Agent Skills for Claude, Codex & Cursor – top SKILL.md skills

Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies

Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately.

Ask which skill or flow fits your situation. A router over the skills in this repo.

Plan a huge chunk of work (more than one agent session can hold) as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.

Teach the user a new skill or concept, within this workspace.

Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.

Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill…