anthropics/claude-plugins-official: 33 Agent Skills
Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.
| Repository | anthropics/claude-plugins-official · website |
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| GitHub stars | 37,551 |
| Skills | 33 |
| Category | Software engineering |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Last updated | Oct 8, 2026 |
| Install counts | anthropics/claude-plugins-official on skills.sh, Vercel's skills directory, which shows installs and security audits per skill |
Install anthropics/claude-plugins-official
| All skills, any agent | npx skills add anthropics/claude-plugins-official |
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| One skill | npx skills add anthropics/claude-plugins-official --skill access |
| Only for Claude Code | npx skills add anthropics/claude-plugins-official -a claude-code, or copy a skill folder to ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project) |
npx skills is the open-source skills CLI; it asks which agents to install for. Skills can include scripts that your agent will run: read a skill before installing it, as you would any code.
Skills in anthropics/claude-plugins-official
| Skill | What it does |
|---|---|
| access | Manage Discord channel access — approve pairings, edit allowlists, set DM/group policy. Use when the user asks to pair, approve someone, check who's allowed, or change policy for the Discord channel. |
| configure | Set up the Discord channel — save the bot token and review access policy. Use when the user pastes a Discord bot token, asks to configure Discord, asks "how do I set this up" or "who can reach me," or wants to check channel status. |
| access | Manage iMessage channel access — approve pairings, edit allowlists, set DM/group policy. Use when the user asks to pair, approve someone, check who's allowed, or change policy for the iMessage channel. |
| configure | Check iMessage channel setup and review access policy. Use when the user asks to configure iMessage, asks "how do I set this up" or "who can reach me," or wants to know why texts aren't reaching the assistant. |
| access | Manage Telegram channel access — approve pairings, edit allowlists, set DM/group policy. Use when the user asks to pair, approve someone, check who's allowed, or change policy for the Telegram channel. |
| configure | Set up the Telegram channel — save the bot token and review access policy. Use when the user pastes a Telegram bot token, asks to configure Telegram, asks "how do I set this up" or "who can reach me," or wants to check channel status. |
| claude-automation-recommender | Analyze a codebase and recommend Claude Code automations (hooks, subagents, skills, plugins, MCP servers). Use when user asks for automation recommendations, wants to optimize their Claude Code setup, mentions improving Claude Code workflows, asks how to first set up Claude Code for a project, or… |
| claude-md-improver | Audit and improve CLAUDE.md files in repositories. Use when user asks to check, audit, update, improve, or fix CLAUDE.md files. Scans for all CLAUDE.md files, evaluates quality against templates, outputs quality report, then makes targeted updates. Also use when the user mentions "CLAUDE.md… |
| claude-security | Claude Security: scan the codebase (the whole repository or a scoped part of it), scan changes (this branch's or a pull request's diff, or one commit), or suggest patches (findings turned into targeted patch files, each verified by a panel of agents, that you apply when you choose). Use when the… |
| cardputer-buddy | Iterate on the Cardputer-Adv MicroPython app bundle (Claude Buddy, Snake, Hello) after the device is already provisioned via m5-onboard. Use when the user wants to add a new app, push a single changed .py without re-flashing, watch device serial logs, or run a one-shot REPL command. Trigger on… |
| m5-onboard | End-to-end onboarding for a freshly-plugged-in M5Stack ESP32 device (Cardputer, Cardputer-Adv, Core, CoreS3, Stick) — detect on USB, flash UIFlow 2.0 firmware, and install the Claude Buddy MicroPython app bundle. Use whenever the user plugs in or wants to flash/provision/reset an M5Stack or ESP32… |
| example-command | An example user-invoked skill that demonstrates frontmatter options and the skills/<name>/SKILL.md layout |
| example-skill | This skill should be used when the user asks to "demonstrate skills", "show skill format", "create a skill template", or discusses skill development patterns. Provides a reference template for creating Claude Code plugin skills. |
| frontend-design | Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults. |
| writing-hookify-rules | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hookify rule", "write a hook rule", "configure hookify", "add a hookify rule", or needs guidance on hookify rule syntax and patterns. |
| math-olympiad | Solve competition math problems (IMO, Putnam, USAMO, AIME) with adversarial verification that catches the errors self-verification misses. Activates when asked to 'solve this IMO problem', 'prove this olympiad inequality', 'verify this competition proof', 'find a counterexample', 'is this proof… |
