Best skills for Solo / indie hacker
As a solo or indie hacker, you need to ship fast while keeping your codebase maintainable. Two AI coding skills stand out for this audience: WebSocket Engineer and Domain-Driven Design (DDD). WebSocket skills let you add real-time features like chat or live updates without heavy server stacks – perfect for social or collaborative apps. DDD helps you structure your business logic cleanly, reducing technical debt as your project scales. But beware: don’t over-engineer from day one. Start with a minimal WebSocket setup and only introduce DDD patterns when your domain gets complex. Common pitfalls include ignoring error handling on reconnections or overcomplicating aggregates too early. Master these skills to build reliable MVPs that can evolve into full products.
24 skills selected
Workflow Creator
Development
Creates multi-agent orchestration workflows for complex tasks requiring coordination across multiple agents and phases. Suitable for automating enterprise processes, operational procedures, and custom orchestration patterns. Ensures workflows are properly registered in the router configuration and agent archetype references.
GitHub Issue Labeler
Development
Analyze unlabeled GitHub issues and generate label recommendations. Review suggestions in a UI, then submit approved labels in batch via gh CLI. Helps triage large volumes of issues consistently without manual reading.
PR Description Generator
Development
Generates thorough pull request descriptions by analyzing git diffs, commit history, and related files. Helps when creating or updating PRs, especially to produce reviewer-friendly summaries, change lists, and testing notes.
Browser Automation with agent-browser
Development
CLI tool for browser automation using agent-browser. Enables navigating web pages, filling forms, clicking buttons, taking screenshots, extracting data, and testing web apps. Useful for any task requiring programmatic interaction with a website.
Create Pull Request
Development
This skill creates a pull request from the current branch after running code quality checks (lint, typecheck, tests). It analyzes changes, drafts a comprehensive PR description, and creates the PR as a draft. Use it when your changes are ready for review after committing.
Production Bash Scripting
Development
Provides best practices for writing production-quality Bash scripts, enforcing safety flags (set -euo pipefail), modern syntax ([[ ]], $( ), (( ))), and mandatory ShellCheck compliance. Helps prevent silent failures and data corruption by ensuring scripts are robust and maintainable. Use this skill when creating or modifying any .sh file, shell script, or pre-commit hook.
Claude Code Skill Creator
Development
Generates custom Claude Code skills by creating the folder structure and skill.md file. Helps automate repetitive tasks or add custom slash commands with optional helper scripts and API key handling.
Interface Design
Development
This skill ensures interfaces for dashboards, admin panels, and tools are built with craft and human intent rather than default patterns. It guides the designer to consider the real person, their goal, and the desired feeling before making design choices, avoiding generic templates.
Project Templates
Development
Quick-start templates for scaffolding new projects. Contains 12 templates for various tech stacks.
uni CLI - Universal Interface
Development
Universal CLI that wraps 25+ services into a single interface. Supports multi-command execution, natural language queries, saved flows, plugins, configuration, aliases, and history. Use for general uni questions or to orchestrate multiple services without switching tools.
Skill Creator
Development
A meta-skill that guides the creation of new AI coding skills for your portfolio website. It collects skill details like name, purpose, and trigger phrases, then generates a complete SKILL.md file with instructions and templates. Use this when you need to add a custom skill to your project's skill set.
Convert Tasks to GitHub Issues
Development
Converts tasks from a tasks.md file into GitHub issues with labels and dependencies. Helps when exporting work items to GitHub, setting up project boards, or assigning tasks to team members.
Telegram Assistant
Productivity
Telegram automation assistant that digests unread messages, analyzes writing style from channel posts, drafts and publishes posts, and searches/replies to messages. Useful for streamlining Telegram workflows and maintaining consistent tone across channels.
Claude Code Skill Creator
Development
This skill helps create, edit, and manage Claude Code skills, including designing skill structures, writing SKILL.md files, organizing supporting files, and setting up automation hooks. It assists when building custom automation workflows or converting sub-agents to the skill format.
SDLC Studio - Software Pipeline Management
Development
Manages the full software development pipeline from PRD creation through epic and user story generation to implementation and test automation. Supports both greenfield specification authoring and brownfield specification extraction from existing code. Use it when you need to structure a new project or document and validate an existing codebase.
Ship Changes
Development
This skill commits all staged and unstaged changes, runs the project's CI script (bin/ci), and opens a pull request on GitHub if CI passes. It helps when you're ready to ship changes by automating the commit, CI check, and PR creation workflow.
Create GitHub Pull Request
Development
Creates a GitHub pull request from the current branch by analyzing commit history, generating a conventional commit title and structured body, pushing to origin, and submitting via `gh pr create`. Useful when a user wants to create a pull request, open a PR, or ship changes. Automatically detects the base branch and validates that the branch has commits ahead and no uncommitted changes.
UiPath Business Analyst
Development
Enterprise-grade Automation Business Analyst skill → generates PDDs, ROI analysis, process assessments, and solution designs aligned with official UiPath methodology and certifications.
Git CLI Agentic Patterns
Development
Provides optimized Git commands with porcelain output for AI agent workflows. Ensures machine-readable, stable output across versions and configurations using flags like --porcelain, --numstat, and custom --format. Best for agents automating version control tasks that require deterministic parsing.
GitHub PR Review with gh CLI
Development
Comprehensive two-stage PR review using GitHub CLI. Fetches diff, metadata, and comments, then posts review only on explicit /send command.
Create Claude Skill
Development
Guides through creating a new Claude Skill, from concept to packaged distribution. It helps define the skill's purpose, set up the file structure, create resources, and validate the final package. Ideal when you need to build a reusable skill for Claude following best practices.
Skill Metadata Synchronization
Development
Keeps AGENTS.md Auto-invoke sections in sync with skill metadata by reading SKILL.md files and regenerating the corresponding tables. Run it after creating or modifying any skill to ensure documentation stays accurate.
Amazon Connect Blueprint Generator
Development
Design and generate Amazon Connect contact flow JSON from requirements or diagrams. This skill supports two modes: starting from scratch by gathering requirements, creating a Mermaid design, and deploying, or converting existing diagrams or images into flow JSON. It also includes local and API validation before deployment.
Terragrunt Executor
Development
Executes Terragrunt commands like init, plan, apply, and run-all for single or multiple modules. It determines user intent from natural language triggers, checks prerequisites, and runs the appropriate command with safety measures (e.g., requiring confirmation before apply). Helps manage Terraform configurations via Terragrunt efficiently.
How to choose
- How are these skills selected?
- An algorithm picks them among the published skills that match this page's criteria, such as category, tags or compatible tools. It ranks them by the quality score a language model gave them. On ranking pages, it also weighs GitHub stars and the security rating. Nobody reviews them one by one.
- What do the security ratings mean?
- A language model reads the SKILL.md file, without running it, and gives it a rating. Safe means it sees no meaningful execution risk. Caution means the skill uses powerful tools such as bash, docker or the network for a legitimate purpose. Risky means it asks for destructive actions, for secrets to be sent out, or for obfuscated code to run; a skill rated Risky is never published. The rating does not replace your own reading of the file.
- How do I install a skill?
- Open any skill page and follow its install instructions for your tool — Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot. Each skill lists the exact steps so you can get it running in a couple of minutes.