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anthropics/skillsclaude-plugins-official
Quick read
- Editor's pick: anthropics/skills.
| Field | anthropics/skillsgithub.com | claude-plugins-officialgithub.com |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Anthropic's canonical skills repository: reference implementations, the formal Agent Skills specification, and an authoring template. Source of the document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx) that ship in Claude products. ~170k stars. | The curated registry behind Claude Code's built-in plugin discovery, split into Anthropic-built plugins and reviewed third-party ones. Each entry can bundle MCP config, slash commands, subagents and skills. |
| Category | Skills & agents | Skills & agents |
| Cost tier | free | free |
| Pricing | Free | Free · Apache-2.0 |
| Why builders pick it | Read the spec, then write one skill of your own: a Resource Project house-style skill capturing editorial voice, headline conventions, image credit format and caption rules. That is how brand voice stops being re-explained every session. | The safe default source. Anthropic reviews external listings but explicitly does not guarantee third-party code or MCP behavior — read what you install. |
| Watch out for | not logged | not logged |
| How to wire it up | /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills | /plugin install {name}@claude-plugins-official |
| Editor's pick | Yes | No |
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# Tool comparison — anthropics/skills vs claude-plugins-official
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## anthropics/skills (anthropics-skills)
- URL: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- Category: Skills & agents
- Cost: free — Free
- What it is: Anthropic's canonical skills repository: reference implementations, the formal Agent Skills specification, and an authoring template. Source of the document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx) that ship in Claude products. ~170k stars.
- Why builders pick it: Read the spec, then write one skill of your own: a Resource Project house-style skill capturing editorial voice, headline conventions, image credit format and caption rules. That is how brand voice stops being re-explained every session.
- Wiring: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
- Full dossier: /api/public/tools/anthropics-skills
## claude-plugins-official (claude-plugins-official)
- URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official
- Category: Skills & agents
- Cost: free — Free · Apache-2.0
- What it is: The curated registry behind Claude Code's built-in plugin discovery, split into Anthropic-built plugins and reviewed third-party ones. Each entry can bundle MCP config, slash commands, subagents and skills.
- Why builders pick it: The safe default source. Anthropic reviews external listings but explicitly does not guarantee third-party code or MCP behavior — read what you install.
- Wiring: /plugin install {name}@claude-plugins-official
- Full dossier: /api/public/tools/claude-plugins-official
## Quick read
- Editor's pick: anthropics/skills.
## Rules
1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is.
2. Read the full dossier before integrating.
3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.Agents can fetch the same thing: GET /api/public/compare?slugs=anthropics-skills,claude-plugins-official