| siege | Work on one hard mathematics problem in rounds: each round a judge writes a few self-contained questions, independent workers answer them, and the judge keeps a ledger of what is proved, refuted and open, until the judge concludes or the rounds run out, and then a proof.md says plainly what is and… |
| solo | Work on one hard mathematics problem in this session yourself, with no sub-agents: reason in stages, record each settled step in a notes file so that nothing written is lost if a response is cut off, and end with a self-contained proof.md. Usage: /math-proof:solo <the problem, stated in full, or… |
| build-mcp-app | This skill should be used when the user wants to build an "MCP app", add "interactive UI" or "widgets" to an MCP server, "render components in chat", build "MCP UI resources", make a tool that shows a "form", "picker", "dashboard" or "confirmation dialog" inline in the conversation, or mentions… |
| build-mcp-server | This skill should be used when the user asks to "build an MCP server", "create an MCP", "make an MCP integration", "wrap an API for Claude", "expose tools to Claude", "make an MCP app", or discusses building something with the Model Context Protocol. It is the entry point for MCP server… |
| build-mcpb | This skill should be used when the user wants to "package an MCP server", "bundle an MCP", "make an MCPB", "ship a local MCP server", "distribute a local MCP", discusses ".mcpb files", mentions bundling a Node or Python runtime with their MCP server, or needs an MCP server that interacts with the… |
| playground | Creates interactive HTML playgrounds — self-contained single-file explorers that let users configure something visually through controls, see a live preview, and copy out a prompt. Use when the user asks to make a playground, explorer, or interactive tool for a topic. |
| agent-development | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create an agent", "add an agent", "write a subagent", "agent frontmatter", "when to use description", "agent examples", "agent tools", "agent colors", "autonomous agent", or needs guidance on agent structure, system prompts, triggering conditions,… |
| command-development | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a slash command", "add a command", "write a custom command", "define command arguments", "use command frontmatter", "organize commands", "create command with file references", "interactive command", "use AskUserQuestion in command", or needs… |
| hook-development | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a hook", "add a PreToolUse/PostToolUse/Stop hook", "validate tool use", "implement prompt-based hooks", "use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}", "set up event-driven automation", "block dangerous commands", or mentions hook events (PreToolUse,… |
| mcp-integration | This skill should be used when the user asks to "add MCP server", "integrate MCP", "configure MCP in plugin", "use .mcp.json", "set up Model Context Protocol", "connect external service", mentions "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} with MCP", or discusses MCP server types (SSE, stdio, HTTP, WebSocket).… |
| plugin-settings | This skill should be used when the user asks about "plugin settings", "store plugin configuration", "user-configurable plugin", ".local.md files", "plugin state files", "read YAML frontmatter", "per-project plugin settings", or wants to make plugin behavior configurable. Documents the… |
| plugin-structure | This skill should be used when the user asks to "create a plugin", "scaffold a plugin", "understand plugin structure", "organize plugin components", "set up plugin.json", "use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}", "add commands/agents/skills/hooks", "configure auto-discovery", or needs guidance on plugin… |
| skill-development | This skill should be used when the user wants to "create a skill", "add a skill to plugin", "write a new skill", "improve skill description", "organize skill content", or needs guidance on skill structure, progressive disclosure, or skill development best practices for Claude Code plugins. |
| project-artifact | Generate and publish a project status artifact — an opinionated, tabbed status page for a project too big for one update (overview & success criteria, the workstream sequence, next steps, plus background, plan, risks & open questions, and decisions/FAQ when they earn a tab) — published with the… |
| receipts | Generate a personal Claude Code usage & impact report ("receipts") from this machine's local session transcripts — for justifying Claude Code usage/spend to a manager, self-review, or "what have I been using this for" check-ins. Mines ~/.claude/projects locally (no extra API calls beyond one final… |
| session-report | Generate an explorable HTML report of Claude Code session usage (tokens, cache, subagents, skills, expensive prompts) from ~/.claude/projects transcripts. |
| skill-creator | Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better… |
Names and descriptions come from each skill's SKILL.md and are written by the pack's authors.
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