New Claude Skills (October 2026): 10 Taking Off Right Now

Hi, this is Darius. New Claude skills show up on GitHub every week, and most of them disappear just as fast. The ten here made the list because each one picked up hundreds or thousands of GitHub stars within days or weeks of going live.

These new Claude skills cover very different jobs, from readable answers and real logos to app clones and game mods. For each one you’ll find what it does, an example from its own repo, what it costs and the catch.

How fast are these new Claude skills growing?

Among the new Claude skills, Universal Modder leads with about 670 GitHub stars a day since it went live on September 30. Answer Me With HTML follows with almost 400 a day, then Logo Design Skill and Replica at around 200.

Step 1 · Readable answers

1. Answer Me With HTML: answers you can read in one go

1.6K GitHub starsLaunched Oct 2, 2026MITFree

Long answers from Claude often arrive as a wall of text, with the useful part buried somewhere in the middle.

Answer Me With HTML by QingYunA turns Claude’s reply into a single web page with headings, diagrams and tables.

What it does

• Claude writes only a short draft of the content. A small tool bundled inside the skill builds the page from it in about 50 milliseconds.
• Since Claude never types layout code, the README’s benchmark shows output tokens falling from 5,341 to 870, answers arriving in 12 seconds instead of 33, and each answer costing $0.067 instead of $0.092.
• It can also turn an answer into an explainer video, with a diagram that builds up while a voice explains it.
• There’s no npm install step, because the tool ships inside the skill.

npx skills add QingYunA/answer-me-with-html

Step 2 · Real logos

2. Logo Design Skill: logos built the way a designer works

2.1K GitHub starsLaunched Sep 26, 2026MITFree

Image models draw a logo as a picture, and a picture falls apart once it shrinks to a browser tab icon.

Logo Design Skill by kaankiziltug gives Claude a designer’s process, from the brief to finished vector files.

What it does

• It asks who the brand is for and how it should feel, then picks the logo type: a lettermark, a mascot or a wordmark.
• Shapes are built from real geometry and saved as SVG files, so they stay sharp at any size.
• A library of more than 1,400 classified logos, sorted by type and industry, gives Claude references to learn from.
• Every logo goes through a designer’s checks: readable at 16 pixels, fine in a single color, and visible on a shelf next to competitors. It exports favicons and app icons too.

/plugin marketplace add kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill
/plugin install logo-design@logo-design-skill

Want the rest of your site to look designed too? See my guide to Claude Code design skills.

Step 3 · Copy a style

3. ReelMimic: a new video in the style of one you love

1.4K GitHub starsLaunched Sep 28, 2026MITFree, runs on your plan

Copying the look of a video you like is hard if you’ve never animated anything.

ReelMimic by edenfunf studies a reference video and makes a new one in the same style about your own subject.

What it does

• The reference can be a video file, a phone recording or a YouTube link, plus one line about the video you want.
• It measures the reference: how many shots, how long each one runs, the beats per minute, the transitions, the colors and the camera moves.
• You approve a storyboard first. Then up to six agents build shots at the same time, and a different agent checks each one.
• Seven 2D engines cover looks such as watercolor, pixel art and anime. It copies the style only, never the footage or the characters.

git clone https://github.com/edenfunf/reelmimic.git && cd reelmimic
./install.sh
./start.sh

Step 4 · One-take films

4. onetake: launch films with no visible cuts

1.7K GitHub starsLaunched Sep 26, 2026PolyForm NoncommercialFree for non-commercial use

Most product videos play like a slideshow: a title, a fade, a screenshot, another fade.

onetake by feitangyuan makes launch films and feature demos that look like one continuous camera shot.

What it does

• Each scene grows out of the one before it, so the viewer never sees a hard cut.
• In the repo’s own launch film, a search bar opens into an app window, the window becomes a phone, and a line drawn across the screen turns into the next scene.
• Narration and royalty-free music can be added on top.
• It handles full launch films and shorter feature teasers.

git clone https://github.com/feitangyuan/onetake.git ~/.claude/skills/onetake

For editing your own footage, see my list of Claude video editing skills.

Step 5 · Photo detective

5. geo-sleuth: work out where a photo was taken

779 GitHub starsLaunched Sep 18, 2026MITFree

A photo with no signs, no street names and no landmarks still holds clues about where it was taken.

geo-sleuth by Oldcircle locates a photo by measuring it against real map data.

