What it is

17 skills and 14 plugins straight from Anthropic — tested, maintained, safe.

Official skills and plugins from Anthropic — the people who build Claude Code. Tested, maintained, safe. These are the basics you should install first before you drown in community skills.

Install / Setup

Option 1 — In the Claude Code terminal:

/plugins

The plugin marketplace opens and you activate what you want from the list.

Option 2 — Prompt Claude Code:

Open the plugin marketplace via /plugins and show me which Anthropic-Official plugins I should enable. Recommend the 3 most important ones for a solo founder working mostly on web apps and docs.

Or pull straight from the repos:

• github.com/anthropics/skills
• github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/plugins

Highlights

Skills (17 total):

• frontend-design — kills the generic AI design look
• pdf, xlsx, pptx, docx — create and edit Office docs
• claude-api — build apps with the Claude API (prompt caching included)
• mcp-builder — roll your own MCP server
• webapp-testing — Playwright-based testing
• skill-creator — guide for building your own skills

Plugins (14 total):

• code-review — 5 review agents running in parallel
• commit-commands — /commit, /commit-push-pr
• security-guidance — warns on SQL injection, XSS, eval
• feature-dev — 7-phase feature development
• pr-review-toolkit — 6 specialized PR agents
• hookify — build custom hooks

Use cases

• Docs in one shot — pdf / docx / pptx skills for proposals, reports, pitch decks.
• Commits without thinking — commit-commands plugin → /commit reads the diff and writes the message.
• Feature dev with guardrails — feature-dev forces planning before code.
• PR review on a team — pr-review-toolkit checks security, performance, and tests in parallel.
• Build Claude API apps — claude-api skill ships apps with proper prompt caching baked in.

Pro tip

Don't enable everything at once — more plugins means more context overhead on every message. Start with commit-commands, code-review, and the Office skills you actually need. Add the rest when you hit a real use case.

🚀 Installing skills is step one. Knowing which ones to use when — that's the real edge. In the community I show you my full skill setup and how I use it every day. → Join the Claude Code Mastery Community

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