Claude Skills Registry

Core repo: logic + index + site.
Main repo (merged artifact): https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry
Data repo (skills archive): https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry-data
Authority: core workflows are canonical; main is a publish mirror.

The most comprehensive Claude Code skills registry — updated daily with the latest skills

What is this?

The largest searchable index of Claude Code skills, aggregated from GitHub and community sources.

Three ways to use:

1. Web Search - Fast browser-based search
2. sk CLI - Terminal package manager
3. API - Direct JSON access

Repo layout note: core owns workflows/pipeline logic, data stores skills/**, and main is generated from core + data. See SCHEME2_SPLIT.md.

Highlights

• Massive Skill Index - Deduplicated, high-quality registry (see badge for live count)
• Rich Categories - Development, Testing, DevOps, Design, and more
• Daily Updates - Automated crawling/validation by core scheduled workflows
• Quality Indexed - Metadata, descriptions, and star counts
• Lightweight Search - Gzip-compressed index for fast client-side search

Operational Ownership

• Core: source of truth for workflows, crawling, scanning, and index/site generation
• Data: canonical archived skill tree (skills/**)
• Main: publish artifact for merged browsing/compatibility consumers
• Publish contract: core dispatches main publish with pinned core_sha + data_sha
• Non-goal for main: main does not initiate canonical syncs, archive updates, or index generation

Quick Start

Option 1: Web Search

Visit https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/

For clone/update tips on large repositories, see docs/FAST_CLONE.md.

Option 2: CLI (sk)

# Install sk
go install github.com/majiayu000/caude-skill-manager@latest

# Search skills
sk search testing
sk search pdf
sk search --popular

# Install a skill
sk install anthropics/skills/skills/docx

Option 3: Direct API

The public JSON surface is versioned in docs/artifact-api-contract.md. Use that contract when integrating with pointer files, manifests, shards, gzip variants, and deprecation markers.

# Startup search index and bounded full-search shards
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/search-index.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/search-index-manifest.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/search-shards/part-000.json

# Deduplicated catalog index with quality/security/install signals
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/search-index-lite.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/quality-index.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/quality-index-manifest.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/quality-shards/part-000.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/security-index.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/security-index-manifest.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/security-shards/part-000.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/ranking-index.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/ranking-index-manifest.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/ranking-shards/part-000.json

# Lightweight registry summary (counts only)
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry-core/main/registry_summary.json

# Full registry manifest and shards (merged publish artifact)
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/main/registry-manifest.json
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/main/registry-shards/00.json

# Compatibility registry pointer (merged publish artifact)
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/main/registry.json

# Category manifest and bounded parts
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/categories/index.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/categories/development/manifest.json
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/categories/development/part-000.json

# Legacy category pointer
curl https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/categories/development.json

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Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Layer 1: Data Collection                                       │
│  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐          │
│  │ GitHub Crawl │→ │ Download     │→ │ Security     │          │
│  │ (discover)   │  │ (sync)       │  │ (scanner)    │          │
│  └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘  └──────────────┘          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Layer 2: Index Generation                                      │
│  ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐    │
│  │ search-index   │  │ categories/    │  │ featured.json  │    │
│  │ .json          │  │ *.json         │  │ (featured set) │    │
│  └────────────────┘  └────────────────┘  └────────────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Layer 3: Consumption                                           │
│  ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐  ┌────────────────┐    │
│  │ Web UI         │  │ sk CLI         │  │ API            │    │
│  │ (GitHub Pages) │  │ (Go)           │  │ (JSON)         │    │
│  └────────────────┘  └────────────────┘  └────────────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Search Index Schema

// Lightweight index for fast search
interface SearchIndex {
  v: string;           // Version (date)
  t: number;           // Indexed skill count (always s.length)
  s: SkillMini[];      // Skills array
}

interface SkillMini {
  n: string;           // name
  d: string;           // description (truncated 80 chars)
  c: string;           // category code (dev, ops, sec, etc.)
  g: string[];         // tags (max 5)
  r: number;           // stars
  i: string;           // install path
}

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Directory Structure (Core)

claude-skill-registry-core/
├── registry.json           # Lightweight core registry metadata
├── docs/                   # GitHub Pages
│   ├── index.html          # Web search UI
│   ├── search-index-lite.json
│   ├── search-index.json   # Compatibility pointer to bounded shards
│   ├── search-index-manifest.json
│   ├── search-shards/      # Bounded full search index parts
│   ├── featured.json       # Featured skills snapshot
│   └── categories/         # Category manifests and bounded parts
├── sources/                # Data sources
│   ├── anthropic.json
│   ├── community.json
│   └── skillsmp.json
├── scripts/                # Build scripts
│   ├── build_search_index.py
│   ├── discover_by_topic.py
│   ├── security_scanner.py
│   └── ...
└── (no committed skills/)  # skills/** lives in registry-data; mounted in CI when needed

The merged claude-skill-registry publish artifact additionally contains registry-manifest.json and registry-shards/**.

