Claude Skills Marketplace
Beyond building your own skills, community platforms let you discover, browse, and install thousands of ready-made skills and MCP tools for Claude Code and other agents.
Where to find community skills
| Platform | Catalogue | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| SkillHub | 87K+ skills | Ranked skills with S/A/B grading. CLI install, desktop app, and Skill Stacks. |
| SkillsMP | 1.1M+ skills | Community-aggregated skills from GitHub. Occupation-based filtering and a public REST API. |
| Smithery | 7,887+ MCPs | Primarily an MCP marketplace with a growing skills section. One-command CLI setup. |
SkillHub
SkillHub is a skills directory where entries are graded across five dimensions: Practicality, Clarity, Automation, Quality, and Impact. S-rank skills (9.0+) are the best of the best. Browse by category, search semantically, or install via the CLI in one command.
A structured four-phase debugging methodology. Enforces root cause analysis before proposing fixes.
Complete framework for creating Claude Skills with templates, validation, and packaging tools.
Expert guidance on using ripgrep and ast-grep for efficient, targeted codebase exploration.
Install any skill with one command using the SkillHub CLI:
SkillsMP
SkillsMP aggregates over 1.1 million skills from public GitHub repositories. It indexes skills compatible with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI, and other tools that support the open SKILL.md standard. Browse by occupation or use-case category; a public REST API lets you query the catalogue programmatically.
SkillsMP does not have a dedicated CLI — find the skill, clone the repository, and copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
Smithery
Smithery is primarily an MCP (Model Context Protocol) marketplace — 7,887+ servers covering GitHub, Notion, Supabase, Slack, and Google Sheets. It also has a growing Skills section. What makes Smithery different is auth handling: install a tool once and Smithery manages OAuth, credential injection, and retries across Claude, GPT, and other agents automatically.
Set up Smithery's CLI and add an MCP to Claude in two commands:
More MCP directories
If you need to browse MCP servers beyond what Smithery lists, two more community directories cover a wider catalogue. Neither hosts Claude SKILL.md skills directly, but both are useful when hunting for tool integrations.
Side-by-side comparison
| Feature | SkillHub | SkillsMP | Smithery | mcp.so | Glama |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalogue size | 87K+ skills | 1.1M+ skills | 7,887+ MCPs | 20K+ MCPs | 22K+ MCPs |
| Primary focus | Ranked SKILL.md | All GitHub skills | MCP tools + skills | MCP discovery | MCP discovery |
| Covers SKILL.md skills | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| Quality signals | S/A/B AI grading | GitHub star count | Install count | Featured / hosted | A/B/C/D grades |
| Install method | CLI / Desktop app | Git clone + copy | Smithery CLI | Manual copy | Manual copy |
| Auth management | — | — | Yes — OAuth | — | Via MCP gateway |
| Skill Stacks / bundles | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Browser playground | No | No | No | Yes | Yes (inspector) |
| MCP hosting | No | No | No | Partial | Yes |
allowed-tools field in particular to understand what shell commands the skill can run.Before you continue
- SkillHub — ranked SKILL.md skills with CLI install and Skill Stacks.
- SkillsMP — largest catalogue (1.1M+ skills from GitHub); clone and copy to install.
- Smithery — MCP marketplace with managed OAuth; best for external tool connections.
- Always review
allowed-toolsin community SKILL.md files before installing. - Next: writing instructions that are clear, reliable, and produce consistent results.
What's Next
The marketplace shows what's possible. Now let's focus on writing instructions that are clear, reliable, and produce consistent results.