Skills Guides
Explore 31 curated skills guides for building with AI coding agents — what each one does, when to use it, and how to add it to your workflow.
The Agent Skills Standard: One SKILL.md for Every AI Tool
Agent Skills became an open standard in December 2025. Which tools read SKILL.md today — Copilot, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Codex — and how to write portable skills.
The Best Claude Skills to Install in 2026
A skills-only tour of the AgentsCamp library — the Claude Code skills that earn a permanent slot, organized by the job they do.
10 Best Claude Skills for Building AI Applications
Compare Claude skills for structured output, fallbacks, evals, hallucinations, routing, token cost, semantic caching, PII, guardrails, and tools.
10 Best Claude Skills for API Development
Choose Claude skills for error contracts, idempotency, pagination, limits, webhooks, CORS, GraphQL, OpenAPI, tools, and MCP servers.
9 Best Claude Skills for Code Review
Choose Claude skills for security, correctness, maintainability, and focused pull request review without relying on one vague review prompt.
8 Best Claude Skills for Database Work
Compare Claude skills for safe migrations, data backfills, indexes, query plans, pooling, deadlocks, vector search, and SQL tuning.
10 Best Claude Skills for Debugging
Compare Claude skills and commands for stack traces, failing and flaky tests, regressions, slow queries, memory leaks, CPU hotspots, deadlocks, and agents.
10 Best Claude Skills for DevOps and SRE
Use Claude skills for incidents, rollbacks, SLOs, alerts, dashboards, logs, traces, containers, CI, and safer releases.
7 Best Claude Skills for Documentation
Use Claude skills to verify code examples and create accurate READMEs, API docs, runbooks, onboarding guides, ADRs, and diagrams.
9 Best Claude Skills for Frontend Development
Compare Claude skills for accessibility, Web Vitals, React renders, bundles, localization, browser security, test data, tests, and caching.
9 Best Claude Skills for Git
Compare Claude skills and commands for commit messages, undoing mistakes, PR descriptions, rebases, conflicts, commit splitting, blame, and changelogs.
9 Best Claude Skills for Performance Engineering
Compare Claude skills for caching, Web Vitals, bundles, React renders, load tests, cold starts, CPU profiles, memory leaks, and prompt caches.
10 Best Claude Skills for RAG
Compare Claude skills and commands for RAG scaffolding, chunking, grounding checks, embeddings, reranking, pgvector, index tuning, and GraphRAG.
10 Best Claude Skills for Refactoring
Compare Claude skills and commands for clean-code passes, renames, module splits, dead code, upgrades, import cycles, flags, strict types, and migrations.
9 Best Claude Skills for Release Management
Use Claude skills for readiness reviews, canaries, rollbacks, API deprecations, migrations, versioning, changelogs, and release notes.
10 Best Claude Skills for Security Work
Compare Claude skills for secrets, dependencies, permissions, auth, RBAC, threats, headers, PII, data retention, and LLM guardrails.
9 Best Claude Skills for Software Testing
Compare Claude skills for regression, unit, integration, contract, property, mutation, prompt, and test-data workflows.
Claude Code Skills: Best Practices
The patterns that make Claude Code skills reliable: trigger-first descriptions, one job per skill, lean bodies, bundled scripts, and scoped tools.
Claude's Document Skills: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF
How Anthropic's pre-built document skills let Claude produce real .xlsx, .pptx, .docx, and PDF files — on claude.ai, the API, and in Claude Code.
Claude Skills Examples: Annotated SKILL.md Files
Real SKILL.md examples you can copy — a minimal skill, a scoped-tools skill, a bundled-script skill — with the reasoning behind each line.
Claude Skills on claude.ai and the API
How Agent Skills work beyond Claude Code: uploading to claude.ai, the /v1/skills API with code execution, Managed Agents, and the Agent SDK.
Claude Skills Use Cases: 20 Ideas Worth Building
Twenty concrete Claude skills use cases — for engineers, writers, analysts, and ops — with the pattern behind each and links to installable versions.
Codex Skills: Build Reusable Workflows with SKILL.md
Create, install, and test Codex skills with SKILL.md — including trigger descriptions, repo and user paths, progressive disclosure, and distribution.
How to Install Claude Skills
Every way to install Claude skills: manual copy, the agentscamp CLI, GitHub repos, plugins, team distribution, and uploading to claude.ai.
Packaging and Sharing Claude Code Skills
Take a skill from your personal ~/.claude folder to a versioned plugin your whole team installs from a marketplace — portably and with governance.
The SKILL.md Reference: Every Frontmatter Field Explained
A complete reference for the SKILL.md format — all frontmatter fields, naming rules, argument substitution, limits, and where skill files live.
Skills vs Agents vs Commands
How Claude Code's two extension mechanisms — subagents and skills — differ across three invocation patterns, with a decision table for choosing the right one.
Skills vs MCP Servers: When to Use Which
Skills inject procedure into context; MCP servers expose tools and live data over a protocol. A decision framework, the combine pattern, and examples.
Testing and Debugging Claude Code Skills
Verify a Claude Code skill triggers on the right prompts, check its output, and fix the five common failures — from vague triggers to broken paths.
What Are Claude Skills? The Complete Guide
Claude Skills explained: what a SKILL.md is, how progressive disclosure keeps skills cheap, where they run, and how to install or write your own.
Writing Your First Skill
A step-by-step guide to packaging a reusable procedure as a Claude Code skill that loads exactly when it's needed.