Claude Code Skills

Personal collection of Claude Code skills for syncing across machines.

Setup

Clone and symlink to make all skills available to Claude Code:

git clone https://github.com/melanie531/claude-code-skills.git ~/repos/claude-code-skills

# Symlink into Claude Code's personal skills directory
ln -s ~/repos/claude-code-skills ~/.claude/skills

To pull updates on any machine:

cd ~/repos/claude-code-skills && git pull

Note: If ~/.claude/skills already exists, back it up or remove it before creating the symlink.

Skills Catalog

Skill	Description
algorithmic-art	Create algorithmic art using p5.js with seeded randomness and interactive parameter exploration
aws-tech-blog	Write AWS technical blog posts (customer stories, feature launches, best practices, how-to tutorials)
bedrock-agentcore	Build, deploy, and operate AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
brand-guidelines	Apply Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to artifacts
canvas-design	Create visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy
commit	Create well-formatted git commits with conventional commit style
doc-coauthoring	Structured workflow for co-authoring documentation, proposals, and technical specs
docx	Document creation, editing, and analysis with tracked changes, comments, and formatting
explain-code	Explain code with visual diagrams and analogies
fix-issue	Fix a GitHub issue by number
frontend-design	Create production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality
internal-comms	Write internal communications (status reports, newsletters, FAQs, incident reports)
mcp-builder	Guide for creating MCP servers in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript
pdf	PDF manipulation: extract text/tables, create, merge/split, and handle forms
pptx	Presentation creation, editing, and analysis (.pptx)
review	Review code for bugs, security issues, and best practices
skill-creator	Guide for creating and packaging new Claude Code skills
slack-gif-creator	Create animated GIFs optimized for Slack
theme-factory	Style artifacts with 10 pre-set themes or generate custom themes on-the-fly
web-artifacts-builder	Build multi-component HTML artifacts with React, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui
webapp-testing	Test local web applications using Playwright (screenshots, browser logs, UI verification)
write-chapter	Write chapters for "Architecting Generative AI Applications on AWS"
xlsx	Spreadsheet creation, editing, analysis with formulas, formatting, and visualization

Structure

Each skill is a directory containing at minimum a SKILL.md file:

<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md              # Main skill instructions (required)
├── LICENSE.txt            # License (if applicable)
├── references/            # Reference documentation
├── templates/             # Templates for output
├── scripts/               # Helper scripts
└── examples/              # Example outputs

Adding a New Skill

1. Create a new directory with a SKILL.md file:

   mkdir -p ~/repos/claude-code-skills/my-new-skill
   # Create SKILL.md with frontmatter (name, description) and instructions
   

2. Commit and push:

   cd ~/repos/claude-code-skills
   git add my-new-skill/
   git commit -m "Add my-new-skill"
   git push
   

3. Pull on other machines:

   cd ~/repos/claude-code-skills && git pull