12,147 Skills: hawk Now Has the Largest Skill Registry of Any Coding Agent

hawk-community-skills indexes 12,147 community skills — the largest skill registry we're wiring into Hawk when the agent ships.

What are Skills?

Skills are modular instruction packages that teach hawk specialized workflows. When you activate a skill, hawk becomes an expert at that specific task — following battle-tested patterns used by thousands of developers.

hawk skills search "react hooks"     # search 12,147 skills
hawk skills install react-nextjs     # planned — when Hawk ships
/skills use react-nextjs             # activate — hawk becomes a Next.js expert

Where They Come From

We aggregated skills from 30+ of the most popular open-source repositories:

Every skill has been used in production by real developers. No AI-generated filler.

What They Cover

Languages Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, Java, C#, Swift, Kotlin, PHP, Ruby, Shell, SQL — with framework-specific expertise for each.

Frameworks React, Next.js 15, Vue 3, Svelte 5, Angular, Django, FastAPI, Express, Gin, Echo, Actix, Spring Boot, Laravel, Rails, and 100+ more.

Workflows

• Git PR workflow (branch, commit, review, merge)
• Test-driven development (red-green-refactor)
• Systematic debugging (reproduce, locate, fix, verify)
• Code review checklists (security, performance, correctness)
• API design patterns (REST, GraphQL, versioning)
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes)

Domains

• Security (OWASP, pentesting, vulnerability scanning)
• DevOps (Terraform, Ansible, Docker, K8s)
• AI/ML (training pipelines, model deployment)
• Scientific computing (physics, chemistry, biology)
• E-commerce (Shopify, Amazon, pricing optimization)
• Mobile (Flutter, React Native, iOS, Android)

How to Use

Search ```bash hawk skills search "testing" # Returns: tdd-workflow, jest-testing, playwright-e2e, pytest-patterns, ... ```

Install (planned) ```bash hawk skills install tdd-workflow # when Hawk ships # → ~/.hawk/skills/tdd-workflow/ ```

Activate ```bash hawk > /skills use tdd-workflow > write tests for the auth module # hawk now follows TDD: writes failing test first, then implements, then refactors ```

Auto-detect ```bash hawk --auto-skill # Detects your project (go.mod? → activates go-expert) # (package.json + next? → activates react-nextjs) ```

Organized by Category

All 12,147 skills are organized into 21 searchable categories:

categories/
├── react/          (164 skills)
├── python/         (139 skills)
├── typescript/      (57 skills)
├── security/       (256 skills)
├── testing/        (141 skills)
├── ai-ml/          (117 skills)
├── aws/            (126 skills)
├── devops/          (44 skills)
├── cursor-rules/   (681 skills)
├── fabric-patterns/(168 skills)
├── scientific/     (130 skills)
├── go/              (15 skills)
├── rust/            (21 skills)
├── mobile/          (39 skills)
├── database/        (30 skills)
└── general/       (9,000+ skills)

Open Source

The entire registry is open source: github.com/GrayCodeAI/hawk-community-skills

Want to add a skill? Just create a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter and submit a PR.

What's Next

• Skill quality scoring (community ratings)
• Automatic skill suggestions based on your project
• Skill composition (chain multiple skills together)
• Company-specific private skill registries

When Hawk ships, skills will be built in:

# coming soon
hawk skills search "react"
hawk skills search "your-framework"
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