164 Claude Skills in One Repo: Which to Take First
164 skills, 11 categories, one repo. Which ones to take first, and which to leave.
Everything below is checked against github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills as of 9 August 2026: Apache-2.0, 72,138 stars, 8,183 forks, 164 linked skills across 11 category sections. Star counts move. The categories and the skill names do not.
What a Claude skill actually is
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file in it. That file has a name, a description, and a set of instructions in plain Markdown. It can bundle scripts, reference documents and assets alongside it, but none of that is required.
The description is the important part. It is what Claude reads when it decides whether this skill is relevant to what you just asked. A vague description means the skill never fires. A precise one means it fires when it should.
That simple format is the reason a list like this can exist at all. A skill is portable text, so anyone can publish one and anyone can read one before they run it.
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