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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ee
by gridacoWorking pattern for enterprise-edition features in Grida — the commercial/hosted concerns (entitlement, BYOD, billing) on top of the OSS core. Anchor for the `GRIDA-EE: <surface>` grep marker, `(ee)` route group, `*-hosted` package suffix, and namespaced `grida_*` schema. Use when adding or touching an EE-only feature, or deciding whether a feature is EE territory. Surface skills (`ee-billing`) are siblings.
editor-perf
by gridacoGuides performance investigation, benchmarking, and optimization of the Grida Canvas web editor (TypeScript reducer, Immer, React hooks). Use when profiling reducer dispatch cost, diagnosing slow interactions (drag, resize, color change), writing or running editor benchmarks, instrumenting with PerfObserver, or optimizing the JS-side state management pipeline.
ee-billing
by gridacoSurface workflow for billing in Grida — Stripe (subscriptions) + Metronome (AI credit ledger). The stable contracts: `grida_billing.*` is not REST-exposed (views/RPCs only), `fn_billing_apply_*` are the single mutation points, webhook receivers are `GRIDA-SEC-001`, BYOK is the `GRIDA-SEC-003` carve-out. Use when touching `editor/lib/billing/`, `editor/scripts/billing/`, the `grida_billing` schema, the webhook receivers, or the entitlement gate. Companion to `ee`.
etiology
by gridacoBug-fix discipline — every defect has an etiology, the chain of cause that produced the observable fault; trace it before patching. Errors only grow: a bandaid leaks unless genuinely localized and leak-free. Walk the diagnostic ladder (presentation → proximate cause → API contract → isolated or systemic) before writing the fix. Use when authoring or reviewing any bug fix, regression patch, "quick fix" PR, or when deciding whether to ship, defer, or refactor.
io-grida
by gridacoGuides work on the Grida file format (.grida), the I/O packages that read/write it, and the Rust decoder that loads it into the canvas runtime. Use when working with .grida files, the FlatBuffers schema, file loading/saving, archive packing, clipboard encode/decode, or debugging format round-trip issues.
grounding
by gridacoEstablish what is actually true and current for the surface you are about to change — not just search. Grounding = locate the authoritative source and reconcile sources that disagree (code vs doc, migration vs schema, memory vs current code, live vs archived), not take the first hit. Use before any grep/find/explore of the codebase or docs, when deciding which of several definitions is the real one, or when a doc or memory conflicts with the code. Covers the source-of-truth hierarchy, reconciliation discipline, scoped ripgrep, and the docs/tags.yml + docsearch.py index.
oss-standards
by gridacoPre-PR discipline for a public-by-default repo. What a reviewer enforces beyond CI: secrets and internal data in diffs or screenshots, docs that name their reader, and the cleaning pass where incomplete or confusing artifacts get dropped. Use before opening any PR against `gridaco/grida` or when finalizing work for review.
naming
by gridacoHow to think about names in the Grida repo — not conventions, but what a name commits you to, reveals about the system, and costs to change. The central discipline is that a strict, honest name refuses to grow, and that refusal drives the repo's shape (flat modules, small agnostic packages, suffix siblings). Use when planning a new package, crate, module, directory, route group, or test corpus — the name comes first.
io-figma
by gridacoGuides work on the Figma I/O package (@grida/io-figma, packages/grida-canvas-io-figma/). Covers the fig-kiwi binary parser, Kiwi→REST→Grida conversion pipeline, fig2grida CLI, REST API JSON conversion, and testing with clipboard/fig/REST fixtures. Use when adding node type support, fixing conversion bugs, extending fig2grida, working on the fig-kiwi parser, writing tests for Figma import, or debugging clipboard paste failures after a Figma update.
io-svg
by gridacoGuides work on SVG import into the Grida Canvas Rust engine (grida crate). Covers crates/grida/src/import/svg/, the grida_dev svg-to-grida CLI, cross-boundary FBS codec tests (Rust encode → TS decode), SVG fixture authoring, and known SVG import limitations (text model, filters, transforms). Use when adding SVG feature support, fixing import bugs, authoring SVG test fixtures, debugging cross-boundary codec failures, or investigating what SVG elements map to which Grida node types.
dev-render-htmlcss-feature
by gridacoManual-invocation only. Five-phase feature loop (audit → ground → fixture → implement → verify) for driving a single CSS feature to Chromium parity in the grida htmlcss renderer.
dev-render-htmlcss-svg-feature
by gridacoManual-invocation only. Five-phase feature loop (audit → ground → fixture → implement → verify) for driving a single SVG feature to Chromium parity in the grida `htmlcss::svg` renderer. Sibling to `dev-render-htmlcss-feature` (HTML/CSS path); same loop shape, different corpus (resvg-test-suite + Chrome bake) and different scoring (multi-oracle: consensus / disputed / UB).
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.