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Use Existing Skills

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There are already many Skills written by others available on the market.

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For example, the Claude Skills officially provided by Anthropic: https://github.com/anthropics/skills.

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This repository is Anthropic's official Claude skills collection, supporting the Agent Skills open standard with dynamic loading to expand AI-specific capabilities. The skills cover design, development, enterprise office work, and all-category document editing. Most are open source, and the underlying documentation capabilities are for source code reference only.

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We can register this repository as a plugin marketplace for Claude Code by executing the following command in Claude Code:

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/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills\n
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Then you can use /plugin to view:

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Steps to install specific skill sets:

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  • Browse and install plugins
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  • Select the anthropic-agent-skills plugin source
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  • Select document-skills or example-skills
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  • Click Install now
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We can also directly install the above two types of plugins through commands:

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/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills\n/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills\n
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Note: The skills directory installed using plugins is located at ~/claude/plugins/marketplaces/.

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After the plugin installation is complete, you need to restart Claude Code.

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When using, simply mention the skill name in the instruction to invoke it. For example, after installing the document-skills plugin, you can issue the following command to Claude Code:

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Use the PDF skill to extract path/to/some-file.pdf Form fields in the file\n
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Or create a PPT:

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Create a presentation for an Agent Skill\n
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You can see that /document-skills:pptx is invoked:

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Starts generating:

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Afterwards, it will tell you the location of the generated file:

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Agent Skills Related Resources

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Resource DescriptionLink
Skill Aggregation Portalhttps://skills.sh/
Skills Marketplace (Chinese Interface)https://skillsmp.com/zh
Agent Skills Official Standard Sitehttps://agentskills.io/
Anthropic Official Engineering Article (Agent Skills Practical Concepts)https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills
VS Code Copilot Agent Skills Documentationhttps://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/agent-skills
Anthropic Official Skills GitHub Repositoryhttps://github.com/anthropics/skills
Claude Skills Curated List (Awesome Series)https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills
Software Development Automation Workflow Skills Collectionhttps://github.com/obra/superpowers
Automatic Skill Generation Skill (Official Example)https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/skill-creator
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