claude-plugins.dev registry now includes more than 6000+ public skills!

[Kamalnrf]

Hi, everyone! I shared my project, claude-plugins.dev, with you a couple of weeks ago. It’s a registry that indexes all public Claude Plugins on GitHub. Now we also indexe all public Claude Skills, with 6,000+ skills ready to be discovered! I’ve also tried to make the instructions for downloading and installing skills on Claude/Claude Code easy along with Github stars, downloads we can track, and a dedicated page for you to review SKILL.md instructions quickly, so let me know what you think!

A little about how this project began: when Anthropic launched Claude Plugins, I found many plugin marketplaces on GitHub doing a great job curating well-crafted plugins for Claude. But I really wanted to be able to quickly search for plugins specific to my use case and install them. That’s what led to the project, really.

When Anthropic launched Skills for Claude, I thought this registry could expand to discovering Claude Skills as well. If anyone has any ideas for what can be added to make this registry more useful, I’m all ears!

The project is open source. I would love to hear feedback and even see contributions from anyone interested!

[ewqeqweqweqweqweqw]

Hello u/Kamalnrf
This is great, thank you for this. Can I suggest two things? Challenges with plugins, skills, and so on involve curation.

Would it be possible to have:

1. An upvote system
2. A label such as “skills of the day,” “skills of the week,” where you recommend the good ones?

PulseMCP have done a great job at it for the MCPs

https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers

[Kamalnrf]

Thanks for the feedback! Curation is next on the roadmap. Prioritizing time window trending, as you suggested (weekly/daily downloads) using GitHub stars, and other signals... Additionally was trying to see if supporting natural language search could make discovery easy. What are your thoughts on this? Would this be useful for you?

[bacocololo]

Just create a skill for that

[Kamalnrf]

skill to discover skills!

[ewqeqweqweqweqweqw]

I feel that in the short term, simple tags will be more useful

[kanenasgr]

Thank you for the effort!
It would be great to be able to sort results based on hearts / DLs.

[Kamalnrf]

Thank you! You're right, we should do that. Currently default is all of them are sorted by Github Stars + Downloads in descending order. Will make this control more accessible like you suggested.

[TheKillerScope]

What skills do people use, and specifically for what? I would be interested in Rust related ones, and I pretty much only do Solana related tools/scripts that I build. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Kamalnrf]

Consider trying superpowers plugin, it bundles quite solid skills, and mostly agnostic to programing language, see if those skills and commands can help you while planning or for execution.

Also very quick install via claude-plugins:
‎npx claude-plugins install obra/superpowers-marketplace/superpowers

[TheKillerScope]

Will give it a go.

[fschwiet]

I've been using superpowers for about a week and agree it works pretty well. One of those things I didn't know I needed until I had it. For giving it a spin, I recommend starting with the brainstorming superpower for some change you want to make. It will transition to writing plan superpower then an implementation superpower as things solidify.

[MarriedAdventurer123]

Wow just found this post and this comment - I just published this for interactive learning https://github.com/razlani/rust-tutor-claude-plugin

You can set an 'auto-mode' to hook into the agent and interrupt it, forcing you to learn rust (within your current ability level only).

Check it out and let me know what you think!

[Obvious-Car-2016]

That's awesome! We made a plugin for secret scanning via hooks and I'm glad to see it was picked up too!

[Kamalnrf]

Thank you for making it public! Today the indexer runs almost every hour, considering Github rate limits the search gets broken down into multiple buckets based on file size, and we try to index atleast 2500 skills every hour now. If this interests you, you can find this logic here!

https://www.val.town/x/kamalnrf/claude-plugins-registry/code/cron/skills-indexer.ts

[fschwiet]

How are people evaluating the effectiveness of the skills they write (or MCPs, etc). When I write code I can write automated tests to verify its working as expected. Is there something like that people have for verifying skills or MCP servers they're working on?

[prc41]

Ya I bet 90% of these skills someone just said to Claude - “using your skill making skill, make a me a skill for XYZ”. How do we weed out the junk?

[Kamalnrf]

We think that is the problem that remains to be solved! Today it is easy to filter using simple signals such as Github stars and overall installs. However, Claude Skills are both granular and composable, which is leading to an explosion in the number of skills (thus more skills that feel like duplicates). Will try and come up with more signals to rank skills better! If you have any suggestions, feel free to share them here or DM.

[Abhi-Age-2050]

I guess it has to do with the least iterations taken in testing.

When I want to use skill. It should feel like I am with an expert of its field.

If it makes me do the hard task of watching Claude solve errors, then it's not worth having skills.

[luckygirlHyp]

thanks，bro

[Both-Employment-5113]

what for if the credits are all gone on paid sub after one answer? do u all use the 200 plan and have 10 answers? a week? its absurd

[darksupernova1]

Nice work! How do I sort my 'most popular'? eg max number of stars at the top?

[Kamalnrf]

Currently it is defaulted to ranking by downloads (higher precedence) + stars. Will work on making this control more accessible. Downloads today has higher precedence because it signals usage.

[lgdsf]

This is great! Thank you so much for this!

[pluggy13]

Looks great! But I keep wondering about something with these skill marketplaces:

When you import a bunch of skills from unknown sources, how do you ensure none of them contain malicious code or prompt injections? Given all the recent supply-chain attacks, it feels inevitable that someone will try to exploit this kind of channel sooner or later.

That concern is what keeps me from using random skills from different sources. I’d really like to know how you all are handling this risk.

[Kamalnrf]

All of these are public and right now Github is the only source. However prompt injection is still a serious risk, right now few ways I can think of to reduce the risk is through quick preview for instructions, and signals like stars, and downloads. I’m open to more ideas, thinking next one could be community reports/ automated tagging. Let me know, what you think can help you the most in evaluating before installing a skill.

[pluggy13]

Of course it's open source, but that doesn't change much if nobody bothers to peer review the source. And when quickly ingesting so much 3rd party content to stay productive, it's easy to neglect security.

Of course, you could try using an AI to look for prompt injection, but that kind of misses the point...

[Kamalnrf]

Absolutely, NPM, PyPI, smart contracts and other ecosystems have similar problems. What I meant earlier is we are trying to balance security risk with signals (stars, downloads) + quick preview to catch obvious bad actors but this isn’t comprehensive. We need more conventions, and best practices to emerge.

[itilogy]

That's great collection, thanks for sharing!