Claude Code · Skills Catalogue
Claude Code Skills — the Licence-Safe Directory
56 skills, subagents, and slash commands from 8 repos with explicit permissive licences. Every entry is safe to copy into your .claude/ directory.
Catalogue verified April 21, 2026
The short answer
The biggest community list — awesome-claude-code — is CC BY-NC-ND. You can link to it but cannot republish entries. This directory is the opposite: every skill comes from a repo with an MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, CC0, or Unlicense licence. Copy, fork, adapt — no legal friction. Start with the High-signal tier; those earn their keep daily.
Showing 56 of 56 skills · 12 from community repos · 43 originals · 1 from anthropics/skills
Commit Helper
High signalStages relevant changes, writes a conventional-commit message, and pushes — in one command.
PR Open
High signalOpens a pull request with a structured description drawn from the full commit range, not just the latest commit.
PR Review
High signalRuns a complete pull request review covering security, test coverage, documentation, code quality, and performance impact in one workflow.
Security Audit
High signalSenior security auditor subagent for comprehensive security assessments, compliance audits, and risk evaluations across systems, infrastructure, and processes.
Test Writer
SolidGenerates unit tests for a specific function or module with sensible edge cases — happy path, sad path, and 2-3 boundary cases.
Content Writer
High signalDrafts a blog post, newsletter, or landing page from a brief — using the site's established voice.
Content Researcher
High signalDeep research subagent for Bryan Collins' content operation — gathers sources, frameworks, statistics and competitive analysis for articles, newsletters and YouTube scripts. Research only, no writing.
Brand Voice Analyzer
SolidApplies, documents, or enforces brand guidelines — colour systems, typography, logo rules, imagery, and tone matrix — to keep marketing materials, products, and communications visually and verbally consistent.
Copywriting Specialist
SolidWrites, rewrites, and improves marketing copy for homepage, landing, pricing, feature, about, and product pages — clear, compelling, action-driving copy grounded in conversion-copywriting principles.
Headline Lab
SolidGenerates 10 headline variants against different frameworks (curiosity, benefit, controversy, listicle, how-to) and ranks them by predicted CTR and LLM-citability.
Ghostwrite In Voice
SituationalDrafts in a specific author's voice after reading 3-5 of their pieces — with attribution-safe output for transparent ghostwriting.
Twitter Algorithm Optimizer
SituationalAnalyses and rewrites tweets for maximum reach using insights from Twitter's open-source recommendation algorithm.
SEO Audit
High signalAudits, reviews, and diagnoses SEO issues across technical SEO, on-page SEO, and content — identifying what's blocking indexation or ranking and producing a prioritised action plan.
AEO Citability Check
High signalScores a page for LLM-citability — direct answers, quote-ready structure, source attribution and FAQ coverage — on a 0-100 scale with specific improvement suggestions.
Schema Generator
SolidGenerates JSON-LD schema markup for a page — Article, FAQPage, HowTo, Product, SoftwareApplication, BreadcrumbList.
Internal Link Mapper
SolidSuggests contextual internal links for a page by scanning the rest of the site for topically-relevant anchors and proposing exact insertion points.
Meta Rewrite
SolidRewrites a page's meta title and description for CTR on a specified target query — producing three variants of each with distinct angles.
Deploy to Netlify
High signalBuilds and deploys Vendors.ie via git push to main, which triggers Netlify's auto-deploy — no Netlify CLI used.
Netlify Status
SolidChecks the latest Netlify deploy for all sites (or a specific site if named) via the Netlify API and reports ready/building/error state.
Preview Server
SolidStarts the Vendors.ie Astro dev server for local preview on port 4321, killing any existing Astro dev server first.
Kubernetes Architect
SituationalExpert Kubernetes architect for cloud-native infrastructure, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux), and enterprise container orchestration across EKS, AKS, GKE, and OKE.
Competitor Scan
SolidScrapes 3-5 competitor pages on the same topic, compares their stance, and identifies content gaps plus differentiation angles.
Academic Brief
SituationalSummarises 3-5 academic papers on a single topic into a plain-English brief listing the core claim, method and limitations of each paper.
Doc to Markdown
SolidConverts DOCX, PDF, PPTX, and XLSX to high-quality markdown with automatic post-processing — fixing tables, image paths, code blocks, and CJK bold spacing that raw converters miss.
