A hand-picked collection of the finest of resources for the most awesome of agents, Claude Code, the undisputed champion of coding companions, from the unstoppable team at Anthropic PBC. A delectable showcase of top tier skills, ambidextrous agents, scintillating status lines, top notch developer tooling, and also we have plugins. Suitable for beginners and veterans, with an emphasis on code quality, security, and originality.

The current iteration of the list, such as you see it today, was launched with the express intent to highlight resources that were not on the last iteration, and in particular to make selections from the list of recommendations. However, this is only temporary - resources will continue to be added over the coming weeks, and "legacy" resources will be migrated to the new format. So, if you had been featured on the list before, and you don't see your project now, that's the reason why - "legacy" resources that are still maintained and awesome will be added back in soon - and, in the meantime, they are also preserved (but will not be updated) in the README_ALTERNATIVES directory.

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• A Field Guide to Claude Fable 5 by Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic - Really solid, insightful guidance on working/thinking with Claude Fable, and with AI in general. Very well written. Hints of Rumsfeld epistemology, but otherwise it's a great piece.

• andrej-karpathy-skills by multica-ai - A drop-in CLAUDE.md distilling four behavioral guidelines for LLM-assisted coding into Claude Code — a low-friction quick win. Karpathy-inspired, derived from Andrej Karpathy's public notes on LLM coding pitfalls and authored by multica-ai.
        

• Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code by Arpan Patel - This has what you need. Remarkably clear, information-dense, it's Claude Code: the good parts, for beginners, advanced users, pets, anybody.

• Claude Code Guide by zebbern - A current single-page reference for Claude Code: install, environment variables, slash commands, MCP, hooks, and subagents, kept in sync with the official changelog.
        

• Claude Code Hooks: Complete Guide by Hidekazu Konishi - A thorough walkthrough of every hook event, when each fires, the two return channels, common anti-patterns, and copy-ready settings.json examples.

• Claude Code: Everything You Need to Know by wesammustafa - A conceptual, mental-models-first primer that explains what Claude Code is and how its agentic loop works, then layers setup, prompt-engineering workflows, skills, hooks, MCP, subagents, and agent teams, with an experience-tiered path for newcomers.
        

• claude-howto by luongnv89 - A structured, chapter-based getting-started guide for Claude Code with a self-assessment quiz and a ten-module progressive learning path — slash commands, memory, skills, subagents, MCP, hooks, plugins, and checkpoints — with visual diagrams and copy-paste templates.
        

• explore-claude-code by Luke Renton - An interactive click-through of an annotated Claude Code project where every file and folder — CLAUDE.md, settings.json, rules, commands, skills, agents, hooks, plugins, and .mcp.json — is a real, explained concept, teaching the tool's surface area by orientation rather than prose.
        

• Learn Claude Code by shareAI-lab - A really interesting analysis of how coding agents like Claude Code are designed. It attempts to break an agent down into its fundamental parts and reconstruct it with minimal code. Great learning resource. Final product is a rudimentary agent with skills, sub-agents, and a todo-list in roughly a few hundred lines of Python.
        

• Writing a Good CLAUDE.md by HumanLayer - An essay on CLAUDE.md craft: instruction-budget reasoning, progressive disclosure, and the test of whether Claude would err without a given line.

• Agent Skills by Anthropic - Anthropic's official repository for Agent Skills — the SKILL.md format, a skill template, and example skills, the same format Claude Code loads natively.
        

• Building Effective Agents by Anthropic - Anthropic's foundational taxonomy of agent patterns — prompt chaining, routing, orchestrator-workers, and evaluator-optimizer — and when to use each.

• Claude Code Best Practices by Anthropic - Anthropic's canonical guide to working effectively with Claude Code: the agentic-loop mental model, CLAUDE.md guidance, and workflow patterns.

• Claude Code Cheatsheet by Anthropic - Anthropic's official Claude Code cheatsheet — a quick reference for the core vocabulary (session, context window, CLAUDE.md), built-in slash commands, and keyboard shortcuts.

• Claude Code GitHub Action by Anthropic - The official GitHub Action for running Claude Code in CI: mention @claude in issues and pull requests to delegate code changes, reviews, and fixes.
        

• Claude Code Security Review by Anthropic - An official AI-powered security-review GitHub Action that uses Claude to analyze pull-request diffs for vulnerabilities.
        

• Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents by Anthropic - Anthropic's guide to curating the context window — compaction, just-in-time retrieval, and note-taking — the discipline underlying effective long-horizon agent use.

• How Claude Code Works by Anthropic - The official conceptual explainer of Claude Code's agentic loop, tools, and context window, and how skills, hooks, and subagents layer on top.

