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AI agent tools for agent skills
Short answer: Our top pick for agent skills: rea, with the highest AgentPick Score (97/100) among tools tagged "agent-skills". Runners-up: ponytail (94) and Paperclip (93). Compare what each does, its license and how recently it was updated below.
| # | Tool | What it does | Score | Stars | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | rea | Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. | 97/100 | ★ 241k | MIT | 15 Oct 2026 |
| #2 | ponytail | Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote. | 94/100 | ★ 164k | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #3 | Paperclip | The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work | 93/100 | ★ 102k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #4 | claude-mem | Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant … | 93/100 | ★ 101k | Apache-2.0 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #5 | caveman | 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman. | 92/100 | ★ 112k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #6 | agent-skills | Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. | 92/100 | ★ 107k | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #7 | archify | Turn any idea, plan, or codebase into a beautiful interactive diagram. An agent skill for Claude Code, Codex, and more. | 91/100 | ★ 84k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #8 | Cherry Studio | AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs | 90/100 | ★ 53k | AGPL-3.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #9 | reactive-resume | A one-of-a-kind resume builder that keeps your privacy in mind. Completely secure, customizable, portable, open-source and free forever. Try it out to… | 90/100 | ★ 44k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #10 | cognee | Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory with small models for free | 89/100 | ★ 32k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #11 | last30days-skill | AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary | 88/100 | ★ 64k | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #12 | marketingskills | Marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering. | 88/100 | ★ 55k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #13 | ui-ux-pro-max-skill | An AI skill that provides design intelligence for building professional UI/UX across multiple platforms. | 87/100 | ★ 136k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #14 | oh-my-openagent | OmO: Just type "mass ulw" keyword with your prompt. Now you are the master of graph engineering. | 87/100 | ★ 70k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #15 | nanoclaw | A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging … | 87/100 | ★ 31k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #16 | OfficeCLI | OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Free, open-sou… | 85/100 | ★ 32k | Apache-2.0 | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #17 | planning-with-files | Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, … | 85/100 | ★ 27k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #18 | taste-skill | Agent skills that give coding agents taste: art direction, reference images and a browser check instead of generic AI pages | 84/100 | ★ 96k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #19 | invisible_dots | Open-source, self-hosted alternative to OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot. Built to be undetectable by anti-bot systems. | 83/100 | ★ 32k | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #20 | humanizer | Agent skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing from text | 82/100 | ★ 57k | MIT | 28 Sept 2026 |
| #21 | Understand-Anything | Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works wit… | 76/100 | ★ 86k | MIT | 12 Oct 2026 |
| #22 | distilly | Distilly — Distill how they think into reusable Skills for any Agent or Bot. Formerly Colleague Skill（原同事 Skill）. | 73/100 | ★ 26k | MIT | 13 Oct 2026 |
| #23 | context-mode | Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platf… | 72/100 | ★ 29k | See repo | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #24 | claude-skills | 380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex… | 70/100 | ★ 28k | MIT | 30 Aug 2026 |
| #25 | diagram-design | Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadow… | 64/100 | ★ 55k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #26 | agents | Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Google Antigravity, and Pi | 63/100 | ★ 41k | MIT | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #27 | claude-plugins-official | Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins. | 62/100 | ★ 38k | Apache-2.0 | 14 Oct 2026 |
| #28 | cli | Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery … | 60/100 | ★ 32k | Apache-2.0 | 6 Oct 2026 |
| #29 | guizang-ppt-skill | AI-agent Skill for generating polished HTML slide decks: editorial magazine and Swiss layouts, image prompts, social covers, and a WebGL/low-power pre… | 51/100 | ★ 28k | AGPL-3.0 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| #30 | frontend-slides | Create beautiful slides on the web using a coding agent's frontend skills | 49/100 | ★ 31k | MIT | 23 Jun 2026 |
Source: each project's public GitHub repository (description, stars, license, last push). Listed tools aren't tested or ranked by AgentPick.
How to choose
- Check which models and providers it supports.
- Prefer tools that show diffs and ask before running commands.
- Look for recent commits: coding agents change fast.
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