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Curated Skills and MCP Servers ⭐

A carefully curated list of AI coding assistant tools, including Skills, MCP servers, and related resources.

🎯 Excellent Skills

Official Skills (Anthropic)

  • skill-creator by Anthropic

    • Description: Tool for creating new Claude Code skills
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skill-creator
    • Features: Auto-generate SKILL.md templates, validate formats, package for publishing

  • changelog-generator by Anthropic

    • Description: Automatically generate user-friendly changelogs from Git commit history
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/changelog-generator
    • Features: Analyze commits, categorize changes, generate markdown format

  • pdf by Anthropic

    • Description: PDF file processing toolkit (extract, convert, fill forms)
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/pdf
    • Features: PDF text extraction, image conversion, form filling

  • pptx by Anthropic

    • Description: Create and edit PowerPoint presentations programmatically
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/pptx
    • Features: Slide creation, layouts, speaker notes, template support

  • xlsx by Anthropic

    • Description: Create and edit Excel/CSV spreadsheets programmatically
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/xlsx
    • Features: Workbook generation, formulas, formatting, data import/export

  • docx by Anthropic

    • Description: Create and edit Word documents programmatically
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/docx
    • Features: Structured authoring, styles, tables, review workflows

  • mcp-builder by Anthropic

    • Description: Meta-skill that guides building high-quality MCP servers (Python FastMCP or TypeScript SDK)
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/mcp-builder
    • Features: Scaffolding, best-practice patterns, validation helpers

  • webapp-testing by Anthropic

    • Description: Playwright-based toolkit for testing and debugging local web applications
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/webapp-testing
    • Features: Browser automation, UI verification, screenshot capture, console/log inspection

Community Skills Collections

  • awesome-agent-skills by heilcheng

    • Description: Large collection of AI coding assistant skills supporting Claude, Codex, Copilot, etc.
    • Categories: Contains practical skills across multiple categories

  • awesome-codex-skills by ComposioHQ

    • Description: Collection of practical skills for Codex CLI and API
    • Features: Workflow automation optimized for Codex

  • NotFair by nowork-studio

    • Description: Open-source marketing skill collection for SEO, GEO, Google Ads, and Meta Ads
    • Install: /plugin marketplace add nowork-studio/notfair, then /plugin install notfair@nowork-studio
    • Features: 18 public SKILL.md workflows; optional hosted MCP connectors provide live Google Search Console, Google Ads, and Meta Ads access

  • Orkas VideoStudio by Orkas-AI

    • Description: Open-source video workflow skills and MCP tools for Codex and Claude Code
    • Install: Follow the repository's source-install instructions for the target agent platform
    • Features: Plain-language composition and editing with editable timelines, transcription, and optional provider-backed generation

Development Tools

  • cursor-skills by chrisboden

    • Description: Skills starter template for Cursor AI editor
    • Features: MCP server integration, auto-import, quick start

  • context-engineering-kit by NeoLabHQ

    • Description: Hand-crafted collection of advanced context engineering techniques for improving agent quality
    • Install: claude plugin marketplace add NeoLabHQ/context-engineering-kit
    • Features: Reflexion (reflection loops), scientifically proven techniques, 8-21% quality improvement, token-efficient
    • Plugins: reflexion, memorize, critique with multi-agent debate

  • agenttrace by luoyuctl

    • Description: Local TUI observability for AI coding agent sessions across cost, tokens, latency, failures, and reports
    • Install: go install github.com/luoyuctl/agenttrace/cmd/agenttrace@latest
    • Features: Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Aider, Cursor exports, health checks, anomaly detection, and CI gates

  • rust-norion by yanghao1143

    • Description: Rust prototype for agent runtime control, memory gates, model routing policy, audit evidence, and self-evolution loop tooling
    • Install: Follow the repository README and contributor docs; published packages are not the main surface yet
    • Features: Rust control layer, memory admission/recall boundaries, model-pool policy, evidence gates, status surfaces, and contributor-facing evolution workflows

  • codex-cli by awesome-agent-tools

    • Description: Skill that drives OpenAI Codex CLI for plan review, code review, and complex-problem discussion from inside your agent
    • Install: claude skill add https://github.com/Awakehsh/awesome-agent-tools/tree/main/skills/codex-cli
    • Features: Config-driven model selection (no hardcoded model, stays valid across Codex releases), dual ChatGPT-account / API-key login, agent-loop-aware codex exec, multi-round resume by explicit session id
    • Use Cases: Second-opinion plan/code review, offloading heavy reasoning to Codex, cross-model verification

Workflow & Automation Skills

  • Hermes Tweet by Xquik-dev

    • Description: Native Hermes Agent plugin for X/Twitter research, monitoring, and approval-gated actions.
    • Install: hermes plugins install Xquik-dev/hermes-tweet --enable
    • Features: Read-first X search, account reads, trend and monitor workflows, plus opt-in posting, replies, likes, retweets, follows, and DMs through Hermes.