• How We Built Our Multi-Agent Research System by Anthropic - A practical account of orchestrator and subagent coordination, prompt design, and evaluation that maps directly to Claude Code's subagents and agent teams.

• Official Plugin Directory by Anthropic - Anthropic's official, curated directory of high-quality Claude Code plugins, installable from within Claude Code.
        

• Steering Claude Code: Skills, Hooks, Rules, Subagents and More by Anthropic - A framework for choosing which extension mechanism to reach for, organized around deterministic-versus-probabilistic control and context isolation.

• Agentic Workflow Patterns by ThibautMelen - A comprehensive and well-documented collection of agentic patterns from Anthropic docs, with colorful Mermaid diagrams and code examples for each pattern. Covers Subagent Orchestration, Progressive Skills, Parallel Tool Calling, Master-Clone Architecture, Wizard Workflows, and more. Also compatible with other providers.
        

• Bloom by Li-Evan - A self-contained Claude Code skill that turns Benjamin Bloom's "2-sigma" tutoring research into a personal AI tutor: it generates a structured syllabus, teaches one lesson at a time, and adapts each next lesson to the learner's annotations and feedback. The skill is dependency-free and makes no network calls beyond the configured LLM endpoint (an optional web app is also included).
        

• cc-thinking-skills by tjboudreaux - A collection of installable thinking-framework skills with a meta-router, notable for publishing a replication-gated evaluation instead of unsupported quality claims.
        

• Claude Code Handbook by nikiforovall - Collection of best practices, tips, and techniques for Claude Code development workflows, enhanced with distributable plugins

• Claude Code Repos Index by Daniel Rosehill - This is either the work of a prolific genius, or a very clever bot (or both), although it hardly matters because the quality is so good - an index of 75+ Claude Code repositories published by the author - and I'm not talking about slop. CMS, system design, deep research, IoT, agentic workflows, server management, personal health... If you spot the lie, let me know, otherwise please check these out.
        

• Claude Code System Prompts by Piebald AI - All parts of Claude Code's system prompt, including builtin tool descriptions, sub agent prompts (Plan/Explore/Task), utility prompts (CLAUDE.md, compact, Bash cmd, security review, agent creation, etc.). Updated for each Claude Code version.
        

• claude-code-android by ferrumclaudepilgrim - A thorough, device-tested guide and toolkit for running Claude Code natively on Android via three paths (Termux, proot-Ubuntu, and the Android Virtualization Framework), with a verification harness and per-device results. Unusually security-aware for a setup guide — it ships a threat model, an SSRF-guard WebFetch hook, a biometric approval gate, and a permission matrix.
        

• claude-code-docs by Constantin Shafranski - A mirror of the Anthropic© PBC documentation site for Claude/Code, but with bonus features like full-text search and query-time updates - up-to-the-minute, fully-indexed information so that Claude Code can read about itself.
        

• cxpak by Barnett Studios - A code-intelligence Claude Code plugin and MCP server (Rust, single binary, 43 languages) that builds a typed dependency graph and packs token-budgeted, annotated context bundles for any task. Exceptionally engineered and security-forward — 2,400+ tests, recorded ADRs, a sandboxed WASM plugin SDK, and cosign-signed, SBOM-attested release images.
        

• Dive into Claude Code by VILA-Lab - A research-lab systematic analysis of the Claude Code codebase whose headline finding — overwhelmingly infrastructure rather than model — reframes Claude Code as a harness.
        

• Encyclopedia of Agentic Coding Patterns by Wolf McNally - A freely available reference covering 190+ patterns for AI-assisted software development (and actually a whole bunch of related technical topics) from foundational concepts through agentic construction patterns, governance, testing, and socio-technical systems. Each entry follows a consistent pattern-language format with Context, Problem, Forces, Solution, Consequences, and Related Patterns. Opinionated and erudiate, which is actually good for an "encyclopedia" in some ways.

• learn-faster-kit by Hugo Lau - A creative educational framework for Claude Code, inspired by the "FASTER" approach to self-teaching. Ships with a variety of agents, slash commands, and tools that enable Claude Code to help you progress at your own pace, employing well-established pedagogical techniques like active learning and spaced repetition.
        

• MDXG Redline by oubakiou - A Claude Code skill plus single-file HTML tool that closes the human-review loop on AI-written docs: a person leaves inline comments in the browser, which export as structured JSON keyed by heading path and line, and the skill polls for that file and applies each comment to the exact lines. Strongly privacy-respecting — the local/CLI build enforces a strict CSP (connect-src 'none'), so document text and comments never leave the machine.
        

