๐ Weekly Skill Leaderboard โ October 9, 2026
๐ Weekly Skill Leaderboard โ October 9, 2026
The skills market just crossed a milestone: 37,100 skills tracked and 429,000 stars gained in the last 30 days (The Skill Leaderboard). This week belongs to the new blood. With 81 skills reviewed in our past 30 days, our dedup rule pushed the usual giants (Superpowers, Caveman, impeccable, last30days) off the podium โ and cleared the stage for the fastest risers we've ever ranked: an over-engineering slayer up +20.3% in a month, a Cloudflare security auditor up +689.9%, and a brand-new design skill from uizze.sh that went #1 hot on skills.sh within days.
Methodology: community signal (stars/installs) โ recency & maintenance โ modularity (clean SKILL.md) โ real-world utility โ innovation. Data: The Skill Leaderboard, skills.sh trending & hot, Skillselion installs, o-mega tracked ranking, GitHub.
๐ Category Rankings
๐งโ๐ป Coding & Development
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Stars | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | Ponytail | DietrichGebert | 157k (+8.6k/7d, +20.3%/30d) | SKILL.md + commands (/review, /audit) | The anti-bloat enforcer |
| ๐ฅ | Agent Browser | Vercel Labs | 42k ยท 801k installs | SKILL.md + ref-based browser control | The verification loop |
| ๐ฅ | PM Skills | phuryn | 26.8k | SKILL.md review methodology | Boundary-agreement review |
Why these ranked here:
- Ponytail is the story of the month: "makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room." It audits diffs for over-engineering, tracks shortcut comments in a debt ledger, and measures simplification impact. Repo pushed 2 days ago โ the +8.6k stars this week is the biggest 7-day gain in the top 10. First-ever podium appearance.
- Agent Browser gives coding agents reliable, high-fidelity control of any website or Electron app (629โ801k installs depending on tracker, #5 organic on skills.sh at 1.1M, o-mega score 8.6). It closes the verify-your-work loop, and it's never been on our board.
- PM Skills reviews code by checking the implementation against boundary agreements and forcing executions that violate them โ a genuinely different review philosophy. 26.8k stars and quietly climbing.
๐ฃ Harness & Orchestration
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Installs | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | Grill With Docs | Matt Pocock | 919kโ1.1M | SKILL.md (part of 279k-star skills repo) | Pressure-test against reality |
| ๐ฅ | Find Skills | Vercel Labs | 3M (most-installed skill on Earth) | SKILL.md meta-discovery | The ecosystem's on-ramp |
| ๐ฅ | GH Issue Sync | Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko) | Hot #12 this week | SKILL.md + scripts | Issue triage, Flask-grade rigor |
Why these ranked here:
- Grill With Docs runs the famous grill interrogation against your own living documentation and codebase before production code gets written. o-mega clocks it at +61% growth in four weeks โ the fastest of any tracked skill. (Repo-mate grill-me already earned our 5/5 on Sep 18; the docs variant is the one breaking out now.)
- Find Skills is pure plumbing and we love it: 3M installs makes it the most-installed skill in the world. It lets any agent discover and self-install the right modular skill mid-task. Bundler-discounted by o-mega (7.5), but 3M installs don't lie.
- GH Issue Sync โ yes, that Armin Ronacher. Hot-listed this week for syncing issue state and agent-ready briefs out of GitHub. Small but elite.
๐จ Design & Creative
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Signal | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | UI Taste | uizze.sh | skills.sh Hot #1 this week (73+71 velocity) | SKILL.md | Taste as a system |
| ๐ฅ | iOS Design | uizze.sh | Hot #2 (47+45 velocity) | SKILL.md | Native-feel Apple UI |
| ๐ฅ | Awesome Design Skills | bergside | Multiple hot-list styles | SKILL.md style library | A style for every brief |
Why these ranked here:
- UI Taste took the #1 hot slot on skills.sh this week โ a brand-new entrant outranking everything, including HeyGen's machine. It encodes premium frontend direction as teachable taste rather than generic "make it pretty" rules.
