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Best free Claude Code skills (2026)

The strongest skills on Loreto that cost nothing — download, drop into .claude/skills/, and run today.

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The strongest skills on Loreto that cost nothing — download, drop into .claude/skills/, and run today. Every skill here is a real Loreto listing — a packaged SKILL.md with references and a runnable test.

#1

Fine-Tuning GPT Models

Taking a pretrained GPT and adapting it to a new dataset without undoing what it already knows.

#2

Preprocessing and Tokenizing Textual Datasets

Turning raw text into the tokenized, memory-mapped shards a GPT training loop can actually stream.

#3

Training GPT Models with PyTorch

A training runbook for GPT models in PyTorch: torch.compile, DDP scaling, checkpoints that actually resume, and LR schedules tied to real s…

#4

harness-shape: judge an agent framework by its imports

Three structural checks read straight from a repo's imports. It counts and names modules. It never scores.

#5

HyDE, Federated and Streaming RAG

The three retrieval patterns that fix what a better index cannot: the shape of the question, where the data is allowed to live, and what ti…

#6

Agent Driven Code Editing

A prompt, review and verify loop for changing code with an agent instead of editing by hand, with the checks that keep the diff honest.

#7

Agent Context Files

Structure the files a long-running agent reads so its instructions stay current instead of going stale.

#8

Skunky: Local-First Compartmentalized LLM Work

Hand bounded, sanitized work to untrusted LLM workers without exposing raw project files, identifiers, local paths, or secrets.

#9

Branded ECharts Visualizations

Turn your brand's colours + fonts into polished, on-brand Apache ECharts charts — bar, line, pie, heatmap, radar, dashboards — rendered to…

#10

Optimizing for People Also Ask

Maps the related follow-up questions a page should answer and flags the gaps, so you capture the whole question cluster.

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