Agent Skills

Oct 28

Oct 28

Oct 28

mcode-stack is a new MIT-licensed GitHub repo from MiniMax-AI holding the workflows and skills the MiniMax Code team uses to build its coding agent. It is a set of audits and checklists, not a prompt dump: when to split work into subagents, how to audit long shell commands, how to review a diff from a clean context. Here is what is inside and how to install it.

Oct 28

Oct 27

Oct 27

BeautifulRust, a repo that gained about 1,200 stars in days, packs three Agent Skills and a clippy lint config for Rust. Here is what each part does, how to install it in Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Gemini CLI, and what its self-reported evals do and do not prove.

Oct 27

tstack, a GitHub repo by Theo (t3dotgg), packages nine agent skills for Claude Code and Codex, from full-send, which takes a change all the way to a merged pull request, to council, which asks three models from different providers to review it. It gained about 1,600 stars in three days. Here is what is inside and what to check before you let it merge code.

Oct 23

Claude-Red, a library of offensive security SKILL.md files for Claude, gained over 200 GitHub stars in a day and sits near 8,000 stars. It covers SQLi to EDR evasion. Here is what it contains, how to install it, and what to settle before you use it.

Oct 23

leanrea packs reverse-engineering know-how into one 8 KB SKILL.md and says it beats the REA MCP server by 38% on time and 35% on cost. We read the README, the benchmark table and the caveats the author lists.

Oct 22

On October 22, 2026 Anthropic donated the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Here is what moves, who maintains it, and what skill authors should do.

Oct 22

Oct 22

Oct 20

Graphify, a /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI, gained about 750 GitHub stars in a day. Here is how it works, how to install it, what its benchmarks say, and what it changes in your assistant's config.

Oct 19

A practical setup guide for REA, the MCP server and skill that lets coding agents inspect apps without source. It covers install, skill-only mode, native providers, your first safe investigation and the mistakes that waste the most time.

Oct 19

REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) is now a skill and MCP server that agents use to study closed software. We checked GitHub and picked ten public projects that credit it, from a Claude-style UI kit to a DX-Ball rebuild, and noted what each one really proves.

Oct 17

Oil UI, a UI design skill for Claude Code, Codex and other agents, gained about 1,600 GitHub stars in its first two and a half weeks. Here is what it does, how to install it, what the free version leaves out, and where it fits next to other design skills.

Oct 15

Superpowers, an MIT-licensed skills framework by Jesse Vincent and Prime Radiant, is trending again with roughly 299,000 stars. It turns a coding agent into a disciplined workflow: clarify, design, isolate in a worktree, plan in tiny tasks, write tests first, review between tasks. Here is how it works, how to install it, and what to watch.

Oct 14

A practical, evergreen guide to using ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English with AI coding agents: three ways to apply it (skill, one-line prompt, AGENTS.md rules), the rules that matter most, rewrite recipes for docs, errors and incident reports, a small script to check your output, and how to fix common problems.

Oct 14

K-Dense-AI's Scientific Agent Skills collects 177 MIT-licensed skills for biology, chemistry, medicine, physics and data analysis, installable in one command into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other hosts. Here is what is in it and what to check before trusting it.

Oct 12

Replica skill, a new MIT-licensed repo with 1.9k stars after about a week, packages eleven Claude skills into a clone pipeline: recon, architecture, design, build, backend, test, diff, entrepreneur, brand, launch and deploy. explainx.ai covers how to install it, what the six Python tools do, and the legal and quality limits that matter before you sell anything.

Oct 12

text-to-cad, a free MIT-licensed plugin with 19.3k GitHub stars, turns any plugin-capable coding agent into a CAD assistant. It writes STEP, STL, 3MF and GLB files, checks designs for manufacturing, draws engineering PDFs and prepares prints. Here is how to install it, what each skill does, the telemetry default, and where it can fail.

Oct 12

A new paper trending on Hugging Face, Work2Skill, records people using desktop software and has an agent distill each demonstration into a reusable SKILL.md. Code and a 350-demo dataset are released. Here is what it does, what the numbers show, and what it means for anyone building computer-use agents.

Oct 10

hugohe3/ppt-master is trending on GitHub: an agent skill that generates PowerPoint decks with native shapes, charts, transitions and narration instead of flattened images. We walk through install, cost, limits and alternatives.

Oct 9

SwiftUI Pro, Paul Hudson's open-source agent skill, is trending on GitHub with about 5,200 stars. It gives Claude Code, Codex and Gemini a 12-file review checklist targeting the mistakes LLMs actually make in SwiftUI: deprecated API, invisible VoiceOver buttons and slow views. Here is how to install it, what it checks and where it falls short.

Oct 8

Being AI-ready is not a tool list. It is ten skills, learned in a sensible order, tested on real work. This guide ranks them, gives a 90-day plan for the rest of 2026 and a quarter-by-quarter path for 2027, and says where our evidence is strong and where it is thin.