  • ralph-loop by Anthropic Official

    • Description: Iterative AI development methodology using automatic retry loops for overnight development
    • Install: claude plugin install ralph-loop@claude-plugins-official
    • Features: Automatic retry logic, completion detection, safety guardrails, ideal for well-defined tasks
    • Use Cases: Greenfield development, automated testing workflows, tasks with clear success criteria
    • Note: Real-world impact - $50k contract completed for ~$297 in API costs

Planning & Design Skills

  • grill-me by Matt Pocock
    • Description: Interviews you relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, walking down each branch of the decision tree one question at a time
    • Install: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills (then select grill-me)
    • Features: One-question-at-a-time interviewing, recommended answer for every question, falls back to codebase exploration when an answer can be derived from code
    • Use Cases: Stress-testing a plan before implementation, surfacing unstated assumptions, resolving dependencies between design decisions
    • Trigger: Mention "grill me" or ask to stress-test a design
    • Note: Part of Matt Pocock's broader Skills For Real Engineers collection

Universal Installers

  • ai-agent-skills by skillcreatorai

    • Description: Universal installer for one-click skill installation across all AI tools
    • Usage: npx ai-agent-skills install skill-name
    • Supports: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, and 10+ tools

  • openskills by numman-ali

    • Description: Universal skills loader
    • Usage: npm i -g openskills && openskills install anthropics/skills

📊 Agent Evaluation & Benchmarks

  • ClawBench by TIGER-AI-Lab
    • Description: Open-source live-web benchmark for browser and computer-use agents, covering 283 V1/V2 tasks across 163 live websites.
    • Features: Isolated Docker runs, selectable agent harnesses, request interception, and replayable action, screenshot, recording, HTTP, and agent-message evidence; paper and project.

🔧 Recommended MCP Servers

Official MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)

  • filesystem by MCP Official

    • Description: Secure file system operations server
    • Features: Read/write files, directory management, permission control

  • github by MCP Official

    • Description: GitHub integration server
    • Features: Repository management, Issues, PR operations

  • fetch by MCP Official

    • Description: Web content fetching server
    • Features: HTTP requests, content scraping, API calls

  • git by MCP Official

    • Description: Git repository operations tool
    • Features: Commit, branch, log viewing

  • memory by MCP Official

    • Description: Knowledge graph persistent memory server
    • Features: Store and retrieve contextual information

  • sequentialthinking by MCP Official

    • Description: Structured multi-step reasoning tool for complex problem solving
    • Features: Step sequencing, revision, branching thought chains

  • time by MCP Official

    • Description: Timezone conversion and current-time queries
    • Features: IANA timezone support, formatted output, lightweight utility

Community MCP Servers

  • awesome-mcp-servers by punkpeye

    • Description: Most active MCP server directory (85k+ stars, 1,500+ contributors)
    • Includes: Production-ready and experimental MCP servers across all categories

  • awesome-mcp-servers by wong2

    • Description: Long-standing curated collection of MCP servers (alternative directory)
    • Includes: Production-ready and experimental MCP servers

  • GitHub MCP Server by GitHub Official

    • Description: Official GitHub MCP implementation
    • Features: Complete GitHub API integration

  • GitNexus by abhigyanpatwari

    • Description: Client-side knowledge graph engine that indexes codebases into a structured graph database, providing AI agents with deep architecture understanding via MCP
    • Install: claude mcp add gitnexus -- npx -y gitnexus@latest mcp
    • Features: 7 MCP tools (query, context, impact, detect_changes, rename, cypher, list_repos), hybrid search (BM25 + semantic), 9 languages (TS/JS/Python/Java/C/C++/C#/Go/Rust), execution flow tracing, community detection
    • Supports: Claude Code (MCP + Skills + Hooks), Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode
    • Note: License is PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 (free for non-commercial use only)

  • Helium MCP by connerlambden

    • Description: MCP server for real-time news with bias scoring (5,000+ sources, 15+ dimensions), live stock/crypto/options market data, AI options pricing, and meme search
    • Install: claude mcp add helium-mcp -- npx -y helium-mcp
    • Features: 9 tools (news search, balanced synthesis, source/URL bias analysis, ticker data, option pricing/strategies, meme search), no auth required, free tier available
    • Supports: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and any MCP-compatible client
    • Website: heliumtrades.com/mcp-page

  • playwright-mcp by Microsoft

    • Description: Official browser-automation MCP server using Playwright's accessibility tree for reliable, LLM-friendly web interaction (31k+ stars)
    • Install: claude mcp add playwright -- npx -y @playwright/mcp@latest
    • Features: Accessibility-first automation (no screenshots needed), form interaction, navigation, console/network inspection, Apache-2.0
    • Note: Recommended successor to the archived puppeteer reference server

