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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timesheet
by cgbarlowInteractive timesheet entry — collects work description, date, start/end times via prompts, calculates hours, appends to .campaign/timesheet.md
doview-image-retriever
by cgbarlowRetrieve and faithfully reproduce DoView Planning handbook diagrams to accompany an outcomes-theory answer. Use after a doview-outcomes-answer response when the user asks to see the diagrams, requests the visual model, says "show me the picture/diagram/figure", or whenever an outcomes-theory answer would land better with the original tool diagrams visible. Reproduces Mermaid blocks from the local Markdown edition first (https://github.com/cgbarlow/doview-book), and falls back to the upstream PNG/image-file URLs from doviewplanning.org when a chapter's diagram does not translate cleanly to Mermaid. Faithful — never redraws, simplifies, paraphrases, or substitutes images or Mermaid blocks. Pair with doview-outcomes-answer, which sets up the seed list this skill consumes.
agentic-coach
by cgbarlowInteractive prompt engineering coach that elevates vague prompts through Socratic dialogue, multiple transformation styles, and guided learning. Use when improving prompts, learning agentic engineering, or wanting coached guidance rather than automated transformation. NEVER auto-executes - always displays and asks first.
math-coach
by cgbarlowA coaching companion for a 13-year-old advanced math student who learns several levels above curriculum. Use whenever he asks for help with a math problem, posts a screenshot or photo of a question, mentions homework, says he is stuck, or asks why something works. Coaches him through problems without giving away answers, hooks his interest with weird real-world applications, basketball, anime, and connections to advanced math, and gently catches him when he has skipped the workbook instructions. Trigger this skill on the first math turn of any conversation and keep using it through the whole session.
ir3-tax-return
by cgbarlowFile a New Zealand individual IR3 income tax return for the 2026 tax year by driving the Inland Revenue myIR portal (https://myir.ird.govt.nz/) in the browser. Use whenever the user mentions an IR3, NZ tax return, IRD return, "doing my taxes" or "filing my taxes" in a NZ context, residual income tax, IETC, PIE tax adjustment, ACC earners' levy, schedular payments, or provisional tax — even if they do not say "IR3" by name. The skill pauses for the user to sign in via RealMe, navigates Income tax → Returns and transactions → File return, uses IRD's pre-populated data, prompts inline only for genuinely missing fields or judgement calls, and refuses to click final Submit without an explicit fresh "yes submit". Grounded in the official IR3G (March 2026) guide bundled in references/.
timesheet
by cgbarlowInteractive timesheet entry — collects work description, start/end times via prompts, calculates hours, appends to .campaign/timesheet.md
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.