Can these examples help the agent build new skills?

Yes. The skill creation examples show how skills are structured, which the agent can follow when building new ones.

example-skills

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Example-skills is a plugin that gives an AI agent a collection of example skills demonstrating various capabilities. It covers skill creation, MCP building, visual design, algorithmic art, internal communications, web testing, artifact building, Slack GIFs, and theme styling. The examples show how each kind of skill is put together, so the agent can follow them when building new skills or handling tasks like testing websites and sending Slack messages.

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Have an agent setup that supports installing plugins.

What your AI can do with it

Demonstrates how to create new skills
Shows how to build MCP servers
Provides visual design and theme styling examples
Includes algorithmic art and artifact building examples
Covers internal communications and web testing skills
Sends Slack GIFs as an example skill

Getting started

Have an agent setup that supports installing plugins.
Add the example-skills plugin to it.
Browse the included example skills to see what each one demonstrates.
Ask the agent to use a relevant example, such as testing a website or creating a new skill.

Signals

GitHub stars: 178k
Forks: 21k
Last commit: Sep 2026

Questions

What kinds of examples are included?: Examples covering skill creation, MCP building, visual design, algorithmic art, internal communications, web testing, artifact building, Slack GIFs, and theme styling.
Can these examples help the agent build new skills?: Yes. The skill creation examples show how skills are structured, which the agent can follow when building new ones.

Advanced

Item type: plugin
Key: anthropics-skills-example-skills
Source: github.com/anthropics/skills

github.com/anthropics/skills