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Skills are loaded by Claude Code from ~/.claude/skills/. Installation means cloning the repository and making the skills available in that directory — either as individual symlinks or as the entire directory.

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Prerequisites

  • Claude Code installed and working
  • git available on your PATH

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Install

1

Clone the repository

Clone the claude-skills repo to a permanent location on your machine. Choose a path you won’t move, since symlinks will point to it.
git clone https://github.com/npow/claude-skills.git
2

Choose an installation option

You have two options depending on how many skills you want.
Symlink only the skills you want. This keeps your ~/.claude/skills/ directory tidy if you already have other skills installed.
ln -s "$(pwd)/claude-skills/build-python-library" ~/.claude/skills/build-python-library
Repeat for each skill you want. The available skill names match the directory names in the repository.
Start with one or two skills you’ll use immediately — you can always add more later by running the same ln -s command for additional directories.
3

Verify the installation

Open a new Claude Code session and type any skill’s slash command — for example /deep-research. If Claude loads the skill context and begins the workflow, the installation succeeded.
If the slash command is not recognised, confirm that the symlink target exists and points to a directory containing a SKILL.md file.

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Keeping skills up to date

Because the skills directory is a symlink to the cloned repository, you can pull the latest skills at any time: 
cd claude-skills
git pull
No relinking required.