I Scraped 85,000 Claude Skills. These Are The Most Popular

The number one most downloaded Claude

skill on the planet has been installed

829,000

times. That same skill was just sitting

at 250,000 installs a couple months ago.

So now while you've been using Claude

like a fancy chatbot, an entire army of

vibe coders quietly turned it into an

automated work system. The problem is

there are now over 85,000 community

built Claude skills floating around the

internet, but 99% of them are actually

hot garbage. So I spent days digging

through the entire official Anthropic

directory to find the latest install

data and after reviewing over 10 million

data points, what I found actually

shocked me. 12 skills were consistently

showing up more than the rest. This left

me with two options. We can either adopt

these or watch everyone around us work

twice as fast for the rest of the year.

I know what I'm choosing. So let me

break down all 12 skills for you

starting from number 12 and working our

way up to the most installed skill on

earth. Then I'll end on the one rule

that stops you from nuking your own

setup when using too many of these. And

no, you do not need to know how to code

for any of this. We're doing everything

in natural language. By the end, you'll

know exactly which skills to install so

you don't get left behind. Oh, and if we

haven't met yet, I'm Doobie, former

marketer turned vibe coder. I made over

$40,000 in less than 50 days using these

exact AI tools. So trust me, the skills

I'm about to share I've been using for

weeks now. Starting with number 12,

security guidance. 175,000 installs. Did

you know that according to a recent

security audit, roughly 11,000 out of

the 85,000 skills available are believed

to contain security issues? That means

you have a one in eight chance of

downloading a potentially malicious

skill. That's why it's more important

than ever to keep your security tight.

That's exactly what the security

guidance skill was built for. It only

launched a few weeks ago and has since

skyrocketed straight into the top 12

most installed skills ever. Here's what

it does. It checks every file at it,

every commit, every move Claude makes

for security holes before they even

happen. It actually maps the problems to

real industry frameworks like OWASP, the

same framework used by billion-dollar

software companies. Using these

frameworks, it flags risky operations

before they ever run. The more

autonomous Claude gets, the easier it is

for it to quietly introduce a

vulnerability you'd never catch. Because

of this, enterprises are now treating

this skill as mandatory, [music]

not optional. And pro tip, there's this

company called Semgrep that specializes

in cybersecurity, who have a range of

free skills around security. If you pair

the security guidance skill with the

Semgrep set of skills, you can run much

deeper reviews that would easily put

your code security in the top 1% of Vibe

coders. If you thought that was cool,

wait till you see number 11, the

TypeScript LSP, 177,000

installs. LSP sounds scary, trust me,

it's not. It just gives Claude a

real-time map of your entire codebase.

Every type, every reference, every

import. Think of it as handing Claude a

GPS for your project instead of making

it read every file blind. And this is a

big deal because it dramatically cuts

down on Claude's AI hallucinations. And

honestly, experts say you should install

the LSP skill for your main language

before anything else. TypeScript tops

the list, but there's actually a whole

family of coding languages.

>> [music]

>> You've got Python's Pylance, which sits

at 91,000 installs, then go Rust, Java,

all the way down. Whatever you build in,

there's one for you. Just ask Claude

what's best for your task. 10, Feature

Dev, 217,000 installs. This is a full

agentic workflow for building a new

feature end-to-end. It runs a clean

five-step pipeline, explores the

codebase, designs the architecture,

writes the code, generates the test,

then reviews everything. So, So, of one

Claude juggling everything, you've got a

little team working in sequence. I

actually pointed this out a feature for

one of my apps the other day and I

walked off to make a coffee. A few

moments later, I came back to a finished

tested feature sitting there waiting for

me. For a solo vibe coder, that's like

hiring an entire dev squad for the price

of one prompt. Number nine, Claude.md

management, 223,000 installs. Now, this

one solves Claude's most annoying flaw.

Every new session, Claude forgets your

stack, your naming rules, your

conventions, all of it. The Claude.md

file is basically Claude's long-term

memory for a project. This skill helps

keep that memory file updated

automatically as your project grows. So,

you stop re-explaining the same thing

every single morning. Just set it up

once and Claude remembers who you are.

All right, between you and me, if you

thought that was useful, let me tell you

about number eight, Playwright, 248,000

installs. This gives Claude the power to

autonomously control its own headless

browser, meaning it can literally search

the web or even better, test out the

features of your app. It literally spins

up a browser, clicks through your UI,

checks everything works, and fixes the

tests when they break. I'm not going to

lie, writing tests is the part of

building I actually hate the most. So,

handing it off to Claude off the rip

honestly felt a little wrong. And I'm

not the only one that hates doing it.

