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We tested the 20 most-installed agent skills with and without the skill. The most-installed one came out worse.

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skills.sh ranks agent skills by installs. Installs tell you a skill is popular. They don't tell you whether it changes what the agent actually writes. So we took the top 20 skills from the skills.sh snapshot of 17 Oct and ran each one twice on the same tasks: once with the skill loaded, once withou…

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  1. 2026-10-19 02:43 · DEV Community — AI
    We tested the 20 most-installed agent skills with and without the skill. The most-installed one came out worse.

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