by-side with their per-question marks, feedback, and flags. Triggers on phrases like "generate the grading report", "build a report from the marks", "make a PDF with the marked homework".
zulip-mark-feedback
by GiggleLiuUse when an instructor wants to pull homework photos that students DM'd to the grading bot, grade them, and DM per-question feedback back. End-to-end Zulip-based grading orchestrator that delegates to /grade-homework and (optionally) /homework-report. Requires /setup-zulip-grading to have been run once. Triggers on phrases like "grade homework via zulip", "pull and mark week N from zulip", "/zulip-mark-feedback 3", "send the feedback DMs".
grade-homework
by GiggleLiuUse when the user wants to grade a folder of student homework submissions against a teacher-provided solutions document — handles mixed formats (PDF, JPG, DOCX), produces a grades CSV and per-student English feedback with explicit flagging of ambiguous items for teacher review. Triggers on phrases like "grade the homework", "mark HW9", "批作业".
setup-zulip-grading
by GiggleLiuUse when an instructor wants to wire up Zulip-based homework submission for the course — creates a grading bot on the instructor's Zulip realm via API, writes `.zuliprc` at repo root, and bootstraps `coursedesign/roster.csv`. Run once after `/bootstrap`. Triggers on phrases like "set up zulip submissions", "configure zulip grading bot", "wire up the homework bot", "/setup-zulip-grading".
Browse Agent Skills by Occupation
23 major groups · 867 SOC occupations
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Explore the agent skills ecosystem by occupation and creator
SkillMD is not just a keyword search box. It is an open map that organizes public skills by occupation, creator, and repository, helping you see which workflows, judgment criteria, and domain habits people are writing for AI agents.
Then follow creators and GitHub repositories back to the source: compare the skills a team maintains, whether the repo is active, and how the README frames the work before you open, install, or reuse anything.
Use it three ways: learn an unfamiliar field by occupation, study how creators organize skills, then use source context to decide what is worth opening or reusing.
01 Map a field
Browse 23 occupation groups and 867 SOC roles to learn what skills exist in adjacent domains and how they break down real work.
02 Follow creators
Use creator and repository pages to inspect maintained skill collections, recent updates, and source context before trusting a result.
03 Search with sources
Search 1.7M+ collected skills, then use occupation tags, creators, and GitHub source context to decide what is worth opening.
Start with the occupation map, then follow creators and repositories back to real code. SkillMD helps explain why a skill is worth opening, not only what it is named.
Standardizing Agent Capabilities with SKILL.md and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, LLM agents (Large Language Model agents) have transitioned from simple text predictors to autonomous problem solvers. To orchestrate complex, multi-step agentic workflows, developers require a standardized format to specify agent capabilities, prompt instructions, system rules, and database bindings. This is where SKILL.md and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have emerged as standard developer paradigms. SkillMD serves as the central directory for indexing, exploring, and sharing these critical agent configurations.
Our open-source registry currently tracks over 1.7 million collected SKILL.md configurations and system prompts. By compiling agent configurations from active developers on GitHub, we bridge the gap between prompt engineering research and production execution. Whether you are building agents with Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Gemini, or local models using Ollama and LlamaIndex, standardized skill definitions ensure your agents behave predictably across different runtime environments.
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard designed to connect LLMs to data sources, developer tools, and external environments. MCP establishes a bidirectional communication channel between client applications (like Cursor, Claude Desktop, or custom agent systems) and servers hosting data or capabilities. Standardizing instructions via SKILL.md enables LLMs to query databases, read local files, execute terminal commands, and integrate third-party APIs. SkillMD allows you to find ready-to-run MCP servers and prompt instructions for various occupations and technical tasks.
The Structure of a Professional SKILL.md File
A valid SKILL.md configuration is designed to be easily read by humans and parsed by LLMs. It contains precise system instructions, trigger conditions, required parameters, and execution examples. Below is the typical architectural blueprint of a professional agent skill:
- Metadata & Core Scope: Declares the name of the skill, author details, target models, and a description of the capability.
- Triggers & Intent Detection: Details semantic triggers that help the agent decide when to invoke this skill.
- System Prompts: Explicit system-level instructions that direct the agent's behavior, personality, safety guardrails, and formatting preferences.
- Capabilities & Tools: Lists the files, databases, or APIs the agent must access to complete the tasks.
- Few-Shot Examples: Demonstrates real inputs and outputs, helping the model generalize behavior through in-context learning.
Optimizing Agent Workflows for Modern LLMs
Writing effective agent skills requires deep knowledge of prompt engineering. With the release of advanced reasoning models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, ChatGPT o1, and DeepSeek-V3, prompt templates must focus on structured thinking. Developers are encouraged to use XML tags (e.g., <thought>, <context>, and <rules>) to isolate execution boundaries. Standardized prompts prevent agents from suffering from context drift, ensuring that long-running tasks remain aligned with the initial system parameters.
Exploring by SOC Occupations and Creator Profiles
What makes SkillMD unique is its taxonomy. Instead of simple text search, we parse and organize files according to the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. This means you can discover skills written for Computer and Mathematical roles, Business and Financial operations, Legal, Design, and and Educational Instruction fields. By tracking creator profiles, developers can study how different teams organize their custom instructions, compare version updates, and fork public configs for specialized enterprise use cases.
SkillMD operates as a high-performance index running on a fast Go backend and a highly responsive Astro SSR frontend. All search queries execute in milliseconds, featuring smart debouncing to prevent multiple API requests while keeping user data secure. Join our community of developers to standardize your AI agent instructions and optimize your LLM prompting workflows today.
Frequently Asked Questions
A practical guide to agent skills: what they are, how to inspect them, and how SkillMD helps you explore the ecosystem.