AI Knowledge · Kimi Skills

Kimi Skills: 56 vetted skills
for Kimi Code

Kimi Code, the agent tool by Moonshot AI, understands agent skills in the SKILL.md format and even reads them straight from your Claude skills folder. That means our entire curated catalog works with Kimi from day one. Here is how the install works and which skills are worth it.

What are Kimi skills?

A skill is a small folder with a SKILL.md file: a YAML header with a name and description, followed by the guide in Markdown. Kimi Code discovers all skills on startup, adds their descriptions to the system context, and loads the matching skill automatically as soon as a task fits. To invoke one on purpose, use /skill:name.

The key point for anyone already using Claude: according to the official Moonshot documentation, Kimi Code reads skills directly from .claude/skills/ among others. Your existing Claude skills are instantly available to Kimi, with no copying and no rework. The format is the same.

Skills are plain text instructions and send no data to third parties on their own. Where Kimi itself stands on data protection and when it pays off in a company is covered in our Kimi K3 guide with daily updated benchmarks.

Install in one minute

For yourself, install skills into ~/.kimi/skills/; for a team repo into .kimi/skills/ in the project. Example for a skill from our catalog: 

mkdir -p ~/.kimi/skills/brand-voice-enforcement
curl -fsSL https://collectivebrain.de/skills/brand-voice-enforcement/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.kimi/skills/brand-voice-enforcement/SKILL.md

If you use both Claude and Kimi, just take the shared ~/.claude/skills/ folder: install once, both tools know the skill. Each skill detail page below ships the SKILL.md for download along with a ready-to-run install command.

The catalog: 56 skills across 7 categories

Curated and continuously updated by our editorial team; every week an automated routine checks open sources for new skills. Each skill has a detail page with use cases, source, and install. Transparency: the catalog was originally curated for Claude; since Kimi Code reads the same format, it applies here one to one, and you can quickly test individual tool-specific skills if in doubt.

Design & UX (12)

  • Design Critique Structured design critique: usability, hierarchy, consistency, accessibility. Honest, but not cynical, like a good senior colleague.
  • Accessibility Review (WCAG 2.1 AA) Full WCAG 2.1 AA audit: contrast, keyboard navigation, touch targets, screen readers. Before every launch.
  • UX Copy Microcopy, error messages, empty states, CTAs, written without sounding like marketing.
  • User Research Synthesis Turns 15 interview transcripts into 3 main themes, 5 hypotheses, and a backlog. Instead of 4 hours with sticky notes on a wall.
  • Design Handoff Spec From mockup to dev spec with tokens, component props, interaction states, and edge cases, reliably ready to hand off.
  • Design System Audit & Extend Finds hardcoded values, inconsistent naming patterns, and drift in your design system. Plus: proposes new patterns that fit the architecture.
  • User Research Planning From research goal to interview guide. Questions that aren't manipulative and answers that are worth something.
  • Anthropic Frontend Design Produces distinctive, production-ready UI layouts instead of generic templates.
  • Vercel Web Design Guidelines Audits web UIs against more than 100 heuristics covering UX, layout and accessibility.
  • Figma to Code Translates Figma frames into clean HTML/CSS or React code with a clear structure.
  • Theme Factory Apply one of 10 curated slide-deck themes (colors, fonts, layout tokens) or generate a custom theme from your brand colors. Palettes and font pairings included inline.
  • UX Flow & Wireframer Sketches user flows and low-fidelity wireframes as text layouts and diagrams.

Branding (6)

  • Brand Voice Enforcement Automatically applies your brand guidelines to every email, pitch deck, and social post. No more five different voices across the team.
  • Brand Voice Guidelines Generator Turns sales call transcripts, Notion docs, or a handful of examples into a binding voice guide, in 30 minutes instead of 30 days.
  • Discover Brand Materials Autonomously searches Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, Figma, Gong, and Slack for everything that belongs to your brand, and delivers a sorted overview.
  • Brand Review Before you hit send: does the text fit the brand? Catches brand drift, legal risks and clichés before they go out.
  • Anthropic Brand Application Applies Anthropic brand standards to any artifact: colors, typography, visual language. Especially handy when you are building something for or with Anthropic.
  • Brandkit Builds complete brand boards with logo ideas, a color world, typography and mockups.

Product (7)

Visual (4)

  • Canvas Design PNG and PDF designs grounded in design philosophy: posters, business cards, artwork. Always original, never copied.
  • DIVI WordPress Editing Edit, optimize, and migrate DIVI sites: layouts, modules, templates, child themes, performance, and DIVI 5 migration.
  • imagegen-frontend-mobile Delivers mobile app screens as mockups for convincing product previews.
  • Algorithmic Art Create standalone generative art with p5.js, from algorithmic philosophy to an interactive viewer. Seeded randomness, flow fields, and particle systems produce reproducible, parametrically controllable works without copying anyone's templates.

