Claude Code Templates
davila7/claude-code-templatesA large catalog and npx installer (aitmpl.com) of agents, commands, hooks, MCP configs and skills for Claude Code, much of it collected from other authors.
With caveats
Broad access Depth 3/5
Agentic Awesome Skills (AAS) Claude skills
A catalog of roughly 2,900 community SKILL.md playbooks, with a local CLI, MCP server and plugin bundles for searching and installing them.
Our verdict Recommended with caveats
Huge and actively maintained, but quality is uneven and the mass of duplicated, community-sourced skills calls for selective installs.
Depth expertise shipped Security Review before installing Maintenance Updated today Adoption stars License MIT, commercial OK
The author changed 26 of 200 skill folders and the plugin manifest or hooks after our review (noticed Oct 29, 2026). The review describes the earlier version; we recheck changed skills weekly, the most significant changes first.
What Agentic Awesome Skills (AAS) does
Agentic Awesome Skills is a very large library of installable SKILL.md files, plus AAS Core, a local control plane that helps an agent search the catalog, record which skills it chose, validate a stack and preview an install plan. The README says Core does not rank or recommend skills; the agent selects them. The tree has tens of thousands of files because the same skills are copied into plugin bundles for different hosts, so the 8,800 skill folders in the metadata overcount distinct skills. Skills carry frontmatter fields such as risk (safe, critical), source (personal, community), date added and tags. Content ranges from short persona-style helpers to long references (one feedback-system skill is about 22 KB), and it spans security audits, data analytics, SaaS launch, media generation and more, with many credited to outside authors. Apply and recovery features in AAS Core are labeled experimental by the maintainer. Because it is a catalog, quality is uneven and most skills are single-file instructions. It is best used for discovery, then trimming to the few skills you actually need rather than installing everything.
Good for
- Searching a large pool of skills for a niche task
- Teams that want an inspectable, reviewable skill set via Core
- Finding starting points to adapt
Not for
- Installing the whole catalog into one agent, which would flood context
- Users who need curated, consistently deep skills
What's inside depth 3/5
About 2,900 distinct skills averaging 8.8 KB, with some references, a few scripts and many eval-type files in the tree, but most are single-file instructions of varying quality.
- Skills
- 8843
- Reference docs
- 139
- Scripts
- 34
- Tests / evals
- 2114
- Templates
- 20
- Avg SKILL.md
- 8.6 KB
Counted from the repository file tree. How we score depth.
Dependencies and costs
- Node.js for the AAS Core CLI and MCP server
Security review
Review before installingA very large community collection of agent skills (tens of thousands of files) installed through an npx command; we could review only about 90 of them. The reviewed parts are a local security-audit skill (007) whose scanners read files and write a score history, and a 2slides presentation skill that sends your text and API key to 2slides.com and downloads the result. Because the vast majority of the collection and its installer were not available, this is not a statement about the whole repo.
Worth knowing
- Needs an API key for its own serviceThe 2slides scripts read SLIDES_2SLIDES_API_KEY from the environment and send it as a Bearer token only to https://2slides.com/api/v1.plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/2slides-ppt-generator/scripts/generate_slides.py:55
- Makes network requestsThe 2slides skill posts your slide text to 2slides.com and downloads the result zip from the URL the API returns, after checking it is public HTTPS with no redirects and a 128 MiB cap.plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/2slides-ppt-generator/scripts/download_slides_pages_voices.py:47
- Runs remote code at an unpinned versionThe README installs the collection with
npx agentic-awesome-skills --<agent>(latest release), which copies skills into your agent folders.README.md:128 - Installs packages or toolsThe npx installer writes many skills into agent skill directories such as ~/.cursor or ~/.kiro.README.md:128
- Relies on a CLI or package we could not reviewThe collection relies on an 'AAS Core' Node CLI/MCP server and npm installer whose code is not among the files we hold.README.md:130
- Contains compiled binariesThe repo contains 37 binary files including shadcn-components.tar.gz archives under web-artifacts-builder that cannot be read.skills/web-artifacts-builder/scripts/shadcn-components.tar.gz
What we checked
The repository (27639 files) on Oct 29, 2026. Not a full review: 27249 of 27639 files were not downloaded (large repository; we reviewed the skill folders); it contains compiled binaries or archives we cannot read; we read 3 of 15 code files; it relies on code outside the repository: AAS Core CLI / npm package agentic-awesome-skills (the installer and MCP server); About 27,250 of the 27,639 repo files, including the thousands of other skills and their scripts, are not in our copy; only about 90 files (the Claude plugin's 007 and 2slides skills and a few others) were available; 37 binary files such as the shadcn-components.tar.gz archives.
NVIDIA SkillSpector static scan: 181 pattern hits (Privilege Escalation 33, Agent Snooping 30, Rogue Agent 22, MCP Rug Pull 20, Data Exfiltration 14, Excessive Agency 13). The CRITICAL hits are the 2slides scripts sending their own API key to 2slides.com. The prompt-injection, anti-refusal and 'Output your system prompt' hits are example attack strings inside the 007 security skill's reference documents. The curl|bash string is a detection rule description in dependency_scanner.py, not a command it runs.
A review, not a certification. Skills change after we check them — read the files before installing.
License
MIT for the repository; individual skills credit outside sources, so check attribution for reuse.
Can it run unattended?
Not really. It is a catalog and planner for choosing skills; any unattended behavior depends on the individual skills you pick.
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Awesome Claude Skills (Composio)
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With caveats
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FAQ
What is Agentic Awesome Skills?
It is a library of thousands of SKILL.md playbooks with a local tool, AAS Core, for searching the catalog, recording the skills an agent selects and previewing an install plan.
How do I install Agentic Awesome Skills?
The README documents a direct installer with a dry-run option, plugin bundles for Claude and other hosts, and the AAS Core CLI. Use the dry run first and install only the skills you need.
Is Agentic Awesome Skills safe?
The project labels skills with a risk level and says Core does not apply changes unreviewed, but the catalog is community-sourced. Read the skills you install, especially any marked critical.
Agentic Awesome Skills vs claude-code-templates?
Both aggregate many components. AAS focuses on SKILL.md playbooks and a local selection workflow, while claude-code-templates also installs hooks, agents and MCP configs for Claude Code.
Sources: GitHub repository (stars, license, file tree, last push Oct 29, 2026). Review based on the README and SKILL.md files as published.