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Anthropic Agent Skills (anthropics/skills)
Anthropic's public repository of example and document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx and more) for Claude, installable as a Claude Code plugin marketplace.
Last push 2026-10-09 (gh api); ~184k stars. Also hosts the Agent Skills spec and a template. (checked 2026-10-25)
In Skills and plugin packs for coding agents
Where it stands apart
- How is the main thing licensed? open parts around a closed core (5% of 19 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? big company side project (0% of 18 others)
- Which coding agents does it give install steps for? one agent (21% of 19 others)
- What work is it for? a mix across many areas (16% of 19 others)
- Where does its know-how mainly come from? a vendor documenting its own product (0% of 19 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Is it actively maintained? active (74% of 19 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? yes (95% of 19 others)
- Do you need an account to use it? no account (95% of 19 others)
- Who is it for? developers (79% of 19 others)
- Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? Agent Skills (SKILL.md) (74% of 19 others)
- What is most of it, whatever it's packaged as? Agent Skills (SKILL.md folders), even if packaged as a plugin (63% of 19 others)
- How big is it? a large bundle (more than 10) (58% of 19 others)
- Does it need an outside service beyond the agent and its model? no (74% of 19 others)
- Does it send usage data to its maker? none documented (84% of 19 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Whetstone 71% of 17 shared answers match
- agent-skills (implement-spec) 65% of 17 shared answers match
- Claude Skills Starter Kit 65% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | active | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | stands apart open parts around a closed core Many skills are Apache-2.0 (e.g. skill-creator), but the document skills that power Claude's file features are source-available under Anthropic's terms ('All rights reserved'). No repo-wide license. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | stands apart big company side project Anthropic company repo; the skills support Claude's paid products, but the repo itself earns nothing. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes The pack runs locally in Claude Code; Claude itself needs Anthropic's API. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | Agent Skills (SKILL.md) Reference SKILL.md skills from the format's originator. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which coding agents does it give install steps for? | stands apart one agent Written for Claude (Claude Code, Claude.ai, API). The SKILL.md format it defined is read by many other agents. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What is most of it, whatever it's packaged as? | Agent Skills (SKILL.md folders), even if packaged as a plugin | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly installed? | a plugin marketplace command | source 2026-10-26 |
| How big is it? | a large bundle (more than 10) 19 skill folders on 2026-10-26. | source 2026-10-26 |
| What work is it for? | stands apart a mix across many areas | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it need an outside service beyond the agent and its model? | no | source 2026-10-26 |
| How does it get the agent to follow it? | instructions plus scripts or checks the agent is told to run Several skills (docx, pdf, xlsx) ship Python scripts the model calls. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where does its know-how mainly come from? | stands apart a vendor documenting its own product | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it publish evidence that it makes agents better? | no README presents them as demonstrations; no evals published. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it send usage data to its maker? | none documented | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/anthropics/skills · read 2026-10-25
- GitHub · github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/docx/LICENSE.txt · collected 2026-10-26
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