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skills.sh — The Open Agent Skills Directory (Vercel)

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Source: ai-research/skills-sh-open-agent-skills-directory-2026-06-10.md

skills.sh (tagline “The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem”) is Vercel’s open directory for installable AI-agent skills — GitHub-hosted folders of procedural knowledge you add to a coding agent with a single command. It is the cross-agent, install-ranked counterpart to per-agent skill marketplaces: one registry, 20+ supported agents, and a usage leaderboard instead of editorial curation. It’s the catalog the Codex + MagicPath workflow reaches into when it runs find skills inside a session.

Key Takeaways

  • One registry, installed with one command. Each skill is a GitHub repo (a SKILL.md plus scripts/resources); the directory is a discovery + ranking + install layer on top. Add one with npx skills add <owner/repo> — it doesn’t host the skill, it points at the repo.
  • Cross-agent by design. Lists “Available for these agents” across 20+ runtimes — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Gemini, Cline, plus ClawdBot, Nous Research (Hermes), OpenCode, Zed, VS Code, and more. One skill, many agents.
  • Built by Vercel; free, no login or paywall. Skills are sourced from Vercel Labs, Microsoft (azure-skills), Anthropic (anthropics/skills), and community publishers.
  • Ranked by real usage, not editors. The leaderboard sorts by All-Time installs (≈610K tracked at fetch), Trending (24h), Hot, and an 8-week trend column, grouped by source repo with per-repo totals (e.g. microsoft/azure-skills 5.3M; mattpocock/skills 743.6K). You judge a publisher’s footprint, not just one skill.
  • find-skills is the meta-skill. The top leaderboard entry; install it once and any future “what skill do I need for X?” is answerable from inside the agent session — this is the “skills.sh find skills” surface other workflows compose on.
  • Several leaderboard skills are already in this wiki. pbakaus/impeccable (Impeccable), mattpocock/skills (Matt Pocock’s skills — diagnose, write-a-skill), Vercel Labs’ frontend-design / web-design-guidelines, remotion-best-practices, and anthropics/skills’ skill-creator.

How it works

  • Install: npx skills add <owner/repo> drops the skill into the local agent’s skills directory (e.g. .claude/skills/). The same command targets whichever of the 20+ supported agents you run.
  • Discover: browse the searchable leaderboard or filter by topic category (React, Next.js, Design & UI, Databases, Testing, Marketing, …) and by time window (All Time / Trending 24h / Hot / 8-week trend).
  • Trust signal: install count is the ranking signal — useful as popularity, but it is not a security grade. Skills are arbitrary code/instructions from third-party repos, so vet anything that touches credentials or runs scripts (security-scanned catalogs like Skills Directory exist precisely for this gap).

Try It

  • Browse skills.sh, filter to Trending (24h), and npx skills add <owner/repo> one into a Claude Code project — confirm it lands in .claude/skills/ and loads.
  • Install find-skills once so in-session skill discovery works the way Codex + MagicPath uses it.
  • Before installing a skill that touches secrets, read its SKILL.md + scripts directly on GitHub, and compare against MuleRun’s Skills Hub / security-scanned catalogs — skills.sh ranks by installs, not by an audit.

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