Tools

Self-improving agent from Nous Research with built-in memory and a learning loop that turns experience into skills. Works with any model provider; the hermes command has a terminal UI, and a gateway connects it to Telegram, Slack and more and runs scheduled tasks.

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.

Writes internal communications in familiar company formats: 3P updates, leadership reports, project status updates, company newsletters, FAQs and incident reports. Official Anthropic skill.

Makes GIFs that follow Slack's recommended size, frame rate, color and length for emoji (128x128) and message GIFs (480x480), with animation tips and tools to assemble and validate them. Built on Python and Pillow. Official Anthropic skill.

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.

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.

Ten built-in color and font themes to apply to slides, documents, reports and HTML landing pages, or generate a new theme on demand. Official Anthropic skill.

Develops a design philosophy first, then draws posters, illustrations and other static visuals in code, exporting PNG or PDF. Emphasizes original work rather than copying existing artists. Official Anthropic skill.

Creates generative art such as flow fields and particle systems with p5.js and seeded randomness: first writes an algorithmic design philosophy, then outputs an interactive HTML viewer with tunable parameters. Official Anthropic skill.

Creates, reads and edits PowerPoint decks: applies templates and layouts, handles speaker notes and comments, and merges or splits slides. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

Official Claude Code plugin for the prompts.chat library: search prompts and Agent Skills from your coding assistant, fill in variables and improve prompts with AI. Includes commands, subagents and a remote MCP; saving your own prompts needs an API key.

Toolkit for building Claude Code plugins: 7 skills on plugin structure, hooks, MCP integration, commands, subagents and skill writing, a guided eight-phase create command, and subagents for agent generation, plugin validation and skill review. Maintained by Anthropic.

Scaffolds a Claude Agent SDK project in Python or TypeScript interactively with /new-sdk-app, then a verifier agent checks dependencies, config and code against official best practices. Maintained by Anthropic.

Generates hook rules from a one-line description or by analyzing recent conversations. Rules are Markdown files with match conditions that block or warn on dangerous commands and unwanted patterns, and take effect without a restart. Official Anthropic plugin.

UI/UX design knowledge base plugin with searchable UI styles, color palettes, font pairings, charts and guidelines for 20+ tech stacks; generates complete design system recommendations by product type. Needs Python 3 installed locally.

UI design knowledge base skill: looks up UI styles, palettes, font pairings, charts and UX guidelines by product type and generates a full design system, covering 22 stacks including React, SwiftUI and Flutter. Needs Python 3 locally.

YC office hours skill from gstack: startup mode tests real demand, the narrowest wedge and future fit with six probing questions; builder mode brainstorms side projects, hackathons and open source. Ends with a design doc. Maintained by Garry Tan.

Skill pack from YC president Garry Tan: slash commands such as /office-hours, /plan-ceo-review, /review, /qa and /ship play CEO, engineering manager, designer, QA and release engineer. Needs Git and Bun; clone the repo and run ./setup as the README describes.

Local LLM inference engine in plain C/C++ with a command-line chat and an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server; pulls and runs GGUF models straight from Hugging Face. Supports Apple Silicon, CUDA, Vulkan and other hardware, plus low-bit quantization.

Generates or edits images: photos, illustrations, textures, game sprites, product mockups and transparent assets. A built-in Codex system skill using the image_gen tool, no install needed; with approval it can use a bundled CLI script that needs OPENAI_API_KEY. By OpenAI.

Official shadcn/ui skill: uses the shadcn CLI to read project config and component docs, then adds, searches, composes and fixes components following styling, form and accessibility rules. Can also start new projects from presets.

Minimal, extensible terminal AI agent that can write its own prompt templates, skills, extensions and themes. Offers print, JSON and RPC modes for scripting, plus a TypeScript SDK. Needs Node.js 22.19+.

Multi-agent investment research framework where fundamental, sentiment, news and technical analysts, bull and bear researchers, a trader and risk managers debate a stock and produce a report and rating. Covers US, Hong Kong and A-shares. Needs Python and an LLM API key; not investment advice.

OpenAI's open-source general-purpose speech recognition model. The whisper command transcribes many languages, translates foreign speech into English and writes subtitle files. Needs FFmpeg; faster with a GPU.