Updated July 20, 2026 · 7 sources compared
Where to find Claude skills
You can find Claude skills in three kinds of places: curated marketplaces like AugmentClaude (800+ free skills, one-command install), official Anthropic repositories on GitHub, and community sources — awesome-lists, plugin marketplaces, and forums. Here are the seven places worth knowing, with the honest trade-offs of each — and below the list, how to find the right skill for your task in about 30 seconds.
A curated marketplace (the fastest path)
AugmentClaude catalogs 800+ free skills organized by industry, each with a plain-English description, author attribution, license, and a one-command install. Curation matters because raw skill collections are full of duplicates, abandoned experiments, and files that don't actually load.
Browse the marketplaceAnthropic's official GitHub repositories
Anthropic publishes first-party skills and practice-area plugins on GitHub — including an official legal suite. Official skills are high quality but scattered across repos and not organized for browsing by task.
Anthropic's official plugins, listed hereGitHub "awesome" lists
Community-maintained link lists (awesome-claude-skills and similar) collect hundreds of skills. Great for discovery breadth, but they're just links: no quality bar, no descriptions you can compare, and you install everything by hand.
Claude Code plugin marketplaces
Developers publish plugin marketplaces you add with a single command inside Claude Code; each can carry skills, slash commands, and agents. You need to know a marketplace exists to add it — directories like this one list the notable ones.
Browse pluginsSkill directories and aggregators
Several sites index Claude skills with varying freshness and quality bars. If you're comparing options, we keep an honest side-by-side of the notable marketplaces and what each is good at.
Marketplaces comparedCommunities
r/ClaudeAI on Reddit, X, and Discord servers surface new skills daily — often before any directory lists them. Signal-to-noise varies; treat community links as leads to verify, not installs to run blind.
Your own team
A skill is one markdown file, so the best source is sometimes the person next to you. Anyone can write one — and share it as an installable link in seconds with Quick Share, no GitHub repo required.
Share a skill with Quick ShareHow to find Claude skills (the 30-second method)
- Search the task, not the tool.Type what you're trying to do — “write release notes”, “audit landing page SEO” — into the marketplace search.
- Or browse your industry. Twelve industries mean you only scroll skills relevant to your work.
- Want a whole workflow? Grab a bundle — a hand-picked set that installs with one command.
- Not sure what you need? Describe the goal to Sprout and it assembles a custom set for you.
Before installing anything, glance at three signals: a named author with a source link, a license, and stars or install counts. Then it's one command to install.
Finding Claude skills, answered
Where can I find free Claude skills?
AugmentClaude lists 800+ free Claude skills organized by industry, each credited to its author with a one-command install. Anthropic's official GitHub repositories and community awesome-lists are also free sources.
Does Anthropic publish official Claude skills?
Yes — Anthropic publishes first-party skills and practice-area plugins on GitHub, including an official legal suite covering commercial, M&A, privacy, employment, IP, and litigation work. They're listed with install instructions on AugmentClaude's plugins page.
How do I install a Claude skill once I find one?
One terminal command: copy it from the skill page, paste it into your terminal, restart Claude Code. The command downloads the skill's SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills/ where Claude Code auto-loads it.
Where can I find Claude skills for my industry?
AugmentClaude organizes skills into 12 industries — marketing, engineering, data & analytics, legal/operations, CAD, and more — so you can browse exactly the skills for your field instead of scrolling one giant list.
Can I find whole workflows instead of single skills?
Yes — bundles. A bundle is a hand-picked set of skills that cover one job (SEO, legal work, web design) and install together with a single command. Or describe your goal to Sprout, the AI assistant, and it builds a custom bundle for you.
How do I find Claude skills for a specific task?
Search the task in plain words — 'write release notes', 'audit landing page SEO' — on a skills marketplace, or describe the goal to Sprout and it assembles matching skills into one install. Browse by industry when you'd rather see everything for your field.
How do I know a Claude skill is good before installing it?
Check three things: a named author with a visible source link, a license, and an adoption signal like GitHub stars or install counts. A skill is just a markdown file, so you can read its SKILL.md at the source before you run the install command.
Keep learning
One command, ~60 seconds, troubleshooting included.
One-liner, git, and manual installs side by side.
From a file on your laptop to an installable link.
The hand-picked best-of list, updated as the catalog grows.
Which of the three you actually need, explained plainly.
An honest side-by-side of the notable skill directories.