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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mobile-rn-screen
by kensaurusPolish an existing React Native screen to feel intentional, native, and human-crafted. Catches RN-specific silent failures — safe area violations, sub-minimum touch targets, keyboard occlusion, JS-thread animation jank, gesture conflicts, tab-bar content clipping, double safe-area insets, and FlatList re-render storms — alongside the platform-agnostic composition failures shared with the web skills (active-state mass mismatch, brand-color competition, monochromatic surfaces, information duplication per screen, left-anchored stacks). Use for "this screen looks off", "feels clunky on iOS", "Android version looks wrong", "jank when scrolling", "button is unreachable", or any RN-specific UX polish pass. Applies to bare React Native, Expo bare workflow, and Expo managed workflow. Pairs with mobile-emulator-start and mobile-emulator-test. For web/PWA surfaces use enhance-web-ui or enhance-web-ux instead.
iterate-post-launch
by kensaurusClose the post-launch improvement loop for any shipped app. Pulls Sentry for top errors and performance regressions, Supabase for slow queries, failed API calls, and advisor warnings, Firecrawl for current best-practice patterns. Identifies the top user pain points, ranks them by impact × effort, plans concrete improvements, implements fixes, and verifies them with Playwright. Generic across any stack. Use when asked to "improve the app after launch", "fix the top issues", "post-launch polish", "what should I fix next", "production issues", "iterate on feedback", "post-release improvements", "what is broken in prod", "ship a polish pass", or "make it better based on real usage".
canvas
by kensaurusA Cursor Canvas is a live React app the user opens beside the chat. MUST use a canvas for standalone analytical artifacts — quantitative analyses, billing investigations, security audits, architecture reviews, data-heavy content, timelines, charts, tables, interactive explorations, repeatable tools, or any response that benefits from visual layout. Prefer canvas for MCP tool results (Datadog, Databricks, Linear, Sentry, Slack) over markdown tables or code blocks. MUST also read this skill when creating, editing, or debugging any .canvas.tsx file.
audit-ux
by kensaurusAudit user experience quality using research-backed frameworks: Nielsen Norman Group's 10 usability heuristics, Intuit Content Design System for microcopy, Google's HEART metrics, and Laws of UX (Fitts's, Hick's, Miller's, Jakob's, cognitive load). Evaluates information architecture, user flows, error recovery, onboarding, content clarity, and interaction patterns. Uses browser MCP for live walkthrough, Firecrawl for current NN/g research, and Sequential Thinking for complex flows. Generic — works with any webapp. Use when evaluating usability, reviewing user flows, auditing microcopy, checking UX heuristics, assessing cognitive load, reviewing onboarding, or when the user mentions UX audit, usability review, heuristic evaluation, content audit, interaction design review, or user flow analysis. Focuses on EXPERIENCE — for visual design-system compliance (tokens, components, dark mode), use audit-uiux-design-system instead.
workflow-coding-discipline
by kensaurusApply behavioral guardrails when writing, editing, refactoring, or debugging code. Use when vibe-coding keeps producing wrong results, or for any task needing "think before coding", "simplicity first", "surgical changes". Adapted from Karpathy's LLM coding observations.
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.