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Claude skills marketplace: how to browse, vet and install skills

aaaa.fyi · 2026-07-23 · 5 min read

People search for a "Claude skills marketplace" expecting an app store. The reality is better and messier: skills are just folders in public GitHub repos, and directories index them so you can browse, compare and install with one command.

How the ecosystem fits together

GitHub hosts the skills — every skill is a readable SKILL.md in a repo.

The skills CLI installs them: npx skills add <owner>/<repo> --skill <name>.

Directories (like ours) index thousands of skills with live install counts, stars and last-push data, so you can rank by real adoption instead of scrolling GitHub search.

No paid listings, no gatekeeper — which also means no quality bar. That's what the numbers are for.

Vetting a skill in 60 seconds

Install count — sustained adoption is the strongest signal a text file can have.

Last push — maintained beats abandoned.

Read the SKILL.md — it's plain text, shown right on the listing page. If the instructions are sloppy, the behavior will be too.

Prefer [official first-party skills](/collections/official-skills) for core workflows — Anthropic, Vercel and other verified publishers ship skills for their own tools.

Installing from the marketplace

Every listing shows its exact install command with Project / Global / Try-once scope. Project installs live in .claude/skills/ and ship to your team via git; global installs apply everywhere.

Start browsing: 1,000+ skills ranked by real installs.