skills-atlas

Browse public Agent Skills (SKILL.md format) by theme in a collapsible terminal tree or a local web interface. Tick several and install them together through npx skills add. Installed skills start ticked: untick one to uninstall it.

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• Find: about 75,000 skills from skills.sh, claude-plugins.dev and Smithery, in 20 themes, plus ★ Recommended repositories, 🔥 Trending skills and 📦 Packs to install as a block.
• Check before installing: read any skill's SKILL.md with p, with a risk check that points at what it runs, reads or sends. A skill that would replace another of the same name is flagged before anything runs.
• Keep up to date: installed skills are detected and ticked; untick to uninstall, press u to update the outdated ones, and see which agent has what.
• Share: export and import a selection, or commit a skills-atlas.json so that skills-atlas sync gives every teammate the same skills.
• From your agent: a skill, an MCP server and a Claude Code plugin let Claude and other agents search, read and install skills for you.
• Everywhere: 79 agents, a terminal tree and a web page, nine languages, shell completion, and it works offline.

A session: tick skills in ★ Recommended, read a SKILL.md with p, then review the npx skills command. Try the web interface online, nothing installs there.

Terminal: installed skills ticked, ★ Recommended opened by repository, candy-pink selections.

Installation

npx skills-atlas            # or: npm i -g skills-atlas

Node ≥ 20. A catalog snapshot ships inside the package, so it works offline; online, the CLI fetches the latest snapshot, rebuilt every other day (see The catalog).

Updating

npm i -g skills-atlas@latest   # global install
skills-atlas --version         # check the installed version
npx skills-atlas@latest        # with npx, which may otherwise run a cached older version
npx clear-npx-cache            # if npx still runs the old version

The catalog updates on its own, without a new version: the CLI checks for a newer snapshot at most every 12 hours. skills-atlas --refresh checks now.

Usage

skills-atlas                                  # interactive: tree → scope → options → confirm, then back to the tree
skills-atlas browse -t security -q audit      # tree pre-filtered by theme and text
skills-atlas browse -a claude-code cursor -g  # options given as flags are not asked; -g/-p also limits the tree to that scope
skills-atlas themes                           # themes and their skill counts
skills-atlas list -t databases -n 10          # non-interactive listing (--json available)
skills-atlas agents                           # ids accepted by --agent (★ = detected here)
skills-atlas install anthropics/skills@pdf supabase/agent-skills@supabase -a claude-code -p -y
skills-atlas ui                               # the same in your browser, with the mouse
skills-atlas export > my-skills.json          # installed skills as a selection file (-g / -p for one scope)
skills-atlas import my-skills.json -a claude-code -g  # install the same skills on another machine or project
skills-atlas show obra/superpowers@brainstorming      # a skill's SKILL.md, read from GitHub (--json available)
skills-atlas outdated                         # global skills with a newer version on GitHub (--json available)
skills-atlas update                           # update them all (or name some; --dry-run available)
skills-atlas mcp                              # MCP server on stdio, for Claude and other agents
skills-atlas installed -a claude-code codex   # installed skills by agent: what each one sees (--json available)
skills-atlas packs                            # curated packs: frontend, security, quality, writing
skills-atlas install --pack security -a claude-code -g   # install a whole pack
skills-atlas sync                             # install what this project's skills-atlas.json lists and is missing
skills-atlas completion bash                  # shell completion script (bash, zsh, fish, powershell)

Shell completion completes commands, options, skill ids, agents, themes and languages. Load it from your shell's startup file:

It needs skills-atlas installed (npm i -g skills-atlas), not run through npx. Skill ids come from the cached catalog, so Tab never waits for the network.

export writes the installed skills that have a GitHub source as { "skillsAtlas": 1, "skills": ["owner/repo@skill", …] }; home-made skills are listed on stderr and left out. import takes the same options as install and asks for what they leave open. A selection file is checked before anything runs: a malformed id, or a name that could pass for a flag, stops the import.

When a newer skills-atlas is published, a dim line says so above the tree and under the ui address. npm is asked at most once a day, in the background, so it never slows the start; --offline skips it.

Risk check

The SKILL.md preview (p), skills-atlas show and the MCP server's show_skill point at what a skill asks for beyond its description:

It is a pattern check on the text, tuned on the 150 most installed skills: it points at lines worth reading, it does not prove a skill safe. show prints the warning signs on stderr, so that stdout stays the SKILL.md alone; show --json add