Our take
- Activity
- 43
- Community
- 31
- Issues
- 47
- Pull requests
- 21
+28 stars in the last 17 days
- Fewer contributors than 86% of the projects we track
Overview
Best Skills aggregates public skill listings and activity signals from skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, and social platforms into nine rankings. It addresses a comparison problem: each registry measures activity differently, so the project keeps platform counts separate and ranks skills using normalized comparisons rather than adding unlike counts together.
The project is useful both as a browsable directory at linkly.ai/skills and as an open data source for developers, researchers, and agents. Daily CSV snapshots include source counts alongside rankings, making it possible to inspect or re-rank the data.
Key Features
- Publishes nine rankings, including overall, installs, weekly trends, social buzz, verified publishers, and rising skills.
- Aggregates install and download data from skills.sh, ClawHub, and Tencent SkillHub, plus GitHub repository information.
- Tracks social signals from X, Hacker News, Bluesky, and GitHub search.
- Preserves original per-platform counts in CSV files instead of combining them into a single raw total.
- Uses a percentile-based composite score for the overall ranking, with coverage information indicating how many registries contribute.
- Provides dated CSV snapshots and a
latestdirectory for current data. - Documents its data sources, scoring approach, judgments, and limitations in the repository.
Use Cases
- Developers choosing an agent skill can use the overall ranking as a starting point, then check source counts and coverage before installing.
- Skill authors can monitor install growth, social attention, and how their listings compare across registries.
- Researchers and analysts can download CSV snapshots to study skill ecosystem trends or create their own rankings.
- Agent builders can direct an agent to the project's
llms.txtfor instructions on finding and interpreting the ranking data.
Getting Started
To add the repository's skill to a compatible agent setup, run:
npx skills add https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills
For current rankings, visit linkly.ai/skills or browse the CSVs in the repository. See the README for details on using the datasets and interpreting their columns.
Alternatives
- awesome-agent-skills: It is a curated directory for browsing agent skills by provider and task, rather than a daily ranking based on usage, growth, and maintenance data.
| Project | Language | License | Stars | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| best-skills | not specified | Other | 628 | Not checked yet |
| awesome-agent-skills | not specified | MIT | 35.2k | Active |
Considerations
- Counts come from different platforms and reflect each platform's own methodology. They should not be treated as directly comparable totals.
- Rankings and collected data change over time. Use dated snapshots when reproducibility matters.
- Coverage varies by skill and ranking; a composite score may draw on only some of the listed registries.
- Social mentions and skill quality involve judgment and attribution limits. The README describes the project's filtering and scoring methodology.
- Repository metadata reports the license as NOASSERTION, while the README states that data and documentation are released under CC BY 4.0. Check the repository's license files before reuse.
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