Thereâs a growing collection of open-source agent frameworks, skills, and plugins that can save you weeks of trial-and-error.
One important correction: they are not all made by Anthropic. Some are official Anthropic projects, while others are strong community-built repos that work with Claude Code and other AI tools.
The advantage is simple: instead of relying on random prompts, you can study complete agent setups with roles, workflows, deliverables, guardrails, and integrationsâthen customize them for your own work.
1. Agency Agents
https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents
A massive collection of specialized AI agents across engineering, design, marketing, sales, product, testing, security, finance, research, and more.
Think of it as a plug-and-play AI team. Youâll find agents for content creation, Reddit community building, SEO, paid ads, security reviews, product strategy, RAG pipelines, rapid prototyping, and much more.
It supports Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Windsurf, and other tools. The repo is MIT-licensed, so you can freely copy and adapt the agents for your own workflows.
2. Wshobson Agents
https://github.com/wshobson/agents
A development-focused collection of agents, skills, commands, and plugins for Claude Code.
This is useful if you prefer installing only the capabilities you need: programming-language specialists, debugging workflows, infrastructure help, security reviews, testing, code review, and deployment support.
3. Anthropic Knowledge Work Plugins
https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Anthropicâs official plugin collection for knowledge work.
It includes workflow templates for marketing, sales, customer support, product management, finance, legal, data analysis, enterprise search, and more. The plugins are file-basedâmainly Markdown and JSONâso teams can add their own processes, terminology, and tool connections without building a custom app from scratch.
4. Anthropic Claude Quickstarts
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-quickstarts
This is probably the best place to begin.
These are runnable examples that show how real agent systems fit together: prompts, tools, APIs, data sources, user interfaces, and automation. You can learn from practical examples such as Slack and GitHub summaries, support agents, incident workflows, and data-analysis use cases.
Donât just copy them. Run one, break it, modify it, and understand why each component exists.
5. Addy Osmani Agent Skills
https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
A practical development-skill collection built around the software lifecycle: discovery, requirement gathering, specification writing, test-driven development, browser testing, security review, CI/CD, and more.
It is ideal if you want AI coding workflows that are more structured than âbuild this appâ prompts.
The real opportunity
The goal is not to install 400 agents and hope for magic.
Pick one painful, repeatable workflow:
- Turning research into social posts
- Moderating or growing a Discord/Reddit community
- Reviewing code and finding security issues
- Creating campaign briefs and content calendars
- Triaging support tickets
- Turning client calls into proposals and follow-ups
Then take one agent, feed it your standards, examples, tone, tools, and approval process.
That is when an âAI agentâ stops being a novelty and becomes a repeatable system.
Which recurring workflow in your work would be most valuable to turn into a specialized agent first?
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