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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Connect 381,784 public skills to your own search, analytics, or agent workflow with the REST API.
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qmd
by tobiSearch local markdown knowledge bases, notes, docs, and wikis with QMD. Use when users ask to find notes, retrieve documents, inspect a wiki, answer from indexed markdown, or set up QMD access.
release
by tobiManage releases for this project. Validates changelog, installs git hooks, and cuts releases. Use when user says "/release", "release 1.0.5", "cut a release", or asks about the release process. NOT auto-invoked by the model.
amux
by tobiRun background tasks, long-running processes, servers, and anything you'd use tmux for. Named panels persist across commands. Use for dev servers, Electron apps, build watchers, tailing logs, running test suites, or any process that needs to keep running while you do other work.
benchmarking-optimization
by tobiThis skill should be used when the user asks to "run benchmarks", "profile performance", "measure allocations", "optimize render speed", "find hot paths", "generate flamegraph", or mentions stackprof, memory profiler, or performance optimization.
csp-lua
by tobiCSP (Custom Shaders Patch) Lua API reference for Assetto Corsa modding. Use when working with ac.*, ui.*, render.*, physics.* APIs or any CSP Lua code.
nix-build
by tobiFix failing Ruby gem Nix builds by writing overlays. Use when `just build` reports failures and outputs a build log file. Covers diagnosing build errors, writing overlay files, and the full fix-rebuild-verify cycle.
thymer-plugin
by tobiBuild Thymer plugins - use when the user asks to create, modify, or debug Thymer plugins for the note-taking/project management app
marimo
by tobiCreate reactive Python notebooks for IMSA racing data analysis using marimo. Use for building interactive filtering UIs (seasons, classes, events), connecting to DuckDB databases, creating reactive visualizations, and performing data analysis with automatic cell re-execution. Includes templates, patterns, and IMSA-specific workflows.
imsa
by tobiQuery the IMSA DuckDB dataset (output/imsa.duckdb). Includes schema guidance for seasons and laps plus formatting macros. Use for analytics, session lookups, and lap-level queries.
read-file
by tobiRead and explore any data file (CSV, JSON, Parquet, Avro, Excel, spatial, …) locally or remotely (S3, HTTPS). Resolves the path automatically. Uses DuckDB with extension-based format detection — no magic extension needed.
read-memories
by tobiSearch past Claude Code session logs to recover your own context. Invoke this proactively when you need to recall past decisions, patterns, or unresolved work — either across all projects or scoped to the current one.
imsa-analyst
by tobiuse to query historical data on the IMSA Weathertech seasons
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.