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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cooking-lightmeal
by XiaoLuoLYGPrepare or choose a simple everyday meal.
mc-cooking-coach
by receptronPersonal recipe book — save / read / update / delete cooking recipes as markdown files under `data/cooking/recipes/`, with a `README.md` index that lists every recipe. Use when the user asks to remember a recipe, look one up, or refine one.
recipe-finder
by coleam00Search recipes by ingredients, cuisine, or dietary needs. Get nutrition info, meal plans, and cooking instructions. Use when user asks about cooking, recipes, meals, or food.
quick-healthy-recipes
by luongnv89Generate exactly 3 simple, fast, healthy recipes from food photos, ingredient lists, or cravings. Use for what-to-cook-tonight requests. Don't use for restaurants, meal plans, baking, or medical diets.
recipe-card-creator
by travisjneumanFormatted digital recipe card generation with ingredient scaling, nutritional information, and organized collections. Use when creating recipe cards, meal plans, grocery lists, or recipe collections.
food-technique-fundamentals
by TibsfoxThe fifteen fundamental cooking techniques that together cover most home kitchen work. Organized by the transformation they perform (heat transfer, water management, emulsion, ferment, cut) rather than by cuisine. Covers knife work, sauté, sear, braise, roast, poach, boil, steam, grill, bake, stew, reduce, deglaze, emulsify, and pickle/ferment, each with the physics, the signal, the common failure, and a diagnostic question. Use when teaching a cook, substituting a technique, or diagnosing why a dish failed.
nutrition-and-meal-planning
by TibsfoxHousehold-scale nutrition planning that treats meals as a weekly system, not a series of independent decisions. Covers macronutrient balance, the plate method, weekly rotation, leftover architecture, pantry-to-plate translation, and the food-safety floor that every meal plan must meet. Use when building a weekly menu, adapting a diet to a new household member, planning for a week of predictable meals on a budget, or teaching a learner how a kitchen feeds people over time.
food-database-query-v2
by diegosouzapw食物数据库查询技能 workflow skill. Use this skill when the user needs Food Database Query and the operator should preserve the upstream workflow, copied support files, and provenance before merging or handing off.
rw-recipe-full-setup
by runwaymlComplete Runway API setup: check compatibility, configure API key, and integrate generation endpoints
diverse-cuisine-restaurant-matching
by cxcscmuSelect restaurants across multiple cuisine types (American, Mediterranean, Chinese, Italian) that meet quality standards and budget. Use this when meal planning requires variety across different culinary traditions.
recipes
by diegosouzapwCLI for AI agents to find recipes for their humans. Uses TheMealDB API. No auth required.
meal-planner
by diegosouzapwPlan meals with weekly menus, shopping lists, batch cooking, budget tracking, dietary preferences, and recipe management.
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.