How does the Suede AI Skills Directory compare with awesome-claude-skills?
awesome-claude-skills lists on GitHub, led by ComposioHQ's with 78.6k stars, link to skills with one-line descriptions. The Suede AI Skills Directory turns that kind of list into data you can sort: 3,871 skills from 162 repositories, each graded from 0 to 99, with its license, install command and a report you can verify.
How do the Suede AI Skills Directory and awesome-claude-skills compare?
| Question | Suede AI Skills Directory | awesome-claude-skills |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | Suede AI, edited by Jason Colapietro | Curated GitHub lists: ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills (78.6k stars) and travisvn/awesome-claude-skills (15.7k stars) |
| What it lists | 3,871 agent skills from 162 GitHub repositories in 16 categories, plus catalogs of Claude Code plugins, Grok bots, MCP servers, rules files and AI agents | Hand-picked links to skills with one-line descriptions, grouped by category |
| How it ranks skills | Suede Skill Check score from 0 to 99 on a published 100-point rubric, with 21 task shortlists | The maintainer's order within each category; no scores |
| Quality and safety signals | A structural listing gate, the license on every listing, a verifiable report per skill, and the scripts, credentials and network calls summarized on 742 full pages | ComposioHQ's list is Apache-2.0 and notes that each skill may carry its own license; travisvn's list adds security guidance |
| Install route | Install command on every listing for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor | Follow each linked repository |
| Price | Free with no account; listing a skill is free | Pricing varies |
What is awesome-claude-skills?
awesome-claude-skills is the name of several curated GitHub lists. The largest, ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, had 78.6k stars on November 3, 2026, is licensed Apache-2.0 and groups linked skills by category with one-line descriptions; it notes that individual skills may carry their own licenses. travisvn/awesome-claude-skills, with 15.7k stars, pairs a shorter list with security guidance.
Why choose the Suede AI Skills Directory over awesome-claude-skills?
Curated lists are a strong starting point, and the Suede AI Skills Directory reads them: citations in curated lists are one component of the Suede Skill Check score. On top of that, every listing gets the full score with the points behind it, its license, and an install command, and 742 full pages summarize the scripts, credentials and network calls in the skill's files.
- Every one of the 3,871 listings carries a Suede Skill Check score from 0 to 99, built from the skill's own files on a published rubric, with a report.json you can verify.
- 742 full skill pages summarize the scripts, credentials and network calls found in the skill, so you know what it touches before you install it.
- 21 task shortlists and 111 alternatives pages compare skills from different publishers that do the same job.
- Every listing states its license and gives the install command for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
- The search index, per-skill reports and RSS feed are static files with no key and no account.
Questions and answers
Who maintains awesome-claude-skills?
Several GitHub accounts publish lists under that name. The largest is ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, with 78.6k stars on November 3, 2026; travisvn/awesome-claude-skills had 15.7k.
Do awesome-claude-skills lists score skills?
No. They give one-line descriptions grouped by category. The Suede AI Skills Directory scores every listed skill from 0 to 99 and counts curated-list citations as one component of that score.
How does the Suede AI Skills Directory score skills?
Every listed skill gets a Suede Skill Check score from 0 to 99, read from its published files: structure, description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. The rubric is public on the methodology page.
Is the Suede AI Skills Directory free?
Yes. Browsing, comparing and the static data files need no account, and listing a skill in the directory is free.
Where do these facts come from?
awesome-claude-skills, checked November 3, 2026:
Suede AI Skills Directory figures come from the directory's October 22, 2026 snapshot and update with every refresh. How skills are listed and scored.