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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having-difficult-conversations
by RefoundAIHelp users navigate tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict. Use when someone needs to give hard feedback, have a performance conversation, fire someone, address conflict with a colleague, or deliver disappointing news like a denied promotion.
onboarding-new-hires
by RefoundAIHelp users onboard new team members effectively. Use when someone is planning onboarding for a new hire, starting a new job themselves, designing a first-90-days plan, or trying to ramp up new employees faster.
negotiating-offers
by RefoundAIHelp users negotiate job offers and compensation. Use when someone is negotiating salary, equity, or other terms of a job offer, preparing for a compensation conversation, or asking how to ask for more money.
vibe-coding
by RefoundAIHelp users build software using AI coding tools. Use when someone is using AI to generate code, building prototypes without deep technical skills, or exploring how non-engineers can create functional software through natural language.
managing-imposter-syndrome
by RefoundAIHelp users work through feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt. Use when someone feels like a fraud, doubts their qualifications, is anxious about being "found out," or struggling with confidence in a new or challenging role.
partnership-bd
by RefoundAIHelp users build strategic partnerships and business development deals. Use when someone is pursuing a partnership, negotiating a BD deal, working with platforms like Google or Facebook, or trying to build distribution through partners.
conducting-interviews
by RefoundAIHelp users conduct effective hiring interviews. Use when someone is designing an interview loop, crafting interview questions, evaluating candidates in real-time, or building a structured interview process.
evaluating-candidates
by RefoundAIHelp users make better hiring decisions. Use when someone is evaluating job candidates, making hiring decisions, conducting reference checks, reviewing work samples or take-homes, calibrating their hiring bar, or deciding between finalists.
writing-job-descriptions
by RefoundAIHelp users write effective job descriptions. Use when someone is creating a job posting, defining a new role, preparing to hire, or trying to attract the right candidates for an open position.
sales-compensation
by RefoundAIHelp users design sales compensation plans. Use when someone is hiring their first sales rep, restructuring sales comp, trying to align sales incentives with business goals, or dealing with comp plan issues like sandbagging or churn.
founder-sales
by RefoundAIHelp founders close their first customers and build repeatable sales processes. Use when someone is doing founder-led sales, trying to get their first customers, writing cold outreach, running early sales calls, or asking when to hire their first salesperson.
product-led-sales
by RefoundAIHelp users implement product-led sales motions. Use when someone is transitioning from pure PLG to sales-assisted, defining PQLs, building sales handoff processes, or trying to expand self-serve users into enterprise contracts.
Browse Agent Skills by Occupation
23 major groups · 867 SOC occupations
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Explore agent skills organized by their primary use case
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.