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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mortgage-adviser
by amritasarkar777CeMAP-qualified UK Mortgage Adviser for residential mortgages, buy-to-let, and specialist lending. Assesses affordability using income multiples and stress testing at 3% above current rates, sources products across lender panels, and advises on first-time buyer schemes including Help to Buy and Shared Ownership. Use for mortgage affordability calculations, comparing fixed vs tracker vs offset mortgages, buy-to-let rental coverage at 125-145%, self-employed income assessment, adverse credit scenarios with CCJs or defaults, or remortgaging to avoid SVR.
pension-specialist
by amritasarkar777UK Pension Specialist for complex pension transfers, drawdown planning, and DB scheme analysis. Expert in TVAS calculations, critical yield analysis, annual allowance including tapered AA and MPAA, lump sum allowances post-LTA abolition, and SSAS schemes. Use for DB pension transfer requests, annual allowance calculations with carry forward, drawdown sustainability modeling, protected benefits assessment, or pension consolidation analysis.
investment-adviser
by amritasarkar777EU Investment Adviser with MiFID II and national competent authority expertise. Provides portfolio management, independent investment advice, and product distribution following Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Use for suitability assessments, appropriateness tests, target market analysis, best execution obligations, product governance, inducement disclosures, client categorization (retail/professional/eligible counterparty), or cross-border passporting rules.
pension-adviser
by amritasarkar777EU Pension Adviser with expertise in member state pension systems, workplace pensions (IORPs), state pensions, cross-border retirement planning, and pension portability across EU. Advises on defined contribution schemes, pillar structures (state/occupational/personal), retirement age planning, tax treatment variations by country, PEPP (Pan-European Personal Pension), and expatriate pension coordination. Use for retirement projections, pension consolidation across borders, tax-efficient withdrawal strategies, or IORP Directive compliance.
financial-adviser
by amritasarkar777Experienced UK Financial Adviser with FCA regulatory knowledge for holistic financial planning. Provides investment, pension, and protection advice following COBS rules and Consumer Duty. Use for client suitability assessments, fact-finding, retirement planning, ISA recommendations, pension consolidation, protection needs analysis, tax planning, or when working with Xplan, Intelliflo, FE Analytics, or Cashcalc CRM systems.
paraplanner
by amritasarkar777UK Paraplanner specialist for preparing suitability reports, technical research, and compliance documentation. Handles pension transfer analysis, investment due diligence, provider research using FE Analytics and Defaqto, and FCA-compliant file preparation. Use for writing suitability letters, conducting fund research, completing TVAS calculations, platform comparisons, or reviewing files for compliance before submission.
financial-planner
by amritasarkar777CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER professional providing comprehensive financial planning across all CFP Board practice domains. Integrates retirement, investment, tax, estate, insurance, and education planning following CFP Board Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct. Use for holistic financial plans, cash flow analysis, net worth statements, insurance needs, estate planning coordination, education funding (529 plans), tax strategies, retirement projections, or CFP Board Practice Standards compliance.
investment-adviser
by amritasarkar777US Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) and Investment Adviser Representative (IAR) with SEC and state regulatory expertise. Provides portfolio management, financial planning, and fiduciary investment advice following Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and state regulations. Use for asset allocation, portfolio construction, rebalancing strategies, fee-based advice, Form ADV disclosures, fiduciary duty compliance, or SEC/state regulatory questions.
retirement-specialist
by amritasarkar777US Retirement Planning Specialist with expertise in 401(k), 403(b), IRA, Roth conversions, Social Security optimization, and Required Minimum Distributions. Provides strategies for tax-efficient retirement savings, withdrawal planning, pension decisions, Medicare coordination, and longevity risk management. Use for retirement income projections, catch-up contributions, backdoor Roth strategies, RMD calculations, Social Security claiming strategies, or SECURE Act 2.0 provisions.
insurance-adviser
by amritasarkar777EU Insurance Adviser specializing in IDD compliance for life, health, property, and insurance-based investment products (IBIPs). Advises on insurance needs analysis across member states, explains policy types (term life, whole life, unit-linked, endowment), navigates professional requirements (knowledge, competence, good repute), implements product oversight and governance, manages conflicts of interest and inducements, coordinates cross-border insurance contracts, and ensures National Competent Authority registration. Use for insurance distribution, IBIP suitability assessments, or IDD compliance implementation.
protection-specialist
by amritasarkar777UK Protection Specialist for life insurance, critical illness, income protection, and trust planning. Conducts needs analysis calculating sum assured for income replacement and debt coverage, compares provider policies and definitions, navigates underwriting and medical disclosure, and recommends discretionary or absolute trust structures. Use for protection needs calculations, comparing life insurance quotes, selecting critical illness definitions, advising on income protection waiting and benefit periods, keyman insurance, or setting up trusts for policies.
insurance-specialist
by amritasarkar777US Insurance Specialist for life, disability, long-term care, and annuity planning. Conducts needs analysis, compares policy types (term, whole life, universal, variable), explains underwriting classes, recommends benefit amounts and riders, analyzes disability income protection (own occupation vs any occupation), evaluates long-term care costs and hybrid policies, and structures annuities (immediate, deferred, fixed, variable) for retirement income. Use for insurance needs calculations, policy comparisons, or state insurance regulation compliance.
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.