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Best Claude Skills in 2026
Ten skills that come up again and again when people ask which Claude skills to install, with what each one does and who it is for.
Edited by hand at Open Skills
How we picked
We have not yet tested these skills first-hand, and this list does not claim otherwise. Each one was chosen on things we can check: how widely it is used and searched for, whether its repository is still being maintained, and what it does according to its own SKILL.md and documentation.
The order runs from general to specialised. It is not a verdict on quality. First-hand notes are added to each entry as we review it, and an entry that has one shows it under the summary.
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A full software development workflow for coding agents, built from composable skills for brainstorming, planning, TDD, debugging and review.
Best for: anyone who wants the agent to brainstorm, plan and write tests before it writes code.
$ npx skills add obra/superpowersGives the agent a clear aesthetic direction when building interfaces, with guidance on typography and avoiding templated-looking defaults.
Best for: building interfaces that should not look templated.
$ npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill frontend-designCreates new skills, improves existing ones and measures how well they perform with evals and benchmarks.
Best for: writing your own skills and checking that they trigger when they should.
$ npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill skill-creatorInterviews you relentlessly about a plan or design until every open decision has been resolved.
Best for: having a plan or design questioned before any work starts.
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill grill-meGives an agent UI and UX design guidance for web, mobile and desktop: styles, palettes, typography, accessibility and layout.
Best for: giving the agent a searchable reference of styles, palettes and font pairings to choose from.
$ npx skills add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skillRewrites AI-sounding text so it reads like a person wrote it, removing common AI tells without changing the meaning.
Best for: editing drafts so they stop reading as AI-written.
$ npx skills add blader/humanizerDesigns, critiques, audits and polishes frontend interfaces through a set of commands, from shaping a brief to final refinement.
Best for: raising the design quality of what the agent builds, in more than one coding agent.
$ npx skills add pbakaus/impeccableSteers an agent away from templated-looking frontends: it reads the brief, picks a design direction and builds landing pages and redesigns.
Best for: front-end work where layout, typography and spacing need more care.
$ npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill design-taste-frontendSwitches the agent to an ultra-compressed way of talking that cuts output tokens while keeping technical accuracy, in several levels.
Best for: long sessions where shorter replies save output tokens.
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/cavemanHelps you discover and install agent skills when you ask how to do something or whether a skill exists for it.
Best for: finding and installing a skill for a task without leaving the agent.
$ npx skills add vercel-labs/skillsInstall them
$ npx skills add <owner>/<repo>Each skill page has the exact command for your agent.