AI & Automation (9)

  • Skill Creator Creates, improves, and tests your own Claude skills. Includes an eval suite and description optimization for better triggering.
  • Create Cowork Plugin Walks you through building your own Cowork plugin, from the first idea to the finished .plugin file.
  • Customize Cowork Plugin Adapts an existing plugin to your organization's tools, wording, and workflows, without forking the plugin.
  • Schedule Tasks Run recurring tasks automatically: a briefing every morning, a weekly plan every Monday, an inbox check every hour.
  • Setup Cowork Guided onboarding: install role-matched plugins, connect your tools, and try a first skill.
  • Google Ads Performance Analyzer Analyzes Google Ads data, builds pivot tables, and delivers optimization suggestions.
  • VopixSounds Makes Claude Code audible. One sound when Claude is waiting for your approval or input, a different one when a task is finished. Keep working in another window and never miss the moment Claude needs you.
  • Claude API Referenz Build LLM applications directly against the Anthropic SDK instead of guessing from memory. Current model IDs, pricing, parameters, streaming, tool use, MCP, agents, caching, and token counting in one place.
  • MCP Builder Build high-quality MCP servers that connect LLMs to external APIs and services through well-designed tools. This skill guides you through research, design, and implementation in Python (FastMCP) or Node/TypeScript (MCP SDK).

Content & Marketing (13)

  • Campaign Plan Turns a marketing goal into a 12-week plan with channels, content calendar and dependencies. No spreadsheet lasagna.
  • Content Creation Blog posts, social media, newsletters, landing pages, case studies. Channel-specific, SEO-aware, without the LinkedIn madness.
  • Email Sequence Drip sequences with timing, branching, exit conditions, and A/B test suggestions.
  • SEO Audit Keyword gaps, on-page issues, content gaps and a competitor comparison, delivered as a prioritized action list, not an 80-page PDF.
  • SEO / GEO / AEO Website Audit Audits any website across three visibility layers: SEO (Google, Bing), GEO (Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) and AEO (featured snippets, voice). Delivers scores plus a prioritized action list as Word and PDF.
  • Competitive Brief Five competitors, compared side by side on messaging, visuals, pricing signals and open market niches.
  • Performance Report Translates marketing data into an executive story, with wins, misses and recommendations for the next period.
  • AI Marketing Team Simulates a small marketing team with roles such as strategist, copywriter and analyst.
  • Keyword Strategy Planner Turns a keyword CSV into a prioritized content and SEO strategy with intent mapping.
  • UX Copy Refiner Optimizes microcopy for forms, modals, CTAs, and error messages to improve clarity.
  • Sales Enablement Pack Creates one-pagers, battlecards, and objection handling based on product information.
  • Doc Co-Authoring Workflow Walks you through a structured workflow for writing documentation together with Claude. You gather context, build each section iteratively, and test at the end whether the text works for real readers.
  • Interne Kommunikation Write internal communications in the formats your company likes. From status reports and leadership updates to newsletters, FAQs, and incident reports, this skill delivers the right templates and the right tone.

Office & Data (5)

  • PDF Workflows Create, read, merge, split, OCR and fill out forms in PDFs, without an Adobe subscription.
  • Word Document Creation Word documents with a table of contents, headers, page numbers and a letterhead, generated programmatically.
  • Excel Spreadsheets Read and write Excel files, with formulas and charts. Even for the spreadsheets nobody wants to clean up anymore.
  • PowerPoint Presentations Slide decks from an outline, data, or a story. With layouts, speaker notes, and on-brand charts, ready for the pitch.
  • Notion Ops Connector Reads and updates Notion databases for content plans, roadmaps, and wikis.

The full version of the catalog with a use-case matrix and difficulty levels is at The best Claude skills, it is the same continuously maintained set.

Frequently asked questions about Kimi skills

What are Kimi skills?

A Kimi skill (agent skill) is a small folder with a SKILL.md file: instructions, templates, and knowledge for a recurring task. Kimi Code, the command-line tool by Moonshot AI, discovers these skills on startup and loads them automatically whenever a task matches; you can also invoke one explicitly with the slash command /skill:name.

Do Claude skills also work with Kimi?

Yes, that is the key point: Kimi Code uses the same SKILL.md format as Claude (a YAML header with name and description plus a Markdown guide) and, according to the official Moonshot documentation, reads skills directly from the .claude/skills/ folder among others. So if you already have Claude skills installed, Kimi Code knows them without a single extra step. Individual skills that rely on tool-specific features may need a quick test.

How do I install a Kimi skill?

Put the skill folder with its SKILL.md into ~/.kimi/skills/ (for you) or .kimi/skills/ in the project (for your team). If you also use Claude, the shared ~/.claude/skills/ folder is enough, Kimi Code reads it too. Every detail page in our catalog ships the SKILL.md for direct download along with the install command.

Are the skills here free?

Yes, all 56 listed skills are free and come from open sources (Anthropic, community, and our own). You only need Kimi Code from Moonshot AI, which is also freely available.

What is the difference between Kimi skills and Kimi plugins?

Skills are knowledge guides in a SKILL.md that the model reads and follows, ideal for working methods, style rules, and workflows. Plugins declare executable tools via a plugin.json, such as scripts, API calls, or MCP servers. The two complement each other: the skill describes the approach, the plugin provides the access.

Who benefits from starting with skills?

Any team that wants more from Kimi Code than ad-hoc prompts: skills make proven working methods repeatable, from SEO audits to brand voice to a finished document. Rule of thumb: whatever you have explained to the model three times belongs in a skill. For skills with company workflows or a team rollout, we build that with you.

Custom skills for your team

We do not just curate, we build: custom skills with your company workflows, your brand voice, and your templates, running in Kimi Code and Claude alike, including team rollout. Get in touch.

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