Skills for real engineers by Matt Pocock
Skills For Real Engineers
Small composable skills for engineering with agents: plan grilling, TDD, bug diagnosis, code review and architecture
Skills
A skill gives an agent a ready-made ability: a tested prompt, a set of steps, sometimes files and scripts. This section collects skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other agents, each with an install command, a risk level and a plain description of who needs it and when.
Match with Foxx AI
Describe the task or paste package.json, and Foxx AI will pick matching skills, MCP servers and CLI tools.
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Anthropic skills
Skills
Anthropic's official skill examples: docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx documents, design, MCP builder and the Agent Skills spec
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Official shadcn/ui skill and MCP server: the agent searches registries, adds components via the CLI and follows the library's rules
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The official FastAPI skill, bundled with the package, teaching agents to write code for the installed version
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A frontend design skill with 23 commands, live browser iteration and 61 detector rules for common AI-generated UI tells
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Skills and CLI from HeyGen: the agent writes HTML compositions and renders them into MP4 videos, captions, motion graphics and decks
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166 skills for scientific work: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, clinical data, geospatial analysis and 100+ databases
GitHub CLI skills
GitHub CLI skills (gh, gh-skill)
Official GitHub CLI skills: how an agent should call gh correctly and how to manage skills with gh skill
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A skill that draws editorial diagrams as standalone HTML and SVG files: architecture, flowcharts, ER, funnels and about forty more types
Vercel Agent Skills
Agent Skills
Vercel's skills: React and Next.js performance, UI guideline audits, React Native, component composition and deploys
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A skill that keeps the task plan in files on disk and re-injects it every turn so work survives context clears, compaction and crashes
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A code security audit skill by Cloudflare: the agent runs recon, coverage-led hunting and independent verification of findings, then produces a structured repor
Agent Skills for Google products
Agent Skills for Google products and technologies
Official Google skill collection for working with Google Cloud, BigQuery, GKE, ads and analytics from an agent
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Official GreenSock skills that teach agents correct GSAP animation code, from tweens and timelines to ScrollTrigger, plugins and React
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Official Hugging Face skills: Hub operations via the hf CLI, datasets, model training, Spaces, evals and deployment
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A skill set for the Vue, Vite and Nuxt stack: the author's conventions plus digests of official tool documentation
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Paul Hudson's skill for reviewing and writing SwiftUI for iOS 26: deprecated APIs, data flow, navigation, accessibility, performance
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Official Remotion skills for making videos in React: compositions, animation, captions, maps and rendering
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The official catalog of NVIDIA agent skills: CUDA, accelerated libraries, RAG, robotics and simulation through coding agents
Go skills by samber
cc-skills-golang
Over forty Go skills: style, errors, concurrency, testing, security, performance and popular libraries
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A Google DeepMind skill collection for science tasks: access to biology and chemistry databases, literature search and structural biology
Microsoft Agent Skills
Agent Skills
Official Microsoft skills that ground coding agents in Azure SDKs and Foundry for Python, .NET, TypeScript, Java and Rust
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Supabase's official skills: help an agent work with the database, Auth, Edge Functions and Postgres best practices
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Official Apify skills for agents: web scraping via ready-made Actors, plus building, actorizing and integrating Actors
Frequently asked questions
What is a skill for an AI agent?
A skill gives an agent a ready-made ability: a tested prompt, a set of steps, sometimes files and scripts. The agent picks it up and solves the task by the defined scenario.
How do I install a skill?
Each entry has an install command for a specific agent: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others. Usually you copy a folder into the skills directory or install it through a plugin manager.
How is a skill different from an MCP server?
A skill gives the agent knowledge and a sequence of actions, an MCP server gives access to external data and tools over a protocol. They are often used together.