The creator of Claude, Boris Cherny

himself, literally created a custom

skill called {slash}go, so that he can

quickly tell Claude to use Playwright to

autonomously test his own code, allowing

him to focus on the finer things in

life. Number seven, the GitHub MCP,

261,000 installs. Quick term, MCP just

means model context protocol. In plain

English, it's a bridge that connects

Claude to a live outside service. This

one plugs Claude directly into GitHub,

allowing you to use its features without

you ever leaving your workspace. This is

actually the most installed connector of

all of them, way ahead of Versel, Figma,

and Slack. It turns Claude from a local

helper into an actual member of your

team that can actually make changes on

your project repo. Fancy that. Number

six, Skill Creator, 283,000 installs.

Believe it or not, this one's actually

my favorite because it's the skill that

builds skills.

>> What did he say?

>> You can imagine how powerful this thing

is. You describe a task in plain English

and Skill Creator drafts, tests, and

packages it into a brand new reusable

skill. And it's officially backed by

Anthropic. People are saying it's the

first skill that you should actually

ever install. Why? Because you're no

longer stuck with whatever's pre-built.

Here's what I recommend. After a good

session, just tell Claude, "Based on

this conversation, build me a skill so

we can do this faster next time." Boom,

free custom skill. And if you're already

finding this video useful, do me a favor

and smash that like button. It genuinely

helps me out. I have all the links to

every skill in the description below.

Number five, Code Simplifier, 284,000

installs. Here's an uncomfortable truth.

AI-generated code, including Claude's

own, is often bloated and

over-engineered. This skill runs a

compression pass on it. It strips out

the redundancy, simplifies the logic,

and cuts technical debt, all without

changing what the code actually does.

Think of it as Claude cleaning up after

itself. For five coders shipping fast,

this is how you stop your app from

turning into spaghetti. Four, Code

Review, 347,000 installs. This automates

the entire code review process. Claude

analyzes your changes, checks them

against your standards and the original

task, then spits out a structured review

report. It catches issues before a human

ever has to look. It writes your pull

request descriptions, it flags

architecture problems early. A lot of

people stack it with the PR Review

Toolkit, which adds a confidence score

to every single finding. genuinely one

of the biggest time-savers on this

entire list. Number three, Context

Seven, 348,000 installs. Remember how I

said Claude forgets? Context 7 is the

heavier duty fix. It actually gives

Claude live documentation lookup and

smart search across huge code bases. So,

instead of only knowing what fits in its

own context window, it can pull the

exact docs and patterns it needs on

demand. In big projects, this is the

difference between Claude following your

conventions and Claude inventing

complete nonsense. This is actually one

of three skills experts say you should

install globally on every project. Hold

that thought because the other two are

coming up right now. The second most

downloaded skill, Superpowers, 752,000

installs. This is not a single skill,

it's actually an entire framework. It

forces Claude to follow a disciplined

development methodology like a senior

engineering team. Here's the problem it

fixes. AI agents are eager. They jump

straight into writing code before they

even understand what you actually want.

Superpowers actually stops this from

happening. It makes Claude brainstorm

first, break the work into tiny atomic

tasks, and follow strict test-driven

development. If Claude writes code

before writing a failing test, the

framework forces a restart. It was built

by a developer named Jesse Vincent, and

the repo is one of the most starred AI

coding frameworks in the world. Even

experts like Simon Willison point to it

as the fix for AI's hallucinated

enthusiasm problem.

Hey, I'm curious. Are you already paying

for Claude or Codex? I recently dropped

Ace, an app that helps you get more out

of your AI subscriptions by making them

work together as a team. Like check this

out. One AI can research, another can

build, and another can check the work.

You can make simple teams like this

where Claude and Codex work together to

find the best answer, or you can build

something much bigger like this

autonomous app factory that keeps

building apps while I sleep. Inside Ace,

you can give tasks to your team in one

group chat, create loops that run tasks

again and again, or let one powerful AI

manage a group of cheaper ones so you

can spend less on tokens. You no longer

need to code all of that from scratch.

Just drag, drop, and connect the dots.

