Stop guessing which one. Put them side by side.

The grid says what these tools are. This says what builders did about it — one decision per person, changeable whenever you change your mind.

# Tool comparison — claude-plugins-official vs anthropics/skills vs taste-skill

Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects.
Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code.

## 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

## 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

## taste-skill (taste-skill)
- URL: https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill
- Category: Skills & agents
- Cost: free — Free · MIT
- What it is: Portable design instructions with three tunable 1–10 dials — DESIGN_VARIANCE, MOTION_INTENSITY, VISUAL_DENSITY — plus named aesthetic variants shipped as separate skills. ~77k stars.
- Why builders pick it: The minimalist-ui (Notion/Linear editorial) and high-end-visual-design variants are the relevant ones. Also includes redesign-existing-projects, which audits and upgrades an existing codebase rather than assuming greenfield — useful if the site already exists.
- Wiring: npx skills add https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill
- Full dossier: /api/public/tools/taste-skill

## Quick read

- Editor's picks: anthropics/skills, taste-skill.

## 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=claude-plugins-official,anthropics-skills,taste-skill