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Free skill repos for Claude Code / Codex: pick the right topic and it can pull thousands of stars. One line in the README funnels people to your paid service.
Narrowing Inspiration · distribution play First spotted 2026-11-01 · last updated 2026-11-06
- Status
- Narrowing (hit rate on broad topics is falling; vertical topics and funnel use are still open)
- Why now, and how long the window lasts
- Skills are a common format across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, and collecting skills is still in its window. But October supply multiplied, and broad topics (visual, general writing) dropped from 20k-star to few-thousand-star range per repo. The funnel use isn't affected by hit rate: it doesn't need to go viral, just needs the topic to match the users of a paid service.
- Confidence
- Medium. The hit-rate decline has two readings, and the direction matches; the funnel has only one sample, Publora, with no hard revenue figure. What would overturn this: a new broad-topic skill repo in November reaching 10k stars (meaning the window hasn't closed), or Publora's "50–80 onboardings per day" being shown not to convert to paid.
Evidence
Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.
GitHub6 evidence · 17 products with curves
GitHub · created 2026-10-08 · 25,726 stars · 7 days +2,413
An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with optional WebG
Data 2026-10-11 → 2026-11-08 (29 days, 29 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-07-19 · 17,624 stars · 7 days +2,161
AI video skill for Claude Code & Codex — cinematic, editable product promos with Remotion: 124 shot recipe cards, 150 motion previews, beat sync, sound design,
Data 2026-09-01 → 2026-11-08 (69 days, 25 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-26 · 13,340 stars · 7 days +3,246
A toolbox of film styles made in code for Claude Code: 66 ready to use, and your own. Each style is a style prompt plus a demo film made entirely in code by Cla
Data 2026-09-28 → 2026-11-08 (42 days, 32 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-27 · 14,047 stars · 7 days +1,145
A growing collection of viral videos made with Claude Opus 5.5 and the prompts behind them. Watch each original next to a live remake on Skillry. Updated regula
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-03 · 4,727 stars · 7 days +545
Local video editor for coding agents: 42 FFmpeg tools with a machine-readable contract and an MCP server, for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Cut, captions, refr
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-08-06 · 6,214 stars · 7 days +426
A skill collection for AI short-drama production: breaking down characters, laying out outlines, setting scene and prop designs, writing scripts, splitting storyboards | Agent skills for AI short-drama production — character bibles, adaptation outlines, art bibles, screenplays, storyboards
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-07-16 · 3,915 stars · 7 days +323
Open-source AI short-drama / micro-drama creation skills: scripts, character assets, storyboards, image/video prompts, review; compatible with Claude Code and Codex | Open-source AI short drama / micro-drama skills for Claude Code & Codex: scripts…
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 18 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-08-15 · 1,952 stars · 7 days +141
Lao Li's full AIGC creation workflow Skill · V7.4.26 Multi-skill suite edition (Short-Drama Director Suite): 1 master controller + 12 sub-skills · four layers deep: track routing / material research / scripts / assets / storyboards / three action-scene engines / feeding / QA across the full pipeline. Six pre-flight locks + I style lock · 50 rules
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
9 more products' curves
GitHub · created 2026-10-13 · 1,958 stars · 7 days +425
Curated AI short-drama · micro-drama Skill packs: scripts, adaptation, storyboards, Seedance / Kling / MiniMax video prompts, usable by agents like Qwen, Doubao, OpenClaw, WorkBuddy, Claude Code, Codex | Curated agent skills for AI short drama, micro-drama…
Data 2026-10-16 → 2026-11-08 (24 days, 22 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-26 · 1,857 stars · 7 days +273
AI digital-human talking-head videos from one photo: Renoise MCP generation + 5 editing styles + 48 creator-grade packaging components. Agent skill for Claude C
Data 2026-10-27 → 2026-11-08 (13 days, 13 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-23 · 1,921 stars · 7 days +244
Create Apple style dimensional drawings of UI components.
Data 2026-10-25 → 2026-11-08 (15 days, 15 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-26 · 804 stars · 7 days +246
An all-in-one AI short-video creation Agent Skill, from topic selection to a CapCut draft
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-03-24 · 68 stars · 7 days +6
Official Publora skills for AI agents: post and schedule to LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon and Telegram from Clau
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-04-14 · 5,710 stars · 7 days +284
Claude skills for LinkedIn. 12 Claude Code and Codex skills that write human-sounding LinkedIn posts, craft comments that get noticed, analyze your feed, and bu
Data 2026-10-21 → 2026-11-08 (19 days, 13 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-02-03 · 317,530 stars · 7 days +9,267
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
Data 2026-07-30 → 2026-11-08 (102 days, 26 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-25 · 7,246 stars · 7 days +1,518
Data 2026-10-27 → 2026-11-08 (13 days, 13 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-24 · 3,231 stars · 7 days +706
The agent skills I use every day. Works with Claude Code and Codex.
Data 2026-10-25 → 2026-11-08 (15 days, 15 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
- GitHub (visual-output skills, 11-02 checked): wheresryan22/anatomy 23,717 (built 10-08, 7 days +3,231, last week +4,677); Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft 15,785 (7 days +2,290, accelerating); lemomo-ai/lemo-opuscar 10,524 (7 days +3,334); yihui-dev/awesome-opus5-5-videos 13,029 (7 days +2,110, last week +4,787, cooling); kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill 4,272 (7 days +1,491, tagged "new account, single repo surge").
- GitHub (hit rate): the reported number is 5.5 (09-22) followed by 09-21 and 09-28 weeks, with the visual skill repos created each week being 52 and 63; now 11 and 12 have ≥500 stars, while October had 33–48 per week, and only 2–4 of them reached ≥500. 11-02 I recounted with a narrower regex: 09-21 week 39 / 7 repos, ≥500,09-28 week 44 / 4; October weeks 31–37 / 2–4, same direction. Whole skill library: 09-28 week 176 / 19 repos, ≥500,10-19 week 168 / 13.
- GitHub (Jakeschincariol, 17 repos, same author, same format, only the topic changes, 11-02 checked): replica-skill (clone an app) 6,954; instagram-agent-skill 4,325; day-trader-skill 4,261 (13 days since creation); youtube-agent-skill 4,140; linkedin-agent-skill 3,029; while x-agent-skill 62, hunter-skill (job hunting) 69, chatgpt-youtube-agent-skill 183. Different topics, star counts differ by 70×.
- GitHub (vertical topics, 11-02 checked): among Chinese short-drama / micro-drama skills, eternityspring/shuohao-skills 5,850 (7 days +782, accelerating), zenstory-ai/drama-skills 3,623, lixiaoxiao9888-create/manju-laoli-skill 1,823, UnderleveledBuilder/awesome-short-drama-skills 1,573; created after 10-19 and already past 500 stars are andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo 1,632, enesozturk/dimensional-drawing 1,716, konlu/story-studio 622. Vertical topics are still producing mid-sized hits.
- GitHub + PH (funnel, 11-02 checked): Publora's official repo publora/skills has only 62 stars, publora-api-docs 50 stars; the founder's personal account sergebulaev/linkedin-skills 5,472 stars (reported 5,426), README says "connect Publora"; 7-02 instagram-skills opened the same day (696), and 6 similar repos all point to Publora. The founder says on X that in late October 50–80 people per day connected LinkedIn through these skills, with 16k Google visits over two weeks (self-reported, not verified). PH votes rose from 123 before the handover to 632.
- GitHub (celebrity directories, 11-02 checked): mattpocock/skills 309,118; unclebob/ub-mode 6,194 (created 10-25, no description written); t3dotgg/tstack 2,578 (created 10-24). These rely on the authors themselves and can't be copied.