What it does

• It pulls in OpenStreetMap, elevation data, satellite imagery and street view.
• Known spacing, such as the gap between bridge piers, works as a ruler. Shadows give the direction the camera faced, and a ridge line is matched against terrain heights like a fingerprint.
• Every claim has to point to a file one of its scripts produced, so a guess can’t slip into the answer.
• The result is the camera position, the direction it faced and a satellite image with both marked.

npx skills add Oldcircle/geo-sleuth

Step 6 · Scripts

6. Screenwriting Skills: film and TV writing help from the craft books

1.6K GitHub stars26 skillsMITFree

AI-written stories often hold together for one scene and then drift.

Screenwriting Skills by jtydhr88 is a pack of 26 skills for writing film and TV.

What it does

• It was built from 47 books on the craft and 23 volumes of published scripts from China, the US, the UK, Japan and Korea.
• Separate skills cover dialogue, story structure, how a TV writers’ room runs, and the business side, such as loglines and pitches.
• You can ask in English, Japanese, Korean or French, and the answer comes back in the same language.

/plugin marketplace add jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills
/plugin install screenwriting@screenwriting-skills

Step 7 · Code changes

7. PR and Chief of Staff: code changes a reviewer understands at a glance

277K GitHub stars (pack)PR: 75.7K installsMITFree

Claude can change dozens of files in minutes. Someone still has to understand those changes before they’re merged.

Matt Pocock, who teaches TypeScript and Claude Code, recently added two skills to his pack: PR and Chief of Staff.

What it does

• PR writes the description for a change from a fixed template: a summary with a small diagram or diff sketch, evidence from before and after (such as a test that failed and now passes), and a Merge Danger section.
• Merge Danger says whether the change is a one-way or a two-way door, meaning hard or easy to undo, and how large its blast radius is.
• Chief of Staff takes one big goal, hands the work to helper agents, keeps its memory tidy with pointers instead of copies, and suggests tasks to run on a schedule.
• Chief of Staff first appeared on skills.sh on October 5 and already has about 5,500 installs.

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill pr
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill chief-of-staff

Step 8 · Google agents

8. Agents CLI: build and launch agents on Google Cloud

6.1K GitHub stars475K installs per skillApache-2.0Free skills, paid cloud

Building an AI agent and putting it online usually means learning a long list of Google Cloud services first.

Agents CLI is Google’s own pack of seven skills that teach Claude to build, test and deploy agents on Google Cloud.

What it does

• One skill writes the agent with Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), and another sets up the project.
• An evaluation skill tests the agent with AI judges and real scores.
• The rest deploy it to Cloud Run, GKE or Agent Runtime, publish it to Gemini Enterprise, and add logging and tracing so you can see what it does.
• The official tutorial has you build a caveman agent that turns long text into short grunts.

npx skills add google/agents-cli

Step 9 · Clone apps

9. Replica: rebuild an app’s features the legal way

611 GitHub stars11 skillsMITFree, no API key

Plenty of subscription apps have features people like and problems they complain about in the reviews.

Replica by Jake Schincariol is a set of 11 Claude skills that rebuild what an existing app does.

What it does

• A recon skill maps the app’s screens and flows from public pages, store listings and your own account.
• Other skills plan the database and stack, rebuild the design with your own assets, build the screens, add sign-ups and payments, test every flow and score the clone against the original.
• The Entrepreneur skill reads real reviews to find what users dislike.
• It follows a clean-room rule: it rebuilds what the app does, never its code, logo or wording.

/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/replica-skill
/plugin install replica-skill@replica-skill

Step 10 · Game mods

10. Universal Modder: mod almost any PC game

4.2K GitHub starsLaunched Sep 30, 2026MITFree skill, paid fal assets

Modding a game has usually meant weeks of forum threads and code you don’t understand.

Universal Modder by rehan-remade lets Claude mod almost any PC game you own.

What it does

• It works out which engine the game runs on, backs up your saves first and reads the actual game code.
• It builds the mod one working piece at a time and makes sprites, 3D models, sound and music through fal.
• Each mod is tested inside the running game and recorded on video.
• It writes down what it learned, so the next mod goes faster.

/plugin marketplace add rehan-remade/universal-modder
/plugin install universal-modder@universal-modder

How to install the new Claude skills

You don’t have to type commands to install any of these new Claude skills:

1. Open Claude Code in the desktop app, the terminal or your code editor.
2. Type Install this skill: and paste the skill’s GitHub link from this article.
3. Claude installs it and tells you how to use it. Start a new chat so the skill loads.
4. Then ask in plain English, for example “make me a logo for my bakery”.

Each section above also shows the exact command if you’d rather run it yourself.

Frequently asked questions