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Skills

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Agent skills are folders of instructions an agent loads when a task calls for them. These are read from the vendors' own repositories, in their own words, each under a license that lets it be shared.

Agent tools rising this week

  1. morluto/rea

    Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

    +248,962 stars this week on GitHub Trending
  2. mattpocock/skills

    Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.

    +11,937 stars this week on GitHub Trending
  3. cathrynlavery/diagram-design

    Editorial diagram design for Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Factory Droid, and Pi. 44 diagram types. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows. No Mermaid slop.

    +9,024 stars this week on GitHub Trending
  4. heygen-com/hyperframes

    Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents.

    +5,601 stars this week on GitHub Trending
  5. mksglu/context-mode

    Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.

    +4,207 stars this week on GitHub Trending
  6. anthropics/claude-plugins-official

    Official, Anthropic-managed directory of high quality Claude Code Plugins.

    +2,328 stars this week on GitHub Trending

Skills

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