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Top 10 official Claude skills you should be using

Skills teach Claude repeatable workflows, from Excel files to full web apps. Here are the ten official ones worth turning on, and how to enable them.

Suresh23 Oct 20261 min read

Skills are packaged instructions that teach Claude how to do a specific job well. Anthropic publishes a set of official ones. Here's our top 10.

Skill Creator: build your own skills
Frontend Design: websites that don't look generic
PPTX: slide decks
XLSX: Excel files with working formulas
DOCX: Word documents
PDF: read, merge and fill PDF forms
Doc Co-authoring: proposals and specs, step by step
Canvas Design: posters and designs as PNG or PDF
Theme Factory: 10 ready-made themes
Web Artifacts Builder: interactive web apps

How to enable them

Claude apps: Settings › Capabilities › Skills. Available on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, with code execution turned on.
Claude Code: run /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills.

Source: github.com/anthropics/skills and the Claude help centre.

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