Agent skills
Anthropic Skills
Anthropic’s example skill collection, including reusable technical and business workflows. Open-source examples and source-available document skills have different licensing scopes.
Overview
Research summary
Anthropic Skills contains examples of packaging domain knowledge and repeatable procedures for skills-compatible agents. The repository includes technical, creative, and business-oriented skills, together with templates showing how instructions can reference supporting files and executable helpers. These packages extend a host agent; they are not themselves a replacement for the model, client, or permission system that loads them.
The README presents them as demonstration and educational material and cautions that behavior in commercial Claude products may differ from the examples. Licensing is not uniform across the repository. Many example skills are Apache 2.0, while the DOCX, PDF, PowerPoint, and spreadsheet document skills are explicitly described as source-available rather than open source.
Consumers should inspect the license within the selected skill instead of applying a single permissive license to the whole collection.
Repository summary
- Stars
- 176,640
- Open issues
- Unavailable
- Last push
- 2026-09-10
- Commits, 90 days
- Unavailable
- Repository activity
- Not scored
- Version
- Unavailable
Recorded catalogue figures. View repository data and provenance →
Classification
Pricing & services
Paid services unknown
Whether the provider offers paid products or services has not been established.
Licence scope
DOCX, PDF, PPTX and XLSX skills have their own source-available terms. Check the license in each selected skill directory.
Implementation
Recorded implementation details and interfaces for Anthropic Skills.
Implementation details
Markdown skills and supporting scripts, including Python
- Languages
- Python
- Repository type
- source
Recorded interfaces and capabilities
Licence scope
DOCX, PDF, PPTX and XLSX skills have their own source-available terms. Check the license in each selected skill directory.
Repository
Repository snapshots, release information and recorded maintenance signals.
Repository snapshot
- Stars
- 176,640
- Open issues
- Unavailable
- Last push
- 2026-09-10
- Commits, 90 days
- Unavailable
- Repository activity
- Not scored
- Archived
- Not recorded
Repository activity is a snapshot, not a quality or popularity ranking. It combines recent-push freshness (50%), 90-day commits (30%) and issue pressure (20%).
Maintenance and provenance
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
- Stars source
- Recorded fallback
- Last push source
- Recorded fallback
Documentation
Recorded references and research provenance for this entry.
Recorded sources 4
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills Project page · Linked repository · Research reference
- https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/README.md Research reference
- https://github.com/stars/angelcervera/lists/ai Research reference
- https://api.github.com/repos/anthropics/skills Research reference
Research metadata
- Research date
- 2026-09-16
- Catalogue snapshot
- 2026-10-06
Community & social 1 channels
Communities
- GitHub Discussionsgithub.com/anthropics/skills/discussionsOfficialDiscussion
Link details for GitHub Discussions
- Access
- Public
- Last checked
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