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Open Source AI Video Production: OpenMontage Unveiled
World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.
Fata: AI-Powered Spaced Repetition for Coding Skills
Fata: AI Powered Spaced Repetition for Coding Skills In the dynamic world of software development, keeping up with the latest coding techniques and languages is…
NVIDIA SkillSpector: AI Security Scanner for Vulnerabilities
Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and security risks.
PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ Agentic Tools for Project Management
PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ agentic skills, commands, and plugins — from discovery to strategy, execution, launch, and growth.
Harness AI: Design Domain-Specific Agent Teams Efficiently
A meta-skill that designs domain-specific agent teams, defines specialized agents, and generates the skills they use.
Claude Code: 171 Structured Reasoning Skills for AI
Unlocking AI Potential with Claude's Structured Reasoning Skills Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized various industries, paving the way for innovative so…
AI Agents Enhanced with 754 Cybersecurity Skills
754 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 5 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND & NIST AI RMF · agentskills.io standard · Works with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI & 20+ platforms · 26 security domains · Apache 2.0
Harness Performance Optimization with affaan-m/ECC for AI Agents
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
Multica AI: Open-Source Managed Agents Platform for Teams
The open-source managed agents platform. Turn coding agents into real teammates — assign tasks, track progress, compound skills.
AI Coding Agents Enhance .NET and C# Skills on GitHub
Repository for skills to assist AI coding agents with .NET and C#
Improve Claude Code with Andrej Karpathy's Insights
A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.
Mastering Academic Research with AI: Write, Review, Revise
Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
AI Skills Arms Race: The Future of Automotive with TechCrunch Mobility
AI Skills Arms Race: The Future of Automotive The automotive industry is on the cusp of a transformative shift, driven by the integration of artificial intellig…
AI Coding Agents: Secure Skill Registry for Extending AI Tools
The secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents. Extend Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and more with absolute confidence.
Sx: Open-Source AI Skills and Commands Manager
Discover Sx: The Ultimate Open Source AI Skills and Commands Manager Introduction In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence, managing skills and comma…
Agent Skills: Public Repository for AI Tools on GitHub
Public repository for Agent Skills
AI Tool: K-Dense-AI Scientific Agent Skills for Research & Finance
A set of ready to use Agent Skills for research, science, engineering, analysis, finance and writing.
Agent Skills Evaluation Tool: Improve AI Outputs
Enhance AI Performance with Agent Skills Evaluation Tool In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), ensuring the accuracy and effectiven…
Top Production-Grade AI Coding Skills for Engineers
Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.
AI Tool Skills.sh: Revolutionizing Skill Development
AI Tool Skills.sh: Transforming Skill Development AI tool Skills.sh is an innovative platform designed to revolutionize the way individuals acquire and improve …
Join AI Saturdays: Learn Prompt Engineering for Free
Hey hey Running a small virtual group called AI Saturdays where we pick one practical AI skill per week and actually learn it together. This week: Prompt Engineering. Free, casual, no experience needed. [RSVP Link](https://www.meetup.com/chillnskill/events/314498981)
Claude Agent SDK: Web Browsing Tool for AI
Claude Agent SDK with a web browsing tool
Supabase Data Agents: Boosting Analytical Skills
Analytical skills for data agents running on Supabase
Superpowers AI Framework: Agentic Skills for Software Development
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
MaxHermes by Minimax: AI Agent for Skill Building
AI agent that builds skills from every task you give it
AI Tool: mattpocock/skills for Real Engineers
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory.
Top Codex Skills for Automating Workflows
A curated list of practical Codex skills for automating workflows across the Codex CLI and API.
NightCafe Studio: AI Art Creation for Everyone
Unleash AI-driven art creation, no skills required, endless styles.
