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Table of contents

Install	Use	Contribute
Install skills CLI (npx) Claude Code plugin marketplace Pinned .zip from Releases Manual copy Git submodule	Compatibility What is a Skill?	Contributing Acknowledgments License

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web-video-presentation

Category: Web Video / Presentation Engineering
Best for: turning scripts, articles, lessons, product demos, and talks into click-driven 16:9 web presentations that can be screen-recorded as cinematic videos.

web-video-presentation builds record-ready Vite + React + TypeScript presentations that behave like video production surfaces. The workflow turns raw articles into narration scripts, maps script beats to full-screen scenes, pauses at required checkpoints, and can optionally synthesize narration audio after the visual outline is approved.

Highlights:

• Fixed 1920×1080 stage that scales to the viewport for stable screen recording
• Click / keyboard driven (chapter, step) cursor, with one narration beat per visual step
• Hard collaboration checkpoints for script, theme, outline, implementation mode, and optional audio
• Hidden hover-only progress controls so the stage stays clean while recording
• Theme-token architecture with multiple visual languages, from paper-press to terminal-green
• Scaffolded Vite + React + TypeScript project with reusable stage primitives and recording guidance

Links: README · SKILL.md · Download v1.1.3 .zip

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web-design-engineer

Category: Design / Frontend
Best for: web pages, landing pages, dashboards, interactive prototypes, HTML slide decks, animations, UI mockups, data visualizations, and design-system explorations.

web-design-engineer turns AI-generated web artifacts from merely functional into polished, deliberate, and visually memorable front-end work. It treats the agent as a design engineer: first understanding product context, then declaring a design system, showing an early v0, building the full experience, and verifying the result.

Highlights:

• Defines a six-step design workflow: requirements → context → design system → v0 → full build → verification
• Pushes beyond generic AI UI patterns with an anti-cliché blocklist and stronger visual judgment
• Covers HTML / CSS / JavaScript / React prototypes, with guidance for responsive layout, motion, and interaction polish
• Includes practical implementation rules for inline React + Babel, CSS tokens, oklch() color work, container queries, and reduced-motion handling
• Ships an advanced patterns reference for device frames, slide engines, animation timelines, dashboards, and other reusable web artifacts

Links: README · SKILL.md · Website · Demo · Download v1.0.0 .zip

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gpt-image-2

Category: Image Generation / Prompt Engineering
Best for: posters, UI mockups, product visuals, infographics, academic figures, technical diagrams, comics, avatars, storyboards, branding boards, and image-editing workflows.

gpt-image-2 is a focused image-generation skill for GPT Image 2 and OpenAI-compatible image APIs. It is designed to work across different agent environments: fully local Garden generation, host-native image-tool delegation, or prompt-only advisor mode when no image tool is available.

Highlights:

• Supports three runtime modes: Mode A Garden local, Mode B host-native delegation, and Mode C advisor-only prompt writing
• Starts every task with mode detection so the skill does not silently choose the wrong execution path
• Provides 18 visual categories and 80+ structured prompt templates under references/
• Covers both image generation and image editing through dedicated workflows and scripts
• Saves prompts and generated images under garden-gpt-image-2/ in Garden mode for reuse, review, and versioning

Links: README · SKILL.md · Website · Download v1.0.3 .zip

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kb-retriever

Category: Retrieval / Local Knowledge Base
Best for: answering questions from a local knowledge/ directory, searching structured documentation, and extracting evidence from Markdown, text, PDF, and Excel files without flooding the agent context.

kb-retriever is a local knowledge-base retriever built around careful, progressive search. Instead of loading whole files, it navigates hierarchical index files, narrows the candidate set, processes complex file types correctly, and answers with sources.

Highlights:

• Uses layered data_structure.md files to navigate the knowledge base before searching content
• Enforces a learn-before-process rule for PDF and Excel files, using the included reference docs before extraction or analysis
• Combines precise keyword search, local windowed reads, synonyms, and iterative refinement
• Bounds retrieval to at most 5 search rounds so exploration stays controlled
• Includes workflows for grep, pdftotext, pdfplumber, and pandas, with source-aware answer formatting

Links: README · SKILL.md · Download v1.0.0 .zip

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Install

There are five supported install paths. Pick the one that fits your stack:

#	Method	Best for	Pinned version?
A	skills CLI (npx skills add)	Any agent, one-line install, pick & choose skills	✅ via tag URL
B	Claude Code plugin marketplace	Claude Code users who want to subscribe to plugin packs	✅ via marketplace version
C	Pinned .zip from GitHub Releases	CI / air-gapped envs / reproducible installs	✅ ✅ (immutable)
D	Manual copy after git clone	Local hacking on the skill itself	❌ (tracks main)
E	Git submodule	Vendored into a larger project, want upstream updates	✅ via submodule SHA

Each skill section above also has a Download v<version> .zip link in its "Links:" row that points at the current pinned release artifact. Those URLs are auto-rewritten by scripts/release/update-readme.mjs on every release, so they always advertise the latest immutable version.

Option A · skills CLI (npx)

The fastest agent-agnostic path. Uses the standard npx skills CLI, which auto-detects your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) and drops the skill into the right directory.

# Install all four skills (latest)
npx skills add ConardLi/garden-skills

# Install just one skill (latest)
npx skills add ConardLi/garden-skills -s web-design-engineer

# Install globally (~/.skills) instead of per-project (./.skills)
npx skills add ConardLi/garden-skills -s gpt-image-2 --global

# Target a specific agent
npx skills add ConardLi/garden-skills -s kb-retriever -a claude-code

Defaults to the latest commit on main. That's what you want 95% of the time — the CLI tracks each skill's most recent published SKILL.md straight from the source tree.

