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claude-skills

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — engineering, marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial & finance, and your daily productivity skills.

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• you specifically need agent-plugins or ai-coding-agent

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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.

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• 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, ai-agents, claude-code, codex with agents.

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.

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

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headroom

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (78.7k)
• you specifically need agent or ai

Shares anthropic, claude-code, cursor, mcp with agents.

swarms

kyegomez/swarms

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

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• 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 ai

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

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.

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• you would rather work in JavaScript than Python
• you want the more widely starred option (183.4k)
• you specifically need claude-code-plugin or cursor-rules

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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.

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• you specifically need autonomous-agents or claude-code-skills

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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.

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

Shares agentic-ai, claude-code, codex, developer-tools with agents.

obsidian-second-brain

eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain

Persistent memory for Claude Code and 6 other CLI agents, stored as plain markdown in your Obsidian vault. Stop re-explaining your projects, decisions and people every session. 45 commands: hybrid semantic search, self-rewriting notes, key-less web research, and scheduled agents that maintain the vault while you sleep.

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• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-note-taking or ai-second-brain

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

linkedin-mcp-server

stickerdaniel/linkedin-mcp-server

Open-source MCP server for LinkedIn. Give Claude and any MCP-compatible AI agent access to profiles, companies, jobs, and messages.

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

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J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7

Tiger3807861189/J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7

J-Space Cognition Suite V3.7 - AI cognitive-enhancement Skills based on Anthropic's J-space global workspace research. | 哔哩哔哩：Tiger380 (UID 3494375382321675) — https://space.bilibili.com/3494375382321675

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• 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 or ai-agent

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hermes-agent

NousResearch/hermes-agent

The agent that grows with you

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• you want the more widely starred option (260.1k)
• you specifically need ai or ai-agent

Shares ai-agents, anthropic, claude, claude-code with agents.