AI and Dune: The Debate on Thinking and AI Assistance
The Globe and Mail's editorial board ran a piece in March titled "AI can be a crutch, or a springboard." To illustrate the crutch half, they offered this: someone asked AI to explain a passage from Dune that warns against delegating thinking to machines. Instead of reading the book. That anecdote is doing more work than the studies the editorial cites. But the studies are real. Researchers at MIT published a paper in June 2025 titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" (Kosmyna et al., arXiv 2506.08872). The study tracked brain activity across three groups: people writing with ChatGPT, people using search engines, and people working unaided. The LLM group showed the weakest neural connectivity. Over four months, "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." The most striking finding: LLM users struggled to accurately quote their own work. They couldn't recall what they had just written. The Globe cites this and similar research to make a point about dependency. The implicit argument: hand enough of your thinking to a machine and you stop doing it yourself. That finding is probably accurate for the way most people use these tools. The question is whether that's the only way they can be used. The Globe's own title contains the counter-argument. Crutch or springboard. They wrote both words. They just didn't develop the second one. Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton who has been writing about AI use since the tools became widely available, argued in 2023 that the real challenge AI poses to education isn't that students will stop thinking, it's that the old structures assumed thinking was hard enough to enforce. ("The Homework Apocalypse," [oneusefulthing.org](http://oneusefulthing.org), July 2023.) When AI can do the surface-level cognitive work, the only tasks left worth assigning are the ones that require actual judgment. The tool, in that framing, doesn't reduce the demand for thinking. It raises the floor under it. Nate B. Jones, who writes and consults on what it actually takes to work well with AI, has made a sharper version of this argument. His position: using AI effectively requires more cognitive skill, not less. Specifically, it requires the ability to translate ambiguous intent into a precise, edge-case-aware specification that an AI can execute correctly. It requires detecting errors in output that is fluent and confident-sounding but wrong. It requires recognizing when an AI has drifted from your intent, or is confirming a premise it should be challenging. These are not passive skills. They are harder versions of the same thinking the MIT study found LLM users weren't doing. The difference between the group that lost neural connectivity and the group that doesn't isn't the tool. It's what they decided to do with it. Here's my own evidence. In the past year I built a working web application. Python backend. JavaScript frontend. Deployed on two hosting platforms. Payment processing. User authentication. A full data model. I do not know how to code. Every product decision was mine. Every architectural call. Every tradeoff judgment. I defined what the system needed to do, why, and what done looked like. I reviewed every significant change before it was accepted. When something broke, I identified where the breakdown was and directed the fix. The implementation was handled by AI. The thinking was mine. This mode (call it AI-directed building) is the opposite of the Dune reader. The quality of what gets produced is entirely a function of how clearly you can think, how precisely you can specify, and how critically you can evaluate what comes back. There is no shortcut in that. A vague brief to an AI doesn't produce a confused output. It produces a confident, fluent, wrong one. The discipline that prevents that is yours to supply. Non-coders building functional software with AI is common enough now that it isn't a story. What's less visible is the specificity of judgment underneath the ones that actually work. The practices that force more thinking rather than less are not complicated, but they require a decision to use the tool differently. When I've formed a position on something, I give the AI full context and ask it to make the strongest possible case against me. Ask for the hardest opposing argument it can construct. Then I read it. Sometimes it changes nothing. Sometimes it surfaces something I had dismissed without fully examining. The AI doesn't form my view. It stress-tests one I've already formed. When I'm uncertain between options, I don't ask which is better. I ask: here are two approaches, here is my constraint, now what does each cost me, and what does each require me to give up? I make the call. The AI laid out the shape of the decision. The judgment was mine. The uncomfortable part of thinking is still yours in this mode. The tool makes the work more rigorous, not easier. The MIT researchers and the Globe editorial are almost certainly right about the majority of current use. Passive use produces passive outcomes. That's not a controversial claim. The crutch half and the springboard half use the same interface. The difference is whether the person in front of it decided to think. What are you doing with it that forces more thinking rather than less? Are you using it to skip a step, or to take a harder one? Genuinely asking.
AI Skills Directory: mattpocock/skills on GitHub
My personal directory of skills, straight from my .claude directory.
Top Codex Skills for Automating Workflows with CLI and API
A curated list of practical Codex skills for automating workflows across the Codex CLI and API.