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Anthropic Skills Starter

Official

By @sriray

A curated starter set of official Anthropic skills to get any agent going.

aster install --stack anthropic-skills-starter

Included Skills (5)

pdf
v1.0.0

Use this skill whenever the user wants to do anything with PDF files. This includes reading or extracting text/tables from PDFs, combining or merging multiple PDFs into one, splitting PDFs apart, rotating pages, adding watermarks, creating new PDFs, filling PDF forms, encrypting/decrypting PDFs, ext

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skill-creator
v1.0.0

Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to test a skill, benchmark skill performance with variance analysis, or optimize a skill's description for better t

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brand-guidelines
v1.0.0

Applies Anthropic's official brand colors and typography to any sort of artifact that may benefit from having Anthropic's look-and-feel. Use it when brand colors or style guidelines, visual formatting, or company design standards apply.

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canvas-design
v1.0.0

Create beautiful visual art in .png and .pdf documents using design philosophy. You should use this skill when the user asks to create a poster, piece of art, design, or other static piece. Create original visual designs, never copying existing artists' work to avoid copyright violations.

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mcp-builder
v1.0.0

Guide for creating high-quality MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that enable LLMs to interact with external services through well-designed tools. Use when building MCP servers to integrate external APIs or services, whether in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

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Compatibility Exports

CClaude / MCP Server
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aster": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "astermcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ASTER_STACK": "anthropic-skills-starter"
      }
    }
  }
}
OOpenAI / GPT
{
  "name": "Anthropic Skills Starter",
  "description": "A curated starter set of official Anthropic skills to get any agent going.",
  "skills": [
    "hunted/pdf",
    "hunted/mcp-builder",
    "hunted/canvas-design",
    "hunted/skill-creator",
    "hunted/brand-guidelines"
  ],
  "install": "aster install --stack anthropic-skills-starter"
}
TPlain Text
# Add to your Claude project
Stack: Anthropic Skills Starter
Skills: hunted/pdf, hunted/mcp-builder, hunted/canvas-design, hunted/skill-creator, hunted/brand-guidelines

Install with: aster install --stack anthropic-skills-starter
CLI Usage

Install the entire stack

aster install --stack anthropic-skills-starter

Or install skills individually

aster install hunted/pdf hunted/mcp-builder hunted/canvas-design hunted/skill-creator hunted/brand-guidelines

Load via MCP server

ask_load stack="anthropic-skills-starter"