CC·FIELD MANUAL
No. CCA-2026-07
For Claude Code v2.x
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$ ls ~/.claude/skills/ · SKILLS

All 17 official · 12 community picks and counting

Official entries come straight from the public github.com/anthropics/skills repo; community entries are verified against authoritative charts before inclusion. Each skill is a self-contained folder with a SKILL.md — Claude loads it automatically on task match, or you can call it by name.

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docx DOCS

Create, edit, and analyze Word documents: tracked changes, comments, format preservation, and text extraction. The same skill behind Claude.ai's document features.

Use the docx skill to turn these notes into a Word report with a table of contents
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06
pdf DOCS

The all-round PDF toolbox: extract text and tables, merge and split, rotate and watermark, fill forms, encrypt and decrypt. First choice for scans and form documents.

Use the pdf skill to extract every form field in contract.pdf
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06
pptx DOCS

Generate and edit PowerPoint decks: layouts, templates, charts, and batch automation — highly efficient for weekly reports and proposals.

Use the pptx skill to build a 10-slide pitch from this outline
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06
xlsx DOCS

Read and write Excel with formulas, formatting, analysis, and charts. Chain the four document skills: PDF extract → Excel analyze → Word report → PPT brief.

Use the xlsx skill to turn sales.csv into an analysis sheet with charts
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Anthropic engineers' distilled taste for frontend design — the antidote to same-y 'AI-flavored' interfaces (identical fonts, purple gradients, rounded cards). A perennial plugin-chart favorite.

Apply the frontend-design skill and redo this landing page
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

A complete four-phase workflow for high-quality MCP servers: research and plan → implement (structure / errors / pagination) → review → test with MCP Inspector.

Use mcp-builder to write an MCP server for our internal API
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Test local web apps with Playwright: UI verification, screenshot comparison, and debugging — let Claude open a browser and look before changing code.

Use webapp-testing to run the login flow and screenshot it for me
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Ships the latest Claude API reference, SDK docs, and best practices in 8 languages — no more stale training memory when writing integrations.

Following the claude-api skill, write a streaming example in TypeScript
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Build complex frontend artifacts: state management, routing, shadcn/ui components — interactive prototypes, dashboards, and internal-tool MVPs beyond single-file HTML.

Use web-artifacts-builder to build a filterable order dashboard
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

The official scaffold for creating skills: guides you to design, generate, and iterate your own SKILL.md. Usually one session (15–30 min) to a working skill.

Use skill-creator to turn our code-review checklist into a skill
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06
canvas-design CREATIVE

Produce PNG / PDF visuals with an explicit design philosophy: posters, covers, cards — graphic artifacts rather than web pages.

Use canvas-design to explore three poster directions for the launch
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06
algorithmic-art CREATIVE

Generative art with p5.js: seeded randomness, flow fields, particle systems — reproducible algorithmic visual experiments.

Use algorithmic-art to generate a set of flow-field brand textures
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06
theme-factory CREATIVE

Apply cohesive themes to any artifact: palette, type, and component styling in one pass — ideal for keeping batches visually consistent.

Use theme-factory to give this report a dark academic theme
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Make animated emoji and GIFs that fit Slack's size limits — essential kit for team fun and shipping celebrations.

Use slack-gif-creator to make a 'deploy succeeded' animation
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Loads a brand palette and typography rules and applies them to any artifact (Anthropic brand by default). The bigger win: clone it into your own company's brand skill.

Generate our company brand skill following brand-guidelines' structure
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

Write internal communications of every kind: 3P progress reports (Progress / Plans / Problems), all-hands emails, change notices, incident reports, FAQs, and exec briefs.

Use internal-comms to draft an all-hands notice for the maintenance window
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

A three-stage co-writing flow for serious documents: gather material → polish the draft → test from the reader's perspective. Built for PRDs and design docs.

Use doc-coauthoring to write this PRD with me
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-06

obra/superpowers' signature skill: a four-phase root-cause process — evidence before fixes, the cure for guess-driven debugging.

Use systematic-debugging to track down this flaky login failure
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

superpowers' TDD discipline: a strict RED → GREEN → REFACTOR loop, with a reference list of testing anti-patterns.

Follow test-driven-development: write the test first, then implement this function
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

superpowers' Socratic design refinement: interrogate requirements and edge cases before coding, and grind ideas into executable plans.

Use brainstorming to refine this feature design with me
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

Vercel's browser-automation skill: a Rust CLI plus a Playwright daemon that gives Claude deterministic, reference-based control over any web page.

Use agent-browser to open the preview and run the form-submit flow
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-browser/agent-browser
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

Vercel's official React / Next.js best practices: data fetching, caching, and component patterns. Top of the skills.sh install chart.

Review this component's data fetching against vercel-react-best-practices
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills/vercel-react-best-practices
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

The #1 meta-skill on skills.sh by installs: lets Claude search for and install the right skill for the task on its own.

Use find-skills to find a skill for handling PDF forms
npx skills add vercel-labs/skills/find-skills
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08
grill-me TEAM

Matt Pocock's relentless interviewer: stress-tests your plans and designs with systematic questioning before you commit.

Use grill-me to grill this refactoring plan
npx skills add mattpocock/skills/grill-me
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

Vercel's web design guidelines: hard checklists for typography, spacing, contrast, and accessibility. High on the skills.sh chart.

Audit this page's typography against web-design-guidelines
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills/web-design-guidelines
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

ESTHER's personal-IP design system: brand DNA plus five scene specs (tutorial, landing, app, card images, WeChat layout) with templates — taste written as a manual the AI must follow (CC BY-NC-SA).

Use esther-design-system to turn this article into Xiaohongshu card images
npx skills add esthersjw/esther-design-system
github.com ✓ 2026-07-08

Official Remotion best practices: build videos programmatically in React/TypeScript — animation, transitions, captions, audio, and charts. Consult before touching any Remotion API.

Following remotion-best-practices, turn this data into a 15-second animated chart video
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills/remotion-best-practices
github.com ✓ 2026-07-09
triage TEAM

Matt Pocock's triage state machine for issues and external PRs: categorise, verify, grill when needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

Use triage to run this batch of new issues through the pipeline
npx skills add mattpocock/skills/triage
github.com ✓ 2026-07-09
handoff TEAM

Compacts the current conversation into a handoff document a fresh agent can pick up — a practical cure for long-session decay.

Use handoff to write a handoff doc; I'm starting a fresh session
npx skills add mattpocock/skills/handoff
github.com ✓ 2026-07-09

※ The official skills above are installed by the two /plugin install lines in STEP 02; Claude.ai paid plans have them built in. Each skill keeps only ~100 tokens of metadata resident — progressive disclosure means even a full rack won’t slow your session.