Want a pinned version? (CI / production) Use a tag-scoped tree/ URL — this points at the exact commit a release was cut from:

# Pin one skill to a specific release
npx skills add ConardLi/garden-skills/tree/web-design-engineer-v1.0.0/skills/web-design-engineer

For each skill, the current pinned .zip URL is also shown inline in its "Links:" row above (the Download v<version> .zip link).

Useful sub-commands:

npx skills list                 # what's installed
npx skills find web-design      # search registries
npx skills update               # bump everything
npx skills remove kb-retriever  # uninstall

Option B · Claude Code plugin marketplace

If you use Claude Code, you can subscribe to the marketplace and install plugin packs that bundle one or more skills together:

/plugin marketplace add ConardLi/garden-skills
/plugin install presentation-skills@garden-skills
/plugin install web-design-skills@garden-skills
/plugin install knowledge-base-skills@garden-skills
/plugin install image-generation-skills@garden-skills

Plugin packs are declared in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json:

Plugin pack	Skills included
presentation-skills	web-video-presentation
web-design-skills	web-design-engineer
knowledge-base-skills	kb-retriever
image-generation-skills	gpt-image-2

Option C · Pinned .zip from Releases

Every formal release publishes an immutable .zip (with a SHA-256 checksum) to GitHub Releases. Pin to this from CI, Dockerfiles, or air-gapped installers when you need the exact bytes to never move under you.

# Replace <skill> and <version> with the version you want.
SKILL=web-design-engineer
VERSION=1.0.0

curl -fsSL -o "${SKILL}.zip" \
  "https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills/releases/download/${SKILL}-v${VERSION}/${SKILL}-${VERSION}.zip"

# Verify the checksum (highly recommended for unattended installs)
curl -fsSL -o "${SKILL}.zip.sha256" \
  "https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills/releases/download/${SKILL}-v${VERSION}/${SKILL}-${VERSION}.zip.sha256"
shasum -a 256 -c "${SKILL}.zip.sha256"

# Drop the folder into the agent's skills directory
unzip -q "${SKILL}.zip" -d .claude/skills/   # or .agents/skills/, .codex/skills/, ...

A floating "always-latest" URL is also available — useful for one-off installs:

https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills/releases/latest/download/<skill>-<version>.zip

Pinned URLs for every skill are listed inline in this README — see the "Download" line under each skill's "Links" entry above. They are kept in sync automatically by the release pipeline.

Option D · Manual copy into your project

Clone the repo and copy the skill folder you want — handy if you want to fork or hack on the skill itself.

git clone https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills.git
cp -r garden-skills/skills/web-design-engineer  your-project/.claude/skills/
# Cursor / generic agent:
cp -r garden-skills/skills/web-design-engineer  your-project/.agents/skills/

The agent discovers the skill the next time it scans the workspace.

Option E · Git submodule

For vendoring into a larger project where you want to track upstream updates:

git submodule add https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills.git vendor/garden-skills
ln -s ../../vendor/garden-skills/skills/web-design-engineer .claude/skills/web-design-engineer

Pin to a release tag for reproducibility:

cd vendor/garden-skills
git checkout web-design-engineer-v1.0.0

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Compatibility

Agent / Runtime	Skill location	Status
Claude Code	.claude/skills/<name>/ or via plugin marketplace	✅ Tested
Claude.ai (web)	Settings → Capabilities → Skills	✅ Tested
Cursor	.agents/skills/<name>/	✅ Tested
Codex CLI	.codex/skills/<name>/	✅ Tested
Gemini CLI	extension manifest	✅ Tested
OpenCode	.opencode/skills/<name>/	✅ Tested

The SKILL.md format is portable by design — if your agent supports skills, copy the folder into the directory it scans, and it should work. PRs welcome to extend this matrix.

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What is a Skill?

A Skill is a self-contained folder the agent can load on-demand. It's just a SKILL.md (YAML frontmatter + instructions), optionally accompanied by reference docs, scripts, and assets:

<skill-name>/
├── SKILL.md      ← required: when to use it + how to do it
├── README.md     ← human-facing docs
├── references/   ← optional: extended docs the agent loads on demand
├── scripts/      ← optional: deterministic executable helpers
└── assets/       ← optional: templates, fonts, icons

The agent decides whether to activate the skill from the description line in the frontmatter — so the description is the contract between you and the agent. For the full spec, see agentskills.io and Anthropic's reference repository.

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Contributing

Bug reports, new skills, and tooling improvements are all welcome.

The maintainer-facing docs — repository layout, release process, version rules, CI workflow, troubleshooting — live in CONTRIBUTING.md (中文). Read that first if you want to add a skill or cut a release.

Quick orientation:

git clone https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills.git
cd garden-skills
npm run list      # show all skills + manifest status
npm run validate  # the same check CI runs on every PR

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Acknowledgments

This collection stands on the shoulders of:

• Anthropic for the Agent Skills spec and the anthropics/skills reference repository.
• Claude Design — the system prompt that inspired web-design-engineer. The original is preserved in dist/prompt/claude-design-system-prompt.md for reference.
• The broader OSS skill community — see travisvn/awesome-claude-skills and obra/superpowers for further discovery.

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License

MIT © ConardLi