Claude Skills Examples

What Does a Skill File Look Like?

A Claude Skill is a markdown file placed in your project's .claude/ directory. Skills give Claude persistent context about your project — coding standards, review checklists, deployment procedures, and more. Here is a minimal example of a code review skill:

What Are Claude Skills?

Claude Skills are reusable markdown instructions that teach Claude how to handle specific tasks within your development workflow. Unlike one-off prompts, skills persist across sessions and provide consistent, repeatable behavior. They work in both Claude Code (the CLI) and Claude Desktop, giving your AI assistant deep context about your codebase, team conventions, and preferred patterns.

Skills cover a wide range of use cases: code review checklists, deployment procedures, testing strategies, database migration guides, security audit frameworks, and content creation pipelines. Each skill is a plain markdown file — no special syntax, no SDK, no build step. You write what you want Claude to know and drop it into the .claude/ folder of your project.

The Skiln directory collects and categorizes thousands of community-built skills so you can find the right one for your stack. Every skill listed here has been indexed from open-source repositories and verified for compatibility with the latest version of Claude.

How to Install a Claude Skill

Installing a skill takes less than a minute. Follow these steps to add any skill from the Skiln directory to your project:

1. Find a skill — Browse the examples below or use the category filter to narrow your search. Each card shows the skill name, description, author, and star count.
2. Copy the install command — Click the "Copy" button on any skill card. This copies a git clone command to your clipboard.
3. Clone the repository — Run the command in your terminal. The skill files will download to your local machine.
4. Copy the skill file — Move the .md file into your project's .claude/ directory (create it if it does not exist).
5. Start Claude — Open Claude Code or Claude Desktop in your project. Claude automatically reads all skill files from the .claude/ directory and applies them to every conversation.

You can also use the Skiln Config Generator to bundle multiple skills, MCP servers, and agents into a single configuration file — ready to drop into any project.

Featured Skill Examples

Here are some of the most popular skills from the Skiln directory, sorted by community stars. Each skill is open source and ready to install.

• System Info

  Get system information using executable scripts

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• Add Parallel

  Adds Parallel AI MCP integration to NanoClaw for advanced web research capabilities.

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• Add Gmail

  Add Gmail integration to NanoClaw. Can be configured as a tool (agent reads/sends emails when triggered from WhatsApp) or as a full channel (emails can trigger the agent, schedule tasks, and receive replies). Guides through GCP OAuth setup and implements the integration.

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• Add Voice Transcription

  Add voice message transcription to NanoClaw using OpenAI's Whisper API. Automatically transcribes WhatsApp voice notes so the agent can read and respond to them.

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• Agent Browser

  Browse the web for any task — research topics, read articles, interact with web apps, fill forms, take screenshots, extract data, and test web pages. Use whenever a browser would be useful, not just when the user explicitly asks.

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