Anthropic's public Agent Skills repository with example skills for documents, design, development and enterprise communication, plus a spec folder and skill template.
Install
npx skills add anthropics/skillsgh skill install anthropics/skillsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skillsSkills in this collection
- Canvas DesignAnthropicOfficialCreates posters, art pieces and other static designs as .png or .pdf files from a design philosophy, without copying existing artists' work.
- Claude APIAnthropicOfficialGives Claude current reference material, SDK docs and best practices for the Claude API and Managed Agents in eight languages; bundled with Claude Code.
- Doc CoauthoringAnthropicOfficialStructured workflow for co-authoring proposals, technical specs and decision docs, covering context transfer, iterative refinement and checks from the reader's view.
- DOCXAnthropicOfficialAnthropic's Word skill for creating, reading and editing .docx and .dotx files, including tables of contents, page numbers, tracked changes and comments.
- Frontend DesignAnthropicOfficialVisual design guidance for building new UI or reshaping existing UI, covering aesthetic direction and typography to avoid templated defaults.
- MCP BuilderAnthropicOfficialGuide for building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that connect LLMs to external APIs, using Python FastMCP or the Node/TypeScript MCP SDK.
- PDFAnthropicOfficialAnthropic's PDF skill covering text and table extraction, merging, splitting, rotation, watermarks, form filling, encryption and OCR for scanned PDFs.
- PPTXAnthropicOfficialAnthropic's PowerPoint skill for creating, parsing and editing .pptx and .potx decks, including templates, layouts and speaker notes.
- Skill CreatorAnthropicOfficialMeta-skill for creating and improving skills, running evals, benchmarking skill performance and tuning the description for more accurate triggering.
- Web Artifacts BuilderAnthropicOfficialTools for building multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts with React, Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui when state management or routing is needed.
- Webapp TestingAnthropicOfficialPlaywright-based toolkit for testing local web apps: verify frontend behavior, debug UI issues, capture browser screenshots and read browser logs.
- XLSXAnthropicOfficialAnthropic's spreadsheet skill for reading, editing and creating .xlsx, .xlsm, .csv and .tsv files, with formulas, formatting, charts and data cleanup.
- Academy GuideAnthropicOfficialStop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude product — it recommends matching courses, tutorials, and use cases from Claude Academy (academy.claude.com), Anthropic's learning hub.
- Algorithmic ArtAnthropicOfficialCreates algorithmic art in p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration, for generative art, flow fields and particle systems.
- Brand GuidelinesAnthropicOfficialApplies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to artifacts whenever brand colors, visual formatting or company design standards apply.
- Discernment NudgeAnthropicOfficialAfter you give a substantive answer or draft that the user may act on — advice or recommendations, drafted artifacts such as goals, plans, pitches, proposals, or emails, estimates or projections, analysis or interpretation of data, factual claims they may rely on, or a multi-step argument — invoke this skill BEFORE finalizing your reply and then, if it applies, append 2-3 short follow-up…
- Internal CommsAnthropicOfficialHelps write internal communications in a company's preferred formats, such as status reports, leadership updates, newsletters, FAQs, incident reports and project updates.
- Slack GIF CreatorAnthropicOfficialKnowledge and utilities for making animated GIFs optimized for Slack, covering dimension and frame-rate constraints, validation tools and animation concepts.
- Template SkillAnthropicOfficialReplace with description of the skill and when Claude should use it.
- Theme FactoryAnthropicOfficialApplies themes to slides, docs, reports and HTML landing pages, offering 10 preset color and font themes or generating a new theme on the fly.