Agent skills hit 1M published and 280M installs in 7 months, Vercel's state-of-skills report finds
rseroter · x · 2026-10-01
Vercel has published a "State of Agent Skills" report based on aggregate data from skills.sh, the registry it launched three months after Anthropic introduced Agent Skills in October 2025.
Key numbers
- The registry reached 1 million skills and nearly 280 million cumulative installs in seven months.
- For comparison, GitHub took 27 months to reach its millionth repository.
Main takeaways
- A skill makes the judgment behind a job explicit: the steps to follow, what good looks like, and how to evaluate results. The agent and its tools supply underlying capability; the skill only adds job-specific context, and can be as simple as a plain-language file.
- This makes skills faster and easier to create than conventional software. The report also examines what people are teaching agents, which skills get installed, and where value is heading in this new market.
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