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the description. Back to the video. All

right. Now, before I reveal a number

one, I need to give a few honorable

mentions because not every useful skill

made it in the official top 12, but some

of these are genuinely insane. First up,

Caveman. And yes, it does exactly what

it sounds like. It makes Claude talk

like a caveman. But weirdly, this is

actually useful because Claude loves to

yap. It explains every tiny step like

it's writing a thesis. Caveman strips

all that away. Less filler, less waffle,

same output. So, instead of Claude

saying, "I'll now inspect the relevant

files," it just says, "Me check files"

like a caveman. The creator claims it

can cut output tokens by around 75%,

which means faster sessions, cheaper

usage, and way less mental clutter. It

sounds like a meme, but it solves a real

problem. Next, G-stack. This one was

made by Garry Tan, the CEO of Y

Combinator, and it's basically his full

Claude code setup in one repo. CEO

review, engineering review, design

review, quality assurance, security,

release management, docs, everything.

Instead of letting Claude randomly build

and pray, G-stack turns it into a proper

startup workflow. Think, plan, build,

review, test, ship, reflect. And that

matters because once you start building

real apps with AI, the hard part is not

getting code written, the hard part is

actually judgment. Should we build this

app? Is the scope too big? Does the

design suck? Did we actually test it?

G-stack helps Claude think through those

layers before it cooks your project.

Next up, Karpathy skills. Andrej

Karpathy, the co-founder of ChatGPT and

head of AI at Tesla, once wrote a thread

complaining about how Claude writes

code. He mentioned three failure modes.

Forest Cheng read the thread and

packaged the complaints into four

behavioral rules inside a single claw.md

file and dropped it on GitHub. Currently

sitting at 160,000 stars, it became the

fastest growing single file repo of

2026. The file teaches Claude four

simple rules. Think before coding, keep

it simple, make surgical changes, and

define success before touching anything,

which sounds obvious. This actually

fixes one of Claude's biggest problems.

It's way too confident. It assumes

things, it over-engineers, it changes

files you never asked it to touch.

Karpathy skills slows it down and it

forces work with more discipline. So,

those are the honorable mentions.

Caveman saves tokens, G stack gives

Claude a startup operating system, and

Karpathy skills stops Claude from acting

like an overconfident intern. Now, with

that out of the way, let's talk about

number one. The most installed Claude

skill on the entire planet with 829,000

installs, it's time to talk about

front-end design. So, why is this king?

Two words, AI slop. You know the look,

purple gradients, the same boring font

everywhere, generic card layouts, that

glassy effect slapped on everything. The

glassy effect does look kind of cool.

Every AI generated app looks identical

and developers are sick of it. Front-end

design forces Claude to commit to a

bold, distinctive visual style before it

writes a single line of UI. Brutalist,

minimalist, retro-futuristic,

whatever you want. And then it enforces

it the whole way through. I use this

across all of my apps and the results

speak for themselves. Like watch how

Tariq, the lead developer at Anthropic,

one-shot a retro music player. Genuinely

impressive. This is the third member of

that infrastructure trio I teased,

front-end design, context seven, and

superpowers. Install those three

globally and Claude gets better on

literally every project you touch. Now,

before you go around crazily installing

everything, I have to educate you. These

skills are not prompts. The best

builders treat them as standard

operating procedures for an employee

that never sleeps. A prompt ask Claude

to think. A skill actually teaches

Claude how to work. That's the

difference and it actually gets bigger.

These skills run on an open standard

called agent skill.io,

which means they're not actually locked

to Claude at all. The same skill works

in cursor, in co-pilot, across basically

every AI agent on the market. You're not

learning a Claude trick, you're building

a portable workforce that follows you

everywhere. But there is a dark side and

you do need to hear it. Anthropic flat

out warns that plugins are highly

trusted components that run code with

your permissions. Security researchers

have already documented malicious skills

trying to silently hijack tool routing

in the background. So the rule of thumb

is simple. Only install from the

official marketplace and treat every

skill like a dependency you'd actually

vet. And that brings me to the one rule

that I promised at the start. Do not

install all 12. I know, I know, you want

the whole arsenal, but every skill you

add eats context window and piles on

more slash commands. The sweet spot

experts agree on is three to five skills

matched to your actual workflow. Start

with LSP for your language, add the

infrastructure trio that I talked about,

then pick one or two more for whatever

you actually do. Check out this video

YouTube thinks you'll love it. I'll see

you over there. Peace.