Agentic Awesome Skills (AAS Core)

Overview

Agentic Awesome Skills is one of the largest open community catalogs of agent skills (2,100+ entries across development, testing, security, infrastructure, product and marketing). Its real product, AAS Core, is a local, read-only MCP server plus an aas CLI: instead of dumping the whole catalog into your project, it lets your coding agent search the full catalog itself, choose exact skill IDs, and validate that selection into a reviewable, versioned aas-stack.json before any file is written.

How it works

1. Search, don't install everything. The MCP exposes search_skills, get_skill, compose_stack and related tools so the agent inspects the catalog without you cloning thousands of files.
2. Agent-owned selection. The agent (not AAS) picks the exact skill IDs relevant to your project's surface (architecture, security, testing, etc.).
3. Validate, then plan. aas stack validate and aas stack plan check the proposal and produce an immutable install plan, without applying any changes.
4. Install narrowly. Run the direct installer with --skills id1,id2 (or a specialized plugin/bundle) for a scoped, reviewable install; avoid --all.

Licensing note

The AAS Core tooling itself is MIT. The individual skills inside skills/ are contributed from hundreds of separate upstream repos, each under its own license (MIT, Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0, CC-BY-4.0 and others). Check the source repo's own attribution ledger before reusing a specific skill's content, rather than assuming the root MIT license applies to everything.

Examples

"Search the AAS catalog for a code-review skill for a Next.js + Postgres repo,
and propose an exact stack for me to review before installing anything."

Best used for targeted discovery (finding one good skill for a specific gap in your project) rather than as a one-shot full-catalog install.

Installation

You need Node.js and a coding agent that supports MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI).

1. Configure the AAS MCP server in your agent so it can search the catalog (see the project's README for the exact MCP config block).
2. Ask your agent to search the catalog for what you need. It returns specific skill IDs instead of the whole 2,100+ entry list.
3. Preview a dry run of just those IDs:

   npx agentic-awesome-skills --skills <skill-id-1>,<skill-id-2> --dry-run
   

4. Once you're happy with the plan, run the same command without --dry-run to install only those skills. Avoid --all.