The best claude-skills alternatives

agents

wshobson/agents

Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity

Choose agents if…

• you specifically need agents or ai-agents

Shares agent-skills, agentic-ai, claude-code, claude-code-plugins with claude-skills.

planning-with-files

OthmanAdi/planning-with-files

Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style. Install from npm, the Claude Code plugin marketplace, or npx skills. Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, 60+ agents.

Choose planning-with-files if…

• you specifically need autonomous-agents or claude

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, claude-code-skills, claude-skills with claude-skills.

ouroboros

Q00/ouroboros

Agent OS: the agent gets smarter on its own. We just hold the line: Interview-gated, staged evaluation, budgeted evolution loop. MCP server, 14 runtimes: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Copilot, Kiro and more.

Choose ouroboros if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-os or ai-agent

Shares agentic-ai, ai-coding-agent, claude-code, developer-tools with claude-skills.

Vibe-Skills

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills

Intelligent Skill routing and workflow orchestration for AI agents — +21.12 pp reward, −29.6% tokens on SkillsBench with DeepSeekV4Flash-VE.

Choose Vibe-Skills if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-coding

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, developer-tools, prompt-engineering with claude-skills.

Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

A practical Claude Code guide with clear mental models and copy-paste examples — setup, prompt engineering, slash commands, skills, hooks, subagents, agent teams, and MCP servers. Beginner path to power-user depth. Featured in Awesome Claude Code.

Choose Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-coding or ai-agents

Shares agent-skills, anthropic-claude, claude-ai, claude-code with claude-skills.

skills

NVIDIA/skills

Agent Skills for NVIDIA products — install into Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to run Physical AI, robotics, simulation, CUDA, and RAG workflows end to end.

Choose skills if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents or codex

Shares agent-skills, agentic-ai, claude-code, developer-tools with claude-skills.

ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

Choose ponytail if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than Python
• you want the more widely starred option (184.2k)
• you specifically need ai-agents or claude

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, developer-tools, prompt-engineering with claude-skills.

agentic-awesome-skills

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

AAS Core is the local, agent-first control plane for complete catalog discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,115+ agentic skills. Includes CLI, local MCP, catalog, plugins, and Workbench.

Choose agentic-awesome-skills if…

• you want the more widely starred option (49.1k)
• you specifically need agentic-skills or ai-agent-skills

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, claude-code-skills, codex-skills with claude-skills.

distilly

titanwings/distilly

Distilly — Distill how they think into reusable Skills for any Agent or Bot. Formerly Colleague Skill（原同事 Skill）.

Choose distilly if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you specifically need ai-agent or ai-agents

Shares agent-skills, agentic-ai, claude-code, claude-skills with claude-skills.

loop-engineering

cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.

Choose loop-engineering if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents or ai-coding

Shares agentic-ai, claude-code, prompt-engineering with claude-skills.

skill

anbeime/skill

收录最全、更新最快的技能Skills商店：精选原创技能包（涵盖文档处理、内容创作、编程开发、机器学习、自动化工作流），全部打包好可直接安装使用！同时自动抓取GitHub上万个Skills项目，按分类、更新时间、Star数量整理。The most comprehensive and frequently updated AI Agent skill library, featuring curated skill packs across document processing, content creation, programming, machine learning, automated workflows, and many more domains.

Choose skill if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need codex or deepseek

Shares agent-skills, claude-skills, developer-tools, openclaw-skills with claude-skills.

swarms

kyegomez/swarms

The Enterprise-Grade Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework. Website: https://swarms.ai

Choose swarms if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-workflow or agents

Shares agentic-ai, claude-code, prompt-engineering with claude-skills.