- iOS Design from the same developer hits #2 hot with platform-specific HIG-aligned patterns. Two podium slots for uizze.sh says the market wanted opinionated design systems, not another layout auditor.
- Awesome Design Skills ships named styles (bento, neobrutalism, glassmorphism, corporateโฆ) as individual SKILL.md entries โ modular exactly the way we preach.
Note: taste-skill (Leonxlnx, 93.3k), Hallmark, ui-ux-pro-max and diagram-design all sat out this week under the 30-day dedup rule โ the Oct 2 board was design-heavy.
๐ฌ Media Generation
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Signal | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | HyperFrames Creative | HeyGen (heygen-com) | Trending #10 (19.4K/wk) ยท registry 755.3K all-time | SKILL.md + asset pipeline | Studio-grade creative frames |
| ๐ฅ | Motion Design Skills | iart-ai | Multiple registry entries | SKILL.md family | Shot composition & beat-sync |
| ๐ฅ | Brag | latent-spaces | 14k stars (new) | SKILL.md + video pipeline | Launch video in one prompt |
Why these ranked here:
- HyperFrames Creative is the new-generation skill in HeyGen's family: hyperframes-creative (19.4K weekly), hyperframes-core (18.4K), and talking-head-recut (10.6K) are all trending simultaneously, with the registry skill at 755.3K all-time installs (#20). We reviewed hyperframes-cli on Sep 18 โ the creative suite that's shipped since counts as a major expansion.
- Motion Design Skills from iart-ai breaks filmmaking craft (shot composition, beat-sync editing, motion art direction) into individual skills โ the kind of decomposition modular skills were invented for.
- Brag generates shareable launch videos with music and motion straight from a project directory โ 14k stars already, new enough that The Skill Leaderboard has no history for it yet.
(gsap-skills, Remotion, ai-music all ranked Oct 2/Sep 18 โ dedup'd out.)
๐ฌ Research & Analysis
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Stars | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | Scientific Agent Skills | K-Dense-AI | 47.8k (+9.8%/30d) | SKILL.md + Bio Foundry API | Agents that run wet-lab assays |
| ๐ฅ | AI Research SKILLs | Orchestra-Research | 13.3k (+7.4%/30d) | SKILL.md library | The full research lifecycle |
| ๐ฅ | Academic Research Skills | Imbad0202 | 50.7k (+8.4%/30d) | Agent suite (SKILL.md) | Writing, citations, peer review |
Why these ranked here:
- Scientific Agent Skills interfaces with the Adaptyv Bio Foundry API to design, submit, and monitor real protein characterization experiments โ affinity assays, thermostability tests. The most ambitious "agent does real science" skill on the board, and it's never been ranked here.
- AI Research SKILLs covers the whole AI research lifecycle โ autonomous experimentation, fine-tuning, interpretability, distributed training, MLOps โ as individual skill files. A curriculum in repo form.
- Academic Research Skills: transparency note โ the Codex variant of this suite took a podium spot in our Oct 2 roundup; the original Claude suite (50.7k stars) is a distinct, never-reviewed entry and earns its own medal on merit.
(last30days, claude-obsidian, distilly, Auto-research-in-sleep all dedup'd โ Sep 25/Oct 2 boards covered them.)
๐ Security & Governance
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Stars | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | Security Audit Skill | Cloudflare | 25.6k (+689.9%/30d) | Multi-phase orchestration + SKILL.md | Defending its Sept #1 |
| ๐ฅ | Trail of Bits Skills | Trail of Bits | Registry: cargo-fuzz, supply-chain-auditor | SKILL.md set | Pro security firm, agent-native |
| ๐ฅ | Supabase Pentest Skills | yoanbernabeu | Hot-list (multiple entries) | SKILL.md audit suite | Autopsy for your BaaS |
Why these ranked here:
- Security Audit Skill returns under the defending-champion exception โ it took Security #1 on our Sep 25 board (4.9 rating) and since then its growth went vertical: +689.9% in 30 days, +2.3k stars this week alone. Multi-phase audits (recon โ coverage-led hunting โ verified, machine-readable findings) via isolated agent orchestration. Nothing in the category is close.
