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The 25 best Claude skills (2026)

Claude skills are reusable SKILL.md instructions that extend Claude Code with specialized capabilities. The best ones encode hard-won workflow knowledge, how to review code, generate tests, handle a deployment, into a portable file you can install in one command. Below are 25 of the most-installed and highest-rated Claude skills on skills-hub.ai right now, ranked by adoption and grouped by what they do.

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How this list is ranked

Skills are sorted by install count on skills-hub.ai, filtered to skills that publish a Claude Code platform tag and have passed our automated security scan. Every skill links to its detail page where you'll see the security grade, version history, upstream GitHub source (when applicable), and the install command.

The list

  1. 01.code-review

    658 installs

    Thorough code review — checks correctness, security, performance, readability, and test coverage. Gives actionable feedback ranked by severity.

    Review
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install code-review

  2. 02.ui-design-system

    355 installs

    UI design system toolkit for Senior UI Designer including design token generation, component documentation, responsive design calculations, and developer handoff tools. Use when creating design systems, generating design tokens, maintaining visual consistency, or facilitating design-dev collaboration and developer handoff.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-ui-design-system

  3. 03.senior-frontend

    297 installs

    Frontend development skill for React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS applications. Use when building React components, optimizing Next.js performance, analyzing bundle sizes, scaffolding frontend projects, implementing accessibility, or reviewing frontend code quality.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-senior-frontend

  4. 04.frontend-design

    213 installs

    Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defaults.

    Buildfrom Anthropic
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install anthropic-frontend-design

  5. 05.web-research-agent

    159 installs

    A comprehensive autonomous web research agent that performs targeted searches, fetches and parses web content, summarizes findings, and generates structured reports, adhering to industry best practices for accuracy, security, and robustness.

    Analysis
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install web-research-agent

  6. 06.Skill Finder

    147 installs

    Workflow orchestrator. Decomposes a task into ordered steps, finds or installs the right skill for each step, runs the chain, and offers to save it as a reusable skill.

    Combo
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install skill-finder

  7. 07.markitdown

    143 installs

    Converts heterogeneous documents and selected URIs to Markdown with Microsoft MarkItDown for text analysis, search, and LLM/RAG ingestion. Covers safe local conversion, streams, Office/PDF/data formats, batch workflows, plugins, vision OCR, Azure extraction, and the official MCP server.

    Researchfrom Scientific Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install scientific-skills-markitdown

  8. 08.senior-backend

    137 installs

    Designs and implements backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, database architectures, authentication flows, and security hardening. Use when the user asks to "design REST APIs", "optimize database queries", "implement authentication", "build microservices", "review backend code", "set up GraphQL", "handle database migrations", or "load test APIs". Covers Node.js/Express/Fastify development, PostgreSQL optimization, API security, and backend architecture patterns.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-senior-backend

  9. 09.security-review

    121 installs

    Security audit and vulnerability assessment for any codebase. Scans for authentication bypasses, missing auth middleware, broken JWT validation (algorithm confusion, weak secrets, missing expiry), OAuth state and PKCE flaws, IDOR and horizontal privilege escalation.

    Reviewfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install security-review

  10. 10.self-improving-agent

    121 installs

    Curate Claude Code's auto-memory into durable project knowledge. Analyze MEMORY.md for patterns, promote proven learnings to CLAUDE.md and .claude/rules/, extract recurring solutions into reusable skills. Use when: (1) reviewing what Claude has learned about your project, (2) graduating a pattern from notes to enforced rules, (3) turning a debugging solution into a skill, (4) checking memory health and capacity.

    Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-self-improving-agent

  11. 11.refactor

    111 installs

    Systematic code refactoring — extract functions, reduce complexity, eliminate duplication, improve naming, and split large files. Preserves behavior with tests.

    Review
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install refactor

  12. 12.using-superpowers

    101 installs

    Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions

    Buildfrom Superpowers
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install superpowers-using-superpowers

  13. 13.unit-test

    100 installs

    Generate comprehensive unit tests with edge cases, error paths, and boundary values. Triggers: you need to add unit tests, increase code coverage, test edge cases, or verify error handling paths.

    Testfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install unit-test

  14. 14.design-to-code

    86 installs

    Turn a design into production-quality frontend code: extract a design system with tokens and components, make layouts responsive across breakpoints, add dark mode with WCAG-compliant theming, then run a UX audit to validate everything..

    Combofrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install design-to-code

  15. 15.social-media-manager

    85 installs

    When the user wants to develop social media strategy, plan content calendars, manage community engagement, or grow their social presence across platforms. Also use when the user mentions 'social media strategy,' 'social calendar,' 'community management,' 'social media plan,' 'grow followers,' 'engagement rate,' 'social media audit,' or 'which platforms should I use.' For writing individual social posts, see social-content. For analyzing social performance data, see social-media-analyzer.

    Marketingfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-social-media-manager

  16. 16.quickstart

    81 installs

    Zero to power user in one invoke — detects OS, installs Homebrew/apt/Node.js/Python, sets up Claude Code, authenticates skills-hub CLI, connects MCP servers, and installs recommended skills based on your project..

    Productivity
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install quickstart

  17. 17.pptx

    76 installs

    Use this skill any time a .pptx or .potx file is involved in any way — as input, output, or both. This includes: creating slide decks, pitch decks, or presentations; reading, parsing, or extracting text from any .pptx or .potx file (even if the extracted content will be used elsewhere, like in an email or summary); editing, modifying, or updating existing presentations; combining or splitting slide files; working with templates (.potx), layouts, speaker notes, or comments. Trigger whenever the user mentions "deck," "slides," "presentation," or references a .pptx or .potx filename, regardless of what they plan to do with the content afterward. If a .pptx or .potx file needs to be opened, created, or touched, use this skill.

    Creativefrom Anthropic
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install anthropic-pptx

  18. 18.marketing-strategy-pmm

    63 installs

    Product marketing skill for positioning, GTM strategy, competitive intelligence, and product launches. Use when the user asks about product positioning, go-to-market planning, competitive analysis, target audience definition, ICP definition, market research, launch plans, or sales enablement. Covers April Dunford positioning, ICP definition, competitive battlecards, launch playbooks, and international market entry. Produces deliverables including positioning statements, battlecard documents, launch plans, and go-to-market strategies.

    Marketingfrom Multi-Domain Skills
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install alirezarezvani-marketing-strategy-pmm

  19. 19.web-game

    53 installs

    Scaffolds a browser-based game with Phaser 3, PixiJS, or Three.js including game loop, asset pipeline, responsive canvas, input handling, audio, save/load, and deployment to itch.io or web. Triggers: on: "web game", "browser game", "html5 game", "phaser game", "pixi game".

    Buildfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install web-game

  20. 20.humanizer

    52 installs

    Multi-pass editor that removes AI-writing tells from drafted content — eliminates filler phrases, balances sentence length, restores opinion and voice, and strips em-dash overuse so posts sound human and opinionated rather than ChatGPT-generic..

    Analysisfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install humanizer

  21. 21.security-audit

    48 installs

    Scan a codebase for security vulnerabilities — OWASP Top 10, secrets in code, dependency CVEs, auth flaws, injection risks, and misconfigurations. Fixes what it finds.

    Review
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install security-audit

  22. 22.orca-cli

    45 installs

    Operate Orca-managed worktrees, folder contexts, terminals, repos, automations, artifacts, skill sharing, worktree comments, and Orca's embedded browser through the `orca` CLI. Use when the user says "$orca-cli", "Orca worktree", "child worktree", "spawn codex/claude in a worktree", "read/wait/send Orca terminal", "handoff" / "handover" / "give this to another agent", "Orca browser", "orca artifacts", or "share skills". Prefer it over raw git worktree, ad hoc PTYs, or Computer Use when Orca state is involved. Use Computer Use only when a visible window needs GUI control that a CLI, filesystem, or API cannot do.

    Buildfrom Orca (Stably)
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install orca-stably-orca-cli

  23. 23.design-audit

    43 installs

    Comprehensive autonomous design quality audit across accessibility (WCAG 2.2), performance, theming, responsive/adaptive design, and anti-pattern detection. Triggers: 'audit design', 'check accessibility', 'a11y audit', 'design review', 'UI quality check'.

    UXfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install design-audit

  24. 24.design-animate

    42 installs

    Add purposeful motion to interfaces using modern CSS — scroll-driven animations, view transitions, @starting-style, and GPU-accelerated transforms. Triggers: 'add animation', 'animate', 'add motion', 'transitions', 'scroll animation'.

    UXfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install design-animate

  25. 25.design-polish

    39 installs

    Final autonomous quality pass before shipping. Fixes alignment, spacing, consistency, typography hierarchy, color harmony, motion timing, and every micro-detail that separates good from great..

    UXfrom Skills Hub
    $ npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install design-polish

Installing any Claude skill

Pick a skill above, copy its install command, and run it from your project root. The CLI writes the SKILL.md to .claude/skills/ and tracks the install in .skills.json so your team gets the same skills at the same versions.

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