Best Skills AI Tools

Skill packs, rules, and MCP integrations that teach your AI assistant new abilities

11 tools

  1. Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents

    Free and open source

  2. The open format for packaging reusable skills for AI agents

    Free open specification

  3. Anthropic's official library of example Agent Skills

    Free; skills used with Claude plans priced separately

  4. Official guide to project rules that steer Cursor's AI

    Free feature of Cursor; Cursor plans priced on cursor.com

  5. OpenAI's store of custom GPTs for specific tasks

    Browse free; some GPTs and features require a ChatGPT plan

  6. Official reference servers for the Model Context Protocol

    Free and open source

  7. Official registry of publicly available MCP servers

    Free

  8. OpenAI's skills catalog and docs for Codex

    Free; Codex usage priced by OpenAI plans

  9. Find and install agent skills with one command

    Free and open source

  10. Directory and hosting for MCP servers and agent skills

    Free to browse; see smithery.ai for hosting terms

  11. Agentic skills framework that helps coding agents plan before they build

    Free and open source

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