skills.sh
First met in aicp-c3-basecamp-03 · Marketplaces & directories · Productivity & source apps
skills.shFirst met in aicp-c3-basecamp-03 · Marketplaces & directories · Productivity & source apps
A marketplace of Claude skills — packaged instruction files you install instead of writing the prompt yourself.
Someone has already solved the instruction problem you're about to solve — sort by usage count and take theirs.
Usage counts as the quality signal — the top skill is a 1.4M-download skill-finder
Skills convert cleanly into system prompts for other tools, which is how BC3/BC4 used them inside n8n
Covers surprisingly specific ground (Azure Kubernetes advisor, web scraping, content humanizer)
Distributes reusable skill files for Claude
Ranks them by downloads so picking is fast
Supplies instruction text that can be lifted into an n8n agent's system prompt
Doesn't guarantee fit — a skill is someone else's opinion about your task
Doesn't stay put: a skill pasted into another tool stops receiving its author's updates
The instruction layer. Where a meta prompt is one you build, a skill is one you borrow.
Marketplaces & directories · Productivity & source apps
The pipeline's instructions are bespoke, but the borrow-then-adapt pattern is directly usable.
The skill→system-prompt conversion is the transferable trick: the extraction protocol could ship as a skill rather than a document that has to be re-read every sitting.
current
claude: skills are a Claude feature
taste-skill: one of the skills used live in BC4
n8n: skill text becomes an agent node's system prompt
| Session | Coverage | Moment | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basecamp 3: Introduction to n8n — I | demonstrated | 1:16:37 | Skill marketplace used twice live (Azure Kubernetes advisor, web scraping); pick by usage count |
| Basecamp 4: Introduction to n8n — II | demonstrated | 1:27:55 | Content humanizer skill (based on Claude's official humanizer) and the taste skill; top skill on the site is a 1.4M-download skill-finder skill |
| Session 3: Building Elegant Landing Pages | demonstrated | 0:30:04 | Marketplace toured: Anthropic frontend-design skill, web-design guidelines, Remotion practices; pick by install count (an SEO-audit skill at 123k installs shown) |
| Session 7: The Outreach Engine | demonstrated | 2:26:35 | Skill marketplace (698k+ skills); source of the Humanizer skill (24k+ stars) composed into the email-copy skill |
| Session 9: Introduction to Cursor & its principles | demonstrated | 1:02:14 | Skill marketplace: superpowers (his universal core; a plugin technically) and extract-design-system (124k installs) both installed by prompt |
| Session 10: Building on Cursor & connect with AI workflows | demonstrated | 1:19:10 | Source of the security-review skill; superpowers reused from Session 9 for the PRD interview |
| Session 12: Claude Code — Design & Building Agents (App-First: a Game, a GTM Board, and a Live Deploy) | demonstrated | 1:22:44 | Marketplace skill installed by pasted prompt as the install demo |
| AI Sprint: Claude Code with Antigravity — Day 2 (CLAUDE.md, the 50% Context Rule, and the Sketch-to-App Build) | demonstrated | The interface-quality layer (~65k stars as-heard), installed live | |
| AI Sprint: Claude Code with Antigravity — Day 2 (CLAUDE.md, the 50% Context Rule, and the Sketch-to-App Build) | demonstrated | Marketplace picks by installs/stars: e2e-testing patterns, security best-practices; Anthropic's own web-app-testing spotted | |
| Session 14: Claude Code — Advanced Workflows | explained | 1:08:17 | The incumbent being disrupted: 836k skills (as heard), Vercel-run, no payments or real vetting |
| Session 14: Claude Code — Advanced Workflows | explained | 1:23:29 | Prescribed pre-install audit for any third-party skill; link dropped in chat |
| Session 4: How to Build Micro Prototypes | mentioned | 0:55:02 | Recommended for the landing page in front of the app (GummySearch's landing/product split as the model) |
| Session 8: The Conversion Playbook | mentioned | 1:47:10 | Source of the taste skill ('anti AI slop frontend') recommended for de-slopping generated pages, and the Humanizer reused throughout |
| Session 11: Overview of Claude Code & Key Concepts (Installs, Modes, Context Files, Skills, Hooks & MCPs) | mentioned | 1:38:27 | 'Not exactly the same thing' as Claude skills; marketplace trust rule applied in Q&A |
| Session 12: Claude Code — Design & Building Agents (App-First: a Game, a GTM Board, and a Live Deploy) | mentioned | 2:38:38 | Identified in Q&A as an agent-skills directory like the marketplace demoed |