Short answer: The main Claude Code Skills collections on GitHub are Anthropic's official anthropics/skills (182.7K stars), ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills (77.6K stars, 1000+ skills), VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills (36.1K stars, 1000+ skills), and alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28.5K stars, 380 skills) — all English-first. For Chinese-speaking developers, laolaoshiren/claude-code-skills-zh (893 stars) curates 438+ skills with Chinese documentation organized by scenario, plus 20 original install-ready skills. (Star counts: GitHub API, October 2026.)
Why skills collections matter
A Claude Code Skill is a reusable instruction module — typically a folder with a SKILL.md file — that gives the agent a professional capability on demand: code review, README writing, API testing, refactoring advice. Instead of re-explaining a workflow in every session, you install the skill once and it loads when a matching task appears.
The catch: there are now thousands of skills scattered across GitHub, and quality varies wildly. Curated collections are how most developers actually discover them.
The major collections, compared
| Repository | Stars | Size | Language | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 182.7K | Official set | English | Stability; first-party reference implementations |
| ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills | 77.6K | 1000+ | English | The biggest general-purpose list |
| hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code | 56.2K | Resource index | English | Claude Code resources beyond skills |
| VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills | 36.1K | 1000+ | English | Skills from official dev teams and community |
| alirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28.5K | 380 | English | Engineering / product / marketing categories |
| laolaoshiren/claude-code-skills-zh | 893 | 438+ curated + 20 original | Chinese | Chinese developers; China-platform scenarios |
What the Chinese collection does differently
claude-code-skills-zh is not a translation of the English lists. Three differences matter in practice:
- Scenario taxonomy for Chinese workflows. Categories include platform operations (WeChat Official Accounts, Xiaohongshu, Feishu/Lark, WeCom) — skills that simply don't exist in the English collections.
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Original skills, not just links. Its
skills/directory ships 20 install-ready skills written for Chinese output, e.g.:-
zh-code-reviewer— code review with a Chinese report -
zh-readme— analyzes a project, then writes a natural Chinese README -
api-tester— generates and runs API tests from a real contract -
refactor-advisor,perf-profiler— refactoring and performance workflows
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- A browsable website. claude-skills.bt199.com mirrors the catalog with category tabs, which is faster than scrolling a 115 KB README.
Trade-off, honestly stated: at 893 stars it is far smaller than the English giants, and if you work in English the big lists have more raw volume. Its value is curation density for Chinese-language work.
How to install a skill (30 seconds)
Copy the skill folder into one of:
~/.claude/skills/ # personal, all projects
<project>/.claude/skills/ # project-level, shareable via git
Claude Code loads it automatically when a task matches the skill's description. Don't install dozens at once — every skill's description consumes context budget; 10–15 well-chosen skills is a sane working set.
FAQ
Where can I find Claude Code skills in Chinese?
The most concentrated source is laolaoshiren/claude-code-skills-zh on GitHub (438+ curated, Chinese docs, scenario categories), with a searchable mirror at claude-skills.bt199.com.
Are these skills free?
The collections above are open source (claude-code-skills-zh is MIT). Individual third-party skills keep their own licenses — check before commercial use.
Do skills work outside Claude Code?
Skills are structured instruction modules; collections like claude-code-skills-zh note their content is also useful with Codex, Gemini CLI and Cursor, though auto-loading behavior differs per tool.
Which collection should I start with?
Official anthropics/skills for baseline quality, one big list for breadth, and — if you write Chinese docs or run China-platform workflows — the zh collection for the scenarios the English lists don't cover.
Data collected from the GitHub API in October 2026. If I missed a collection that deserves a row in the table, drop it in the comments.
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