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awesome-claude-code (hesreallyhim) — The Canonical Community Claude Code Index

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Source: gh-star-hesreallyhim-awesome-claude-code.md

Repo: https://github.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code Stars: ~44,391 (at time of ingest 2026-05-20) Language: Python (tooling — README + machine-readable index) License: NOASSERTION (unspecified — treat as “all rights reserved” for redistribution; reading + linking are fine) Last pushed: 2026-04-27 Maintainer: hesreallyhim (community)

The community-curated awesome-* list for Claude Code. By star count and citation frequency this is the canonical aggregator for skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins built around Anthropic’s claude CLI. At ~44k stars by 2026-04, it materially outranks the next-largest Claude Code index lists (VoltAgent, sickn33, alirezarezvani, quemsah are all 700-38k and largely cite this one upstream). When the question is “what exists in the Claude Code ecosystem this week?” this is the index to skim first.

Key Takeaways

  • By the numbers, this is the list. ★44.4k (2026-04-27 push), an order of magnitude ahead of any single-author Claude Code curation. Downstream “awesome-*” repos (sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills ★38k, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills ★22k, alirezarezvani/claude-skills ★15k, quemsah/awesome-claude-plugins ★0.7k) all overlap with — and in most cases derive from — this collection.
  • Section coverage. Skills, hooks (PreToolUse / PostToolUse / UserPromptSubmit / Stop), slash-commands, agent orchestrators (/ultraplan, /ultrareview, /goal), applications (full apps built on the Claude Code harness), plugins (the marketplace primitive that lets a single install ship skills + hooks + slash-commands + agents + MCP servers together).
  • Maintenance posture. Single maintainer hesreallyhim; active commits through April 2026. License is NOASSERTION so the list itself shouldn’t be copied wholesale, but each upstream entry has its own license and the index is fine to reference.
  • Why this matters for the wiki. The wiki already covers many individual entries on this list as standalone articles (Matt Pocock skills, gstack, Superpowers, skills, claudeskills.info, etc.). The hesreallyhim index is the navigation surface for everything we haven’t articled yet — use it as the inbound radar for new ingest candidates rather than the four-derivative awesome-claude-skills clones.
  • Distinct from claudeskills.info and the official marketplace. claudeskills.info is a hosted searchable site UI; awesome-claude-code is a flat-markdown GitHub index. The Claude Code plugin marketplaces are the runtime install surfaces. All three coexist.

How it composes with the rest of the skill-discovery stack

  • vs claudeskills.info: Same domain, different surface. claudeskills.info is a searchable website with screenshots and tags; awesome-claude-code is a flat-markdown table you can grep. claudeskills.info has tighter editorial QA; awesome-claude-code casts a wider net.
  • vs skills: The Anthropic-blessed canonical skills live in anthropics/skills. awesome-claude-code’s “skills” section catalogs everything else — community submissions outside the Anthropic monorepo.
  • vs the derivative awesome-* repos (sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills, alirezarezvani/claude-skills, quemsah/awesome-claude-plugins): the four derivatives reorganize roughly the same upstream pool by editor preference. hesreallyhim’s list is the longest-running and best-known. The derivatives are useful when their organization is meaningfully different (quemsah’s n8n adoption-tracking workflow is the one structurally distinct alternative — but its coverage is a subset).
  • vs the “best skills are bespoke” verdict: Awesome lists are starting points, not destinations. The wiki’s standing verdict from the May 2026 community walkthroughs is that real-world skill libraries are bespoke — you write your own based on observed friction in your own workflow. Use the awesome list to find a template; don’t try to install all 100.

Implementation

  • Tool/Service: hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code (GitHub, NOASSERTION license)
  • Setup:
    1. Open https://github.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code in a browser; use Ctrl-F to find a section (skills, hooks, slash-commands, plugins, etc.)
    2. Each entry links to its own repo — read the upstream README before installing
    3. Most skills install via the standard Claude Code skill flow (@~/path/to/SKILL.md import in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, or via a plugin marketplace)
  • Cost: Free.
  • Integration notes: License is unspecified for the index — fine to read and link, do not copy the entire markdown wholesale into another repo. Individual linked projects have their own licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, NOASSERTION) — check before bundling into a paid product or a Claude marketplace plugin.

Try It

  • Skim once a month for net-new categories. New Claude Code primitives (Routines, Managed Agents, Channels) show up in the index within a week of release as community projects start landing.
  • Cross-check against the wiki’s claude-ai/ topic. Anything in awesome-claude-code that we already cover stays where it is; anything that fills a gap goes through the standard inbox-refresh → compile pipeline as a new article.
  • Use it as the seed for monthly inbox sweeps. Pair with claudeskills.info and the Claude Code plugin marketplaces as the three-source baseline for “what’s new in the ecosystem this week?”

Open Questions

  • Does the maintainer accept PRs for non-awesome-*-flavored discoveries (e.g., one-off CLAUDE.md patterns, hook recipes)? The README suggests yes but coverage is uneven.
  • Is the NOASSERTION license going to change? Several awesome-* indexes have shifted to CC0 or MIT in 2026; this one hasn’t.

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