SKILL.md
---
name: anthropics-skills
description: |
Official Anthropic skills for frontend design, artifact creation, and presentation.
Covers UI/UX development tools, complex HTML artifacts, visual art in PNG/PDF,
professional theme application, Anthropic brand guidelines, and PowerPoint creation.
triggers:
- "Anthropic skill"
- "Anthropic frontend design"
- "web artifacts"
- "canvas design"
- "theme factory"
- "brand guidelines"
- "pptx Anthropic"
das:
type: package
category: official-suites
upstream: "https://github.com/anthropics/skills"
version: latest
install: false
---
# anthropics-skills
> Catalogue stub — full package: [anthropics/skills](https://github.com/anthropics/skills)
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## Decision tree
1. **Is the full skill already installed?**
This package installs 6 skills (`frontend-design`, `web-artifacts-builder`, `canvas-design`, `theme-factory`, `brand-guidelines`, `pptx`); checking the first.
- Global: `f=~/.agents/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer"`
- Project: `f=.agents/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md; [ -f "$f" ] && ! grep -q "^das:" "$f" && echo "installed" || echo "pointer"`
- `installed` → the skill is installed as `frontend-design`, invoke it and proceed
- `pointer` → go to step 2
2. **Detect scope, then install:**
```bash
[ -e ~/.agents/skills/anthropics-skills ] && echo "global" || echo "project"
```
**Global:**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design web-artifacts-builder canvas-design theme-factory brand-guidelines pptx -g -y
```
**Project:**
```bash
npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design web-artifacts-builder canvas-design theme-factory brand-guidelines pptx -y
```
> **Claude Code:** send a command as a chat message starting with `!` to run it without leaving the conversation.
**Claude Code plugin route:**
```
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
/plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
/plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
```
**Heads-up**
- **License:** Apache-2.0 for frontend-design, web-artifacts-builder, canvas-design, theme-factory and brand-guidelines; pptx is proprietary (Anthropic, all rights reserved, per its LICENSE.txt); the repo has no root LICENSE
- **Name collision:** `frontend-design` is also written by `frontend-design` (its install or its catalogue pointer); installing both overwrites the earlier one.
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## Invoke after install
- `frontend-design` — "frontend design", "UI/UX development"
- `web-artifacts-builder` — "web artifact", "React artifact", "build HTML artifact"
- `canvas-design` — "canvas design", "PNG art", "visual art"
- `theme-factory` — "theme artifact", "professional theme", "style artifact"
- `brand-guidelines` — "brand colors", "brand typography", "apply brand"
- `pptx` — "PowerPoint", "create PPTX", "presentation"
## What it does
Anthropic's official skill suite covering design-adjacent workflows: production-quality frontend design guidance, complex multi-component HTML artifact construction with React/Tailwind/shadcn, visual art creation, theme systems, Anthropic's own brand colors and typography, and PowerPoint generation. The `pptx` skill is proprietary (Anthropic, all rights reserved); the other five are Apache-2.0.
## When NOT to use
- Applying a different company's brand — `brand-guidelines` applies Anthropic's brand; use `brand-design-md` for well-known brands
- A different take on the same job as `frontend-design` — the catalogue also has a `frontend-design` stub from another author that writes to the same install directory; pick one
- Every other skill in the repo (docx, xlsx, pdf, claude-api, mcp-builder, ...) — this pointer installs only the six listed; add more by passing their names to `--skill`
stub.yaml
type: package
tier: official
category: official-suites
rank: 1
upstream: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
version: latest
install_default: npx skills add anthropics/skills --skill frontend-design web-artifacts-builder canvas-design theme-factory brand-guidelines pptx
installed_as:
- frontend-design
- web-artifacts-builder
- canvas-design
- theme-factory
- brand-guidelines
- pptx
install_claude:
- /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills
- /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
- /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
license: Apache-2.0 for frontend-design, web-artifacts-builder, canvas-design, theme-factory and brand-guidelines; pptx is proprietary (Anthropic, all rights reserved, per its LICENSE.txt); the repo has no root LICENSE
note: "verified 2026-10-21; the repo holds more skills than the design-relevant six listed here, pick others by naming them after --skill (npx skills add anthropics/skills with no --skill installs 20); the plugin route was checked against .claude-plugin/marketplace.json only (marketplace anthropic-agent-skills): example-skills carries the five design skills plus seven others, document-skills carries pptx plus xlsx, docx and pdf, so the plugin route installs more than the six; frontend-design is also installed by the frontend-design stub (Ilm-Alan, different upstream)"
conflicts_with:
- frontend-design