awesome-claude-skills: The Curated Index of Every Claude Skill Worth Installing

Claude Skills are scattered across dozens of GitHub repositories, personal blogs, and marketplace plugins. Finding the right one usually means wading through Reddit threads and stale blog posts. The travisvn/awesome-claude-skills repo solves that problem by curating the entire ecosystem into a single, well-organized index you can scan in five minutes.

Why This Skill Matters

This is not a skill you install — it is a discovery layer. It groups the ~14 official Anthropic skills (docx, pdf, pptx, algorithmic-art, mcp-builder, etc.), ~20 community collections like obra/superpowers, and dozens of individual tools into clear sections: Official Skills, Community Collections, Individual Skills, Tools, Tutorials, and Security. The README also includes a "Creating Your First Skill" walkthrough and a FAQ that answers the most common questions about how Skills differ from MCP servers and from subagents.

If you are deciding which skills to add to your Claude Code setup, this is the shortest path between "I want better skills" and a working set of them.

Installation

This is a curated list, not an installable package. You clone or browse it, then install individual skills it points to:

git clone https://github.com/travisvn/awesome-claude-skills
cd awesome-claude-skills

Browse README.md to pick a skill. Most entries link back to the upstream repo where you will find the actual install command. The two most common install paths the list points to are:

# Official Anthropic marketplace (for skills like docx, pdf, algorithmic-art)
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

# Obra Superpowers (a community collection with TDD, debugging, planning skills)
/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace

If a skill is distributed as a directory rather than a marketplace plugin, the README shows the local-install equivalent:

/plugin add /path/to/skill-directory

Real Workflow: Build a Skills Stack From the List

Imagine you want a working Claude Code environment for a small TypeScript project: you need one skill for brainstorming, one for TDD, one for design polish on the front end, and one for writing release notes. The list's "Community Skills" and "Official Skills" sections each surface exactly one canonical option.

Step 1. Open the list and locate the four sections. Under "Official Skills → Development" pick webapp-testing for browser-driven UI checks. Under "Community Skills → Collections" pick obra/superpowers for brainstorming and TDD (/brainstorm, /write-plan, /execute-plan). Under "Official Skills → Design & Creative" pick frontend-design for UI polish. Under "Official Skills → Communication" pick internal-comms for release-note drafting.

Step 2. Install the two marketplace plugins:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace

Step 3. Verify they appear in Claude Code's plugin list:

/plugin → Installed
  - superpowers (obra)
  - skills (anthropics)

Step 4. Trigger one skill end-to-end. From the repo root, ask Claude to brainstorm a new endpoint:

/brainstorm Add a /api/sync endpoint that batches user activity events

Expected behavior: Claude enters the Superpowers brainstorm workflow, asks clarifying questions, then drafts a plan you can hand to /write-plan. No hand-rolled prompts, no copy-pasted templates — the skill encodes the protocol.

Real Workflow: Find a Skill You Did Not Know Existed

Suppose you are tired of writing the same git commit message prompts over and over. You suspect someone has published a skill for it.

Step 1. In the list, jump to "Community Skills → Individual Skills." Scan for any entry whose description mentions commits, changelogs, or release notes.

Step 2. The list surfaces obra/superpowers again (which includes a commit-message helper) plus community entries tagged "git" or "release." Each entry links to the upstream repo where you check stars, last commit, and license before installing.

Step 3. Pick the highest-starred option, click through to its repo, and copy its install command. The list's value here is filtering: it has already done the "is this maintained, is it real, is it worth a look" pass for you.

Step 4. Install and invoke. Repeat the pattern any time a new tool category emerges (PDF generation, chart rendering, MCP server scaffolding) — the list updates first, then you decide whether to adopt.

• Skim "Recent Updates" at the top of the README before every Claude Code upgrade. New official skills land there first.
• Treat the "Security & Best Practices" section as required reading before installing any skill that can run arbitrary code.
• When the upstream plugin store is unavailable, fall back to the local-install pattern mentioned in the list (/plugin add /path/to/skill-directory).
• Cross-reference each skill's repo against its upstream README and recent commit activity before adopting it for a production workflow.

When Not to Use This

If you already know exactly which skill you want and you have its repo bookmarked, skip this list and install directly. It is a discovery and vetting layer, not a substitute for reading the upstream README of any skill you actually adopt.

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