Meeting Insights Analyzer
SituationalAnalyses meeting transcripts and recordings to uncover behavioural patterns, communication habits, and actionable feedback on how you lead and listen.
Pivot Sweep
High signalSweeps CTAs, URLs or brand terms across a repo under a tier-based policy — keep some, swap others, leave the rest for review.
Copy Align
High signalGreps for residual outdated copy across a repo after a pivot — catching prose that escaped the CTA sweep.
Drift Check
High signalVerifies a project's reference data — prices, models, dependencies — against upstream sources and flags staleness.
Retire Model
SituationalAutomates the model lifecycle — promoting entries from current to legacy to deprecated to retired as their dates pass, and stripping references from content pages once a model is gone.
Site Health Check
High signalRuns a battery of drift and regression checks specific to one site — CTA routing, residual outdated prose, reference-data freshness, retired-model statuses, hub cross-linking and stray backup files under pages/.
Hub Link Check
SolidVerifies that every page in a defined content hub links to the other pages in that hub — catches missing cross-links that break SEO topical authority and user journeys.
Skill Creator
SolidCreates new skills from scratch, iterates on existing ones, and runs evals to benchmark performance with variance analysis before you ship.
SKILL.md Template
High signalThe canonical SKILL.md template from Anthropic's official skills repo — a folder with YAML frontmatter (name + description) plus the markdown instructions Claude follows when the skill is active.
Skill Tester
SituationalDry-runs a skill against a test input to verify trigger detection, output shape and side-effect safety before you ship it.
Legal Sweep
High signalAudits a site for a legal disclaimer page and footer link, creates /legal-disclaimer and wires it in immediately after Privacy Policy when missing. Stack-agnostic across Next.js Pages Router, Astro and WordPress (WP skipped).
Dependency Audit
SolidChecks every project dependency's licence — flags GPL contamination, commercially-incompatible licences and missing attribution.
Vendor Add
High signalAdds a new vendor to the Vendors.ie directory — generating the JSON data file, wiring it into the relevant category listing, and confirming the detail page renders.
Vendor Verify
SolidVerifies a vendor's stored data against their live website — pricing, Revenue/ROS integration, PAYE Modernisation, Irish bank feeds, GDPR data residency, Irish support and free trial availability.
Site Picker
High signalPresents a numbered list of 20 sites, loads the relevant memory file, and runs parallel git and gh checks to surface a session brief with sync status, open PRs and recent activity.
GitHub Actions Audit
SolidAudits GitHub Actions across 18 Flash Report and bryancollins99 repos for failures, timeouts and cancellations in the last 7 days.
QA Swarm
SolidLaunches 3-5 QA subagents in parallel against the current project, each auditing a distinct dimension, then synthesises findings into one report ranked by severity.
AI Endpoint Smoke Test
SituationalFires a Python urllib smoke test at the AI API endpoints on Vendors.ie, ReadingCurator and FluentAtDesk, flagging 500s and timeouts.
Dead Link Crawler
SolidCrawls a live site using a Python stdlib crawler and reports internal links returning 4xx/5xx status codes.
Core Web Vitals Check
SolidRuns Lighthouse against the homepage of each live site and reports Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, plus LCP, CLS and TBT for any flagged site.
Licence Checker
SolidVerifies the licence of a public repo (or a specific file within it) before you fork, republish or include content from it.
Changelog Generator
SolidGenerates a human-readable changelog between two git tags — grouped by feat, fix and refactor, with author attribution.
Branch Cleanup
SolidLists merged and stale local branches, deletes the safe ones, flags the rest.
Rebase Plan
SituationalDrafts a pick / squash / reword plan for git rebase -i to clean up a feature branch before PR.
Merge Conflict Walkthrough
SituationalWalks through each conflicted file in a merge or rebase — reads both sides, proposes a resolution, explains the rationale.
Skill Rename
SituationalRenames a skill’s slug everywhere — filename, frontmatter name, internal references, per-project overrides.
Prompt to Skill
SolidExtracts a recurring prompt from your chat history and scaffolds it as a new slash command.
Privacy Policy Check
SolidVerifies a privacy policy page exists, is linked from the footer, and has a lastUpdated date under 12 months.
Affiliate Disclosure Audit
SolidAudits a site’s content for affiliate and partnership disclosures per FTC / EU consumer rules.
