Skill Categories & Types
The 10 skill types#
| Icon | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 📖 | Library & API Reference | How to correctly use a library, CLI, or SDK |
| 🧪 | Product Verification | Test/verify code is working |
| 📊 | Data Fetching & Analysis | Connect to data/monitoring stacks |
| 🔄 | Business Process Automation | Automate team workflows |
| 🏗️ | Code Scaffolding & Templates | Generate boilerplate with conventions |
| 🔍 | Code Quality & Review | Enforce standards, adversarial review |
| 🚀 | CI/CD & Deployment | Build, test, deploy pipelines |
| 📋 | Runbooks | Symptom → investigation → report |
| ⚙️ | Infrastructure Operations | Maintenance with guardrails |
A skill that doesn't cleanly match one of these nine goes into a tenth, catch-all Uncategorized bucket rather than being forced into the wrong type.
The directory's own homepage sections mirror this list — each type gets its own browsable section, alongside cross-cutting views like Best of the Best, Trending Now and Latest that surface skills regardless of type.
What a Curated-tier entry looks like#
These are drawn from the directory's own "Best of the Best" list — the highest quality-tier skills at the time of this snapshot (2026-08-16). Star counts and rankings move as the discovery pipeline re-scores the directory, so check the live page for current numbers.
Turns a folder of code, schemas, docs or media into a queryable knowledge graph for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more (68.5k ⭐)
Agent orchestration platform for Claude: multi-agent swarms, distributed coordination, RAG integration (59.9k ⭐)
Agent harness performance optimization: skills, instincts, memory and security for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor (217.1k ⭐)
Garry Tan's Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools covering CEO, design, eng management and QA roles (110.9k ⭐)
Browse by type#
The directory's live pages let you filter and sort within any of the 10 types, or search across all of them at once.
Filter by type, platform and quality tier on the live directory.
Next steps#
- How Skills Are Scored — how a skill earns its quality tier badge
- How the Directory Is Built — how skills get categorized into these types in the first place