---
slug: "anthropic-skills"
name: "Anthropic Agent Skills"
effect: "Provides Anthropic's example Agent Skills, the document skills behind Claude, and the skills spec"
category: "devtool"
url: "https://github.com/anthropics/skills"
github: "anthropics/skills"
pricing: "open-source"
license: "Set per skill: most are Apache-2.0; docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx are source-available under Anthropic's terms"
tags: ["agent-skills", "claude", "claude-code", "examples", "documents"]
platforms: ["claude-code"]
install_kind: "cli"
date_added: "2026-10-14"
drop_score: 73
stars: 181173
pushed_at: "2026-10-09T18:45:52Z"
signals_status: "ok"
signals_fetched_at: "2026-10-15T01:18:53.715Z"
page: "https://agenttooldrop.com/tools/anthropic-skills"
---

# Anthropic Agent Skills

Provides Anthropic's example Agent Skills, the document skills behind Claude, and the skills spec

Category: Devtools. Pricing: Open source. License: Set per skill: most are Apache-2.0; docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx are source-available under Anthropic's terms.

Platforms: claude-code.

## Why you would want it

Skills are folders with a SKILL.md file of instructions and metadata, plus optional scripts and resources, that Claude loads dynamically for specialized tasks. This repo collects Anthropic's examples across creative, technical and enterprise work (for example mcp-builder, webapp-testing, skill-creator and frontend-design), the docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx skills that power Claude's document features, a skill template and the Agent Skills specification. In Claude Code you can add the repo as a plugin marketplace and install document-skills or example-skills.

## Best for

- Learning how to write a skill
- Adding document skills to Claude Code
- Starting a new skill from a template

## Use it when

You are writing your own skills and want working patterns to copy, or you want Anthropic's document and example skills in Claude Code.

## Skip it if

You want production-ready behavior: Anthropic says these skills are for demonstration and education and may differ from what Claude does. The document skills' license forbids copying them outside Anthropic's services or making derivative works.

## Install

Add as a Claude Code plugin marketplace:

```sh
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
```

Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills#readme

## Live signals

Fetched 2026-10-15T01:18:53.715Z (status: ok).

- Repository: anthropics/skills
- Stars: 181,173
- Forks: 21,442
- Open issues and PRs: 1,411
- License (GitHub): none detected
- Last push: 2026-10-09
- Latest release: none

## Links

- Website: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- GitHub: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- Install instructions verified at: https://github.com/anthropics/skills#readme
- Source for this entry: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- AgentToolDrop page: https://agenttooldrop.com/tools/anthropic-skills
- Full catalog (JSON): https://agenttooldrop.com/tools.json