Claude skills libraries: where to find skills, and what to check first

Where the skills are

From the Claude Help Center, Anthropic's repository and the skills.sh docs, read 5 November 2026.

Check a skill before installing it

1. Read the SKILL.md: does it do one job, and say when to use it?
2. Read every script in the folder; a skill's code runs when Claude uses it.
3. Check the publisher: a named company or person, a licence, a place to report problems.
4. Try it on one real task in a new chat, with nothing confidential in it.
5. Make it yours before sharing it: your words, your rules, your example.

A worked example: from library skill to team skill

Illustration: a made-up business. The operations lead at a 30-person company finds a meeting minutes skill in a library. It works, but writes "Action items" as a list with no owners, and her team says "recap", not "minutes". She asks Claude to turn it into the team's version:

---
name: team-meeting-recap
description: Writes a team meeting recap from a transcript or notes: decisions, actions with one owner and a date each, open questions. Use when someone asks for a recap, minutes or meeting notes.
---
1. Decisions: only what was agreed. A proposal nobody agreed goes under Open questions.
2. Actions: one named person, a verb, a date or "no date yet". Never "the team".
3. Open questions, then three to five lines of discussion, then topics not covered.

Template, example and checks follow.

She tests it on three real transcripts, one of them a messy all-hands. One action came back owned by "marketing"; the skill now says to ask for a name instead. The description stays under 200 characters, so it also uploads to claude.ai. Only then does she share it.

Next step: sharing the skills

Once the team has its own skills, everyone's AI needs the same copy. The cheapest way to share AI prompts with a small team compares the options. For the file itself, see the SKILL.md format explained. Methods kept in Gemini Gems can join the same library: moving Gems to skills before 17 November shows how to download each one as a SKILL.md.

Questions

Where can I find Claude skills?

In Claude, under Customize > Skills: Anthropic's own skills for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files, and partner skills from companies such as Notion, Figma and Atlassian. Outside it: Anthropic's skills repository on GitHub, Claude Code plugin marketplaces, the skills.sh directory, and team libraries such as the one on this site.

Are skills from a library safe to install?

Not by default. A skill is instructions and sometimes scripts that run when Claude uses it, so read the SKILL.md and every script before installing, check who publishes it, and try it on a real task. skills.sh runs security audits but says it can't guarantee every skill; Anthropic calls its repository's skills demonstrations.

Should my team use library skills as they are?

Use them as a starting point. A library skill knows the task, not your team: rewrite the description in the words your team types, add your rules and an example of your own output, and test it on real inputs before sharing it.