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startup-pitch
by ferdinandobonsBuild investor-ready pitch scripts in multiple formats (10-min, 5-min, 2-min, 1-min elevator, investor email). Produces pitch narratives, Q&A preparation, pitch scoring rubric, and optional investor roleplay practice. Use when the user wants to create a pitch, prepare for investor meetings, craft a startup pitch, write a fundraising narrative, or practice their pitch. Triggers for "pitch deck", "investor pitch", "pitch my startup", "fundraising deck", "seed deck", "how to pitch", "investor meeting", "demo day", "prepare pitch", "pitch script", "elevator pitch for investors", "pitch practice", "practice my pitch", "investor roleplay", or any request to present a startup to investors, accelerators, or partners. Works standalone — no prior startup-design session needed, but leverages its output if available.
startup-competitors
by ferdinandobonsDeep competitive intelligence for any market. Analyzes competitors' products, pricing, customer sentiment, GTM strategy, and growth signals using real web data. Produces battle cards, pricing landscape, and feature matrix. Use when the user wants to understand their competitive landscape, analyze competitors, compare products in a market, or research who they're competing against. Triggers for "who are my competitors", "competitive analysis", "competitor research", "battle cards", "pricing comparison", "competitor pricing", "market players", "competitive intelligence", "competitive landscape", "who else is in this space", "competitive moat", or any request to profile, compare, or map competitors in a category. Works standalone — no prior startup-design session needed.
startup-design
by ferdinandobonsDesign, validate, and plan a startup from scratch. Covers market research, competitive analysis, business model, brand identity, product definition, financial projections, and validation experiments. Trigger when the user has a startup idea to explore, wants to validate a business concept, needs a business plan or lean canvas, asks for market sizing or competitive landscape, wants brand positioning or go-to-market strategy, or says anything like "I have an idea for..." or "is this idea worth pursuing". Also handles resuming from a previous checkpoint.
startup-positioning
by ferdinandobonsMarket positioning strategy using the April Dunford framework, enriched with JTBD discovery, Moore positioning statement, and Neumeier's Onliness Test. Produces a complete positioning document, positioning statement, competitive alternatives map, and market category analysis. Use when the user wants to define or refine their market positioning, find their unique position, differentiate from competitors, craft a positioning statement, choose a market category, or figure out "how should we position this product." Triggers for "positioning", "how to position", "market position", "differentiation strategy", "positioning statement", "competitive positioning", "category strategy", "where do we fit in the market", "how are we different", "unique value proposition", or any request to define, sharpen, or rethink positioning. Works standalone — no prior startup-design or startup-competitors session needed, but leverages their output if available.
brand-docx
by ferdinandobonsBrand-aware Word engine. Use to (1) EXTRACT a company's brand from a Word template into a reusable "Brand Profile", (2) COMPREHEND the template with the model (optional), (3) VERIFY it, (4) GENERATE new on-brand .docx documents FROM a saved profile. Trigger on "extract our brand", "learn/match this template", "use our brand kit", "generate a branded report from our profile", or when a ./brand-kit exists. For one-off Word edits with NO saved brand profile, use the docx skill instead. NOT for .pptx (brand-pptx), .xlsx (brand-xlsx), or PDFs.
brand-pptx
by ferdinandobonsBrand-aware PowerPoint engine. Use to (1) EXTRACT a company's brand from a .pptx template into a reusable "Brand Profile", (2) COMPREHEND the template with the model (optional), (3) VERIFY it, (4) GENERATE a new on-brand .pptx from an IntermediateDocument. Trigger on "extract our brand", "use our deck template", "generate a branded deck from our profile", or when a ./brand-kit exists. For one-off slide edits with no saved brand profile, use the normal pptx skill instead. NOT for .docx (brand-docx), .xlsx (brand-xlsx), or PDFs.
brand-xlsx
by ferdinandobonsBrand-aware Excel engine. Use to (1) EXTRACT a company's brand from a .xlsx template into a reusable "Brand Profile", (2) COMPREHEND the template with the model (optional), (3) VERIFY it, (4) GENERATE a new on-brand .xlsx from a GridDocument fill manifest. Trigger on "extract our brand", "use our workbook template", "generate a branded workbook from our profile", or when a ./brand-kit exists. For one-off spreadsheet edits with no saved brand profile, use the normal xlsx skill instead. NOT for .docx (brand-docx), .pptx (brand-pptx), or PDFs.
diagram-creator
by ferdinandobonsGenerate beautiful, production-ready architecture diagrams as self-contained HTML files from any input. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create a diagram, schema, flowchart, network diagram, system visualization, timeline, org chart, or any visual representation of concepts — technical or non-technical. Trigger when the user mentions "diagram", "schema", "architecture", "flow", "topology", "pipeline", "timeline", "visualize", "graph", or asks to turn a file into a visual diagram. Accepts ANY file type as input (.md, .txt, .json, .yaml, .csv, .pdf, .py, .ts, .toml, .env, .tf, .dockerfile, etc.) — Claude auto-detects the format and extracts relevant structure to diagram. Even a simple sentence like "diagram of how OAuth works" or "visualize this file" triggers this skill.
wayd
by ferdinandobonsWAYD (What Are You Doing?) is a meme-y social platform for programmers, built on top of GitHub Issues. Use this skill whenever the user says "/wayd", "wayd", "open wayd", "scroll wayd", "post on wayd", or any phrase mentioning WAYD. Also trigger when the user wants to take a scroll break while their agent works, see what other developers are up to, share a coding frustration, post a hot take, vent about cursed code they're dealing with, brag about a shipped feature, or decompress for a minute without leaving the console. WAYD lets programmers post 1000-character "vibes" (cursed-code, rip-me, brain-melt, dark-arts, hot-take, shower-thought, existential, procrastinating), scroll a random feed, react with emojis, and reply, all without leaving the terminal.
knowledge-transfer
by ferdinandobonsUse when a colleague is leaving a project and must hand over knowledge, or when someone new joins a project that contains a handover/ folder. Two phases: export (analyze project + Claude memories, produce a committed handover package: non-technical onboarding doc + filtered portable memories) and import (verify those memories against current code, install them for the new colleague). Trigger on /knowledge-transfer, 'handover', 'knowledge transfer', 'passaggio di consegne', 'onboard a new colleague', or when the user mentions taking over / leaving a project.
Browse Agent Skills by Occupation
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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
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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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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