Oct 5

Impeccable, Paul Bakaus's design skill for AI coding agents, now has 76.5K GitHub stars, 24 commands, 61 deterministic detector rules, a Rust engine and edit-time hooks for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more. Here is what changed since June, how to install it, how the detector and live mode work, and the security trade-offs to read first.

Oct 3

Ponytail turns your AI coding agent into the laziest senior developer in the room: before writing code it climbs a ladder from do not build it, to reuse it, to the standard library, to a native feature. Its own agentic benchmark reports 54 percent less code and 100 percent safety. Here is how it works, what the numbers do and do not show, and how to try it without regret.

Sep 22

Jason Liu's essay "If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat" argues that AI has made creative and technical ability nearly free — so the actual differentiator left is taste, the trained judgment to know what's worth making. explainx.ai unpacks the essay's core claims, its Book of Tea reference, and what it practically means for people learning to build with AI rather than just prompting it.

Sep 14

AgentBeam has moved from a pure observability tool to an active local enforcement layer: one npm install, one beam setup command, native hooks for six agent clients, and a dashboard for org-wide policy. This guide covers the new setup flow, what it protects, and how it differs from the earlier observation-only Beam CLI.

Sep 12

A Reddit post in r/claudeskills pitched Chisle as beating "caveman and ponytail combined" on token savings — a terse persona plus a hook that compresses tool output before it enters context. It picked up 297 upvotes and one sharp technical objection: output tokens are what's expensive, not input, so a compression hook may save less than it looks like it does.

Sep 10

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick tweeted on September 10, 2026, that he is "deskilling" himself with AI on annoying tasks faster than he can keep up with. The replies split into two camps — people cheering the tasks they're happy to lose, and one reply warning that the same move looks very different when an entire team does it at once. Here's the distinction, and a practical way to sort your own task list.

Sep 9

i-have-adhd is an open-source skill that rewrites how coding agents format responses — action first, steps numbered, no "Hope this helps!" It has 31.2k GitHub stars, 36 contributors, and ships for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Kimi, Qwen, and Antigravity. Here's what it actually changes, and what it can't.

Sep 7

Tencent used TeamAI-CLI internally since March 2026, then open-sourced it on September 7. It puts a team's skills, rules, and docs in one git repo, merges land on everyone's next agent session automatically, and each learning earns a confidence score from real usage. Here's what shipped and how it compares to other team-memory tools.

Sep 3

Matt Pocock called /show-me "a phenomenal skill" on September 3, and the reason it lands is narrow and real: it is a style guide, not a generator. It gives a coding agent a menu of compact visual formats — ASCII component trees, call stacks, mermaid state diagrams, annotated diffs — and tells it to pick one instead of writing three paragraphs.

Sep 1

alphaXiv's OpenResearch CLI now ships orx-figures, an agent skill that reference-templates six figure types so agents like GPT-5.6 Sol (Codex) stop producing ugly, wrongly-emphasized research plots. explainx.ai read the actual SKILL.md and reference files to see what's inside.

Sep 1

ChalupaBrock (@cbrock84) open-sourced headcount on r/claudeskills — an MIT-licensed "org in a box" with 16 departments and 172 independently installable Claude Code skills drawn from 25+ years of corporate leadership. explainx.ai maps what ships, how to install it, where MCP fills gaps, and why the specialist-vs-bloat debate matters.

Aug 31

img2threejs v1.5.1 ships the Character Update: a 2D reference image becomes a rigged, animated Three.js fighter with measured punch VFX, sweat particles, and 19 combat clips — pure TypeScript in the browser, no Blender workflow. explainx.ai breaks down the GLB-measurement pipeline, how it differs from neural mesh tools, and what web-game builders should steal.

Aug 29

A new paper from Google Research and Virginia Tech argues that skill-evolution systems fail because their guiding insights stay scattered across optimization histories. WikiSkill fixes that with a persistent "wiki" every skill update builds on — and reports Qwen3.6-27B jumping from 39% to 63% accuracy.

Aug 28

Archify is a Node.js agent skill that turns a codebase into a verifiable interactive system map. The agent writes typed JSON IR; Archify validates it and delivers self-contained HTML with Architecture Delta review for PRs.

Aug 28

Garden Skills is ConardLi's MIT collection of five production Agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other SKILL.md hosts. This guide covers who it is for, how to install, which skill to add first, and when to use explainx.ai's skills corpus instead of a single-author garden.

Aug 21

Aug 19

Aug 18

Aug 16

Aug 11

Aug 7

Aug 7

Aug 3

Jul 31

Jul 31

Jul 30

Jul 26

Jul 26

Jul 23

Jul 22

Jul 20

Jul 17

Jul 14

Jun 27

Jun 27

Jun 19

Jun 18

Jun 18

Jun 5

Jun 5

May 8

May 4

May 4

Apr 27

Apr 27

Apr 23

Apr 13

Apr 13

Apr 10