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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detect-ai-tells
by wryenmeekIdentifies hallucination markers, confident-but-unsupported claims, and AI-generation artifacts in wiki drafts and synthesis outputs. Use when evidence-verifier needs to flag content that reads as plausibly correct but lacks verifiable cited support.
detect-original-research
by wryenmeekChecks whether a wiki page or draft contains unsourced original research, speculative conclusions, or claims that exceed what the cited SourceRefs support. Use when policy-arbiter needs a deterministic NPOV and evidence-boundary assessment before clearing a draft for publication.
claim-inventory
by wryenmeekEnumerates and attributes factual claims from a source intake package without opening a write path. Use when evidence-verifier needs a structured claim list before policy review, or when an operator needs to assess claim coverage before synthesis begins.
extract-entities-and-claims
by wryenmeekExtracts candidate entities, concepts, claims, and chronology from a policy-cleared evidence package without opening a write path. Use when a governed synthesis workflow needs a deterministic extraction bundle before drafting or escalation.
patrol-human-edits
by wryenmeekReviews recent human or agent edits to wiki pages for policy, provenance, and citation risk before any lane downstream of change-patrol can open. Use when change-patrol needs a diff-based risk classification for changed wiki content.
semi-formal-reasoning
by wryenmeekApplies structured informal-to-formal argument analysis to wiki claims and synthesis drafts. Use when evidence-verifier needs to assess whether stated conclusions follow from cited premises, or when a draft conflates correlation with causation, uses modal hedging incorrectly, or makes unsupported inferential leaps.
register-source-provenance
by wryenmeekRecords canonical provenance metadata for a source artifact entering the intake boundary. Use when a new source is ready to transition from raw/inbox/ to the governed intake lane and provenance registration is the next required step.
analyze-missed-queries
by wryenmeekScans wiki pages for coverage gaps — missing citations, low-confidence markers, placeholder text, and empty sources — to identify where synthesis work is needed. Use when quality-analyst needs evidence of knowledge gaps before prioritizing new synthesis work.
compare-against-existing-pages
by wryenmeekCompares a proposed new or updated wiki page against existing pages to identify duplicates, conflicts, and required merge or disambiguation decisions. Use when policy-arbiter or entity-resolution-and-canonicalization needs evidence that the proposed page does not duplicate existing content.
information-architecture-and-taxonomy
by wryenmeekGoverns wiki namespace placement, browse paths, and tags. Use when creating or restructuring knowledge pages so findability follows the taxonomy contract instead of ad hoc page-by-page choices.
ontology-and-entity-modeling
by wryenmeekGoverns canonical subjects, aliases, and relationship vocabulary. Use when deciding whether knowledge belongs in an entity or concept page and when modeling durable identities across sources.
plan-wiki-job
by wryenmeekProduces a structured execution plan for a multi-step wiki curation job before any lane work begins. Use when knowledgebase-orchestrator must serialize a complex work sequence, estimate prerequisites, and confirm that all required inputs exist before activating downstream lanes.
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.