Claude Skills

Personally curated, self-tested skills for Claude Code — an experimental attempt to make vibe coding actually useful.

Every skill here is a top-level directory containing a SKILL.md. That's the whole convention. Drop a folder in, follow that shape, and the installer below picks it up automatically — no list to update, no manifest to edit.

Install everything (one command)

Run from inside this repo. Both commands install every top-level directory that contains a SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills/. Re-running upgrades in place. Add a new skill tomorrow that follows the same structure → re-run the same command, it just works.

Linux / macOS (bash, zsh):

mkdir -p "$HOME/.claude/skills" && for d in */; do [ -f "${d}SKILL.md" ] || continue; rm -rf "$HOME/.claude/skills/${d%/}"; cp -R "$d" "$HOME/.claude/skills/"; done

Windows (PowerShell):

$dst = "$HOME\.claude\skills"; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $dst | Out-Null; Get-ChildItem -Directory | Where-Object { Test-Path (Join-Path $_.FullName 'SKILL.md') } | ForEach-Object { $t = Join-Path $dst $_.Name; if (Test-Path $t) { Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $t }; Copy-Item -Recurse -Force -Path $_.FullName -Destination $dst }

Want one skill instead of all of them? Just cp -R <skill-name>/ ~/.claude/skills/.

What each skill does

How they connect

Some skills explicitly read another skill's SKILL.md mid-run. If you cherry-pick rather than installing the whole set, install the dependencies too — those skills degrade silently without them.

autonomous-research ──▶ academic-paper

people-sourcer ─┬─▶ worldbuilder-writing
                ├─▶ xlsx
                └─▶ pro-graphic-designer ──▶ worldbuilder-writing

worldbuilder-writing is the most-depended-on node — install it first if you're picking and choosing. The installer above grabs everything in one shot, so this only matters for cherry-pickers.

Why a BrightData token is required (for three of the skills)

Three skills are not "search the web a couple of times" skills — they are scraping pipelines:

• autonomous-research — multi-round structured scraping of search engines, papers, and arbitrary websites for its literature sweep.
• people-sourcer — ~40 calls per run across LinkedIn / Reddit / X / Instagram / TikTok / YouTube / GitHub to discover, dedupe, and enrich named individuals.
• pro-graphic-designer — Reddit / LinkedIn / Facebook / Instagram / research papers for audience signal, plus Behance / Pinterest / Dribbble for visual references.

All three load BrightData MCP tools at runtime via tool_search — search_engine, scrape_as_markdown, scrape_batch, and the platform-specific web_data_* extractors (web_data_linkedin_person_profile, web_data_reddit_posts, etc.). Those tools authenticate against your BrightData account using an API token.

Without the token:

• The tool_search calls return tools that fail at first invocation.
• Plain WebSearch + WebFetch cannot substitute. Most target platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, paywalled news, Behance) either block direct fetches, return JS-only shells, or rate-limit aggressively. BrightData's residential / unblocker layer is exactly what gets you past that — and the structured web_data_* endpoints return clean JSON instead of a brittle DOM scrape.
• The skills' iteration loops (round 1 broad → round 2 deep → enrichment) collapse to round 1 and the output is shallow.

The other eleven skills don't need it. If you only run docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx, worldbuilder-writing, academic-paper, consolidate-memory, schedule, setup-cowork, skill-creator, or deslop, you can skip BrightData entirely.

Setup: add the BrightData MCP server to your Claude config with your API token. The token belongs to you — never paste it into a SKILL.md or commit it to this repo.

Adding your own skill

1. Create a top-level folder: my-skill/.
2. Inside it, write a SKILL.md with frontmatter (name, description) and the body.
3. Add any scripts/, references/, assets/, examples/ it needs alongside SKILL.md.
4. Re-run the install one-liner. Done.

The installer detects skills by the presence of SKILL.md, so anything in this repo without one (LICENSE, README.md, .git/) is left alone.

Contributing

Open PRs welcome — new skills, improvements, fixes.

License

MIT

Contact

Karan Prasad — [email protected]