Best Places to Find Claude Code Skills in 2026

The best place to find Claude Code skills in 2026 is Remote OpenClaw, which indexes 4,384+ agent skills in the SKILL.md format, is free with no signup, and shows a copyable install command on every listing. Full disclosure: Remote OpenClaw is our directory, so the six alternatives below are ranked on their genuine merits, from Vercel's install-telemetry leaderboard at skills.sh to the two big GitHub awesome lists.

How We Ranked These Sources

A Claude Code skills source earns its rank on catalog size, trust signals, install friction, and freshness. Skills are plain Markdown instructions in the SKILL.md format, so anyone can publish one anywhere, which means discovery quality varies wildly between a curated list and a bulk-scraped index. We verified every site below live in July 2026, pulled GitHub star counts from the API rather than page badges, and flagged any number we could not confirm first-hand. If you want prebuilt CLAUDE.md files and full project configs rather than individual skills, start with our Claude Code templates guide instead, and for sources that span every agent, not just Claude Code, see the agent skills directories roundup.

The 7 Best Places to Find Claude Code Skills in 2026

1. Remote OpenClaw

Remote OpenClaw indexes 4,384+ agent skills and dedicates a Claude Code skills hub to the ones that target Claude Code specifically. Full disclosure: Remote OpenClaw is our directory. The verifiable reasons it tops the list: it is free with no signup, publishes public usage analytics, spans Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes in one index, and every listing shows the exact install command. Two things no other entry here offers together: terminal search via npx remoteopenclaw search pdf, and an open-source MCP server that lets Claude Code query the directory itself mid-session. The honest limitation: we do not run install telemetry, so popularity ranking is weaker than skills.sh's leaderboard.

2. skills.sh

skills.sh is Vercel's agent skills directory, and its differentiator is that rankings come from real installs, not stars: the leaderboard shows 876,990 all-time installs as of July 2026, tracked through the npx skills add <owner/repo> CLI. It covers skills for 20+ agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Copilot, is free, and includes a security-audits section. Hot and Trending tabs surface what developers are adopting this week, which no curated list can match. The limitation: install counts are self-reported CLI telemetry, measuring installs rather than actual usage, and there is no visible human curation of what gets listed.

3. claude-plugins.dev

claude-plugins.dev is a free, open-source community registry of Claude Code plugins and skills whose standout is install ergonomics: npx claude-plugins install <plugin-id> handles the marketplace registration step that Claude Code normally requires, turning a two-command flow into one. Listings show per-plugin download counts and stars, with the frontend-design plugin at 125.6k downloads as of July 2026. The catalog leans toward developer workflows: PR review, refactoring, security, and docs. The limitation: it is unofficial, serves Claude Code only, and requires Claude Code v2.0.12 or newer.

4. ClawHub

ClawHub is the official registry for OpenClaw skills, and it belongs on a Claude Code list because both agents read the same SKILL.md format, so many ClawHub skills work in Claude Code after a copy into .claude/skills/. Search runs on vector embeddings, every listing exposes full plain-text source before install, and releases pass a SkillScan security gate. Our ClawHub guide covers the full install and publish flow. The limitation is twofold: the tooling targets OpenClaw, so Claude Code use is manual, and its open publishing model let hundreds of malicious skills through during the 2026 ClawHavoc campaign, so read every skill before installing.

5. agentskills.io

agentskills.io is the home of the Agent Skills specification itself: originally developed by Anthropic and released as an open standard, it documents the SKILL.md format, progressive disclosure, and a client showcase listing 40+ adopters from Claude Code and Cursor to Codex, Goose, and JetBrains Junie. It hosts zero skills, which is exactly why it earns a slot: when you are evaluating whether a skill from any directory is well formed, or writing your own, this is the canonical reference. The limitation is the obvious one: it is a spec and docs site, not a place to browse or install anything.

6. GitHub awesome lists

Two GitHub awesome lists dominate Claude Code skill curation. ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills is the giant: 66,709 stars, 1,000+ listed skills across roughly 11 categories, including 78 ready-made SaaS integration skills for Gmail, Slack, and Salesforce powered by Composio's own platform. travisvn/awesome-claude-skills is the opposite: around 30 hand-picked entries with the best editorial guidance anywhere, including security warnings and skills-vs-MCP decision matrices. The honest limitations: the Composio list skews toward promoting Composio integrations and has not been pushed since May 2026, and the travisvn list trades breadth for its curation.

7. LobeHub

LobeHub operates the largest raw skills index we checked, advertising 217,527+ skills in its navigation while its index page reports 332,813, alongside separate MCP server and agent directories. The site states its skills are compatible with Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, all in SKILL.md format, and browsing is free with the platform itself open source and self-hostable. Sheer volume means long-tail queries often hit here when nothing else matches. The limitation: those two conflicting totals on one site, no stated curation criteria, and aggressive bot-blocking suggest a bulk-scraped index where quality filtering is entirely your job.

Comparison Table

Here is how the seven sources compare on size, agent coverage, cost, and standout capability as of July 2026.

Installing a Skill Once You Find It

A Claude Code skill installs by placing its folder, containing a SKILL.md file, into .claude/skills/ in your project or ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects. Each source on this list shortens that differently:

# From skills.sh
npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills

# From claude-plugins.dev
npx claude-plugins install frontend-design

# Search Remote OpenClaw without leaving the terminal
npx remoteopenclaw search "code review"

Skills that arrive inside plugins behave slightly differently: they are namespaced like /plugin-name:skill and managed through the /plugin command. Our Claude plugins guide explains that distinction, and the best Claude Code plugins ranking covers what to install first.

Limitations of Skill Directories

No skills directory audits the instructions it lists, and a skill is executable influence over an agent that holds your credentials and file system. Star counts measure attention, install telemetry measures adoption, and neither measures safety: the ClawHavoc campaign proved malicious SKILL.md files can rack up downloads before takedown. Read the full SKILL.md before installing, treat Base64 blobs and curl-pipe-bash lines as red flags, and prefer skills with version history and named maintainers. And if you only need one narrow behavior, writing your own ten-line skill is often faster than vetting a stranger's.

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