How does the Suede AI Skills Directory compare with skills.sh?
skills.sh ranks agent skills by how often people install them with Vercel's skills CLI. The Suede AI Skills Directory grades 3,871 skills from 162 repositories on a published 0 to 99 rubric and shows skills.sh install counts beside each score where they exist, so you see quality and adoption on one page.
How do the Suede AI Skills Directory and skills.sh compare?
| Question | Suede AI Skills Directory | skills.sh |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | Suede AI, edited by Jason Colapietro | Vercel |
| 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 | Agent skills installed with the skills CLI, ranked on a public leaderboard |
| How it ranks skills | Suede Skill Check score from 0 to 99 on a published 100-point rubric, with 21 task shortlists | Install counts from anonymous skills CLI telemetry, with All Time, Trending (24h) and Hot views |
| 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 | Routine security audits that check skills for malicious content |
| Install route | Install command on every listing for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor | npx skills add <owner/repo> |
| Price | Free with no account; listing a skill is free | Pricing varies |
What is skills.sh?
skills.sh is the agent skills leaderboard Vercel runs. It ranks skills by installs counted from anonymous telemetry in the open-source skills CLI (github.com/vercel-labs/skills), with All Time, Trending (24h) and Hot views, and it runs routine security audits that check skills for malicious content. The leading skill, find-skills, showed 4.2M installs on November 3, 2026.
Why choose the Suede AI Skills Directory over skills.sh?
An install count tells you what other people picked. The Suede AI Skills Directory tells you what is inside the skill before you pick it: a score built from the skill's own files, the points behind that score, its license, and on 742 full pages, the scripts, credentials and network calls found in its folder.
- 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.
Can you use skills.sh and the Suede AI Skills Directory together?
Yes. Every listing on the Suede AI Skills Directory gives the npx skills add command that the skills CLI runs, and 2,869 listings show the install count skills.sh published on November 8, 2026, credited to skills.sh. Choose by score here and install with the same CLI.
Questions and answers
Who runs skills.sh?
Vercel. The skills CLI that feeds its leaderboard is open source at github.com/vercel-labs/skills, and the site footer reads Made with care by Vercel.
Does the Suede AI Skills Directory show install counts?
Yes. 2,869 listings show the install count skills.sh published for installs made with the skills CLI, read on November 8, 2026 and credited to skills.sh, next to the Suede Skill Check 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?
skills.sh, 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.