Explore AI Agent Skills & Claude Prompts
Discover open-source agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and any tool that uses SKILL.md.
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customer-support-agent
by mastra-aiAuthoring playbook for building agents that triage and reply to customer messages — support tickets, email inquiries, chat questions, refund requests, or product issues. Use this when the user wants an agent that handles inbound customer questions, drafts replies, escalates hard cases, summarizes tickets, or follows a support playbook.
agent-prompt-quality-bar
by mastra-aiUniversal quality bar and final audit rubric for any agent system prompt. Activate this whenever you are unsure which archetype skill applies, or as a final review pass before writing the system prompt. It defines the required run contract, completion criteria, fallback paths, response format, and anti-patterns every produced agent prompt must satisfy.
coding-agent
by mastra-aiAuthoring playbook for building agents that write, edit, review, or refactor code. Use this when the user asks for an agent that writes scripts, generates code, reviews pull requests, refactors a codebase, fixes bugs, implements features, writes tests, or works with programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, SQL, or shell.
ops-automation-agent
by mastra-aiAuthoring playbook for building agents that automate recurring internal tasks — running scheduled workflows, syncing data between systems, posting notifications, processing inbound events, or executing operational runbooks. Use this when the user wants an agent that runs on a schedule, reacts to events, automates a process, syncs between tools, or handles ops/internal infrastructure.
research-agent
by mastra-aiAuthoring playbook for building agents that search, read, and synthesize information into a report. Use this when the user wants an agent to research a topic, summarize sources, compare options, do competitive analysis, monitor news, generate briefs, or pull together a citation-backed report from the web or internal documents.
spreadsheet-agent
by mastra-aiAuthoring playbook for building agents that read or write tabular data — Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, CSV, Airtable, Notion databases, or any spreadsheet. Use this when the user wants an agent that updates rows, reads cells, computes totals, generates reports from sheets, syncs data between spreadsheets, or automates anything involving rows, columns, ranges, or worksheets.
builder-smoke-test
by mastra-aiSmoke test the Agent Builder feature branch end-to-end against a hermetic project scaffolded by the skill (linked to the current worktree). Covers workspace reconciliation, stored agents/skills CRUD, ownership, visibility, stars, registry/library Copy flow, picker allowlists, model policy, RBAC role gating, role impersonation UI, builder defaults, infrastructure diagnostics, channels, and Studio + Agent Builder UI. Trigger when validating the agent-builder feature branch, PRs that touch packages/server, packages/playground, packages/playground-ui agent-builder routes, or builder EE code paths.
mastra-docs
by mastra-aiDocumentation guidelines for Mastra. This skill should be used when writing or editing documentation for Mastra. Triggers on tasks involving documentation creation or updates.
e2e-tests-studio
by mastra-aiREQUIRED when modifying any file in packages/playground-ui or packages/playground. Triggers on: React component creation/modification/refactoring, UI changes, new playground features, bug fixes affecting studio UI. Generates Playwright E2E tests that validate PRODUCT BEHAVIOR, not just UI states.
generic-assistant
by mastra-aiFallback authoring playbook for building general-purpose personal assistant agents that do not fit a more specific archetype. Use this only after checking the other archetype skills (coding, spreadsheet, research, customer-support, content-writer, ops-automation). Examples include summarizing emails, drafting short answers, capturing notes, or generic personal-helper agents.
mastra-smoke-test
by mastra-aiSmoke test Mastra projects locally or deploy to staging/production. Tests Studio UI, agents, tools, workflows, traces, memory, and more. Supports both local development and cloud deployments.
playground-msw-tests
by mastra-aiREQUIRED and PRIMARY testing approach for packages/playground and packages/playground-ui. Triggers on: adding or modifying hooks, pages, route components, data-fetching code, React Query interactions, or any test work in these packages. Generates Vitest tests that drive the real @mastra/client-js + React Query stack through MSW handlers and typed fixtures derived from @mastra/client-js response types. This is the #1 way to test the playground packages — ABOVE Playwright E2E. Use Playwright only for cross-page user journeys that MSW cannot model.
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.