Skills

A full development methodology for coding agents: brainstorm a design, break it into an implementation plan, dispatch subagents to build and review each task, with mandatory TDD and systematic debugging. Installed as a plugin, it injects its bootstrap automatically.

Matt Pocock's engineering skills: grill-me interrogates you to align on requirements, to-spec turns discussion into a spec, to-tickets breaks it into tickets, plus tdd, diagnosing-bugs, code-review and more. Run setup-matt-pocock-skills once per repo first.

Has the agent commit to a visual direction before building or redesigning an interface, making deliberate choices on color, type and layout instead of generic, templated AI UI. Official Anthropic skill.

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.

Controls your local Chrome over CDP to navigate, click, type, take screenshots and scrape data, reusing logged-in sessions. Official browser-use skill; install the browser-use CLI with uv first.

Flags and rewrites AI-sounding text using 25 patterns drawn from Wikipedia's 'Signs of AI writing', keeping the meaning without inventing facts. Give it a writing sample to match your own voice.

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.

Anthropic's role-based skill collection covering sales, finance, legal, HR, support, marketing, product, design, operations and data analysis: over a hundred skills you can install one at a time. Works best with CRM, data warehouse and other connectors.

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.

Sets up an isolated workspace before feature work: uses the agent's built-in worktree tool when available, otherwise falls back to git worktree, then installs dependencies and runs baseline tests to confirm a clean start. From Superpowers.

Follows an implementation plan by dispatching a fresh subagent for each task, reviewing each for spec compliance and code quality, then doing a final overall review. From Superpowers; use with its code-review and branch-finishing skills.

Requires the agent to run the full verification commands and read the output before claiming work is done, fixed or passing, backing claims with evidence and ruling out unverified success reports. From the Superpowers workflow.

Before finishing a task or merging, dispatches an independent reviewer subagent over a git commit range to check the work against the plan and requirements, then handles feedback by severity: critical, important, minor. Part of obra/superpowers.

A four-phase root-cause debugging method: investigate the root cause, compare against working examples, test one hypothesis at a time, then fix the root cause. Guessing at code changes before locating the cause is not allowed. From the Superpowers workflow.

Forces red-green-refactor: write a test and watch it fail, then write the minimum code to pass. Any code written without a verified failing test gets deleted and redone. From the Superpowers workflow.

Once requirements or a spec exist and before touching code, writes multi-step work as a fine-grained implementation plan listing the files, interface signatures and tests to verify each step. A core Superpowers skill.

Before writing code, asks questions one at a time to clarify intent, constraints and success criteria, turning a vague idea into a reviewable design; implementation starts only after you approve it. A core Superpowers skill.

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.

Before you build, the agent grills you on your plan or design, offering a recommended answer each round, until every decision branch is resolved. It calls the grilling skill from the same repo, so install both.

Test-driven development in vertical slices: agree on test seams with the user first, verify behavior only through public interfaces, and avoid listed anti-patterns such as implementation coupling and tautological tests. From Matt Pocock's skills collection.

OCRs photos of visa documents such as bank, employment or income certificates, translates them into English and builds a side-by-side bilingual PDF. Needs Python (pillow, reportlab) and an OCR engine. Not an official certified translation: verify names, amounts and dates.

Resolves subscription billing issues: checks customer and subscription state, separates duplicate purchases, team seats and failed payments, restores self-serve before refunding, and drafts the reply. Needs Stripe or similar tools connected; refunds move real money, so review them.

A disciplined process for hard bugs and performance regressions: build a reliable reproduction loop, reproduce and minimize, form hypotheses, instrument to verify, then fix and add a regression test, redacting secrets in output. By Matt Pocock.