modular skills for AI agents
Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-29 → 2026-10-08), compared with the prior 5.3 months.
These products provide specialized, plug-and-play skills and capability libraries to enhance autonomous AI agents across niche domain tasks such as technical writing, presentation design, and reverse engineering. They are built for developers, prompt engineers, and AI practitioners looking to expand model competencies without building custom tooling from scratch. Unlike full-stack autonomous agent platforms, this cluster focuses on granular, task-specific modules and evaluation benchmarks designed to plug into existing agent frameworks.
Pulled from real Hacker News comment threads on this niche's launches.
Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▼ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| jianying-headless | GITHUB | 1458 | 2026-09-15 |
| yomiyasu | GITHUB | 1371 | 2026-09-30 |
| replica-skill | GITHUB | 796 | 2026-10-03 |
| zh-tech-writing | GITHUB | 302 | 2026-09-24 |
| luobo-ppt | GITHUB | 250 | 2026-10-08 |
| skillbox | GITHUB | 222 | 2026-09-17 |
| Cognition's SWE-2 | PH | 189 | 2026-09-13 |
| Comma | GITHUB | 171 | 2026-09-30 |
| podcast-to-article | GITHUB | 163 | 2026-10-07 |
| skills | GITHUB | 160 | 2026-09-19 |
| wenzi-xhs-agent-skills | GITHUB | 152 | 2026-09-30 |
| ste-zh | GITHUB | 145 | 2026-10-05 |
| Agent Skills Leaderboard | HN | 135 | 2026-01-20 |
| project-manager-skill | GITHUB | 123 | 2026-09-30 |
| system1-agents | GITHUB | 120 | 2026-09-22 |
| music-composition-skills | GITHUB | 117 | 2026-09-17 |
| bug-bounty-triage | GITHUB | 115 | 2026-10-09 |
| Quibbler | HN | 114 | 2025-10-31 |
| skills | GITHUB | 112 | 2026-09-27 |
| system-design-trainer | GITHUB | 110 | 2026-09-28 |
| I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) | HN | 107 | 2026-07-14 |
| SureForge | GITHUB | 100 | 2026-09-09 |
| REx-skill | GITHUB | 96 | 2026-09-23 |
| cida | GITHUB | 94 | 2026-09-19 |
| Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built | HN | 91 | 2026-02-10 |
| qisi-video-remix | GITHUB | 85 | 2026-09-11 |
| lyric-writing-skills | GITHUB | 83 | 2026-09-17 |
| Agent-skills-eval | HN | 79 | 2026-05-07 |
| philosopher-OKF | GITHUB | 74 | 2026-10-08 |
| awesome-embodied-agents | GITHUB | 67 | 2026-10-11 |
| skills | GITHUB | 67 | 2026-10-08 |
| Panel | HN | 53 | 2026-09-15 |
| consultant | GITHUB | 53 | 2026-09-14 |
| Agent Draw: An agent draws while you talk, built on TLDraw | HN | 53 | 2026-07-06 |
| skillscout | GITHUB | 51 | 2026-09-30 |
| fomo-cc | GITHUB | 48 | 2026-09-29 |
| r-doc | GITHUB | 44 | 2026-09-14 |
| novel-agent-studio | GITHUB | 43 | 2026-09-09 |
| thinkwithblack-skill | GITHUB | 42 | 2026-10-09 |
| tubeai-skills | GITHUB | 42 | 2026-09-24 |
| agentic-dev-kit | GITHUB | 42 | 2026-10-02 |
| easyplot | GITHUB | 42 | 2026-09-23 |
| RSIGym | GITHUB | 41 | 2026-10-05 |
| TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI) | HN | 41 | 2026-02-22 |
| agent-builder-skills | GITHUB | 40 | 2026-09-20 |
| seu-handbook-skill | GITHUB | 39 | 2026-10-05 |
| stop-describing-ui | GITHUB | 37 | 2026-10-11 |
| a-letter-to-junior-agents | GITHUB | 36 | 2026-10-10 |
| job-search-agent-template | GITHUB | 36 | 2026-09-18 |
| sealeap-ecommerce-skills | GITHUB | 34 | 2026-09-24 |