• NotebookLM MCP by Romain Peyrichou - A mature MCP server (plus a 33-endpoint REST API) that drives Google NotebookLM for citation-backed Q&A and full Studio generation (audio, video, infographics, reports), with multi-account TOTP re-auth. Notably well-maintained and security-attentive — batch-tested on overnight 1,000-question runs, with a documented changelog that includes patching a transitive XSS advisory.
        

• RAG Learning Academy by Taka Goto - A multi-agent Claude Code learning environment for mastering Retrieval-Augmented Generation, with 20 specialist agents, 22 slash commands, and a 9-module hands-on curriculum that runs zero-config inside Claude Code. Quality is evident — 616 tests, CI, and weekly/monthly content-freshness automation that opens issues for stale material.
        

• showreel by HeyRenan - A Claude Code plugin that turns CSS selectors + text into finished visual documentation — annotated screenshots, flow GIFs/MP4s, terminal recordings, and before/after composites — placing every annotation deterministically and pixel-verifying each artifact (PASS/FAIL) before it is saved. Self-contained (bundles its own headless Chromium, no browser MCP, no telemetry); every image in its README is generated by the tool itself.
        

• agentcairn by ccf - Long-term, cross-project memory for AI coding agents. Your own Obsidian vault as the source of truth. Daemonless and without opaque databases, your memory belongs to you.
        

• Bedrock by Iury Krieger - A Claude Code plugin that turns an Obsidian vault into a structured second brain via 8 skills, building an entity-typed (actors/people/teams/topics…) Zettelkasten graph with bidirectional wikilinks and ingesting Confluence, Google Docs, GitHub, and docling-supported files. Operates only on local markdown, with conscientious, opt-out error reporting that explicitly never transmits vault content or paths.
        

• claude-obsidian by Agrici Daniel - Self-organizing AI second brain for Obsidian + Claude Code. Claude reads any source, links it, and files it into one connected knowledge graph of plain Markdown. Based on Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.
        

• Librarian by ngmeyer - A standalone MCP server that gives Claude a markdown second-brain over any Obsidian vault or folder of .md files, with trigram search, auto-wikilinks on write, and real graph analytics (Louvain communities, PageRank, shortest-path, D3 visualization). Runs entirely locally with no network calls or telemetry, productionizing the "LLM wiki" pattern.
        

• AI Research Skills by Wenyu Chiou - A catalog of 15 Claude Code skills mapped to 8 research-workflow stages (literature → gap analysis → design → drafting → reviewer response), where each stage emits an explicit YAML/Markdown deliverable the next stage consumes. Thoughtfully designed around anti-hallucination — schemas force "gap" status on unsupported claims, and downstream skills refuse malformed, overconfident handoffs.
        

• My Claude Code Setup by Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna - A ready-to-fork Claude Code template for academics using LaTeX/Beamer + R. Multi-agent review, quality gates, adversarial QA, and replication protocols. Great use of orchestration patterns and great documentation.
        

chrome-cdp-ex by Endeavor Yen - A zero-dependency Claude Code skill (68 commands) that connects to your real Chrome — logged-in tabs, cookies, live page state — to give the agent a perception layer: layout, visible styles, per-action "what changed" evidence, CSS-cascade-to-source tracing, and session replay/Playwright export. Notably rigorous about its own claims, with a dogfood benchmark gate that blocks performance/adoption assertions unless it passes.
      

claude-code-wsl2-setup by congmnguyen - A focused collection of documented scripts that fix the most painful Claude Code papercuts on WSL2 + Windows Terminal — clipboard screenshot paste via a Go daemon, Windows notifications on Stop/PermissionRequest hooks, LSP wiring, a usage-aware status line, and voice-mode audio routing. Each fix is written up with root cause and exact config (including non-obvious traps like SessionEnd firing per subagent), and the work was upstreamed into Awesome-WSL.
      

Flue by S.F. Kislev - A tiny bridge that lets Claude Code drive desktop software — Photoshop, Premiere, Blender, Unity, InDesign, Office, 13 apps total — by writing one-time scripts against each app's own automation runtime (COM / AppleScript / CEP), instead of MCP servers or fragile screenshot-based computer use. A genuinely novel approach that unlocks the apps' full scripting surfaces (InDesign alone exposes ~28k objects) with low maintenance.
      

llm-router by Yali Pollak - A local-first router that sits under Claude Code (and Codex/Gemini CLI) and sends each prompt to the cheapest capable model, with three-layer token compression and automatic provider fallback — protecting your premium quota and cutting cost with zero config on a Claude subscription. Credibly engineered: 1,900+ tests, an independent RouterArena benchmark placement, and an honest local-only design with no hosted proxy.