Aug 1, 2026
This Week in Agent Skills: Leaderboard Crosses 118, NVIDIA Debuts SkillSpector
Anthropic's official repo passed 165K stars, NVIDIA's SkillSpector entered at 14K, and the leaderboard now tracks 118 repositories. Here is what moved.
A weekly roundup of what moved in the Agent Skills ecosystem.
The Big Picture
The SkillMap leaderboard now tracks 118 repositories, up from 87 in April. Growth is still concentrated in collection repos, and this week brought one of the larger single-day entries the tracker has recorded.
Trend 1: The Official Repo Pulls Away
anthropics/skills crossed 165K stars, up about 52K since the April digest. It remains the canonical source, and the gap to the rest of the field keeps widening.
Behind it, production-grade engineering skills keep compounding:
| Repo | Category | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | dev-tools | 165K |
| addyosmani/agent-skills | dev-tools | 81K |
| ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills | dev-tools | 71K |
| mvanhorn/last30days-skill | dev-tools | 55K |
| kepano/obsidian-skills | dev-tools | 43K |
| sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills | dev-tools | 42K |
| K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills | data | 32K |
| vercel-labs/agent-skills | dev-tools | 29K |
Trend 2: NVIDIA Debuts SkillSpector at 14K Stars
The standout this week is NVIDIA/SkillSpector (dev-tools). It entered the leaderboard on July 31 with roughly 14K stars — one of the larger single-day entries this quarter. A large vendor shipping agent skills as a first-class artifact is a signal the format has moved past hobbyist territory.
Trend 3: Non-Developer Skills Keep Their Momentum
Skills outside the dev-tools lane continue to grow, not just persist:
- K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (32K, data) stays the science library leader.
- phuryn/pm-skills (24K, dev-tools) keeps adding product-management commands.
- New entries include kangarooking/cangjie-skill (Huawei's Cangjie language, 5.6K), iflytek/skillhub (devops, 4.9K), and prompt-security/clawsec (prompt security, 1K).
The pattern from the spring holds: teams are shipping skills for their own stack, not just for Claude Code.
What SkillMap Published
The last few months of guides are worth a look if you missed them:
- Install Agent Skills Across 70+ Tools with the skills CLI — the
npx skillsworkflow across tools - Write Agent Skills That Match the Open Specification — structure and metadata that tools expect
- AnySearch: Give Your AI Agent Real-Time Web Search — a search skill walkthrough
- Browse the 71K-Star Claude Skills Catalog — find, install, and build skills
- Generate Polished HTML Slide Decks with Guizang PPT Skill — magazine and Swiss layouts
- Scan Agent Skills for Security Risks with NVIDIA SkillSpector — scan before you install
Coming Next
Up next, the skills tooling layer (CLIs, registries, and hubs) as more vendors ship their own collections. If you maintain a skill repo, submit it through the leaderboard.
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