8 open-source projects that earned a place in my real work. What each one does, why I trust it, and the safe way to try it. Built for Claude Code, in plain English.
A repo is a stranger's code on your machine. Before you add ANY of these, paste the repo into the three buckets prompt from the prompt library and make your AI sort its claims: proven, contradicted, or backed by nothing. Claims backed by nothing are worth zero until you test them yourself. I do this for every pick on this page, and you should do it to my picks too.
The AI worker this whole site is built around. It lives in your terminal, reads your project, and does real work end to end.
Why I trust it: Every prompt, agent, and skill in this library was made for it and tested in it.
A pack of ready-made skills that teach your AI a careful way to work: plan first, test first, check before you claim done.
Why I trust it: My plan-first habit comes from here. These rules run on every build I do.
Anthropic's own library of skills you can drop straight into Claude Code.
Why I trust it: I copy its structure every time I write a new skill. Official and well built.
The official set of connectors that let your AI reach real tools: files, databases, search, and more.
Why I trust it: When my AI needs a new ability, I look here before I build anything myself.
Feeds your AI the current docs for any library, so it stops guessing from old memory.
Why I trust it: It kills a whole class of wrong answers where the AI writes code for last year's version.
Lets your AI drive a real web browser: click, type, and see pages the way a person does.
Why I trust it: My AI checks its own web work with this before I ever look at it. That loop is the whole game.
Turns voice recordings into clean, timestamped text, all on your own computer.
Why I trust it: I use it when a recording is private. The audio never leaves my machine.
Downloads video and audio from almost anywhere, so your AI can study it.
Why I trust it: My research loop starts here: pull the video, read the words, keep the lessons, cite the source.
These repos give your AI hands. The skills library teaches it judgment: how to plan, check its own work, and hand off cleanly.