A registry for curated, high quality Claude skills and skillsets
Hi Hacker News! I’m Ritam, working with the small but mighty team at Nori. We’ve been obsessed in recent months with how to take tools like Claude Code from “I’ll experiment around with this” to “This is the most useful and necessary thing I use every day”. When I first sat down with our team to check out what they’d built, I found my skepticism about agentic coding melting away—they’d built useful, high quality, handwritten skills, instructions that functioned as “skillsets” to tie skills together for consistent and replicable results, and tooling to manage loading the right context for the…
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Hi Hacker News! I’m Ritam, working with the small but mighty team at Nori. We’ve been obsessed in recent months with how to take tools like Claude Code from “I’ll experiment around with this” to “This is the most useful and necessary thing I use every day”. When I first sat down with our team to check out what they’d built, I found my skepticism about agentic coding melting away—they’d built useful, high quality, handwritten skills, instructions that functioned as “skillsets” to tie skills together for consistent and replicable results, and tooling to manage loading the right context for the right task into the agent. In recent weeks, the conversation around skills has reached a fever pitch, as have lists and sites full of skills scraped from all over the internet. Much like the actual gold rush, the current state of those collections requires a lot of time and sifting to find small, real chunks of 24k skills hidden amongst the muck (or to use a more relevant word, slop). So at Nori, we decided to build an npm-style registry full of our curated skills and the necessary skillsets to tie them together. We’re launching it today at noriskillsets.dev, and it comes with a handy CLI tool to manage skills and skillsets on your machine, swapping them in and out of your Claude config as needed. If you're not sure what I mean by skillsets: this is the real secret sauce that makes us way more productive. These are custom, purpose-built instruction sets for Claude Code that reference our skills and lay out how to tie them together into an appropriate SDLC, from planning to PR. There are lot of little weird semantic tricks that make Claude more attentive to instructions that we've baked into these. Why not host these on Github? We're betting on our thesis: that it makes sense to tie these together with an easy to use CLI built to install and swap configs in and out of Claude, that a website custom-built for this purpose will allow us to iterate our way to surfacing what matters most and what doesn't to our users (custom, useful metadata), and that having an app separate from the discussion and churn on Github will make this a useful tool and less of a noisy social space. If you’ve been excited about the recent discussion about Claude Code but don’t know where to start with customization: this tool is for you. If you’ve tried it and have found yourself underwhelmed by inconsistency or an inability to deal with complexity: this tool is for you. And if you’ve got your setup all customized but are constantly wading through hundreds of scraped sloppy skills online, searching for helpful ones… this tool is for you. We’re excited to hear what you think. We'll be adding more skills and skillsets from across the web from other folks that we trust, so come back frequently, and we encourage folks to send us the tools they love!
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