The Definitive Claude AI Skills Reference — V2

The Claude skills ecosystem launched in October 2025. By June 2026, 32+ vendors had published official skills — Google, Cloudflare, Expo, Flutter, Sentry, NVIDIA, Binance, Auth0, Figma, Datadog, and more. The community added thousands more. Finding the ones worth using requires wading through abandoned experiments, security risks, and hype.

This document does that work for you.

What's inside:

120 individual skills — each with verified GitHub source, install command, sample frontmatter, invocation trigger, dependencies, and honest limitations. No padding. Every entry sourced, cross-referenced, and documented to a production standard.

10 curated deployment stacks built for real roles: Solo Founder, Web Agency, Marketing Team, Security Audit, AI Product Builder, DevOps/Cloud, Mobile Developer, Content Creator, African SME/Low-Resource, Legal/Compliance. Each stack includes the specific skills, the reasoning, and the quick install sequence.

7 Claude.ai Artifact patterns — Persistent Storage, API-in-Artifact, React State, MCP-Connected Artifacts, Single-File constraints, Live Artifacts, Cloud Routines — with constraints and working code patterns.

The Universal SKILL.md format reference — required fields, optional fields, precedence rules, all four installation methods.

Security guidance drawn from Snyk's ToxicSkills audit (February 2026): 36.82% of community skills contain security flaws. 13.4% critical. 76 confirmed malicious payloads. The document tells you exactly what to check before enabling any skill.

This is not a blog post stretched into a PDF. It is a working reference document — formatted to open in Word or any PDF viewer and stay open while you build.

Who it's for:

Developers using Claude Code daily who want a trusted, audited shortlist. AI consultants building client workflows. Agency builders configuring skill stacks. Technical solopreneurs who can't afford the time cost of a bad install.

What you get:

PDF (primary) + editable Word document (bonus). Portrait cover and back matter. Landscape skills table across 10 columns.

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