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adaptive-communication
by benciumUse when detecting ambiguous user intent, hedging language, open-ended framing, personal context before requests, or when unsure whether user wants exploration vs direct answer. Applies to all conversations.
agentic-ux-design-relationship-centric-interfaces
by benciumDesign AI-first interfaces that build ongoing relationships through memory, trust evolution, and collaborative planning, not just isolated screen interactions
bencium-controlled-ux-designer
by benciumExpert UI/UX design guidance for unique, accessible interfaces. Use for visual decisions, colors, typography, layouts. Always ask before making design decisions. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications.
bencium-impact-designer
by benciumCreate distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics. Based on Anthropic's Frontend Designer Skill
bencium-innovative-ux-designer
by benciumCreate distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, or applications. Generates creative, polished code that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
design-audit
by benciumPremium UI/UX design audit and refinement skill. Conducts systematic visual audits of existing apps and produces phased, implementation-ready design plans. Use this skill whenever the user asks to audit a UI, improve an app's visual design, make an interface feel more polished or premium, review design consistency, fix visual hierarchy, or refine spacing/typography/color. Also trigger when the user says "design review", "make it look better", "UI polish", "visual refinement", "design pass", "audit the design", or references making an app feel more professional. This skill is purely visual — it does not touch functionality, logic, or features. It elevates what exists.
ui-typography
by benciumProfessional typography rules for UI design, web applications, software interfaces, and all screen-based text. Enforces timeless typographic correctness that LLMs consistently get wrong: proper quote marks, dashes, spacing, hierarchy, and layout. ENFORCEMENT MODE: When generating ANY HTML, CSS, React, JSX, or UI code containing visible text, auto-apply every rule in this skill silently — do not ask, do not explain, just produce correct typography. AUDIT MODE: When reviewing or improving existing interfaces or legacy code, flag violations and provide fixes. Trigger on: any HTML/CSS/React artifact creation, "build a landing page", "create a component", "design a UI", "fix the typography", "make this look professional", "review this layout", web design, presentation design, dashboard creation, document generation, or any task producing visible text for humans. Even if the user doesn't mention typography, apply these rules whenever generating UI output.
bencium-aeo
by benciumGenerate AEO-optimized content (Answer Engine Optimization) for AI search visibility - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, AI Overviews. Use when optimizing websites for AI citations, creating FAQ schemas, evidence panels, or analyzing content for LLM extraction readiness.
bencium-code-conventions
by benciumBence's code style, tech stack, and workflow conventions
human-architect-mindset
by benciumSystematic architectural thinking for irreplaceable human capabilities - domain modeling, systems thinking, constraint navigation, and AI-aware problem decomposition. Use proactively when detecting architectural decisions, system design discussions, or multi-component planning.
insurgent-campaign
by benciumGrassroots-first campaign design for anyone being outspent — startups vs. incumbents, NGOs vs. corporate comms, movements vs. state-backed machines, solo brands vs. big-budget competitors. Ideates awareness, launch, fundraising, mobilization, community-build, counter-narrative, referral, founder-story, and coalition campaigns. Triggers on "campaign plan", "marketing strategy", "ad budget", "should I advertise", "paid vs organic", "launch plan", "grassroots", "low budget marketing", "NGO campaign", "outspent", "competitor has bigger budget", "how do I compete without money". Also trigger on any spend asymmetry, collapsing organic reach, rising CPAs, or a trust/credibility problem — even without the word "campaign". Nudge activation when the user debates buying ads, boosting posts, or hiring influencers; they are likely about to burn money on a channel that will not persuade.
negentropy-lens
by benciumA decision-support framework that evaluates systems, architectures, and strategies through the entropy (decay) vs negentropy (growth) lens, while surfacing tacit knowledge gaps. Use this skill whenever the user is making architecture decisions, evaluating system designs, reviewing technical approaches, choosing between options, auditing existing systems, or planning strategies. Also trigger when the user explicitly asks to "apply the negentropy lens", mentions "entropy", "negentropy", "tacit knowledge", "knowledge engine", or "flip the switch". Nudge activation when you detect the user is at a decision point — even if they haven't asked for this lens — by briefly noting the entropic/negentropic dimension before proceeding.
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.