Ten places worth knowing. We opened every one of them, counted what is actually there, and read the licence — the numbers below are ours, not theirs. 4 of the ten can be carried here; the rest are worth your time at the source, and we say why.
The 325 listings on this site all came from the ones marked Carried here. A repo that declares no licence is all-rights-reserved by default, so we link to it and never copy from it.
Anthropic's own skills — document handling, brand guidelines, canvas design, MCP builder.
The reference for how a SKILL.md should read. But we opened every LICENSE.txt: 19 of 20 say all rights reserved and forbid keeping copies outside Anthropic's services. Only frontend-design is Apache-2.0, so that is the only one we carry. Read the rest at the source.
Working habits for Claude Code: brainstorming, dispatching parallel agents, executing plans.
The highest-starred skill repo we found, and the skills are about how to work rather than what to type. Ships plugin manifests for Claude, Codex, Cursor and Devin.
Skills grouped into plugins by job: python-development, cloud-infrastructure, security-scanning, llm-application-dev.
The largest permissively licensed set we could verify, and the plugin folders make the categories honest — they are the author's own grouping, not our guess.
The reference MCP servers: filesystem, git, fetch, memory, time, sequential thinking.
1,063 contributors — more than any other source here. If you are writing an agent that needs tools, start by reading these rather than a tutorial.
The protocol's own registry, with a public paginated API at /v0/servers.
The only directory here with an official API and no vendor behind it. We stopped counting at 4,000 because the cursor kept going.
The largest MCP index we found, with per-server security and quality scoring.
Biggest by a wide margin. Treat the size as a warning as much as a feature: most of those servers have never been used by anyone but their author.
A directory that separates skills published by official teams from community ones.
The official-vs-community split is the useful part — it is the question you actually have when picking something to install.
A link list covering skills across seven agent platforms.
The widest net we found, and the only awesome list here that carries a licence. It hosts nothing itself — the repo is four files — so it is a map, not a warehouse.
A short, opinionated list rather than an exhaustive one.
Short is the point: 37 entries someone chose, against lists with hundreds nobody has read. No licence file, so we follow the links and never copy the text.
A broad community list, heavier on niche and non-English skills.
Turns up repos the bigger lists miss. Same caveat: no licence, so it is a map only.
Star and contributor counts come from the GitHub API on 17 September 2026. Skill counts are files named SKILL.md in the repository tree, not what the README claims. Licence is read from the actual licence file — per folder where one exists, because a repo can carry different terms for different skills, and GitHub's own licence field misses that.