Claude skills examples from real repositories, grouped by job: documents, coding, design, cloud and SEO. See what each does, what it can access, our verdict.
Learn agent skills
Short, sourced guides to how skills work in Claude Code, Codex and other agents — and how to tell a good one from a risky one.
How to add skills to Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex and other agents: folders, plugins, the skills CLI, how to invoke a skill, fixes, and a safety checklist.
MCP vs skills explained: MCP connects an agent to tools and data, a skill teaches it a procedure. Compare context cost, security and when to combine both.
Claude skills vs agents explained: a skill is reusable instructions in your main context, a subagent is an isolated worker. Compare cost, tools and risks.
How to create a Claude skill from scratch: SKILL.md, descriptions that trigger, references, scripts, evals and Anthropic's skill-creator, with working examples.
The SKILL.md file format, field by field
5 min readThe SKILL.md file format explained: required name and description, every frontmatter field, a minimal example and what to check before you install.
What are Claude skills? Folders with a SKILL.md file that Claude loads on demand. How they work, where they live and what they can access on your machine.