@omarsar0: Recommended resource. Largest dataset of agent skills I’ve come across. Great for mining cool ideas and patterns for yo…
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A tweet sharing the largest dataset of AI agent skills mined from public GitHub repositories, based on Anthropic's open specification.
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Recommended resource. Largest dataset of agent skills I’ve come across. Great for mining cool ideas and patterns for your agents.
DAIR.AI (@dair_ai): How many agent skills are actually out there?
There are ~3.8M SKILL.md files across 282,200 public GitHub repositories, nine months after Anthropic published the format as an open spec.
This research mined all of them into a dataset.
Skills resist the usual software mining.
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