17 Must-Have AI Skills for Terminal CLI

Why these Skills? After extensive daily use, I handpicked 17 AI Skills that deliver real results. They help you generate art, fix bugs, create documents, analyze data, and automate workflows — all from your terminal. Each one is tested and fine-tuned for maximum impact.

Key Insights

Quality boost — Many Skills produce output good enough for papers, presentations, and production use.
Watermark-free & customizable — Unlike many online tools, these generate clean, editable results.
Open-source & extensible — All Skills are available on GitHub, ready to download and modify.

The 17 Skills · full lineup

1 Random Interactive Algorithmic Art

Generates dynamic, seed-based visual art with randomness. Perfect for frontend backgrounds, interactive installations, and boosting website aesthetics. Fully adjustable via prompts.

frontend creative visual

2 Linux Troubleshooting

Prioritizes Linux Wiki for solutions, avoiding low-quality search results. Efficient for diagnosing and fixing Linux issues. (Linux only.)

Linux debug

3 Image & PDF Poster Generation

Creates stunning, watermark-free posters and PDFs using Python libraries (Pillow, ReportLab, etc.). Produces a design doc first, then renders high-quality output. Great for marketing, events, and personal projects.

design PDF poster

4 Chart Generation (Bar, Line, Pie)

Generates publication-ready charts using python-plotnine or matplotlib. Works with MCP or standalone. No Chinese character issues (custom fonts included). Ideal for papers, math modeling, and data reports.

data chart academic

5 Code Security Audit

Automatically scans for vulnerabilities (injection, XSS, key leaks) and generates a detailed report. Saves hours of manual review. Best for frontend and software developers.

security code dev

6 Official Cloud Code Documentation

Writes natural, non-generic work documents (PRD, decision docs, collaboration docs). Takes context beforehand, so output feels human-written, not AI-generated. Ideal for teams.

docs team PRD

7 DOCX Word Editing

Edits and formats Word documents using python-docx. Handles complex layouts, conversions (docx ↔ md ↔ html), and beautiful formatting. Works on Linux too — a great alternative to Microsoft Office.

Word Linux formatting

8 Frontend UI Web Components

Creates beautiful, customizable frontend interfaces — dashboards, app shells, components. Asks about purpose, direction, fonts, and borders, so you stay in control. Results are polished and far from generic AI output.

frontend UI dashboard

9 MCP Builder

Creates custom MCP tools for niche or privacy-sensitive needs. Use when you can't find a suitable tool on MCP Square or GitHub. Generates high-quality, tailor-made MCPs on demand.

MCP custom dev

10 Open Code MCP

Delegates coding tasks to an Open Code agent for autonomous development. Perfect for long-running workflows — just set it and go. Works exclusively with Open Code.

automation coding agent

11 PDF MCP

Creates, edits, and extracts text from PDFs. Supports OCR for scanned documents, then auto-formats the output. Great for frequent PDF work and document analysis.

PDF OCR document

12 Playwright CLI

Controls browsers programmatically (headless or headed) for web scraping, screenshots, and analysis. Open-source from Microsoft. Saves you from manually opening a browser ever again.

browser scraping automation

13 PPT Generation

Generates professional, watermark-free PPTs using python-pptx. Choose from built-in templates, custom images, and auto font/color matching. Far better than online tools — output is ready to use after minor tweaks.

presentation PPT template

14 Skills Builder

Generates other custom Skills for specific workflows (math modeling, competitions, research). Just describe your need — it will create the script and MD file automatically.

meta custom workflow

15 Bug Fixing

Automatically diagnoses and fixes bugs by reading error messages, reproducing issues, and checking recent changes. Cuts debugging time from hours to minutes. Use before proposing any fix.

debug bug testing

16 Slide / HTML / Landing Page Presets

Provides beautiful, ready-made themes for presentations, docs, and web pages. Works with the art, UI, and PPT Skills to ensure a consistent, professional look across all your output.

theme design preset

17 XLXX Excel Processing

Reads, processes, and analyzes Excel files using python-openpyxl. Handles formulas, formatting, charting, and data folding. Drop in a messy spreadsheet and get a clean report with insights.

Excel data analysis

How to Get Started

All 17 Skills are open-sourced on GitHub. Download them and place them in your CLI config folder:

For Cursor / WindSurf: Put them in ~/.cursor/skills
For Open Code: Put them in ~/.config/open-code/skills
Missing a dependency? Just ask the AI to install it — each Skill lists its requirements.
All Skills have been tested and tuned for smooth, reliable performance.

These 17 Skills represent the best of what I've discovered and refined through daily terminal use. Whether you're building, debugging, designing, or analyzing — there's a Skill that makes it faster and better.

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17 Must-Have AI Skillsfor Terminal CLI

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17 Must-Have AI Skills
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