Anthropic Official Skills Repository
Anthropic-maintained skills have the highest trust/quality bar in the ecosystem.
Official Anthropic GitHub repo of Claude Code skills — curated, vetted automation patterns for common developer workflows. Covers code review, testing, deployment, documentation generation, and more.
- Browse ready-made automation recipes for common coding tasks
- Install a vetted code review workflow in minutes
- Find official templates for documentation and testing automation
Anthropic-maintained skills have the highest trust/quality bar in the ecosystem. Starting with official skills before adopting community ones reduces security and reliability risk.
Organizations that need vetted, supported skills and can't spend time evaluating community options
https://github.com/anthropics/skills
By Anthropic
How to Get It
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills then /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills and/or /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills (skills are also pre-installed for Claude.ai paid plans and available via the Claude API)
Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.
After installing, paste this into Claude:
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Trust Signals Reviewed
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Discussed on Hacker News, Reddit
- Anthropic Released 32 Page Detailed Guide on Building Claude Skills — Reddit · 1475 pts
- Anthropic beefs up Claude's free tier as OpenAI prepares to stuff ads into ChatG — Reddit · 616 pts
- I Rewrote Anthropic's frontend-design skill and built an eval to test it — Reddit · 262 pts
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Reviewer notes
Reviewed review. These are observations, not a security certification.
Anthropic-maintained — highest trust in ecosystem. Narrower scope than community repos but higher quality bar. Solid foundation before adopting community skills.
Reference/directory resource — no code execution, no data access, no permissions required. No security concerns.
2026-03-29: Official repo: https://github.com/anthropics/skills. Contains skills for: code-review, test-generation, documentation, commit-messages, PR-descriptions, refactoring patterns. Related: anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (Cowork plugins) and anthropics/claude-plugins-official (plugin marketplace). These three repos form Anthropic's official skill/plugin ecosystem. Security rating: A — Anthropic-maintained, no external dependencies in core skills.
Things to check
- Patterns are optimized for common workflows; highly specialized or proprietary processes may require adaptation. Skills assume baseline Claude familiarity and may need configuration for non-standard development stacks.
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Evaluation
Anthropic-maintained — highest trust in ecosystem. Narrower scope than community repos but higher quality bar. Solid foundation before adopting community skills.