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Anthropic official skills

Official agent skills published by Anthropic. Each ships its full SKILL.md and installs in one click.

Code-based generative art with seeded randomness and interactive parameter controls.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Generates original visual art in PNG or PDF, grounded in a custom design philosophy you define.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

A structured three-stage workflow for co-authoring documentation, proposals, and specs with iterative refinement and reader testing.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

docx

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Generate, read, and edit Word documents programmatically with full control over formatting.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making choices that don't read as templated defau

by Anthropic179.6k stars

A set of resources to help me write all kinds of internal communications, using the formats that my company likes to use. Claude should use this skill whenever asked to write some sort of internal com

by Anthropic179.6k stars

mcp-builder

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Step-by-step guide for building MCP servers that expose external APIs as LLM-callable tools.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

pdf

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Read, create, merge, split, watermark, and encrypt PDF files with Python or command-line tools.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

pptx

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Create, edit, read, and validate .pptx and .potx files with scripts for thumbnails, slide duplication, and format validation.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Create new skills from scratch, run iterative evaluations, and improve existing skills through measurable feedback.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Create animated GIFs that meet Slack's size and dimension requirements for emoji and message posts.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Toolkit for styling artifacts with a theme. These artifacts can be slides, docs, reportings, HTML landing pages, etc. There are 10 pre-set themes with colors/fonts that you can apply to any artifact t

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Suite of tools for creating elaborate, multi-component claude.ai HTML artifacts using modern frontend web technologies (React, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui). Use for complex artifacts requiring state manag

by Anthropic179.6k stars

Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser l

by Anthropic179.6k stars

xlsx

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Create, edit, and validate spreadsheet files with formulas and professional formatting.

by Anthropic179.6k stars

About Ottermind skills

These skills are published and maintained by Anthropic. Official skills track changes in the underlying product or API, which matters for anything that integrates with a service that keeps shipping.

Skills cover the full range of what an Ottermind agent does: building editable PowerPoint decks, generating product and brand images, writing and running code on a machine you connect, producing video from a script or a still, and cleaning and analysing spreadsheet data. A skill is what turns a general model into something that handles your specific version of one of those jobs the same way every time.

A skill is a plain Markdown file with a short frontmatter header, which means you can read exactly what it will do before running it, edit it to match your own conventions, and share it with colleagues. Once a skill produces the result you wanted, it can be attached to an agent or scheduled as an automation so the same work happens again without anyone rewriting the prompt.

What is an Ottermind skill?
A reusable instruction package written in Markdown. It gives an agent the context, steps, and constraints for one kind of task, so results stay consistent instead of depending on how well you phrased the prompt that day.
How do I install and use a skill?
Open any skill's detail page, read the full document, and install it into your workspace. From then on the agent can use it automatically when the task matches, or you can invoke it by name.
Can I create my own skill?
Yes. A skill is a Markdown file with frontmatter naming it and describing when it should be used. If you have a workflow you keep re-explaining to an agent, writing it down once as a skill is usually the shortest path to making it repeatable.
Do skills cost extra?
Browsing and installing skills from this library does not cost anything on its own. Running one consumes the same credits as any other agent task, depending on the model you choose and how much work the task involves.