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mindfulness

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Cultivate defensive situational awareness, threat assessment, and mental clarity under pressure. Covers the Cooper color code awareness system, body language reading and intent detection, verbal de-escalation, moving mindfulness in public spaces, combat focus and the OODA loop, rapid grounding techniques for acute stress, context-specific integration, and ongoing review and refinement of awareness skills. Use when entering unfamiliar or potentially hostile environments, needing to assess a situation for safety, de-escalating a verbal confrontation, or integrating awareness practice into daily movement.

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survey-insect-population

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Design and execute insect population surveys covering survey design, sampling methods, field execution, specimen identification, diversity index calculation including Shannon-Wiener and Simpson indices, statistical analysis, and reporting. Covers defining survey objectives, selecting study sites, determining sampling intensity and replication, choosing sampling methods appropriate to target taxa, standardizing collection effort, recording environmental covariates, identifying specimens to the lowest practical taxonomic level, calculating species richness, Shannon-Wiener diversity (H'), Simpson diversity (1-D), evenness, rarefaction curves, multivariate ordination, and producing survey reports with species lists and conservation implications. Use when conducting baseline biodiversity assessments, monitoring insect populations over time, comparing insect communities across habitats or treatments, assessing environmental impact, or supporting conservation planning with quantitative ecological data.

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athanor

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Four-stage alchemical code transmutation — nigredo (decomposition), albedo (purification), citrinitas (illumination), rubedo (synthesis) — with meditate and heal checkpoints between stages. Transforms tangled or legacy code into optimized, well-structured output through systematic material analysis. Use when transforming legacy code into modern equivalents, refactoring deeply tangled modules where incremental fixes keep failing, converting a codebase between paradigms, or when simpler refactoring approaches have stalled and a full-cycle transformation is needed.

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sharpen-knife

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Sharpen and maintain knives using whetstones, field stones, and improvised abrasives. Covers blade anatomy, bevel assessment, whetstone technique (coarse to fine progression), stropping, sharpness testing, field sharpening methods, and ongoing edge maintenance. Use when a knife fails the fingernail test, when cutting tasks require excessive pressure, before a trip where a sharp blade is essential, after heavy use, or when a blade has visible nicks or a rolled edge. Applicable to bushcraft blades, folding knives, and garden cutting tools.

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evaluate-levitation-mechanism

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Evaluate and compare levitation mechanisms for a given application through a structured trade study. Covers magnetic (passive diamagnetic, active feedback, superconducting), acoustic (standing wave, phased array), aerodynamic (hovercraft, air bearings, Coanda effect), and electrostatic (Coulomb suspension, ion traps) mechanisms. Use when selecting the most appropriate levitation approach for transport, sample handling, display, bearings, or precision measurement applications.

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build-tcg-deck

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Build a competitive or casual trading card game deck from scratch. Use when the user explicitly asks to create, build, or construct a TCG deck, wants a deck list for Pokemon TCG/MTG/FaB, or needs help with archetype selection and card choices. Covers archetype selection, mana/energy curve analysis, win condition identification, meta-game positioning, and sideboard construction for Pokemon TCG, Magic: The Gathering, Flesh and Blood, and other major TCGs. Do NOT use for: card condition grading (use grade-tcg-card), collection inventory management (use manage-tcg-collection), rules questions, price checking, or explaining how a specific existing deck works without building it.

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make-fire

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Start and maintain a fire using friction, spark, and solar methods. Covers site selection, material grading (tinder/kindling/fuel), fire lay construction (teepee, log cabin, platform), ignition techniques (ferro rod, flint & steel, bow drill), flame nurturing, and Leave No Trace extinguishing. Use when needing warmth, light, or a signal in a wilderness setting, when boiling water for purification, when cooking foraged food, or in an emergency survival situation requiring heat or morale support.

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plan-tour-route

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Plan a multi-stop tour route with waypoint optimization, drive/walk time estimation, and POI discovery along the route using OSM data. Covers geocoding, nearest-neighbor and TSP-based ordering, time/distance matrix calculation, and itinerary generation with points of interest. Use when planning a road trip or walking tour with multiple destinations, optimizing visit order to minimize travel time, discovering sites along a route, or comparing driving versus walking versus public transport options.

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plan-garden-calendar

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Plan garden activities using solar, lunar, and biodynamic calendars. Covers USDA hardiness zones, frost date calculation, equinox/solstice anchoring, synodic lunar cycle (waxing/waning), ascending/descending moon, Maria Thun biodynamic calendar (root/leaf/flower/fruit days), succession planting schedules, and seasonal task planning. Use when planning a new growing season and needing a planting schedule, integrating lunar or biodynamic timing into garden practice, calculating frost dates and planting windows for a specific zone, setting up succession planting for continuous harvest, or conducting end-of-season review.

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read-garden

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Observe and assess a garden using a structured sensory protocol adapted from Coordinate Remote Viewing. Covers pre-entry clearing (meditate checkpoint), Stage I gestalt impression, Stage II sensory layer (leaf, stem, root, soil), Stage III pattern recognition with AOL management, and garden health triage matrix (heal checkpoint). Use before any intervention, when plants show stress symptoms, at seasonal transitions, when evaluating a new garden site, during regular health monitoring, or after extreme weather events such as frost or heat waves.

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purify-water

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Purify water from wild sources using boiling, filtration, and chemical methods. Covers source assessment and priority ranking, sediment pre-filtering, method selection (boiling, chemical, UV, filter), altitude-adjusted boiling procedure, chemical treatment dosages, and safe storage practices. Use when needing drinking water in a wilderness setting, when available water sources are of unknown quality, in an emergency survival situation where dehydration is a risk, or when making water safe for cooking or wound cleaning.

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install-almanac-content

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Install skills, agents, and teams from the agent-almanac registry into supported agentic frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, etc.) using the agent-almanac CLI. Triggers on: "install from agent-almanac", "agent-almanac install", "setup skills from almanac", "install agent skills", "setup agentic framework", "sync agent-almanac.yml", "gather team", "campfire commands". Covers framework detection, content search, dependency resolution, health auditing, and manifest-based syncing.

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Browse Agent Skills by Occupation

23 major groups · 867 SOC occupations

Browse by Category

Explore agent skills organized by their primary use case

SKILLMD / CREATORS AND OCCUPATION CATEGORIES

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.

SEO KNOWLEDGE HUB & TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A practical guide to agent skills: what they are, how to inspect them, and how SkillMD helps you explore the ecosystem.