Tools

Guides the agent through writing or improving a skill: clarify intent, draft SKILL.md, run scored evals with and without the skill, then tune the description so it triggers accurately. Official Anthropic skill.

Extracts text and tables from PDFs; merges, splits and rotates pages, adds watermarks, fills forms and OCRs scanned documents. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

166 research skills maintained by K-Dense (formerly Claude Scientific Skills), spanning bioinformatics, cheminformatics, clinical research, materials and physics, including unified access to 78 public databases such as PubChem and UniProt. Works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Skills from security firm Trail of Bits: 40+ plugins for code auditing, CodeQL and Semgrep static analysis, differential review, smart-contract and cryptography audits, fuzzing and more. Also installable as a Claude Code or Codex plugin marketplace.

Turns the current folder into a teaching workspace you can resume across conversations: asks your learning goal, gathers reliable sources, builds short HTML lessons and cheat sheets, and tracks progress. Good for self-study and lesson prep; invoke manually (/teach), no API key.

Reference for the Claude API and Anthropic SDK: model selection and pricing, streaming, tool use, prompt caching, Managed Agents and more, plus workflows for model migration and prompt audits. Official Anthropic skill.

After giving advice, a draft or a data analysis, adds 2-3 targeted follow-up questions that prompt the user to check key facts, test the reasoning and fill in missing context. Fires at most once per conversation. Official Anthropic skill.

Guides agents in building quality MCP servers: research the protocol and target API, design tools, implement with Python (FastMCP) or the TypeScript SDK, and write evaluation questions to test the result. Official Anthropic skill.

Systematic literature reviews following PRISMA and similar standards: searches PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv and other databases, verifies each citation's DOI, and outputs Markdown and PDF in APA, Nature or other styles. Main web search uses parallel-cli and needs a Parallel account.

Skill suite for the whole academic research workflow: deep research (including PRISMA systematic reviews), paper writing, multi-perspective peer review and revision, pausing for human approval at each stage, with citation and integrity checks. CC BY-NC, non-commercial only.

Teaches agents standard single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Scanpy: QC, normalization, PCA/UMAP, clustering, differential expression and plots, with ready-to-run pipeline scripts and guidance on converting Seurat and other R objects to h5ad. Needs Python 3.12+; by K-Dense.

Drafts, revises and reviews research manuscripts, tying every fact and number to verified evidence and covering reporting guidelines, authorship, AI disclosure and confidentiality; explicitly forbids fabricated citations or data. Includes offline check scripts; no API key needed.

Unified database lookup skill from K-Dense's scientific collection: reproducibly queries about 80 public database APIs such as PubChem, UniProt, ChEMBL, ClinicalTrials.gov and FRED, returning traceable results with endpoints, parameters and count checks. Some need API keys.

Guides agents to the right statistical method for research data: t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, regression and Bayesian analysis, checking assumptions, computing effect sizes and power, and reporting results in APA format. Python-based (pingouin, statsmodels); by K-Dense.

Teaches agents to read and write Obsidian vaults: Obsidian-flavored Markdown, Bases data views, JSON Canvas and the Obsidian CLI, plus Defuddle web content extraction and Knap template rendering. Maintained by Obsidian CEO kepano.

Collection of 2,400+ installable SKILL.md skills across development, security, cloud and ops, AI, marketing and more, with the AAS Core local MCP and an installer that help agents search, pick skills and preview install plans. Formerly antigravity-awesome-skills.

The 180+ skills bundled with the 90+ plugins in the wshobson/agents marketplace, covering development across many languages and frameworks, testing, ops, security, data and LLM apps. Install individually with npx skills or gh skill; skills only, without subagents or commands.

EU GDPR compliance skill covering lawful bases, consent management, access and deletion requests, data retention and breach notification, with checklists and sample code so legal and engineering can review privacy together. No account or API key; have a lawyer check conclusions.

When a user asks whether a skill exists for some task, searches the skills.sh ecosystem with the skills CLI, then recommends and installs a fit. Maintained by Vercel Labs and shipped in the skills CLI repo.

Distills technical books, doc folders or paper collections (PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown and more) into an agent skill with a core framework, on-demand chapter files, glossary and cheat sheet for lookup while working. Extraction needs local Python; poppler or docling optional for PDFs.

Community-maintained cybersecurity skill library: 800+ skills across 34 domains including threat hunting, incident forensics, penetration testing and cloud security, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and NIST CSF. Not by Anthropic; offensive skills are for authorized testing only.

Compliance skill from Anthropic's official operations plugin: maps controls, owners and evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS, schedules audits, runs gap analyses, and outputs audit-readiness checklists and evidence collection plans. Have legal or compliance experts review.

Translation skill by Baoyu with quick, normal and refined modes, custom glossaries, and target audience and style settings. Translates local files or URLs; suited to long-form Chinese-English translation and localization. Needs bun or npx.

Google's official skill library, focused on Google Cloud: 100+ skills for gcloud, Cloud Run, GKE, BigQuery, IAM, monitoring and logging, and the Well-Architected Framework, plus Ads and Analytics.