ConardLi/garden-skills

What is it?

Key features

• 01Each skill is a self-contained folder with SKILL.md instructions and optional references and scripts
• 02Includes web design skill with 25 anchored style recipes and a design direction advisor
• 03Includes a web presentation skill with 23 built-in themes and pluggable text-to-speech providers
• 04Includes a local knowledge retrieval skill that navigates layered index files before searching
• 05Pinned release zips with SHA-256 checksums for reproducible installs

Use cases

• Adding landing page or dashboard design guidance to Claude Code or Cursor
• Generating posters, UI mockups and technical diagrams with an image-generation prompt workflow
• Answering questions from a local folder of Markdown, PDF or Excel documents
• Turning long articles into a formatted, shareable web article

Quick start

1. 1

   Install the skills using the skills CLI (npx) option in the README's Install section

Things to know

• !Some skills need third-party text-to-speech services with API keys, such as Gemini, MiniMax or OpenAI TTS.
• !The collection bundles six separate skills, each with its own workflow and setup.

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FAQ

What is garden-skills?

A curated collection of six agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and similar AI coding agents, covering web design, video, images, articles and local knowledge retrieval. Garden Skills is a set of ready-to-use Agent Skills, each a folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions the agent loads on demand. The collection currently includes motion-showreel for code-rendered short videos, web-video-presentation for click-driven 16:9 web slide decks that can be screen-recorded, web-design-engineer for polished front-end pages and prototypes, gpt-image-2 for image generation and editing prompts, beautiful-article for turning URLs, PDFs and notes into formatted articles, and kb-retriever for searching a local knowledge directory.

Is garden-skills free to use? What license does it have?

garden-skills is open source under the MIT license. Check the license terms before using it in commercial products.

Is garden-skills still maintained?

Actively maintained. The last commit to garden-skills was on Oct 25, 2026.

What can I use garden-skills for?

Adding landing page or dashboard design guidance to Claude Code or Cursor Generating posters, UI mockups and technical diagrams with an image-generation prompt workflow Answering questions from a local folder of Markdown, PDF or Excel documents Turning long articles into a formatted, shareable web article

How do I install garden-skills?

Install the skills using the skills CLI (npx) option in the README's Install section

Where can I get garden-skills?

The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/ConardLi/garden-skills