# Headcount

> Curated agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor — 44 hires across 11 departments, each with a job description

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Install:** `agentstack add mcp-roxx0x-headcount`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Roxx0x](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/roxx0x)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Roxx0x](https://github.com/Roxx0x)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Roxx0x/headcount

## Install

```sh
agentstack add mcp-roxx0x-headcount
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# headcount

**1,000 skills is a landfill. This is a payroll of 44.**

Every other list races to the biggest number. This one is a hiring decision: 44 agent skills, each with a job description, each link verified by hand. Clone one with `./hire.sh` and it lands in `.claude/skills/`.

```bash
./hire.sh obra/superpowers DietrichGebert/ponytail
```

Compatible with **Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · Gemini CLI · OpenCode** — anything that reads `SKILL.md`.

Built on the format [Anthropic publishes](https://github.com/anthropics/skills) for Agent Skills.

**Every link verified 2026-07-23.** Star counts are real, pulled from the GitHub API on that date — not copied from a screenshot. Run `./scripts/check-links.sh` to re-verify the whole roster yourself.

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## Why a payroll instead of a directory

The big lists have stopped being lists. The largest one has **1,077 open issues** and hasn't been touched since **May 22, 2026** — two months of dead links nobody swept. It also opens with a vendor banner and a UTM-tagged section for the vendor's own product. You came for an index and walked into a funnel.

A thousand entries is not curation. It is a landfill with a table of contents.

So this repo inverts it. Hundreds looked at, forty-four kept. Each one gets the thing a category label never gives you — **when to hire it**. No vendor sections. No affiliate links. No UTM parameters. No sponsor tier. If an entry is here, it is because it earns a seat.

---

## The roster (44 hires, 11 departments)

`⏸` = solid, but no commits in the last 30 days. Still worth hiring, just not actively moving.

### Engineering

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [superpowers](https://github.com/obra/superpowers) | 259,621 | MIT | Agentic skills framework and development methodology | You want one opinionated loadout instead of assembling forty |
| [ECC](https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC) | 232,324 | MIT | Harness optimization: skills, instincts, memory, security | Your agent works but you can't tell why it sometimes doesn't |
| [skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) | 183,124 | MIT | Matt Pocock's `.agents` directory, TypeScript-first | You write TS and want taste baked in, not explained |
| [agent-skills](https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills) | 79,937 | MIT | Production-grade engineering skills | You ship to real users and "it compiles" isn't the bar |
| [ponytail](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail) | 88,037 | MIT | Makes the agent think like the laziest senior in the room | Your agent pulls a library in to format a date |
| [get-shit-done](https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done) | 64,783 | MIT | Meta-prompting and context engineering system | You keep re-explaining the same context every session |
| [planning-with-files](https://github.com/OthmanAdi/planning-with-files) | 25,644 | MIT | File-based planning with crash-proof recovery | Long runs die halfway and take the plan with them |
| [skills](https://github.com/anthropics/skills) | 163,527 | — | Anthropic's own Agent Skills repo | You want the reference format straight from the source |

### Design

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [ui-ux-pro-max-skill](https://github.com/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill) | 109,113 | MIT | Design intelligence for UI/UX across platforms | Everything your agent builds looks like a Bootstrap demo |
| [taste-skill](https://github.com/Leonxlnx/taste-skill) | 66,553 | MIT | Stops generic, boring output; aesthetic judgment | The output is correct and completely forgettable |
| [huashu-design](https://github.com/alchaincyf/huashu-design) | 21,838 | MIT | HTML-native prototypes, slides, animation, MP4 export | You need a clickable prototype, not a description of one |
| [hallmark](https://github.com/Nutlope/hallmark) ⏸ | 15,821 | MIT | Anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex | You can smell the AI in your own landing page |

### Marketing & Growth

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [marketingskills](https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills) | 41,284 | MIT | CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, growth engineering | You built the thing and nobody arrived |
| [claude-seo](https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo) | 12,102 | MIT | 25 sub-skills, 18 sub-agents: technical SEO, schema, local | You need SEO done as a pipeline, not as advice |

### Memory & Context

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [caveman](https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman) | 92,176 | MIT | Cuts ~65% of tokens by talking like a caveman | Your bill grew faster than your codebase |
| [claude-mem](https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem) | 88,294 | Apache-2.0 | Persistent context across sessions, compressed and injected | Every new session starts with you re-introducing yourself |
| [rtk](https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk) | 72,692 | Apache-2.0 | CLI proxy cutting 60–90% of tokens on common dev commands | `git diff` alone is eating your context window |
| [mem0](https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0) | 61,509 | Apache-2.0 | Universal memory layer; ships as an official Claude connector | You want a real memory store, not a markdown file |
| [context7](https://github.com/upstash/context7) | 59,617 | MIT | Up-to-date library docs piped to the model | Your agent confidently uses an API that was removed in v3 |

### Codebase Intelligence

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [graphify](https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify) | 94,102 | Apache-2.0 | Turns a codebase, SQL schemas, configs, PDFs into a queryable graph | Grep stopped scaling three refactors ago |