  • mcp-server-cloudflare by Cloudflare

    • Description: Official Cloudflare MCP servers covering Workers, KV, D1, R2, Observability, and more (13 sub-servers)
    • Features: Remote/hosted deployment, OAuth support, per-service granularity, Apache-2.0

  • exa-mcp-server by Exa Labs

    • Description: Semantic web search and crawling via the Exa API — a high-quality replacement for the archived brave-search reference server
    • Install: claude mcp add exa -- npx -y exa-mcp-server
    • Features: Neural search, content extraction, domain filtering, research workflows
    • Note: Requires Exa API key

  • sentry-mcp by Sentry

    • Description: Official Sentry error-tracking and observability MCP server (remote, OAuth-based)
    • Features: Issue search, stack-trace inspection, release/deploy correlation, hosted remote MCP (no local install)

  • x-twitter-scraper by Xquik-dev

    • Description: Xquik remote MCP server and installable skill for X/Twitter data workflows
    • Install: See the MCP setup docs
    • Features: Tweet search, profile lookups, media downloads, monitors, HMAC webhooks, and REST API exploration
    • Supports: MCP-compatible clients and skills-compatible agents
    • Note: Requires a Xquik API key

  • RunAPI MCP Server by runapi-ai

    • Description: MCP server for browsing the RunAPI model catalog and running AI model tasks from agent workflows
    • Install: claude mcp add runapi -s user -- npx -y @runapi.ai/mcp
    • Features: Catalog browsing, model info, pricing snapshots, prompt search, image/video/music/audio/text-to-speech task creation, task status, and balance checks
    • Supports: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Roo Code, and other MCP-compatible clients

  • API Status Check by apistatuscheck

    • Description: Lets an agent find out whether a third-party API is actually down before it blames its own code — live-probes the vendor endpoint at call time and reads what the vendor publishes on its own status page, across 285 developer APIs
    • Install: claude mcp add --transport http apistatuscheck https://apistatuscheck.com/api/mcp
    • Features: 8 tools (list_apis, search_apis, get_api_status, list_down_apis, get_uptime_history, get_incident_history, rank_reliability, list_categories), hosted Streamable HTTP, no API key and no local install
    • Supports: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client
    • Note: get_api_status probes live; list_down_apis reflects a background sweep that runs hourly. Hosted service, source not public

  • Pocket Drives by PocketList Inc

    • Description: Search peer-to-peer luxury, exotic, and EV rentals from independent hosts. Remote Streamable HTTP at https://pocketdrives.ai/mcp, no auth.
    • Install: claude mcp add --transport http pocket-drives https://pocketdrives.ai/mcp
    • Features: 9 read-only tools (search, quotes, availability, host profiles), hosted Streamable HTTP, no API key and no local install
    • Supports: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client

🛠️ Related Tools and Resources

Marketplaces and Plugin Registries

Development Resources

  • MCP Servers Repository

    • Official MCP server reference implementations

  • MCP SDK

    • TypeScript SDK for building MCP servers

  • FastMCP by jlowin

    • Python framework for building MCP servers and clients (24k+ stars, Apache-2.0) — de-facto standard for Python MCP development

Agent Runtimes

  • SandBase Harness by SandBase AI

    • Description: Local-first runtime for running agents with persistent sessions, sandbox backends, MCP tool governance, and audit trails
    • Install: Clone the repository, run npm ci && npm run build, then follow the installation guide
    • Features: Approval-gated tool execution, local/Docker/Kubernetes/self-hosted workers, resumable sessions, artifacts, and a built-in Console

  • YYLO by yylo-dev

    • Description: Command-line orchestrator for coding agents, repeatable workflows, and receipt-backed repository changes, with typed task, validation, merge, and release-readiness boundaries
    • Install: npm install --global '@yylo/cli@latest'
    • Features: Each task runs in a dedicated branch/worktree; the merge queue owns risk-based review; runs Pi and Codex subagents with receipt-backed changes

Cursor Related

  • awesome-cursorrules by PatrickJS

    • Configuration file collection for Cursor AI editor
    • Includes custom rules and behaviors

  • vibe-tools by eastlondoner

    • Provides AI teams and advanced skills for Cursor Agent

📚 Learning Resources

Official Documentation

Community Resource Directories

  • Awesome Claude
    • Comprehensive directory of Claude AI resources, tools, and integrations
    • Categories: Official resources, community lists, extensions, applications, education, community
    • Regularly updated with latest tools and servers

Tutorials and Guides

🤝 Contributing

Found an excellent Skill or MCP server? Feel free to submit a PR to add it to this list!

Please ensure you include:

  • Name and link
  • Author information
  • Brief description
  • Installation instructions
  • Key features

Last Updated: 2026-07-13