- Trail of Bits โ the firm behind Cargo fuzzing โ ships agent skills for cargo-fuzz and supply-chain risk audits. Institutional security expertise in SKILL.md form.
- Supabase Pentest Skills put five entries on this week's hot list (service-key extraction, RLS audits, JWT extractionโฆ). Niche? Yes. Exactly what a pentester wants their agent doing? Also yes.
๐ Office & Productivity
| Rank | Skill | Developer | Signal | Format | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฅ | MCP Mail | Superhuman | 4 hot-list entries this week | SKILL.md + MCP | Inbox as agent surface |
| ๐ฅ | Google Workspace CLI | streakyc | 3 hot-list entries (gws-gmail*) | SKILL.md + CLI | Gmail without leaving the terminal |
| ๐ฅ | Mintlify | Mintlify | Hot #13 (10+8 velocity) | SKILL.md | Docs that write themselves |
Why these ranked here:
- MCP Mail is quietly everywhere this week: superhuman-mail, meeting-scheduler, batch-draft-writer, and eod-wrapup all hot-listed. Email is becoming the agent's native interface, and Superhuman โ the email UX company โ is building the rails.
- Google Workspace CLI lands three hot entries (gmail, gmail-send, gmail-reply) doing exactly what it says: agent-driven Gmail from the CLI. Boring, useful, undefeated combination.
- Mintlify brings docs automation to the hot list right as their registry presence grows โ agents keeping documentation honest with the code they just wrote.
๐ Movers & Shakers
- ๐ Biggest riser: cloudflare/security-audit-skill โ +689.9% in 30 days (+22.4k stars). A skills repo in the global GitHub top ~1,900. The bug-bounty community adopted it as standard kit within three weeks of launch.
- ๐ New entry of the week: uizze.sh/ui-taste โ unknown two weeks ago, skills.sh Hot #1 today. The design category's dedup rest gave it an open lane and it sprinted through it.
- ๐ฅ Second-fastest riser: i-have-adhd (ayghri) at +97.9%/30d โ +27.1k stars โ but it ranked on our Sep 25 board, so it watches from the stands this week.
- ๐ Cooling: obra/superpowers โ still the most-starred skills repo on Earth at 296k, but growth slowed to +4.9%/30d (vs. mattpocock/skills at +8.9%). Reviewed Sep 18, so no podium defense this week; the methodology framework isn't going anywhere.
- โฉ๏ธ Comeback watch: Caveman (110k stars) hit the Hacker News front page again this week โ the new local-proxy compression architecture is driving a second wave. Reviewed Sep 18; if the proxy milestone lands a numbered release, expect a re-review.
๐ฎ Next Week's Watch List
- garrytan/gstack โ YC president Garry Tan's 26-skill engineering suite (office-hours, ship, canary, autoplan). Distribution like this doesn't stay small.
- msmps/opentui โ Hot #3 this week (11+10 velocity). Terminal UIs as a skill โ if agent-built CLIs are the next wave, this is early.
- no-ai-slop (petergyang) โ Hot #14. Output-quality enforcement is having a moment.
- reddit-automation (flowkit-labs) โ 846.7K all-time installs, 16.2K this week. Still hunting for its first AgentSkillReview appearance.
Ranked by AgentSkillReview. Data sourced from The Skill Leaderboard, skills.sh, Skillselion, GitHub trending, and community forums. 30-day dedup enforced: 81 previously-reviewed skills excluded unless defending #1 or shipping major updates. All figures as of Oct 9, 2026, 01:00 UTC.