Last week, I posted an article about the Superpowers plugin for Agents:
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Recommending a must-install plugin with 110k stars that will fundamentally transform your Agent experience.
Lately, I've been talking a lot about Agents and Vibe Coding. However, while recommending them to more friends, I realized a problem that has been overlooked. The real bottleneck for most people is not having a standard workflow...
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I didn't expect such good feedback; the information gap regarding Skills is larger than I thought = =
Then someone in the comments, a friend named Tim, asked what other must-install Skills there are.
I figured I could indeed do another episode.
So over the weekend, I sorted through what I think is truly useful for everyone and ground out another article.
I'm not doing a massive list of hundreds of recommendations—I don't think that's meaningful. I've selected a few that I actually use frequently and find helpful for everyone.
Truly, more Skills aren't necessarily better; in fact, the more streamlined and scientific they are, the better the results.
Installing the skills recommended in this article is simple: just copy and paste this article to your Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, etc. These Agents can then help you install them all at once.
Let's officially begin.
1. Frontend Design
The famous Frontend Design Skills ranks first on Claude's official plugin site, surpassing Superpowers.
Link: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/frontend-design
One very useful thing it does is solve the aesthetic "taste" problem most AIs have when doing frontend work.
The weaker the model, the better the relative improvement.
Many AI-generated frontend pages have such a strong "AI vibe" it's cringeworthy.
You've surely seen it: the ubiquitous Tailwind CSS blue-purple gradients, system default fonts—ten people generate ten pages, and eight of them look identical.
Of course, that's unavoidable since AI is based on statistics.
For example, if I ask Claude to directly output a visualization page for our public account data.
It's a direct output without any skills or prompts. Although it's better than many models, that "AI vibe" is still a bit thick.
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I could draw a prototype for it or describe a UI design prompt, but for non-UI designers—just as I can't imagine how to write music prompts—optimizing web aesthetics is a difficult task.
That's where Frontend Design comes in. This Skill comes from Anthropic's official team. To be fair, Anthropic has done a lot of great work in promoting the Skills ecosystem.
You can look at their SKILL.md documentation; the design philosophy is quite interesting.
It requires the AI to think through a bold aesthetic direction—minimalism, retro-futurism, whatever—before writing code. Then all typography, white space ratios, font choices, and animations must revolve around that direction.
It also has hard rules, such as banning overused fonts like Inter, Roboto, and Arial, and banning the classic AI aesthetic of purple gradients on white backgrounds.
Once installed, the same requirement produces something completely different.
Using our public account as an example again.
The layout is suddenly much more comfortable.
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If you frequently use Agents to generate frontend pages, UI for small tools, or data visualization analysis, believe me, this is a must-install.
2. The Office Essential Four-Piece Set
Surprisingly, the second one is actually 4 Skills...
They are: docx, xlsx, pdf, and pptx.
Also from Anthropic's official collection, these are essentials for office workers.
Link: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills
With these, your AI can read various file formats.
Word, PPT, Excel, and PDF can all be read, written, and modified.
If you use Cowork, these capabilities are built-in and ready to use. But if you use Claude Code in the terminal or something like OpenClaw, you need to install them yourself.
You might say, "Wait, I can read PDFs and generate Word docs without these skills."
True, you can, but without them, every time the Agent handles these formats, it writes code from scratch, groping in the dark for layout and table generation. If you're lucky, it's okay; if not, it's a mess.
And the lower the model's capability, the messier it gets.
With this four-piece set installed, it comes with a complete set of document processing workflows and code templates.
For example, page size, width, required image types, etc.
It's like giving it an operations manual; it can just follow instructions instead of winging it every time.
Let me show you a comparison. Take the recent popular paper "Attention Residuals" by Kimi as an example—21 pages, all in English, packed with formulas and charts.
We use Claude Code without any skills to help make Chinese notes and summarize the key points.
What it produces is on the left.
A mess, just a big mess.
But once you install the four-piece set, the same request produces what's on the right.
A unified color scheme, headers and footers included—at least it's a complete document without bugs that looks professional.
You can also throw your own paper templates to the Agent and use them with this skill for surprisingly good results.
PPTs follow the same logic. Without the skill, the PPTs it makes are very simple and lack highlights. With it, it can output a well-laid-out PPT. And if you combine it with the Frontend Design skill mentioned above, the PPT's aesthetics reach another level.
Believe me, this four-piece set is a skill set almost everyone can use.
3. Web Access Skill
A very useful networking skill developed by @一泽.
It's called Web Access skill.
Link: https://github.com/eze-is/web-access
Released just last Monday, it already has over 2,000 stars.
It's one of the few skills that combines web search with browser control, and it's now my default networking skill.
Claude Code's built-in search tool cannot find non-public internal site information. For sites like Xiaohongshu or Bilibili, it basically finds nothing useful.
But with this skill, the search capability is completely different.
It connects directly to your local Chrome process via the Chrome DevTools Protocol, carrying your login status. So, sites you're logged into—like Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, or Feishu—can be used directly without re-logging.
It even thoughtfully offers Jina as an optional intermediate layer to save tokens. It can be used with WebFetch and Curl to convert web content into clean Markdown before reading, significantly reducing token consumption.
The design is quite elegant.
However, one prerequisite is that Chrome must be updated to the latest version. You also need to allow remote debugging by checking the box at chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging.
For example, I asked it to find good food near Wangjing on Xiaohongshu, preferably with pictures.
