Anthropic Agent Skills

anthropics/skills is Anthropic's public repository for Claude skills. It contains example skills, document skills, an Agent Skills specification pointer, a minimal template skill, and Claude Code plugin marketplace instructions.

Use this listing for Anthropic's own public skills repository and reference materials. Use narrower entries when evaluating a single community skill, third-party skill pack, MCP server, or tool.

Knowledge Freshness

Claude Code plugin behavior, Claude.ai skill availability, Claude API skill endpoints, and the Agent Skills specification can change. Verify current Anthropic support docs, Claude API docs, and the live https://agentskills.io/specification page before building production automation around repository examples.

The repository README says these skills demonstrate patterns and possibilities, and that implementations or behaviors in Claude products may differ. Treat the repository as a source-backed reference, not a guarantee that every listed skill is available or identical in every Claude surface.

Retrieval Sources

This listing is grounded in:

• The upstream anthropics/skills README.
• Representative SKILL.md files for mcp-builder and skill-creator.
• The template SKILL.md for the minimal required skill structure.
• The repository spec pointer to the Agent Skills specification.
• Current GitHub repository metadata.

Core Workflow

Register the repository as a Claude Code plugin marketplace:

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills

Install a plugin from that marketplace:

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

After installation, invoke a skill by task. For example:

Use the PDF skill to extract the form fields from path/to/file.pdf.

Claude.ai users can use built-in/example skills where available on paid plans, and Claude API users can use pre-built or custom skills through Anthropic's Skills API workflow.

Capability Scope

The README organizes the repository into:

Skill examples include document formats such as docx, pdf, pptx, and xlsx, plus development-oriented examples such as mcp-builder, skill-creator, webapp-testing, and claude-api.

The README states that many skills are open source under Apache 2.0, while the document creation and editing skills under docx, pdf, pptx, and xlsx are source-available references rather than open source.

Production Rules

• Treat this repository as a reference and demo collection unless a specific Claude surface documents production support for the exact skill.
• Test skills thoroughly in your own environment before relying on them for critical workflows.
• Review document outputs, generated files, and transformed data before sharing or publishing.
• Review generated MCP servers for authentication, tool permissions, transport choices, error handling, and evaluation coverage before deployment.
• Do not copy example skills into internal plugins without checking license, source-availability, data-handling, and security requirements.
• Keep customer documents, secrets, regulated data, and proprietary workflows out of public examples, issues, screenshots, and committed custom skills.

Use Cases

• Install Anthropic's document skills in Claude Code for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, or XLSX workflows where available.
• Use mcp-builder as a reference workflow for planning, implementing, and evaluating a high-quality MCP server.
• Use skill-creator to understand the structure, iteration loop, and testing approach for custom skills.
• Browse the template skill when creating a minimal SKILL.md.
• Use the repository to learn how Claude skills package instructions, scripts, references, and assets.

Source Review

Verified on 2026-06-18:

• The README describes skills as folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically for specialized tasks.
• The README says the repository contains Anthropic's implementation of skills for Claude and points the Agent Skills standard to agentskills.io.
• The README documents Claude Code plugin marketplace installation with /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills and direct installs for document-skills and example-skills.
• The README describes Claude.ai paid-plan usage and Claude API skill creation through Anthropic docs.
• The mcp-builder skill describes MCP server design, tool naming, context management, SDK choices, testing with MCP Inspector, and evaluation creation.
• The skill-creator skill describes drafting, testing, evaluating, and iterating custom skills with SKILL.md, scripts, references, and assets.
• The template skill shows the minimal name and description frontmatter.
• The repository README distinguishes open-source example skills from source-available document skills.

Duplicate Review

Checked current content/skills/, content/tools/, content/mcp/, content/agents/, open pull requests, and repository-wide content for anthropics/skills, Anthropic Agent Skills, Claude Code skills, Claude API skills, mcp-builder, skill-creator, document skills, and Agent Skills specification. Existing content discusses Anthropic skills generally and covers some skill-authoring concepts, but no dedicated anthropics/skills repository entry, exact source URL duplicate, target file, or open duplicate PR was found.

Disclosure

Editorial listing. No paid placement or affiliate link is used. The repository is maintained by Anthropic and includes mixed open-source and source-available skill materials as described in the upstream README.