Agent skill

Best Skills

Daily cross-platform rankings of AI agent skills (skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X/HN/Bluesky).

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Install Best Skills

skills CLI

$ npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install LinklyAI/best-skills best-skills --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "best-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/tree/main into .claude/skills/best-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "best-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install LinklyAI/best-skills best-skills --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "best-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/tree/main into .agents/skills/best-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "best-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install LinklyAI/best-skills best-skills --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "best-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/tree/main into .cursor/skills/best-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "best-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install LinklyAI/best-skills best-skills --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "best-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/tree/main into .gemini/skills/best-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "best-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install LinklyAI/best-skills best-skills

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "best-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/tree/main into .github/skills/best-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "best-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install LinklyAI/best-skills best-skills --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "best-skills" agent skill from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/tree/main into .opencode/skills/best-skills/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "best-skills", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: best-skills
GitHub stars: 635
Token cost: ~575 tokens
SKILL.md length: 234 words
Files: 1,254
Skills in repo: 1
Repo updated: Oct 11, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: CC-BY-4.0

At a glance

Daily cross-platform rankings of AI agent skills (skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X/HN/Bluesky).

Works in 4 steps: Fetch… → Pick the list, fetch… → Answer with rank, the raw numbers,… → …
The user asks which agent skill to install
SKILL.md covers When to use, Workflow, Lists and Rules
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Best Skills is an agent skill from LinklyAI/best-skills. Daily cross-platform rankings of AI agent skills (skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X/HN/Bluesky). Use when the user asks which agent skill to install, what is trending, whether a skill is popular or trusted, or wants to compare skills. Read-only public CSV data; it recommends and links, it does not install anything.

Its SKILL.md is about 580 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1259 other files (for example `.github/workflows/daily.yml`, `.github/workflows/heartbeat.yml` and `README.md`).

It sits in Documents & Office, covering CSV and tabular files. It works with GitHub and Bluesky. The repository describes itself as: Daily-updated Top 100 Agent Skills rankings — installs, growth, and social buzz aggregated from skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X and 10+ communities. Open data… The licence is CC-BY-4.0.

When your agent uses it

The user asks which agent skill to install
What is trending
Whether a skill is popular
Wants to compare skills

Example prompts

“/best-skills”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/main/llms.txt first. It is the current column dictionary and the rules; do…
Pick the list, fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/main/data/latest/rankings/.csv (4–90 KB, ≤100 rows). Parse by…
Answer with rank, the raw numbers, install and url. Show vendor next to skill: same-name skills from different vendors are different skills.
For history, replace latest with YYYY-MM-DD (daily since 2026-08-16).

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1e68339. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Best Skills loads about 575 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 86 tokens; SKILL.md has 234 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~86
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~575

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from LinklyAI/best-skills at commit 1e68339, republished under its CC-BY-4.0 licence (© LinklyAI). 234 words, ~575 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/best-skills/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1253 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.

name: best-skills
description: Daily cross-platform rankings of AI agent skills (skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X/HN/Bluesky). Use when the user asks which agent skill to install, what is trending, whether a skill is popular or trusted, or wants to compare skills. Read-only public CSV data; it recommends and links, it does not install anything.

Best Agent Skills

Nine Top-100 lists, refreshed daily, with the raw per-platform numbers kept next to every score. Full guide and column dictionary: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/main/llms.txt

When to use

"Which skill should I install for browser automation / PDF / …" → best-100.csv, filter by description and skill
"What is trending / new this week" → trending-7d.csv, rising-stars.csv
"Is <skill> popular, maintained, official?" → best-100.csv (score and dimensions), official-100.csv, most-active.csv
"Compare A and B" → look both up by skill_key, cite raw counts per platform

Not for: installing skills (hand the user the install command), full-text search of every skill in existence (only the Top 100 per list is published; the raw snapshots under data/latest/raw/ go deeper), judging quality beyond the published counts.

Workflow

Fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/main/llms.txt first. It is the current column dictionary and the rules; do not rely on a cached copy.
Pick the list, fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LinklyAI/best-skills/main/data/latest/rankings/<list>.csv (4–90 KB, ≤100 rows). Parse by header name; an empty cell means "not measured", not zero.
Answer with rank, the raw numbers, install and url. Show vendor next to skill: same-name skills from different vendors are different skills.
For history, replace latest with YYYY-MM-DD (daily since 2026-08-16).

Lists

best-100 (overall score), top-installs, trending-7d, social-buzz, most-active, official-100, official-vendors, top-repos, rising-stars.

Rules

Never add install counts across platforms; present them side by side.
Absent from a list ≠ zero; lists are truncated at 100.
Attribute republished data: "Data from Best Skills (https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) — CC BY 4.0".

Files

SKILL.md and 1,253 other files in the repository root of LinklyAI/best-skills.

SKILL.md
.github/workflows/daily.yml
.github/workflows/heartbeat.yml
LICENSE
README.md
data/2026-08-16/rankings/best-100.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/most-active.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/official-100.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/official-vendors.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/rising-stars.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/social-buzz.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/top-installs.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/top-repos.csv
data/2026-08-16/rankings/trending-7d.csv
data/2026-08-16/raw/buzz.csv
… and 1,239 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1e68339

Compare with similar skills

Best Skills next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Best Skills compared with similar skills
Skill	Stars	Used in	Tokens	Auto-check	Licence	Repo updated
Best Skills this skillLinklyAI/best-skills	635	—	~575	Automated safety check: Pass	CC-BY-4.0	today
Markitshift-labs-ai/markit	1.3k	—	~299	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	1 mo ago
Learniurykrieger/claude-bedrock	105	—	~6.5k	Automated safety check: Notes	MIT	5 mo ago
Teachccplugins/awesome-claude-code-plugins	970	—	~5.9k	Automated safety check: Notes	Apache-2.0	2 mo ago
Access Review TriageGRCEngClub/claude-grc-engineering	419	—	~2.4k	Automated safety check: Notes	Custom licence	7 days ago
Download Statsnubjs/nub	4.4k	—	~2.5k	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	yesterday

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Questions about Best Skills

What does Best Skills do?

Daily cross-platform rankings of AI agent skills (skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X/HN/Bluesky). Best Skills is an agent skill from LinklyAI/best-skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X/HN/Bluesky).

When should I use Best Skills?

Best Skills fits situations like: the user asks which agent skill to install; what is trending; whether a skill is popular; wants to compare skills.

How do I install Best Skills in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (the LinklyAI/best-skills repository) into .claude/skills/best-skills in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Best Skills in Codex?

Run `npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (the LinklyAI/best-skills repository) into .agents/skills/best-skills in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Best Skills in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/best-skills, .gemini/skills/best-skills, .github/skills/best-skills and .opencode/skills/best-skills in your project.

What does Best Skills need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Best Skills is instructions for the agent only.

Does Best Skills access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Best Skills safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Best Skills use?

Best Skills is published under the CC-BY-4.0 licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Best Skills use?

About 575 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Best Skills?

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Who maintains Best Skills?

LinklyAI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in LinklyAI/best-skills, which has 635 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.

Source: LinklyAI/best-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Best Skills

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Best Agent Skills

When to use

Workflow

Lists

Rules

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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Learn

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Access Review Triage

Download Stats

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Questions about Best Skills