Using Existing Skills

Actually, there are already many Skills that people have created in the market.

For example, the Claude Skills officially provided by Anthropic:https://github.com/anthropics/skills 。

This repository is Anthropic's official Claude skills collection, paired with the Agent Skills open standard. It supports dynamic loading to extend AI-specific capabilities. The skills cover design, development, enterprise office work, and all categories of document editing. Most are open source, and the underlying document capabilities are for source code reference only.

We can register this repository as a plugin marketplace for Claude Code by simply executing the following command in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

Then you can use it/plugin View:

Steps to install a specific skill set:

  • Browse and install plugins
  • Select the anthropic-agent-skills plugin source

  • Select document-skills (document skills) or example-skills (example skills)

  • Click Install now

We can also directly install the above two types of plugins via commands:

/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills

Note:The skills directory installed using the plugin is located at~/claude/plugins/marketplaces/under.

After the plugin installation is complete, you need to restart Claude Code.

When using it, you only need to mention the skill name in the instruction to invoke it. For example, after installing the document-skills plugin, you can give Claude Code the instruction:

使用 PDF 技能提取 path/to/some-file.pdf 文件中的表单字段

Or create a PPT:

创建一个 Agent Skill 的演示文稿

You can see that it invoked/document-skills:pptx:

Start generating:

Afterward, it will tell you the location of the generated file:


Agent Skills Related Resources Compilation

Resource Description Link
Skills Aggregation Entry https://skills.sh/
Skills Marketplace (Chinese Interface) https://skillsmp.com/zh
Agent Skills Official Standard Site https://agentskills.io
Anthropic Official Engineering Article (Agent Skills Hands-on Concepts) https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills
VS Code Copilot Agent Skills Documentation https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/agent-skills
Anthropic Official Skills GitHub Repository https://github.com/anthropics/skills
Claude Skills Curated List (Awesome Series) https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills
Software Development Automation Workflow Skills Collection https://github.com/obra/superpowers
The Skill that Automatically Generates Skills (Official Example) https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator
Other Extensions