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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laravel-permission-development
by spatieBuild and work with Spatie Laravel Permission features, including roles, permissions, middleware, policies, teams, and Blade directives.
medialibrary-development
by spatieBuild and work with spatie/laravel-medialibrary features including associating files with Eloquent models, defining media collections and conversions, generating responsive images, and retrieving media URLs and paths.
laravel-backup
by spatieConfigure and extend spatie/laravel-backup for database and file backups, cleanup strategies, health monitoring, and notifications. Activates when working with backup configuration, scheduling backups, creating custom cleanup strategies or health checks, customizing notifications, or when the user mentions backups, backup monitoring, backup cleanup, or spatie/laravel-backup.
laravel-query-builder
by spatieBuild filtered, sorted, and included API endpoints using spatie/laravel-query-builder. Activates when working with QueryBuilder, AllowedFilter, AllowedSort, AllowedInclude, or when the user mentions query parameters, API filtering, sorting, includes, or spatie/laravel-query-builder.
responsecache-development
by spatieCache entire HTTP responses using spatie/laravel-responsecache, including standard caching, flexible (stale-while-revalidate) caching, cache profiles, replacers, and selective cache clearing.
translatable-development
by spatieUse when working with spatie/laravel-translatable. Trigger when the query mentions translatable models, translations, multi-language attributes, the HasTranslations trait, the #[Translatable] attribute, or storing translations as JSON on Eloquent models. Tasks include making a model translatable, writing migrations for translatable columns, setting translations for specific locales, getting translations (with or without fallbacks), querying by locale, handling missing translations, and testing translatable behavior.
sluggable-development
by spatieUse when making a field on an Eloquent model sluggable, generating the migration for a slug column, switching to self-healing URLs, or resolving a model from its slug in a route. Trigger when the request mentions slugs, permalinks, the spatie/laravel-sluggable package, the HasSlug or HasTranslatableSlug trait, the #[Sluggable] attribute, SlugOptions, findBySlug, self-healing URLs, or stale slug redirects in a Laravel project. Covers choosing between the attribute and the trait, generating unique slugs, configuring separator/length/language/scope/uniqueness, preventing slug overwrites, translatable slugs via spatie/laravel-translatable, route model binding through the slug column, self-healing route keys, customizing the 308 redirect through the SelfHealing facade, and overriding the default actions via config/sluggable.php. Do not use for one-off URL-safe strings, signed URLs, or Laravel's built-in Str::slug helper when the result is not stored on a model.
laravel-multitenancy-development
by spatieBuild and work with Spatie Laravel Multitenancy features, including tenant finders, the current tenant, switch tasks, multi-database setups, tenant-aware queues and artisan commands.
laravel-pdf
by spatieGenerate PDFs from Blade views or HTML using spatie/laravel-pdf. Covers creating, formatting, saving, downloading, and testing PDFs with the Browsershot, Cloudflare, or DOMPDF driver.
laravel-dashboard-development
by spatieBuild custom dashboard tiles for spatie/laravel-dashboard v4 using Livewire 4, Tailwind CSS 4, and CSS Grid
debugging-output-and-previewing-html-using-ray
by spatieUse when user says "send to Ray," "show in Ray," "debug in Ray," "log to Ray," "display in Ray," or wants to visualize data, debug output, or show diagrams in the Ray desktop application.
spatie-laravel-php-standards
by spatieApply Spatie's Laravel and PHP coding standards for any task that creates, edits, reviews, refactors, or formats Laravel/PHP code or Blade templates; use for controllers, Eloquent models, routes, config, validation, migrations, tests, and related files to align with Laravel conventions and PSR-12.
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.