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Check what an agent skill needs before you install it: 3,134 skills want an account or key

Before you install an agent skill, read its SKILL.md frontmatter and body for environment variables, CLIs and sign-in steps, then open every file it links to. In our census of 2026-10-30, 3,134 of the 16,798 skills with a stored prerequisite list (18.7%) named an account, login or API key. An empty…

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  1. 2026-11-02 11:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Check what an agent skill needs before you install it: 3,134 skills want an account or key

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