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The first semver-major since it became the most-starred Agent Skills collection on GitHub, mattpocock/skills v1.0 reports the savings by having the agent read only a skill's name and description up front, pull the SKILL.md body only when relevant, and load scripts and references only if the task needs them (explainx.ai). Agent Skills is now a cross-vendor standard across ~40 clients including Copilot, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI, so the pattern is portable. Keep frontmatter descriptions sharp, push everything else behind the disclosure boundary.
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bradautomates/claude-video (v0.2.0, July 1) lets agents download, frame-extract, and transcribe any video via yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and Whisper, then hand it to Claude's multimodal Read (GitHub). It ships as an Agent Skill usable across 50+ agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini...
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
It's now the cross-tool standard read by 60,000+ repos, natively understood by Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Aider, Windsurf, and Zed. Stop maintaining separate .cursorrules and .windsurfrules. Keep one mission file and let each tool discover it. Inside it, tell the agen...
Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
The Rust account manager covers Antigravity, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Kiro, Cursor, Gemini CLI and CodeBuddy with quota monitoring and multi-instance management, at 17,081 stars. A 1:10 PR-to-issue ratio means almost all inbound traffic is user reports, and the obvious...
Barry Zhang and Mahesh Murag, the engineers who built Claude Skills at Anthropic, published a talk and engineering post that's gotten 14K+ likes and is reshaping how I think about agent development. The core argument: most agent approaches fail because they lack domain experti...
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