| [Understand-Anything](https://github.com/Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything) | 75,718 | MIT | Code into interactive, explorable knowledge graphs | You inherited a repo and nobody left a map |
| [qmd](https://github.com/tobi/qmd) ⏸ | 28,172 | MIT | Local BM25 + vector + LLM re-rank search over your docs | Your knowledge base is local and must stay local |

### Research & Science

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [scientific-agent-skills](https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills) | 31,518 | MIT | 148 skills across biology, chemistry, drug discovery | The work is science, not CRUD |
| [ARIS](https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep) | 13,737 | MIT | Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research loops | You want experiments running while you sleep |
| [AI-Research-SKILLs](https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs) | 11,006 | MIT | Research and engineering skills library, model-agnostic | You need the agent to read papers, not just code |

### Security

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills](https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills) | 26,385 | Apache-2.0 | 817 skills mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0 | Your review needs to name a framework, not a vibe |

### Ops & Orchestration

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [agency-agents](https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents) | 135,984 | MIT | A full agency: eng, design, growth, PM, QA, legal | One agent is a person; you need a company |
| [gstack](https://github.com/garrytan/gstack) | 123,784 | MIT | Garry Tan's exact setup: CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, QA | You want a proven loadout, not a blank config |
| [ruflo](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo) | 65,604 | MIT | Meta-harness for multi-agent swarms and autonomous flows | Coordination is now the hard part, not the work |
| [agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents) | 38,162 | MIT | Multi-harness plugin marketplace across six agent CLIs | Your team is not all on the same tool |
| [oh-my-claudecode](https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode) | 37,990 | MIT | Teams-first multi-agent orchestration, zero learning curve | You want orchestration without reading a manual |

### Method & Harness

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [learn-claude-code](https://github.com/shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code) | 71,996 | MIT | A nano agent harness built from fundamentals | You want to understand the loop, not just run it |
| [claude-code-best-practice](https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice) | 63,331 | MIT | Vibe coding → agentic engineering, staged | You're past prompting and don't know what's next |
| [BMAD-METHOD](https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD) | 50,994 | see repo | 12+ agents: brainstorm → PRD → architecture → shipped | You need a process, not a smarter model |
| [harness-engineering](https://github.com/lopopolo/harness-engineering) | 2,212 | CC-BY-4.0 | Anthology, field guide, agent context bundle | You reference docs from `CLAUDE.md` and want good ones |
| [sample-specship](https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-specship) | 208 | MIT | recon → plan → build → validate → ship, adversarial gates | Small repo, real idea: the builder can't grade itself |

### Ecosystem & Tooling

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [cc-switch](https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch) | 120,307 | MIT | Desktop switcher across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok | You run more than one agent CLI and hate the juggling |
| [awesome-mcp-servers](https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers) | 91,212 | MIT | The de-facto MCP server directory | Skills cover thinking; MCP covers touching real tools |
| [obsidian-skills](https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills) ⏸ | 43,037 | MIT | Obsidian CLI, Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas | Your second brain should be writable by the agent |
| [knowledge-work-plugins](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins) | 22,967 | Apache-2.0 | Anthropic's plugins for knowledge work in Claude Cowork | The job function isn't engineering |
| [skills](https://github.com/huggingface/skills) | 10,855 | Apache-2.0 | Drive the Hugging Face ecosystem from the terminal | Models, datasets and Spaces are part of your loop |
| [skills](https://github.com/antfu/skills) ⏸ | 5,639 | MIT | Anthony Fu's curated personal collection | You trust taste over volume |

### HR (skills that make skills)

| hire | ⭐ | license | what it does | hire when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Skill_Seekers](https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers) | 14,531 | MIT | Turns docs sites, repos and PDFs into skills, with conflict detection | The skill you need doesn't exist yet |
| [baoyu-skills](https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills) | 24,033 | MIT | Skills to write, illustrate and publish articles | The output is content, and it has to read like a human |

---

## Hiring

`hire.sh` clones a skill into `.claude/skills/` and strips its `.git` so your repo stays clean.

```bash
# one hire
./hire.sh obra/superpowers

# several at once
./hire.sh DietrichGebert/ponytail Leonxlnx/taste-skill JuliusBrussee/caveman

# somewhere else
SKILLS_DIR=~/.claude/skills ./hire.sh addyosmani/agent-skills
```

## Verifying

Don't take the numbers on faith — that is the whole complaint about the other lists.

```bash
./scripts/check-links.sh
```

Walks every GitHub link in this README and reports anything that no longer resolves. `data/skills.json` holds the same roster machine-readable, with the star counts and the date they were pulled.

## Contributing

One rule: **a pull request must argue for a seat, not for an entry.** Say what the skill does and when you'd hire it. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

MIT. Built to be forked.

## Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Roxx0x](https://github.com/Roxx0x)
- **Source:** [Roxx0x/headcount](https://github.com/Roxx0x/headcount)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/mcp-roxx0x-headcount
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/roxx0x
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