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…SLOP from the get go. You could probably modify the template to work with your framework of choice. https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/web-ar...
comment by injidup · 2026-11-01 · in The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks -
…freaking features”, as you put it, you’ll find that Claude does indeed have such knowledge. [1] https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/academ... PS There’s a master .json page of that catalogue that’s actually kind of cool…
comment by jwstillwater · 2026-10-10 · in Why are coding agents so dumb? -
…tools start making into people's CI pipelines there will inevitably be spikes in download activity. https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/docx/S...
comment by athorax · 2026-09-08 · in LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features -
I have discovered few skills, but haven't used them yet: npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill canvas-design npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design
comment by metrofun · 2026-08-29 · in Ask HN: How to Vibe Design as Engineer? -
…the entire XML, but they do make changes to the XML directly to get around python-pptx limitations: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/pptx/S... Ironically, the Claude PowerPoint add-in actually does a lot of direct XML…
comment by danielochoa0620 · 2026-08-23 · in What's in a PowerPoint File? -
…read the frontend design skill? It’s placebo at best. Very short and barely focused on design: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/fronte...
comment by rafram · 2026-08-17 · in GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released -
…> Edit or create from template....Read editing.md > Create from scratch...Read pptxgenjs.md [0] https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/pptx/S...
comment by ssgodderidge · 2026-07-10 · in Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents -
…https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills anthopics/skills//skill-creator/SKILL.md: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/skill-... /.agents/skills/skill-name/SKILL.md, scripts/{script_name.py,__init__.py}…
comment by westurner · 2026-05-11 · in How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? -
…is the prompt and payment method. Copilot even allows you to use Anthropic's own skills repository: https://github.com/anthropics/skills https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/about-age... details the support for skills.…
comment by mynameisvlad · 2026-04-05 · in How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? -
…will tell you how to run some extra scripts for Excel generation in the same folder". Example here: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/xlsx That only works if you have a filesystem and Bash style tools for navigating it…
comment by simonw · 2026-03-10 · in JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 -
…launched as a subagent. You can see an example of this pattern here in Anthropic's skills repo: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-... (the repo has four separate skill.md files: a main SKILLS.md and then three…
comment by rahimnathwani · 2026-03-09 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) -
anthropics/skills/./skills/skill-creator/SKILL.md: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/skill-... npx skills add anthropics/skills
comment by westurner · 2026-02-25 · in Show HN: Saga – A Jira-like project tracker MCP server for AI agents (SQLite) -
…format: https://agentskills.io/specification#skill-md-format The skill creator skill SKILL.md: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/skill-... . SWE bench involves solving GitHub issues. Which of the SWE bench agents read…
comment by westurner · 2026-02-23 · in Show HN: Saga – A Jira-like project tracker MCP server for AI agents (SQLite) -
for claude code specifically, the frontend-design skill helps a lot too https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/fronte...
comment by sama004 · 2026-02-19 · in Ask HN: How do you employ LLMs for UI development? -
…lacks context-specific character." 1 Maybe sth similar would be possible for writing nuances. 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/fronte...
comment by morgengold · 2026-02-17 · in Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring -
…ask Claude to create them. They’re just markdown files Anthropic’s own repo is as good place as any https://github.com/anthropics/skills
comment by spaceman_2020 · 2026-01-28 · in A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks -
>I don't see any good [skills] examples out there `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills` https://github.com/anthropics/skills 2 days ago I built a skill to automate a manual workflow I was using: After Claude writes and commits some…
comment by linsomniac · 2026-01-16 · in First impressions of Claude Cowork -
ask, receive! https://github.com/anthropics/skills not ranked with comments but I’d expect solid quality from these and they should “just work” in Codex etc.
comment by dkdcio · 2025-12-20 · in Skills Officially Comes to Codex -
How does it compare to Claude Code's skills [1] ? [1] https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills
comment by docheinestages · 2025-12-13 · in Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? -
…edit documents. The Claude frontend-design skill seems pretty good too for getting better HTML+CSS: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/fronte...
comment by simonw · 2025-12-13 · in OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI -
…with example Skills (mostly adapted from Anthropic’s public Skills repo at https://github.com/anthropics/skills ). On the right-hand side you can see how different models progressively load files and metadata, so you can inspect how
comment by ohans · 2025-12-11 · in Show HN: Anthropic-style Skills for any LLM -
…does not mean that you can ship/use software without addressing dependencies? See for example https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/slack-gif-cre... or worse, the many other skills that just punt on this and assume CLI tools and…
comment by robot-wrangler · 2025-11-25 · in The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions -
Maybe these might be handy: - https://github.com/anthropics/skills - https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-t... I think if it literally as a collection of .md files and scripts to help perform some set of actions. I'm…
comment by sshh12 · 2025-11-02 · in How I use every Claude Code feature -
…this different from the existing Claude skill, that uses a prompt and pandas to edit an Excel file? https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/document-skil...
comment by rahimnathwani · 2025-10-27 · in Claude for Excel -
They've already started a public repository here: https://github.com/anthropics/skills (It's the last link in the "Getting started" section of the post.)
comment by waldir · 2025-10-24 · in Claude Skills -
Their repo here: https://github.com/anthropics/skills This is the skill creation one: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skill-creator... You can turn on additional skills in the Claude UI from this page:…
comment by simonw · 2025-10-20 · in Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP -
Yes, Anthropic even published a skill for that: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skill-creator...
comment by simonw · 2025-10-18 · in Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP -
…additional scripts or reference documents. The example skills here should help illustrate that: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/document-skil... and https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/artifacts-bui... I think the…
comment by simonw · 2025-10-17 · in Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP -
…folders can also include additional reference documents and executable scripts, like this one here: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/document-skil...
comment by simonw · 2025-10-17 · in Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP -
…tools, often Python via the terminal. Take a look at this one for working with PDFs for example: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/document-skil... - it includes a quickstart guide to using the Python pypdf module, then…
comment by simonw · 2025-10-17 · in Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP -
if you've ever worked with Excel + Python, I think this example will drive home the value a bit: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/document-skil... There are many edge cases when writing / reading Excel files with Python and…
comment by mritchie712 · 2025-10-17 · in Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP -
this is the best example I found https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/document-skil... I was dealing with 2 issues this morning getting Claude to produce a .xlsx that are covered in the doc above
comment by mritchie712 · 2025-10-16 · in Claude Skills -
The developer page uses a better example, a PDF processing skill: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/document-skil... I've been emulating this in claude code by manually @tagging markdown files containing guides for common…
comment by antiloper · 2025-10-16 · in Claude Skills