Skills for Aider
Agent Skills are folders with a SKILL.md file that teach a coding agent a task, loaded only when relevant. Most are free on GitHub. Everything below works with Aider; free GitHub projects and paid options are listed together.
Updated October 2026 · 4 listings · stars refreshed daily from GitHub
Aider does not load Agent Skills natively. The listings below mention Aider explicitly or ship an adapter for it.
How to add agent skills to Aider
Skills follow the open Agent Skills format: a folder with a SKILL.md file. Copy the folder into the skills directory your app reads, then restart the session so the new description is picked up.
Ponytail 🧩 SkillOpen source
Makes your coding agent write the minimum code a task needs, without cutting safety
Caveman 🧩 SkillFree
Terse-output skill plus local proxy that trims the tokens coding agents write and read
Skill Seekers 🧩 SkillOpen source
Turns docs sites, repos, PDFs and videos into Agent Skills and RAG-ready knowledge
Claude Skills (alirezarezvani) 🧩 SkillOpen source
Hundreds of skills, agents and personas for engineering, product and business, with converters
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