Anthropic Agent Skills (anthropics/skills)

Anthropic's public repository of example Agent Skills: folders with a SKILL.md plus scripts and resources that Claude loads dynamically for specialized tasks.

Category

Skills

Website

https://github.com/anthropics/skills

Repository

https://github.com/anthropics/skills

Docs

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview

Status

active

Maintainer

Anthropic

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• agent-skills
• skill-md
• claude
• examples

Description

Example skills covering creative, technical and enterprise tasks; each skill is a self-contained folder with a SKILL.md (instructions + metadata). Many skills are Apache-2.0; the document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx) are source-available rather than open source. The README describes the skills as provided for demonstration and education. The Agent Skills format itself is specified at agentskills.io.

Agent access

Auth

none

Notes

Public GitHub repo; skills can also be installed from Claude Code's plugin system.

Related

• Agent Skills Specification: Open format for packaging agent capabilities as folders with a SKILL.md (YAML frontmatter + instructions) plus optional scripts and resources.
• Claude Code: Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and integrates with dev tools; available in terminal, IDE, desktop and browser.
• skills.sh: The open Agent Skills directory: browse skills ranked by installs and install them into your agent with one command.

Sources

• https://github.com/anthropics/skills
• https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/overview

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)