How many agent skills are actually out there? There are ~3.8M SKILL.md files across 282,200 public GitHub repositories, nine months after An…

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. They are written in natural language, an agent picks them probabilistically at run time, and no compiler or type checker verifies the choice. There is no registry and no package manager, so they spread by copying folders between repos. GitSkills groups them into 1,877,981 distinct contents and ships as a single SQLite file with front matter, folder contents, and commit history. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10906 Track more trending AI papers in our academy: https://academy.dair.ai/

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