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respond-to-eval
by pedrohcgsTurn student course evaluations (free-text + numeric) into an actionable teaching-improvement plan — the teaching analogue of /respond-to-referees. Clusters comments into themes, separates signal from noise, classifies each theme Keep / Change / Investigate / Out-of-scope, and drafts concrete changes mapped to the syllabus and slide decks. Use when user says "respond to my evals", "what do these course evaluations tell me", "turn my teaching feedback into a plan", or after a semester's evals arrive.
scaffold-exercises
by pedrohcgsScaffold a graded problem set with sections, problems, worked solutions, and short "why this matters" explainers across analytical, empirical, and coding types. Use when user says "make a problem set on X", "scaffold exercises for this lecture", "create practice problems", "generate homework with a solution key", "build a graded assignment on topic Y". Emits a clean student set plus a separate solution key — NOT for grading submissions or auto-checking student answers.
syllabus
by pedrohcgsBuild or restructure a course syllabus from a topic list or reading list — course description + prerequisites, week-by-week schedule (topic → readings → deliverables), measurable learning objectives, an assessment scheme + rubric, standard policies (late work, AI use, academic integrity, accessibility), and a per-week work-list to hand to `/create-lecture`. Use when user says "build a syllabus", "structure my course", "turn this reading list into a schedule", "draft a course outline", "make a syllabus for Econ 7xx", or "map weeks to lectures". Economics-aware (PhD metrics/micro/macro sequences, undergrad); generic enough for any field.
teach-from-paper
by pedrohcgsTurn a research paper into teaching materials — a lecture outline, the 3-5 results worth presenting (with intuition), a slide skeleton ready for `/create-lecture`, discussion questions, and a problem-set brief. Reads the paper end-to-end and pitches to a stated audience level. Use when user says "turn this paper into a lecture", "teach from this paper", "build slides from this PDF", "make teaching materials from X", "I'm presenting this paper to my class".
council
by 0xNykConvene the Council of High Intelligence — multi-persona deliberation with historical thinkers for deeper analysis of complex problems.
scienceclaw-qa
by beita6969Answer scientific questions across all disciplines with evidence-based responses and citations. Use when: (1) user asks factual science questions, (2) needs explanation of concepts/theories/methods, (3) multi-step scientific reasoning needed. Covers natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, materials, astronomy, earth science, math, CS) and social sciences (economics, sociology, psychology, political science, linguistics, history, law, philosophy, education). NOT for: opinion-based questions, non-scientific queries, or when code execution is needed (use code-execution skill).
codebase-documenter
by ailabs-393This skill should be used when writing documentation for codebases, including README files, architecture documentation, code comments, and API documentation. Use this skill when users request help documenting their code, creating getting-started guides, explaining project structure, or making codebases more accessible to new developers. The skill provides templates, best practices, and structured approaches for creating clear, beginner-friendly documentation.
figure-table-quality
by Mathews-TomReadability and rendering audit for figures and tables in academic manuscripts. Computes effective font/marker sizes at display scale from generation scripts, checks label collisions, color/hatch accessibility, axis-range efficiency, table formatting, and cross-figure consistency. Triggers on: "check figure quality", "audit plots", "readability check", "figure rendering", "are my figures readable", "table formatting check". Companion to figure-rhetoric (visual argument) and manuscript-typography (typesetting).
nsfc-policy
by njzjzNSFC 2026年度申报政策速查。包含限项规定、AI使用规范、申请代码说明、项目类型定位、申请书结构改革等关键政策信息。
nsfc-budget
by InternScience当用户明确要求“写/生成 NSFC 预算说明书”“写预算说明”“生成 budget.tex / budget.pdf”“写国自然预算 justification”时使用。基于用户标书正文或补充材料，输出一份可提交的预算说明书 LaTeX 项目并渲染 `budget.pdf`。若用户未指定工作目录，必须暂停并先要求其指定。⚠️ 不适用：用户只是想了解预算原则；用户仅要预算表数字而不写说明书；或用户是 2026 青年 A/B/C 默认包干制且无需预算说明书的场景。
nsfc-code
by InternScience根据 NSFC 标书正文内容，结合申请代码推荐库，为你给出 5 组申请代码1/2（主/次）推荐与理由；输出到 NSFC-CODE-vYYYYMMDDHHmm.md（只读，不修改标书）
nsfc-qc
by InternScience当用户明确要求"标书QC/质量控制/润色前质检/引用真伪核查/篇幅与结构检查"时使用。对 NSFC 标书进行只读质量控制：并行多线程独立检查文风生硬、引用假引/错引风险、篇幅与章节分布、逻辑清晰度等，最终输出标准化 QC 报告；中间文件默认归档到“交付目录内的隐藏工作区（.nsfc-qc/）”，并兼容 legacy `.nsfc-qc/`。
Browse Agent Skills by Occupation
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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
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