AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Distributing AI agent skills via NPM
Hey HN! Built a template for distributing AI agent skills via npm. Problem: AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) support custom "skills" but distribution is manual - copy files to ~/.tool/skills/, repeat for updates, no versioning. Solution: Standard npm packages with lifecycle hooks: npm install -g @org/my-skill npm update -g @org/my-skill Benefits: - Semantic versioning (^1.2.0 for auto-updates) - Private registries for enterprise - Standard CI/CD integration - Discoverable on npmjs.com It's a GitHub template - fork, customize SKILL.md, publish.…
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Skillkit▲252It's an open-source project that lets you create, translate, and work with multiple agents at the same time, and more.
Feb 2026 · agenstskills.com · its alternatives →
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Agent Skills▲190Curated agent-skills: 1,000+ practical skills selected from 63,000+ GitHub skills. Filter by newest/hot/installs. Works with Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
Mar 2026 · agentskill.sh · its alternatives →
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Tessl▲260I'm Guy, the founder behind Snyk — now building Tessl, a package manager for agent skills. We’ve recently witnessed that most teams still treat skills as static artifacts: markdown files, created or copied from repo to repo. This approach offers a strong initial boost, but quickly creates debt: - Skills are duplicated, and updates never roll out. - Poor quality skills go unseen, misguiding agents instead of helping. - Skill knowledge grows stale, and don’t keep up with the systems and practices they describe. Without a way to evaluate skills, teams have no clear way to understand how good a…
Feb 2026 · tessl.io · its alternatives →
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One skill library for every AI coding agent
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Feb 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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A cross-platform desktop app to manage Agent Skills in one place and sync them to multiple AI coding tools’ global skills directories — “Install once, sync everywhere”. - qufei1993/skills-hub
11d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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I created this tool after writing a few agent skills by hand and noticing this pattern was repetitive. Paste a documentation URL, enter your own model API key, and it gets the page content client-side to create a reusable SKILL.md. There is no backend/proxy, so it stays as secure as possible. I would like feedback on the structure of the output and the edge cases.
May 2026 · getskillify.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey all! I'm the maintainer of mistral.rs. I just landed support for OpenAI-compatible Agent Skills via a /v1/skills endpoint, and it works with local open models. Until now Skills have basically been locked to closed models, and with the ability to have private, local intelligence becoming increasingly important, but this feature allows you to do XYZ with local models. It's fully compatible with OpenAI's /v1/skills API, so you can drop mistral.rs into your existing code with minimal difficulty. We support the accompanying tools too: /v1/files or input_file for…
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We built an open-source library of 125 GTM (go-to-market) skills that plug into AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. With these skills an AI agent can automatically: - Find ICP leads from conference speakers, LinkedIn activity, or job boards - Generate personalized cold email sequences - Monitor competitor blogs, pricing pages, and hiring signals - Generate programmatic SEO pages from keyword lists - Track where your brand appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude answers --- How skills work Each skill is a structured markdown file containing instructions, scripts, and tool…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover 172K+ AI agent skills for Claude, Codex & Copilot
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Excited to launch Awesome AI Agent Skills! An open-source collection of 70+ production-ready skills to make your AI agents smarter and faster. Stop reinventing the wheel. From code generation to security audits, it's all here. Contributions welcome! Let's build together.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Install AI agent skills as roles & behaviors from any source
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover and install AI skills, like Docker Hub for agents.
Jan 2026 · skillregistry.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I'm Scott. Skillscript is a small language I built to write what I want my local agent to actually do, in a form I can read and version, instead of hoping the model gets it right each time. The itch started with something small. I wanted my NanoClaw agent to run my morning brief the same way every day. Check overnight tickets, summarize the deploy pipeline, flag anything urgent. Every session, it would re-figure out how to do this from scratch, drift a little, and cost tokens for what's basically a fixed procedure. I could put it in a system prompt or an MD skill file, but those are…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a collection of webhook skills because AI coding agents are surprisingly bad at webhook integrations. The generated code looks reasonable until you run it, then signature verification fails, raw body handling is wrong, or the middleware order breaks everything. PostHog's research on LLM code generation (https://posthog.com/blog/correct-llm-code-generation) found that agents produce more reliable code when referencing known-working examples rather than reconstructing from training data. That's the approach here. `webhook-skills` is a collection of provider-specific…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built a tool [1] that resolves breaking changes when you upgrade npm packages. I know keeping my dependencies updated is good hygiene but I really have no motivations to do them. The time to fix breaking changes then validate them makes the ROI lopsided. Automating these helps me reduce the barrier to a good habit. It works on typescript and tsx projects. BYOK (bring your own GPT-4 key) for the codegen. MIT license. How does it work? - Bumps the package version, builds your project, and then runs tsc over your project to understand what breaks - Uses ts-morph [2] to create an AST of…
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