skilld vs skills.sh
skills.sh is Vercel's directory of Agent Skills. It lists every public Skill its CLI has seen and ranks them by installs. skilld lists fewer Skills, curated, and ranks them by the devs who post about them.
Written by Harlan Wilton · skills.sh facts checked 7 Oct 2026
01 / 08
Human first
Every Skill names the maintainer who wrote it. Trending shows the devs who posted about it, in their own words.
skills.sh
Shows the owner and the repository. Its leaderboard counts installs.
Written by
Matt Pocock
wrote /grill-me
Talked about by
Devs who posted about /hyperframes@RoundtableSpace… It runs on HyperFrames, the open-source tool HeyGen uses to turn HTML into video. "Install HyperFrames (npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes). Read my site at [URL] and pull the headline, 3 key features, brand colors and logo. Build a 30-second launch video in HTML: 1. 0 to 3s: logo reveal on the brand color 2. 3 to 8s: the headline in kinetic type, one word at a time 3. 8 to 23s: one scene …@nrqa__… 3). HyperFrames HeyGen ↳ Open-source video generation engine 4). Fincept Terminal ↳ Open-source version of Bloomberg Terminal 5). MoneyPrinterTurbo ↳ AI one-click…
02 / 08
Preview the output
Each demo is one recorded run: the prompt, and what the Agent built with the Skill. Compare Skills by their output before you spend tokens on a run.
All demos
03 / 08
Independent and open source
Harlan Wilton builds skilld in the open. The CLI and this site are both MIT on GitHub, and every change lands as a public pull request. No listing is for sale.
skills.sh
Vercel operates it. Its CLI is open source under MIT.
04 / 08
Open trending weights
Trending ranks Skills by the devs who post about them, with weights anyone can read. Install counts weigh nothing.
Read the ranking code| Each dev who posts about ita post naming 10 Skills gives each a tenth | ×3 |
|---|---|
| Reach of those postslog scale; reposts ×3, bookmarks ×5 | ×3 |
| Star surge on a one-Skill repolog scale | ×1 |
| The 20 most-starred repos | after the rest |
| Install counts | ×0 |
| Paid placement | not sold |
05 / 08
No more skill bloat
Run a Skill once off. Your agent reads it for one session, and skilld writes no file, no lockfile entry, and no cache.
skills.sh
skills add installs the files into your project. skills use writes them to a temporary directory.
npx skilld run anthropics/skills/pdf
# Your agent reads /pdf for this session.
git status --short
# No output. The working tree is clean.
# To keep it in every session:
npx skilld install anthropics/skills/pdf
# Adds the files and a lockfile entry.
- runwrites nothing
- installadds files
06 / 08
Know what it runs
Skill behaviors flag shell commands, scripts, and network calls, with a link to each line. skilld run waits for your approval before remote code or credential reads.
skills.sh
Shows partner audit verdicts from Gen Agent Trust Hub, Socket, and Snyk. skilld shows the same verdicts on each Skill page.
- Runs shell commandsSKILL.md:192
- Ships scripts8 files
- Installs or runs packagesSKILL.md:235
skilld run waits for your approval:
- Runs code downloaded from the network
- Reads credential files or tokens
- Contains invisible characters
- + 2 more
07 / 08
Know what it costs
A Skill page shows what each part costs in tokens: always, when used, and on demand. You see it before your agent loads anything.
skills.sh
Shows the SKILL.md with no token cost. The full file tree needs its API and a Vercel token.
- Always≈111 tokensname and description
- When used≈1.9k tokensSKILL.md
- On demand≈7.1k tokensforms.md, reference.md
scripts/ · 8 filesrun, never read into context
08 / 08
No telemetry
The skilld CLI sends no telemetry or analytics. Its README says so, and the source shows it.
skills.sh
The skills CLI is MIT too. Its telemetry is on by default and sends Skill names and search queries. DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 turns it off.
github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/main/src/telemetry.tsskills.sh/docs/cli
- MIT licence
- Source on GitHub
The skilld CLI sends no telemetry or analytics.
| CLI | Telemetry |
|---|---|
| skills | on by default, DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 to stop |
| skilld | none, nothing to turn off |
Where skills.sh is ahead
More Skills
skills.sh lists every public Skill its CLI has seen. skilld lists curated Skills only, so a search there finds more.
More agents
The skills CLI installs into 79 agents. The skilld CLI installs into 73, and MCP apps such as ChatGPT search skilld from the chat.
Side by side
| Feature | skills.sh | skilld |
|---|---|---|
| Use without installing | skills use writes the files to a temporary directory | skilld run writes nothing |
| Files on the Skill page | SKILL.md | Every file, with its token cost |
| Before a run | Partner audit verdicts | The same audit verdicts, plus Skill behaviors and an approval stop |
| What ranks a Skill | Install counts from CLI telemetry | Devs who posted about it, with open weights |
| Who wrote it | Owner and repository | The maintainer, and the exact SKILL.md |
| Output before you run | None | Recorded demos |
| CLI telemetry | On by default, opt out | None |
| CLI licence | MIT | MIT |
| Agents | 79 | 73, plus MCP apps |
| Staying current | skills update | Watch for changes, monthly Skill updates |
| Run by | Vercel | Harlan Wilton, independent |
Both read the same SKILL.md files.
Pick one and run it once off. Nothing lands on disk.