Indie product revenue (TrustMRR)1 evidence · 1 products with curves
Skillry skillry.dev
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $11,520 (+133%) · MRR $4,878 · 446 subscriptions
2026-08 → 2026-11 (4 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
- indie(11-02): Skillry $11,385, MRR $4,241; the author also uses awesome-opus5-5-videos (13,029 stars) for distribution, see [009].
Already doing it
Visual output includes anatomy, video-shotcraft, lemo-opuscar, alchaincyf/huashu-art-motion (5,925), ffmpeg-skill; account operations include the Jakeschincariol series; Chinese short drama includes shuohao-skills and drama-skills; the funnel includes Publora (sergebulaev's 8 skill repos); celebrity directories include mattpocock, t3dotgg, unclebob.
The hardest step
Topic choice. The same person, same format: "run Instagram" 4,325 stars, "run X" 62 stars. Topics that make money or grow followers far outperform ones that save money or help with job hunting. Account-operation skills also run into platform terms of service.
Who it's for
Individuals or small teams that already have a paid API or SaaS (especially a service agents call) use a free skill repo to drive traffic. How this differs from [009]: [009] makes the skill itself a paid library and collects subscriptions; this one is free and sends traffic to a separate paid product via stars and README. Both depend on distribution.
Should every product builder know this?
Yes. For people building developer tools, a skill repo is one of the cheapest acquisition channels. Publora gets 50–80 onboardings per day from a markdown file.
Change log
2026-11-06
New to the threshold: andrew-babo/muse4ai (a bridge that lets agents generate images and video locally on Windows, 3 days, 799 stars). JuneYaooo/rea-video (reverse-engineering videos) went 683→1,183 in a day, and video-breakdown topics keep rising.
2026-11-05
New to the threshold: XiaoyeCodes/code-animation-prompts (7 days, 523 stars), PH daily #1 AgentKit by Scalekit (MCP gateway, 399 votes, a company product). Skill-type repos in GitHub's top 30 across 7 days (created ≤60 days ago): google/elephant-goldfish-model +6,809 (big company), lemo-opuscar +3,077, anatomy +2,642, day-trader-skill +2,527, Oldcircle/geo-sleuth (photo geolocation skill) +1,528, edenfunf/reelmimic (generates a new video in the same style as one given) +1,516, JuneYaooo/rea-video (reverse-engineers any video's shots and editing, 7 days, 788). Video "breakdown / recreation" has become a new vertical topic. Unchanged.
2026-11-04
On the threshold list, 15 Skill / MCP cluster entries; new to the threshold: benjitaylor/skills (9 days, 1,330 stars), yjid/kensaku. claude-animated-shorts went 405→581 in a day and is still growing. Unchanged.
2026-11-03
The "Agent Skill / MCP" cluster has 17 entries on the threshold list (all on GitHub), and the "claude in repo name" cluster has 3. New to the threshold today: caru-ini/stack-diagram (describe a tech stack in one sentence to get an architecture diagram, 2 days old, 1,073 stars) and mromidev/claude-animated-shorts (2 days, 560 stars, 143 forks). In November, new skill repos are still passing 1,000 stars within two days, but none have reached 10,000; vertical topics (diagrams, animation, video) remain the bulk of the hits. No falsification triggered.
2026-11-02
Backfill check: anatomy 23,313 → 23,717 (7-day star gain is about 30% lower than last week); awesome-opus5-5-videos 12,902 → 13,029 (cooling); day-trader-skill 3,943 → 4,261; linkedin-skills 5,426 → 5,472. 10-19 skill repos created after 500 have passed 20 stars; about 9 of them are image, video, or motion-related, with the top one at 4,698 (unslop), and none at 20k level.
2026-11-01
First logged (backfilled from GitHub New Opportunities (batch 1) §1.7 / §1.10, Product Hunt roundup v1 4.1 entry 4, and ph-dossiers/publora.md; data as of 11-01).
Original: Scanner opportunity library #049 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.