The Vibeary — round-up
Best AI agent skills and skill collections
Skills are the highest-return investment in agent work: a well-written skill turns generic model output into something that follows your conventions, and it costs nothing at inference time beyond the tokens it loads. This shelf tracks the collections worth installing — engineering workflow packs, design-judgment skills that stop an agent producing template-shaped UI, security and testing skills, and the marketplaces where new ones appear. Read them before you install them; a skill is a prompt with your name on it.
What earned a place
- Written from real failures rather than speculation
- Scoped: one skill, one job, clear trigger conditions
- Readable source you can audit and adapt
- Maintained as agent tooling changes
24 picks from the library
- 01
/awwwards
Agent skill that turns a one-line brief into a concept-led site with GSAP, Lenis and WebGL, then screenshots and scores it until each category hits 8/10.
Why it made the list: Ships with /jury, a blind Awwwards-style critic calibrated against real Site of the Day scores.
Design skillsMIT@juliobszgithub.com
- 02
3Dviz Pro Max
Agent skill that turns an idea into an explorAble Three.js or Blender scene, with hundreds of recipes and runnable studies.
Why it made the list: Gives coding agents a full 3D visualization playbook, not a single prompt.
Design skillsMIT@viettranx3dviz.dev
- 03
ALIGN
Agentic loop where coding agents draw in p5.js, then refine via adversarial visual review — skills for Claude Code and Codex.
Why it made the list: Image generation as readable source you can replay, without a diffusion model.
Individual skillsMIT@wanshuiyinwanshuiyin.github.io
- 04
Anima
Claude Code skill that builds standalone interactive isometric biology figures, like dopamine synapses or GLP-1 on a beta cell, with toggles and a citation for every number.
Why it made the list: Science explainers that cite their sources and label what is established versus one leading model.
Individual skillsMIT@Garinmckaylgithub.com
- 05
Answer me with HTML
Agent skill that turns hard questions into a readable one-page offline HTML explainer, rendered by a bundled CLI from a short Markdown draft.
Why it made the list: Readable explainer pages instead of walls of text, using about an eighth of the tokens.
Individual skillsMITCyan (QingYunA)github.com
- 06
anthropics/skills
Anthropic's official skill repo: docx, pptx, xlsx, pdf, canvas-design, algorithmic-art, mcp-builder, webapp-testing and skill-creator.
Why it made the list: canvas-design and algorithmic-art are wildly underused by designers who only know the doc skills.
Skill collectionsopen-sourceAnthropicgithub.com
- 07
anything2explainer
Claude Code and Codex skill that turns any topic into a Remotion motion-graphics explainer with TTS, subtitles, and QC.
Why it made the list: Full agent pipeline from research to rendered film, not another generative-video wrapper.
Individual skillsPolyForm NoncommercialVincentwei1021github.com
- 08
avoid-ai-writing
Skill with a detection engine that strips AI-isms, filler transitions and hedging from generated prose.
Why it made the list: Detection-then-rewrite loop, not just a 'write naturally' instruction that gets ignored.
Individual skillsopen-sourceConor Bronsdon (@conorbronsdon)github.com
- 09
awesome-agents-md
Curated real-world AGENTS.md files, templates, guides and tooling for Codex-style and cross-vendor agents.
Why it made the list: AGENTS.md is becoming the cross-vendor standard and this is the only real corpus.
Agent rulesopen-source@Ischcagithub.com
- 10
awesome-claude-code-plugins
Curated list of Claude Code slash commands, subagents, MCP servers and hooks packaged as installable plugins.
Why it made the list: Over a hundred plugins in one marketplace you can add with a single command.
Claude Code pluginsopen-source@ccpluginsgithub.com
- 11
awesome-claude-code-toolkit
Sprawling toolkit bundling agents, skills, commands, plugins, hooks, rules, templates and MCP configs in one repo.
Why it made the list: Single clone gives you a whole configured agent environment to strip for parts.
