◆ Skills

Anthropic Skills

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Anthropic's official Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages) for documents, design and development — the reference implementation of the format.

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Summary

Note: This repository contains Anthropic's implementation of skills for Claude. For information about the Agent Skills standard, see agentskills.io.

from the project README

From the project’s own instructions where it documents any; otherwise a plain clone.

Claude Code
```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
```
In Claude Code. Registers the repository as a plugin marketplace. Read the scripts it bundles before installing.
Claude Code
```
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
```
Or example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills.

419 files 4.7 MB repository

Commands are curated, not yet run by us.

Claude Code — Install every skill in the collection as a user-level Claude Code skill.

SKILL.md

$ cp -r ./skills/skills/. ~/.claude/skills/

Claude Code — Check that Claude Code picked the skills up.

SKILL.md

$ claude -p 'List the skills you have available and when you would use each one.'

OpenAI Codex CLI — Have Codex read an instruction file non-interactively.

SKILL.md

$ codex exec 'Read SKILL.md and summarise the instructions it gives an agent.'