Content Profile Loader
High signalLoads a site’s content-profile.md and monetisation-profile.md, injects them as a brief for content-production agents.
Site Monetisation Audit
SolidScans a site’s published content for missing monetisation hooks — affiliate links, CTAs, email opt-ins, internal links to money pages.
Cross-Site Linker
SituationalAdds cross-reference links between two sister sites when the content naturally pairs — e.g. a procurement post linking to a matching vendor category.
Browse by category
10 categories, skills ranked inside each by tier.
Git & version control
6Skills that handle commits, PRs, branching, and code history.
QA, review, security
5Skills that review code, run tests, and catch bugs before they ship.
Content production
6Skills that draft, edit, and repurpose written content.
SEO, AEO, LLM-citability
5Skills that improve search visibility and LLM citation rates.
Deploy & infrastructure
5Skills that handle builds, deploys, and runtime infra.
Research & analysis
5Skills that gather, summarise, and synthesise information.
Drift & regression monitoring
8Skills that catch decay in data, copy, and content over time.
Meta: skills that build skills
5Skills that help you write, test, and maintain other skills.
Legal & compliance
5Skills that check disclaimers, licences, and compliance gaps.
Domain & portfolio ops
6Skills for managing multiple sites, vendors, or brand surfaces.
Repos we excluded (and why)
Transparency about licence. If you're surprised a well-known repo is missing, this section probably explains it.
hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0No derivatives, no commercial reuse — safe to link, unsafe to republish entries.
Frequently asked
What is a Claude Code skill?+
A Claude Code skill is a reusable capability — a slash command, subagent, or skill file — that lives in your .claude/ directory and extends what Claude Code can do. Skills are markdown files with frontmatter describing when they fire and what they do. Unlike MCP servers (which add capabilities) or hooks (which enforce rules), skills package a workflow: 'when I type /commit, do these things'. Official spec: anthropics/skills on GitHub.
How is this catalogue different from awesome-claude-code?+
The biggest community catalogue — hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code (39.9k stars) — is licensed CC BY-NC-ND. You can link to it but cannot republish entries. This directory is the opposite: every skill is from a repo with an explicit permissive licence (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, CC0, Unlicense) that allows reuse. You can copy any skill here into your own .claude/ without legal friction.
Can I use these skills commercially?+
Yes, with attribution where the licence requires it. MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, CC0, and Unlicense all permit commercial use. MIT and Apache require you preserve the original copyright notice — so when you fork a skill, keep the 'Source: <author>' comment at the top. We exclude any skill from a repo with unclear or restrictive licensing.
How are skills different from subagents and slash commands?+
The lines blur. A slash command (~/.claude/commands/name.md) is a named prompt you invoke manually. A subagent (~/.claude/agents/name.md) is a specialist you hand work off to. A skill (~/.claude/skills/name/SKILL.md) is a bundle with richer frontmatter and sometimes scripts. This catalogue covers all three — what matters is the workflow, not the file type. See /skills-vs-mcp-vs-hooks for the deeper decision tree.
How often is this catalogue updated?+
Skills are re-verified quarterly. The lastVerified date is shown on the hub and on every skill page. Stars counts, last-commit dates, and source licence are checked on each re-verification. If a repo changes licence or goes dormant, entries are pulled or flagged.
How do I install a skill from this catalogue?+
Every skill page has a setup block — usually 2-4 steps. Typical flow: (1) save the .md file at ~/.claude/commands/<name>.md (or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md for bundled skills), (2) restart Claude Code, (3) invoke by typing the slash command. Full walkthrough on the Install guide page.
Can I submit a skill I've written?+
Not yet — this is a curated directory. If you've written a skill you want featured, publish it on GitHub with an MIT or Apache-2.0 licence, and mention @bryanjcollins on X with a link. Criteria for inclusion: clear licence, published for at least 30 days, at least one real-world use case, and not a duplicate of an existing entry.
Next steps
Two companion walkthroughs — one for installing, one for writing your own.
Install a skill in 60 seconds
Where each file lives (~/.claude/commands/, agents/, skills/), how to invoke, and how to keep attribution clean.
Build your own skill
The SKILL.md walkthrough — frontmatter fields, body structure, copy-paste template, and the three-pass testing loop before you trust it with real work.
Read the template walkthrough →Related reading
Skills complement MCP servers and hooks. The decision tree below walks through which extension type fits which problem.