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.

• Slides

  Create strategic HTML presentations with Chart.js, design tokens, responsive layouts, copywriting formulas, and contextual slide strategies.

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• Ui Styling

  Create beautiful, accessible user interfaces with shadcn/ui components (built on Radix UI + Tailwind), Tailwind CSS utility-first styling, and canvas-based visual designs. Use when building user interfaces, implementing design systems, creating responsive layouts, adding accessible components (dialogs, dropdowns, forms, tables), customizing themes and colors, implementing dark mode, generating visual designs and posters, or establishing consistent styling patterns across applications.

  ai-ml

• Patch Release Checklist

  When bumping a patch version (e.g., `1.9.0` -> `1.9.1`), follow this checklist.

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• Pr Workflow

  **Important:** Appwrite does NOT use `main` as the primary development branch.

  ai-ml

• Time Svg Creator

  Creates an SVG time card showing the current time for Dubai. Writes the SVG to agent-teams/output/dubai-time.svg and updates agent-teams/output/output.md.

  development

• Reports

  A comparison of the three extension mechanisms in Claude Code: subagents, commands, and skills. <table width="100%"> <tr> <td><a href="../">← Back to Claude Code Best Practice</a></td> <td align="right"><img src="../!/claude-jumping.svg" alt="Claude" width="60" /></td> </tr> </table>  ---

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• Context Guardian

  Guardiao de contexto que preserva dados criticos antes da compactacao automatica. Snapshots, verificacao de integridade e zero perda de informacao.

  development

• Convex

  Convex reactive backend expert: schema design, TypeScript functions, real-time subscriptions, auth, file storage, scheduling, and deployment.

  development

• Create Branch

  Create a git branch following Sentry naming conventions. Use when asked to "create a branch", "new branch", "start a branch", "make a branch", "switch to a new branch", or when starting new work on the default branch.

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• Create Issue Gate

  Use when starting a new implementation task and an issue must be created with strict acceptance criteria gating before execution.

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• Crypto Bd Agent

  Production-tested patterns for building AI agents that autonomously discover, > evaluate, and acquire token listings for cryptocurrency exchanges.

  development

• Customer Psychographic Profiler

  One sentence - what this skill does and when to invoke it

  development

• Daily

  Documentation and capabilities reference for Daily

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• Data Structure Protocol

  Give agents persistent structural memory of a codebase — navigate dependencies, track public APIs, and understand why connections exist without re-reading the whole repo.

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• Decision Navigator

  Guide stuck or overwhelmed users through targeted branching questions until they reach concrete next steps.

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