What are Claude Code Skills?

Claude Code Skills are reusable prompt templates stored as markdown files in your project's .claude/skills/ directory. They let you codify best practices and common workflows into slash commands that Claude follows consistently.

How do I create a Claude Code Skill?

Create a markdown file in .claude/skills/ with instructions for Claude. The filename becomes the command name — for example, .claude/skills/code-review.md can be invoked with /code-review during a Claude Code session.

Can I share skills with my team?

Yes. Skills stored in .claude/skills/ can be committed to version control so every team member has access to the same standardized workflows. You can also organize skills into subdirectories by category.

What is the difference between project and global skills?

Project skills (.claude/skills/) are specific to the current project and are committed to git. Global skills (~/.claude/skills/) are personal skills available across all your projects.

researcher

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8Community RegistryGeneralby Nick Nisi

Multi-source research using Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and Claude WebSearch with parallel agent orchestration (3-24 agents)

Community PluginView Source

Overview

My personal collection of Claude Code plugins.

Using this marketplace

Add this marketplace to Claude Code:

bash

/plugin marketplace add nicknisi/claude-plugins

Then install plugins:

bash

/plugin install consultant@nicknisi

Plugins

•consultant - Multi-model AI consultation and research with GPT-5/Codex, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, and Claude (supports both single-agent consultation and parallel multi-agent research)
•content - Tools for bootstrapping content creation
•developer-experience - Tools for the experienced developer experience engineer
•essentials - Core productivity tools and workflows for Claude Code
•ideation - Transform brain dumps into structured contracts, phased PRDs, and implementation specs
•meta - Meta-cognitive tools for Claude Code self-improvement. Learn from feedback, optimize configuration, and evolve your AI development workflow.
•sandbox - Experimental agents, skills, and output styles for unconventional interaction patterns
•spec-driven - Transform specifications into executable code with validation-driven development
•workos - Enterprise authentication and SSO integration toolkit

Using with Pi

This repo is also a Pi package. Install it directly:

bash

pi install git:github.com/nicknisi/claude-plugins
# or, while developing locally:
pi install /Users/nicknisi/Developer/claude-plugins

The Pi package loads the same plugins/*/skills and plugins/*/commands files, plus pi/extensions/claude-compat.ts for Claude Code compatibility shims like AskUserQuestion, WebFetch, WebSearch, TodoWrite, and file-backed task tools.

For skills that rely on Claude Code's Task/Agent subagent workflow, install pi-subagents once:

bash

pi install npm:pi-subagents

This repo does not load pi-subagents directly because Pi currently errors when the same extension/tool is loaded twice, and many Pi setups already have pi-subagents installed globally.

Development

This is a pnpm workspace with TypeScript project references.

bash

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Type check everything
pnpm run typecheck

# Build all MCP servers
pnpm run build

# Build and sync marketplace metadata
pnpm run build:all

Adding a new plugin

Create plugins/your-plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json with metadata
Add components: agents, commands, skills, or MCP servers
If adding an MCP server, update pnpm-workspace.yaml and root tsconfig.json
Run pnpm run sync to auto-discover and add to marketplace

The sync script scans plugins/ and automatically discovers all plugins with valid plugin.json files. Add a plugin directory and it shows up. Remove one and it disappears.

License

MIT

Install & Usage

Create the skills directory

mkdir -p .claude/skills

Download the skill file

mkdir -p .claude/skills && curl -o .claude/skills/researcher.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicknisi/claude-plugins/main/SKILL.md

Invoke in Claude Code

/researcher

View source on GitHub

agentresearchperplexitygeminigrokweb-searchmulti-agentparallel

Frequently Asked Questions

What is researcher?

Multi-source research using Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and Claude WebSearch with parallel agent orchestration (3-24 agents)

How to install researcher?

To install researcher, create the .claude/skills directory in your project, then run the curl command to download the skill file. Once installed, invoke it in Claude Code with /researcher.

What is researcher best for?

researcher is a community categorized under General. It is designed for: agent, research, perplexity, gemini, grok, web-search, multi-agent, parallel. Created by Nick Nisi.