Skills.sh hits 1 million agent skills
Vercel published its State of Agent Skills report, revealing that the skills.sh registry reached one million agent skills and nearly 280 million installs in seven months. The data shows extreme concentration, with 375 skills driving 62% of installs and user demand heavily favoring cross-industry workflows over technical coding tools.
Natural-language agent skills are rapidly becoming the new standard package format for enterprise procedures, shifting software reuse from code libraries to prompt-driven orchestration.
- –Unprecedented catalog growth outstripping GitHub and npm highlights that natural-language authoring dramatically lowers the barrier to software creation and distribution.
- –A marked divergence between developer supply (coding tools) and user demand (operations, documents, meta-agent planning) indicates significant untapped opportunity in business workflows.
- –Extreme install concentration shows that winning skills capture near-monopolistic mindshare within their specific task domains, even as the broader catalog remains fragmented.
- –As general skills become commoditized across frontier models, competitive advantage will migrate toward proprietary internal organizational judgment and rigorous evaluation benchmarks.
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2026-09-25
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