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virgiliojr94/book-to-skill leads GitHub weekly Python trending for 16,749 total (1,781 forks, MIT, created May 1). It converts a technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill directory agents reference while working. Nobody in the repo addresses the copyright surface of bulk-converting purchased or pirated technical books into distributable agent skills. That question is coming for the skills ecosystem whether or not anyone in it wants to answer it.
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kruzovic7/ai-data-extractor pulls chat histories from Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Aider and Cline/Roo Code, in Python under MIT (GitHub). The fork ratio of about one in six is unusually high and suggests people are running and modifying it rather than bookmarking. No push s...
addyosmani/agent-skills is at 85,483 (+659 today, 9,194 forks), targeting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity from one repo. vercel-labs/skills is at 28,546 distributing via npx skills. google/skills is at 17,512. Three distribution channels for the same primitive, thr...
No compiled code. No runtime. No dependencies. Just 18 markdown files in a .claude directory. Matt Pocock's skills repo hit 75,700 stars this week, gaining 6,400 in seven days. It's the #1 trending AI repo on GitHub. The repo solves four problems that every Claude Code user hi...
The largest available cost lever might not be the model. It might be a prompt telling the model to calm down. DietrichGebert/ponytail is a portable agent skill with a simple thesis: force coding agents toward the minimal solution. YAGNI first. Standard library before custom co...
A local-first observability dashboard that tails agent session files to show plans, tool calls, file changes and progress in real time across three different coding agents, MIT-licensed, still being pushed today (GitHub). It's the only repo carrying the agent-observability top...
A Chinese lab shipped a runtime that manages two American coding agents as subagents, and it went from repo creation to 145,439 stars in four days. deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness published dsh-v0.1.0-rc.7 at 12:01 UTC today, its first tagged release since the repo appeared on Au...
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