It sent out a bunch of Agents to extract note content. Yes, in parallel—multiple Agents doing their own thing, operating different browser tabs simultaneously without interference.
Then, it organized everything with text and images.
Reading public account links is no problem either.
There's also a very interesting design feature: it automatically accumulates operational experience for each website.
It saves a local record by domain: which selectors work, which paths are viable, and which pitfalls to avoid. The first visit might be slow, but subsequent visits to the same site are much faster. It's like the Agent is gaining work experience.
It's very convenient and currently the best general networking skill I've used.
4. PUA
Once upon a time, I thought this PUA Skill was just a joke.
Until I used it myself... it's amazing.
Link: https://github.com/tanweai/pua
The project description reads: "You are a P8-level engineer who was once highly anticipated. When Anthropic graded you, their expectations were very high."
This vibe really brings back memories of the corporate grind...
But in all seriousness, this skill solves a problem many have felt but find hard to describe: AI slacking off.
You ask it to fix a bug, it tries two or three times without success, and then starts saying, "I suggest you check manually" or "This problem might need more context."
Translated into human: "I don't want to do this anymore, do it yourself."
The PUA skill is specifically designed to treat this kind of slacking.
I don't actually recommend keeping it on by default. It's better to manually PUA it when it really can't solve something.
When your project just won't get fixed after multiple attempts, just type /pua and let it work.
Then it starts finding the cause and finally solves it.
It has four levels of pressure escalation. If the Agent keeps spinning its wheels on the same idea, PUA will forcibly interrupt it and make it execute a 7-item checklist to force a change in thinking.
Its v3 version is even crazier; it automatically selects a methodology based on the task type. Methodologies from over a dozen companies like Alibaba, ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent, Meituan, Pinduoduo, Baidu, Netflix, Apple, and X are all packed in.
It's cruel, but it works so well. The results are immediate.
I highly recommend installing it. When there's a bug it just can't figure out, turn on PUA mode.
5. Claude-mem
Many people feel OpenClaw gets smarter the more you use it. This is essentially due to the memory mechanism; OpenClaw encapsulates Memory directly.
Claude Code or Codex, however, have never had this.
So, an expert made one specifically for it called Claude-mem.
Link: https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem
It solves the problem of memory persistence. It automatically records key information from each conversation, compresses it, and injects relevant context into new sessions.
Simply put, it gives your Claude Code long-term memory similar to OpenClaw.
It uses a progressive presentation scheme with a three-layer retrieval mechanism: first an index to see if there's relevant content, then the timeline context, and finally the full details. This is standard because it saves tokens.
It also comes with a local web interface running at localhost:37777, where you can see exactly what it remembered and when. It's very clear.
There's also a privacy control design. If there's content you don't want remembered, like passwords or keys, just add a <private> tag, and it will automatically skip it.
Like this: <private>content</private>.
Frankly, I rarely use this syntax because I think it's a bit clunky.
6. Skill-Creator
This is, in my opinion, the most important Skill, bar none.
Link: https://claude.com/plugins/skill-creator
I've written a specific article to introduce it:
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Claude quietly updated the Skills generator, and it's an epic upgrade.
During a livestream last week, I noticed Anthropic's skills repository had an update. Clicking in, I found a highly requested Skill had been updated.
This is it—the cornerstone of the entire Skills ecosystem: Skill-creator.
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I won't go into too much detail. In one sentence: it helps you build all the Skills that belong to you.
The reason I put the most important one last is that I've always felt the true way to use Skills is to encapsulate and solidify your own needs and experience into Skills.
Only the Skills that belong to you are the truly must-install ones.
For instance, I'm not a developer, but I have a server for my own deployments. I couldn't manage it well, so I turned the entire server management authority into a Skill and let the Agent manage it for me.
A few days ago, as my colleagues' Vibe Coding became more proficient, they also needed to deploy projects on servers. Everyone was renting their own, so I thought I'd upgrade my server and set up permission management so everyone could use it together, saving money and adding convenience.
It took about ten minutes to set up...
When my colleagues got it, the process looked like this:
Now this server management Skill is our must-install Skill. Otherwise, a group of people really wouldn't understand server O&M, and for our very personal small projects, there's no need for anything complex.
Looking back, the five skills I recommended—Frontend Design, the four-piece set, Web Access, PUA, and Claude-Mem—no matter how useful they are, they solve general problems.
But for many needs, no GitHub repository will solve your specific, personalized problems.
Only you can.
So I put Skill Creator last not because it's the least important, but quite the opposite.
It's the only thing that can turn you from a consumer of Skills into a creator of Skills.
The first five skills are answers others thought of for you.
Skill Creator gives you the ability to create your own.
Final Thoughts
We used to say someone had a skill, referring to something inherent to them.
A product manager's insight into data, a designer's aesthetic, a programmer's debugging intuition. These things might take ten years to learn, and they can't be taken away; they only exist within that person.
But now, skills can be encapsulated into a file, installed, shared, and copied.
This might sound like skills are devaluing.
But I don't think so.
What's truly devaluing are general skills. Like how to format a Word document, how to write a piece of frontend code, or how to search a webpage. Skills already do these for you.
What's truly increasing in value is the ability to know what you need.
You know what your company's server management process should look like, you know which parts of your article style are the soul and which are just fluff, and you know which link in your workflow is the most painful and worth automating.
AI can't make these judgments.
Because it isn't you.
So honestly, whether you install all six skills recommended today or just pick a few, it's fine.
But if you only remember one thing, I hope it's this:
The most powerful skill will always be the next one—the one you build yourself.
