The Rundown

In this guide you will learn how to supercharge Claude Code by accessing a marketplace of “skills”. The best part is you can quickly browse and add them from your CLI.

Who This Is Useful For

• Website developers using Claude Code
• Anyone working with lots of different filetypes like PDFs, docx, excel spreadsheets and more
• Anyone who wants to save time building custom sub-agents in Claude Code

What You Will Build

What You Need to Get Started

• Claude Pro plan or above
• Claude Code installed on your computer
• Git (optional, learn how to use it here)

Step 1

Open up your terminal. Type in Claude and hit enter. Paste in this command and hit enter: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills.

Step 2

Now type in /plugins and hit enter.

You can press tab to toggle between menus. Press tab twice to go to Marketplace. Highlight “claude-plugins-official” and hit enter then select “Browse plugins”.

We recommend installing context7 and frontend-design. You should also add "anthropic-agent-skills" as a marketplace. Install document-skills as well.

Step 3

Now let’s put it all together. Create a new folder and open it in your code editor. Add some context like a markdown file with a project plan or csv with some data.

For this example we added a markdown file with some stats and news about the current NBA season.

Step 4

Type git init in your terminal and hit enter (optional).

Type claude /init and hit enter. This will tell Claude to create a Claude.md instructions file that it will update as it works.

Now tell Claude to create a PDF explaining the markdown file you added in step 3. We like to explicitly tell it to use the PDF doc tool.

Step 5

The frontend-design tool is critical for creating authentic websites that don’t look vibe-coded. Tell Claude to use frontend-design to create a simple landing page based on your markdown document.

We asked it to create an early 2000’s style sports website and this is what we got.

Going Further

There are some great marketing and business operations tools here that you can install with /plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills.

skills.sh is also a great resource to read what's inside each skill to get an understanding of how it works.