Claude Code pluginsopen-sourceRohit Ghumare (@rohitg00)github.com
- 12
awesome-claude-plugins
Community-maintained list of plugins extending Claude Code with commands, agents, hooks and MCP servers.
Why it made the list: Second opinion on plugin quality from a team that ships integrations daily.
Claude Code pluginsopen-sourceComposio Communitygithub.com
- 13
awesome-claude-skills (Composio)
Alternative curated list of Claude Skills, resources and tooling maintained by the Composio team with workflow-oriented grouping.
Why it made the list: Different curation taste from the other awesome lists, so different repos surface.
Skill collectionsopen-sourceComposio (@ComposioHQ)github.com
- 14
awesome-claude-skills (travisvn)
Curated index of official and community Claude Skills with per-entry notes, plus authoring tools and marketplaces for skills.
Why it made the list: Densest single harvest point for individual skill repos, not just the famous ones.
Skill collectionsopen-source@travisvngithub.com
- 15
awesome-cursor-rules-mdc
Machine-generated .mdc rule files derived from library documentation, one rule set per package.
Why it made the list: Auto-derived from real docs, so rules stay accurate as libraries evolve.
Agent rulesopen-source@sanjeed5github.com
- 16
awesome-cursorrules
Large collection of .cursorrules and .mdc rule files organised by framework and language for Cursor and Windsurf.
Why it made the list: Still the biggest rule corpus; most rules port straight to CLAUDE.md.
Agent rulesopen-sourcePatrickJS (@PatrickJS)github.com
- 17
big-arrow-on-the-screen
macOS CLI plus Claude Code and Codex skill that lets agents draw big click-through arrows, boxes and text over any window, then vanish.
Why it made the list: Gives your agent a finger: it points at the exact button you need to click.
Individual skillsMITFranz Enzenhofergithub.com
- 18
birdview
Agent skill that maps architecture and planned file scope into a standalone HTML page before any code edit starts.
Why it made the list: Catches wrong-scope AI changes on a system map, not after the diff.
Individual skillsMIT@Qiunergithub.com
- 19
Brad Frost Skills
Agent skills from Brad Frost covering design-system inspection, product health, DS adoption plans, and enforceable AI-usage limits.
Why it made the list: Atomic Design author's inspection stations, plus quiet-hours the agent actually honours.
Design skillsMITBrad Frostgithub.com
- 20
Brands DESIGN.md
Library of DESIGN.md files capturing real brand design systems — colour, type, spacing — in a format coding agents can read directly.
Why it made the list: Hand an agent a brand's actual system instead of describing it in prose.
Agent rulesunknown@ricoccgithub.com
- 21
cc-thinking-skills
Thinking-framework skills with a meta-router that picks the right reasoning approach for the problem at hand.
Why it made the list: Meta-routing between reasoning styles is a pattern almost nobody has shipped.
Skill collectionsopen-source@tjboudreauxgithub.com
- 22
Chess Post-mortem Skills
Claude Code skills that turn a Lichess game plus think-aloud audio into Stockfish-checked annotated PGN, HTML board, and narrated video.
Why it made the list: Solo craft that makes engine analysis actually teachable, with real demo videos.
Individual skillsMIT@brumargithub.com
- 23
Chinese Font Selector
Agent skill for picking CJK typefaces: licence-tiered commercial-safe font list, scene-by-mood selection matrix, and CJK–Latin pairing rules.
Why it made the list: Stops agents defaulting to Inter for Chinese layouts; licence status is baked in.
Design skillsMIT@Songzhi-labgithub.com
- 24
Claude Code mods
Marketplace of hook-based Claude Code plugins: context bar, usage meter, review watcher, Markdown preview, rm -rf blast radius, Spotify now-playing and more.
Why it made the list: Install one mod at a time to make Claude Code show what it is doing.
Claude Code pluginsMIT@hamzafergithub.com
Questions
- Do skills work outside Claude Code?
- Many are portable — they are structured markdown instructions. Some assume a specific runner's file layout or hooks.
- How many skills should I install?
- Fewer than you want to. Every loaded skill competes for attention; install the ones matching work you actually do weekly.