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Categories

Canonical category slugs, short codes, governance status, and heuristic keywords live in taxonomy/categories.yaml. Pipeline scripts read that file instead of keeping their own category lists. Legacy category names are diagnostic inputs only; they are routed to review and are not accepted as publish categories. The canonical category proposal is documented in docs/plan/canonical-taxonomy-proposal.md, and the current target count report is docs/plan/canonical-category-target-counts.json. Validate the taxonomy itself with python scripts/check_taxonomy_governance.py. To validate publish output against canonical categories, pass repeated --publish-category <slug> values. To review category quality across the archive before moving anything, run python scripts/audit_category_quality.py --skills-dir skills. The default audit uses metadata and paths for a fast full-archive pass; add --include-frontmatter when checking frontmatter/category drift. The audit also reports non-standard nested skill paths such as category/category/skill/SKILL.md. For those layout issues, use python scripts/normalize_skill_depth.py --skills-dir skills --json to review the exact move plan before applying it. For semantic reclassification, generate a review-only migration plan with python scripts/plan_category_migration.py --skills-dir skills --output category-migration-plan.json. The plan records action, confidence, source categories, target category, keyword signals, and reason for every proposed change; it does not move files. For a bounded second-pass model review, set MIMO_API_KEY and run python scripts/review_category_plan_with_llm.py --plan category-migration-plan.json --output category-llm-review.json --checkpoint-jsonl category-llm-review.checkpoint.jsonl --resume. The default endpoint is https://token-plan-sgp.xiaomimimo.com/v1 with mimo-v2.5-pro. The default request uses --thinking disabled and --max-completion-tokens 1024 so the model output budget is reserved for the required JSON; raise the token value for larger reviews, or pass --thinking default when using a non-MiMo endpoint that does not accept the provider-specific thinking field. The report remains review-only: it records model category, confidence, decision, parse status, token/thinking policy, and evidence without modifying the archive. The checkpoint file is append-only JSONL, so interrupted long reviews can resume without re-calling the model for completed candidates.

Category counts are published in categories/index.json; full category payloads are available through categories/<category>/manifest.json and bounded part-*.json files. The legacy categories/<category>.json URL is now a small compatibility pointer. The publish path runs python scripts/check_category_artifacts.py --categories-dir docs/categories so legacy category files cannot silently grow back into large full-payload JSON. Common category codes include:

Category	Code	Description
development	dev	Development tools, frameworks
data	dat	Data processing, analysis
design	des	UI/UX design, frontend
testing	tst	Testing, QA, automation
devops	ops	DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure
documents	doc	Document creation (docx, pdf)
productivity	pro	Productivity and automation
product	prd	Product management
security	sec	Security, auditing
marketing	mkt	Marketing, content, SEO

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Roadmap

Current Status

• Index count tracked by the badge (core registry.json)
• Archive size: tracked by badge (raw SKILL.md count from stats.json)
• Daily auto-update via GitHub Actions
• Security scanning for all skills
• sk CLI for installation

In Progress

• Lightweight search index (gzip-compressed; see stats.json)
• Web search UI (GitHub Pages)
• GitHub Pages deployment (https://majiayu000.github.io/claude-skill-registry-core/)

Planned

• AI semantic search (vector similarity)
• Skill recommendations (based on usage)
• Version tracking for skills
• Skill quality scoring
• API rate limiting and caching

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Contributing

Add Your Skill

Option 1: Submit via Issue

1. Open an issue
2. Use the "Add Skill" template
3. Provide: repo URL, name, description, category

Option 2: Submit via PR

1. Fork majiayu000/claude-skill-registry-core
2. Add your skill to sources/community.json:

{
  "name": "your-skill-name",
  "repo": "your-username/your-repo",
  "path": "optional/path/to/skill",
  "description": "What your skill does",
  "category": "development",
  "tags": ["testing", "automation"]
}

3. Submit a PR to majiayu000/claude-skill-registry-core (not claude-skill-registry, which is a generated publish artifact)

Report Issues

We welcome feedback! Please open an issue for:

• Bugs - Search not working, incorrect data
• Feature requests - New categories, better search
• UX improvements - Web UI, CLI enhancements
• Data quality - Duplicate skills, wrong categories

👉 Open an Issue

Contribute Code

# Clone the core repo (authoritative pipeline repo)
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry-core.git
cd claude-skill-registry-core

# Pull only what you need (add more paths later as needed)
git sparse-checkout set --cone docs scripts sources schema

# Install dependencies
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -r requirements.txt

# Build search index locally
python scripts/build_search_index.py --registry registry.json --output docs

# Test web UI
cd docs && python -m http.server 8000
# Visit http://localhost:8000

See docs/FAST_CLONE.md for more options (existing clones, getting full checkout, Windows notes).

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Related Projects

Project	Description
caude-skill-manager	CLI tool for installing skills (sk)
anthropics/skills	Official Anthropic skills
SkillsMP	Web-based skill marketplace
awesome-claude-skills	Curated skill list

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License

MIT License applies to the registry code/pipeline only - see LICENSE for details.

Third-Party License & Attribution

Third-party skills under skills/** keep their original licenses and copyright ownership.

• Repository-level MIT does not relicense third-party skill content.
• Every imported skill metadata file should include:
  • author
  • source_url
  • license
  • copyright
  • permission_note
  • distribution (compatible or restricted)
• restricted entries are not MIT-compatible by default and require explicit upstream permission before redistribution/use.
• Notices are generated by compliance checks into THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
• Metadata compliance runs in advisory mode by default to avoid blocking ingestion; strict blocking can be enabled when needed.

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