Claude skills
Folders of instructions and scripts Claude loads when a task needs them, in Claude apps, Claude Code and the API.
Install them from the skill settings in Claude, as a plugin in Claude Code, or put the
folder in ~/.claude/skills.
- docx Anthropic
Create, edit and read Word documents, including tracked changes, comments and formatting.
Official Free - xlsx Anthropic
Build and analyse Excel spreadsheets with formulas, formatting and charts.
Official Free - pptx Anthropic
Create and edit PowerPoint decks from layouts, templates and your content.
Official Free - pdf Anthropic
Extract text and tables from PDFs, fill forms, merge, split and create new PDFs.
Official Free - skill-creator Anthropic
Walks you through writing a new skill, testing it and improving when it triggers.
Official Free Open source - frontend-design Anthropic
Steers Claude toward distinctive, polished web interfaces instead of generic-looking ones.
Official Free Open source - web-artifacts-builder Anthropic
Builds larger claude.ai artifacts with React, Tailwind and shadcn/ui, bundled into one file.
Official Free Open source - webapp-testing Anthropic
Tests local web apps with Playwright: drives the UI, takes screenshots, reads logs.
Official Free Open source - mcp-builder Anthropic
A guide for building good MCP servers in Python or TypeScript, from design to evaluation.
Official Free Open source - canvas-design Anthropic
Makes posters and visual art as PNG and PDF files from a design philosophy it writes first.
Official Free Open source - algorithmic-art Anthropic
Generative art with p5.js: seeded randomness, flow fields and particle systems.
Official Free Open source - theme-factory Anthropic
Applies ready-made colour and font themes to slides, documents, reports and pages.
Official Free Open source - brand-guidelines Anthropic
An example of putting a company’s colours and typography into a skill, here Anthropic’s.
Official Free Open source - internal-comms Anthropic
Writes status reports, newsletters, FAQs and incident updates in a company’s formats.
Official Free Open source - slack-gif-creator Anthropic
Makes animated GIFs sized and optimised for Slack emoji and messages.
Official Free Open source - Superpowers Jesse Vincent (obra)
A community skills library for coding agents: brainstorming, planning, test-driven development and debugging.
Free Open source
At a glance
| Skill | Maker | Pricing | Open source | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| docx | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| xlsx | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| pptx | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | ||
| skill-creator | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| frontend-design | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| web-artifacts-builder | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop | |
| webapp-testing | Anthropic | Free | Terminal, Desktop | |
| mcp-builder | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| canvas-design | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| algorithmic-art | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| theme-factory | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| brand-guidelines | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| internal-comms | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| slack-gif-creator | Anthropic | Free | Web, Desktop, Terminal, API | |
| Superpowers | Jesse Vincent (obra) | Free | Terminal |