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finance-ops
by ericosiuAI-powered financial analysis suite. Generates executive CFO briefings from QuickBooks exports (P&L, Balance Sheet, General Ledger, Cash Flow, etc.) with anomaly detection, burn rate, runway analysis, and scenario modeling. Also estimates codebase development costs with organizational overhead and AI ROI analysis. Triggers on: 'CFO briefing', 'financial analysis', 'cost briefing', 'expense review', 'runway analysis', 'burn rate', 'cost estimate', 'how much would this cost to build', 'development cost', 'Claude ROI'.
yt-competitive-analysis
by ericosiuAnalyze YouTube channels for outlier videos and packaging patterns. Identifies what's working (2x+ average views) across any set of channels. Use when asked for YouTube competitive analysis, viral video patterns, or packaging/title inspiration.
x-longform-post
by ericosiuWrite long-form X (Twitter) posts and threads in a founder/CEO voice. Use when drafting X articles, long tweets, thought leadership threads, or viral content. Produces contrarian, data-backed posts with ASCII diagrams and code block visuals. Includes mandatory AI humanizer pass (24-pattern detector) before finalizing.
expert-panel
by ericosiuScore, evaluate, and iteratively improve any content or strategy using an auto-assembled panel of domain experts. Handles copy, sequences, landing pages, strategy docs, titles, charts, recruiting evaluations, or anything else that needs a quality gate. Recursively iterates until all scores hit 90+ (max 3 rounds). Use when asked to: "expert panel this", "score this", "rate these variants", "quality check this", "panel review", "which version is better", "expert score", "evaluate this copy/strategy/page", or when another skill needs a quality gate on its output. Also triggers on: "score this landing page", "expert panel these email variants", "rate this headline", "panel these charts".
content-eval
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deck-generator
by ericosiuGenerate professional presentations with AI-generated images. Use when asked to create a deck, presentation, pitch deck, or slides. Supports style presets (whiteboard, corporate, minimalist, etc). Uses Imagen 4.0 API for image generation and Google Slides API for assembly. Produces full decks from markdown content specs in minutes.
closed-loop-analytics-upgrade
by ericosiuUpgrade marketing, content, SEO/AEO/GEO, and revenue skills so changes are judged by platform analytics instead of vibes. Use when applying closed-loop learning to X, YouTube, SEO, AEO/GEO, outbound, paid creative, or revenue workflows.
autoresearch
by ericosiuRun Karpathy-style autoresearch optimization on any content. Generates 50+ variants, scores with a 5-expert simulated panel, evolves winners through multiple rounds, outputs optimized version + full experiment log. Use when optimizing landing pages, email sequences, ad copy, headlines, form pages, CTA text, or any conversion-focused content. Triggers on "optimize this page", "run autoresearch", "score these variants", "A/B test this copy".
clone-site
by ericosiuClone any website into a pixel-perfect Next.js replica. Point it at a URL and it reverse-engineers the design, extracts assets, and rebuilds it section by section using parallel builder agents. Use when asked to clone, copy, replicate, rebuild, or reverse-engineer any website or landing page. Also use for "make it look like this site" or "build a page based on this URL".
cold-outbound-optimizer
by ericosiuDesign, analyze, and optimize cold outbound email campaigns for Instantly. Handles end-to-end ICP definition, expert panel scoring (recursive to 90+), sequence copywriting, infrastructure audit, capacity planning, and implementation docs. Use when asked to build cold outbound sequences, optimize cold email, analyze outbound campaigns, build sales sequences, build Instantly sequences, create cold outbound strategies, or design email campaigns. Supports both "start from scratch" and "optimize existing" modes.
podcast-pipeline
by ericosiuPodcast-to-Everything content pipeline. Takes a podcast RSS feed or raw transcript and generates a full cross-platform content calendar: short-form video clips, Twitter/X threads, LinkedIn articles, newsletter sections, quote cards, blog outlines with SEO keywords, and YouTube Shorts/TikTok scripts. Scores each piece by viral potential (novelty × controversy × utility) and deduplicates against recent output. Use when asked to: "repurpose this podcast", "turn this episode into content", "podcast content calendar", "extract clips from this episode", "podcast to social", "content from RSS feed", "batch process episodes", or any request to turn podcast/audio content into a multi-platform content plan.
campaign-brief
by ericosiuWhen the user wants to create a structured creative brief for a marketing campaign. Also use when the user mentions "creative brief," "campaign brief," "plan a campaign," or "what should we say." Produces a structured JSON brief that the copywriting, social-content, and email-sequence skills consume.
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.