You don't need every skill someone else says you need. You need the few you actually use.
My stars list is 40 deep and none of it ever ran in a real session. Install a few, judge each one in a week, keep what changed your output, and let the rest stay on somebody else's list.
Where a skill earns its place
- Collecting: Free, and worth exactly that
- Installing: Still proves nothing
- Using: On work you already owed
- Judging: One honest week
- Every skill ends here
- Keeping
- Deleting
The collector's trap
Collecting feels like progress because the list gets longer.
I treated a star like a decision already made. It wasn't. The repo sat in a list I opened twice a year, to add one more star to it. Collecting is easy to mistake for curating: both make the list longer, and only one of them costs you anything.
The loop I was actually in
- See a list: Somebody else decided what mattered
- Star it: One click, no cost, no change
- Forget it: You open the list twice a year
- Back to the top, and the list gets longer
What changes the moment you install one
Nothing yet. Installing only moves the question to one you can answer.
The question goes from "does this exist" to "does this help". Point the skill at real work you already owed somebody, then read the output rather than the process: did the result change, or only the wording around it?
How the installs below work
Most of the 24 install the same way: point the skills CLI at a GitHub repo. Four flags are worth knowing, because no card below repeats them.
--listsee what a repo actually contains before committing to it--skill <name>pull one skill out of a repo that bundles several-a claude-codetarget a specific agent instead of the default-ginstall once, globally, instead of per projectA couple use a different path entirely, so each card shows the exact command it needs. The repo's own README is still the final word.
How the install actually happens
- Pick one skill: The category you are stuck in
- npx skills add <owner>/<repo>: or /plugin install ... for the odd one out
- The agent picks it up: No restart, no config file
- Use it on real work: Not a toy example
How to judge a skill in a week
Long enough to see whether you reach for it unprompted.
The week-one decision
- Day 1: Install it and use it once, on purpose
- Days 2 to 5: Reach for it without being reminded
- End of week: Compare the output, not the process
- Then decide, in one written line
- It changed what you shipped: Keep
- It only changed the wording: Delete
When to delete one
Installed and idle is still just collecting.
Delete it the moment it stops changing your output and starts running on habit. That is not the same as a skill that never worked: this one worked once, earned its install, then quietly became overhead. 24 installed and idle is the same shelf as 24 starred and never installed.
The cut, one month later
- Open your installed list: Not your stars list
- Ask one question: When did this last change an output?
- The answer decides
- This week: Keep
- You cannot remember: Delete
What to try first, and how to judge it
24 repos, sorted by what each one is actually for. Take the category that matches what you are stuck on this week and ignore the other six.
Every star count below is one reading from the GitHub API on 29 July 2026. A photograph, not a counter.
24 of 24 skills shown
superpowers
A skills framework and development methodology built to survive daily use, not just a demo.
as of 29 July 2026
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-officialgstack
One founder's full Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated role-tools covering CEO, design, eng management, release, docs and QA.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add garrytan/gstackskill-creator
Anthropic's public Agent Skills collection - skill-creator is one skill living inside a much larger repo.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add anthropics/skillsskills CLI
The open-source installer and registry CLI behind most of the entries on this page - not a skill you install, the tool you install with.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skillsclaude-hud
A Claude Code plugin that shows context usage, active tools, running agents and todo progress at a glance.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add jarrodwatts/claude-hudcaveman
Trims roughly 65 percent of tokens by forcing terse, stripped-down answers.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add JuliusBrussee/cavemanrtk
A CLI proxy that cuts token spend 60 to 90 percent on common dev commands - a single Rust binary, no dependencies.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add rtk-ai/rtkponytail
Pushes the agent to think like the laziest senior dev in the room, where the best code is the code you never had to write.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytailcodex
Calls OpenAI Codex from inside Claude Code to review work or hand off a task.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add openai/codex-plugin-ccgraphify
Turns a codebase, its docs, schemas, configs and PDFs into a queryable knowledge graph, built with local deterministic parsing and no vector store.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add Graphify-Labs/graphifyi-have-adhd
Stops the agent burying the answer under preamble - output shaped to be ADHD-friendly.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add ayghri/i-have-adhdavoid-ai-writing
Audits and rewrites text to strip out the tells of AI-generated writing.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add conorbronsdon/avoid-ai-writinghumanizer
Strips the telltale signs of AI-generated writing out of a piece of text.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add blader/humanizerui-ux-pro-max
Design judgment for building professional UI and UX across multiple platforms.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skilltaste-skill
Gives the agent taste, so it stops defaulting to boring, generic output.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skillimpeccable
A design language meant to make an AI harness noticeably better at design work.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add pbakaus/impeccablehyperframes
Write HTML, get rendered video out the other end - built for agents, not editors.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframesemil
A set of skills for design engineers, focused on the craft of interface animation.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add emilkowalski/skillsgsap
GreenSock's own skills, teaching an agent correct GSAP usage, patterns and plugins.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add greensock/gsap-skillslast30days
Researches a topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket and the open web, then synthesizes a grounded summary.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skillagent-browser
A browser automation CLI built specifically for AI agents.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-browserremotion
Remotion's own agent skills for building videos with their React framework.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add remotion-dev/skillsmarketingskills
A marketing skill set covering CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics and growth engineering.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskillssocial-media-skills
A personal social media content pack, shared free by its own author.
as of 29 July 2026
npx skills add charlie947/social-media-skillsDon't become a collector. Go back to what actually works for you.
Take two from the one category that matches this week's problem. Use them without being reminded to. Delete whatever turns out to be vocabulary. The length of the list was never the point - your own workflow is.