22 Claude Code Add-ons Worth Installing (and One That Cheats a Little)
TL;DR
A list of 22 Claude Code skills has been circulating, grouped by use case: build, design, research, marketing. Checked repository by repository: all 22 exist, are active, and some even beat the numbers cited in the original post. One catch: the star count shown for remotion belongs to the flagship project, not the small repo actually installed. Two names (graphify, humanizer) overlap with already-known skill names without being the same projects. Everything else installs in one command.
The problem this solves
Bare Claude Code answers a single prompt well. It doesn't, by default, plan before writing code, produce a filler-free answer, or pick a color palette that holds together. A skill adds that specific know-how as a folder of context, loaded automatically when the task matches its topic.
The 22, grouped by use case
Build
- superpowers (obra/superpowers, 267k★): plans and debugs before writing code.
- gstack (garrytan/gstack, 126k★): 23 skills bundled into one configuration.
- caveman (JuliusBrussee/caveman, 96k★): answers with zero filler.
- ponytail (DietrichGebert/ponytail, 97k★): skips the commentary, writes the line of code.
- codex (openai/codex-plugin-cc, 31k★): runs Codex from inside Claude Code.
- i-have-adhd (ayghri/i-have-adhd, 17k★): stops the agent from burying the answer under context.
Design
- ui-ux-pro-max (nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill, 114k★): palettes and fonts that actually work together.
- taste-skill (leonxlnx/taste-skill, 73k★): makes a page look more polished.
- impeccable (pbakaus/impeccable, 56k★): a polish pass for any front end.
- hyperframes (heygen-com/hyperframes, 40k★): turns a web page into a video.
- emil (emilkowalski/skills, 26k★): interface animations.
- gsap (greensock/gsap-skills, 13k★): web animation with the GSAP library.
Research
- skill-creator (anthropics/skills, 167k★): Anthropic's own official repository, for building your own skills.
- graphify (Graphify-Labs/graphify, 103k★): turns notes into a knowledge graph. Unrelated to the personal skill of the same name.
- last30days (mvanhorn/last30days-skill, 57k★): summarizes what's been said on a topic this month.
- agent-browser (vercel-labs/agent-browser, 40k★): lets the agent browse a live website.
- find-skills (vercel-labs/skills, 28k★): finds the right skill for a given task.
- claude-hud (jarrodwatts/claude-hud, 27k★): shows what the agent is doing, live.
Marketing
- remotion (remotion-dev/skills, 4.2k★ for the skills repo): generates videos with the React Remotion library.
- marketingskills (coreyhaines31/marketingskills, 43k★): 40 marketing skills bundled together.
- humanizer (blader/humanizer, 34k★): strips out the tells of AI-generated text. Unrelated to the personal skill of the same name.
- social-media-skills (charlie947/social-media-skills, 2.1k★): a content pack for social platforms.
The sleight of hand to catch
The original post cites 54,000 stars for remotion. That number belongs to the flagship project, remotion-dev/remotion (55,608 stars at time of checking), the React video library itself. The repository actually installed as a skill, remotion-dev/skills, has 4,213. The mix-up may not be deliberate, but the number shown measures the product's fame, not the small repo that runs the install command.
Watch for name collisions
Two names on the list overlap with already-popular skill names without being the same projects: graphify, here, comes from Graphify-Labs and turns notes into a knowledge graph; humanizer comes from blader and targets writing style. Before installing a skill with a familiar name, check the exact repository rather than the name alone: two different projects can claim the same label.
How to install
Most install with the same command, native to the skills.sh ecosystem:
npx skills add <owner>/<repo>
Where to start
The author of the list doesn't claim to use all 22 daily: they name superpowers, caveman, and last30days as their actual recurring picks. A reasonable starting point looks like that rather than a full install in one go: one planning skill, one conciseness skill, one watch skill, and add the rest as real needs come up rather than upfront.