Awesome agent skills and awesome Codex skills, picked by taste

On the code-hosting site GitHub, an awesome list is a public page, usually one long file, where people collect links under a heading such as awesome Codex skills or awesome Claude skills. Anyone can suggest an addition. They started among developers and spread to every topic.

For skills, that gives you a quick map of what exists. It is a good place to discover names. It is a weaker place to decide what to install.

Awesome lists are only as good as the person keeping them.

• They grow. Lists collect hundreds of links and rarely remove any.
• They describe in one line. You still have to open each repository and read it.
• They assume you are a developer. Install steps are often missing or terse.
• They may be stale. Skills change and some are abandoned.
• They rarely mention licences or what a skill can touch.

We keep the set small, and every skill gets its own page: what you get, example prompts, who it suits and install steps in words for each app. Browse all skills or by category. We did not write these skills, and each page credits its publisher.

We say what we actually did. We picked and described them. We do not claim tests we did not run.

Five skills worth a look, chosen for different jobs.

• Humanizer: makes AI drafts read like a person wrote them. Good for anyone who writes.
• Impeccable: a design skill from Paul Bakaus. Good for design-minded builders.
• Superpowers: a developer workflow skill pack, popular among people who use coding agents.
• Skill Creator: helps you write a skill of your own.
• SEO Audit: checks a web page for search basics.

Skills use a shared file format, so many work in more than one app. See how to add them in Codex, Claude Code and Cursor. Pages note the details for each app.

If you want the long list as well, use one and then come back here for the short list. If you want to see how big directories compare, read the skills marketplace guide.

Treat an awesome list as a phone book, not a recommendation. Use it to learn what names exist, then decide using the repository itself. Check when it was last updated, read the SKILL.md, look at the licence, and see whether other people have raised problems.

If you are not a developer, expect friction. Entries link to code pages, not to explanations, and installing often means a command or a manual copy. That is where a curated site earns its keep. Pick a skill here, read what it does, and follow the install steps for your app in Claude or ChatGPT.

We update the shortlist as we find skills worth adding. It will stay short, because the point is that you can read it in a minute and trust that each entry was chosen.