Agent Skills (Tech Leads Club)
github.com/tech-leads-club/agent-skills- Category
- AI Agents
- Rank
- No. 811Tools index
Previous survey · No. 816 ·
- Type
- APP
- Builder
- tech-leads-club
- GitHub
- 6.2k stars
- Latest release
- skills-catalog-v0.17.8
- Date
About
A secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents.
What it does
It distributes packaged instructions, templates and reference material that teach coding agents specialized workflows. An interactive or scripted command-line client browses, downloads, caches, installs, updates and removes selected skills. A separate MCP server lets agents search the catalog before fetching detailed content.
Why it's ranked here
Its case rests on practical distribution plus unusually explicit supply-chain controls: open source content without binaries, prepublication scanning, pinned catalog versions, content hashes, guarded paths, lockfiles and audit records. Broad agent targeting and both human-guided and agent-native interfaces make the catalog operational, not merely a collection of prompts.
What's good
The installer handles multiple skills and agents, local or global scope, copy or symlink installation, updates, removal and cache management. An audit log records skill operations. Downloaded skills remain cached for offline use. The MCP interface uses progressive disclosure, letting agents search concise indexes before requesting instructions or bundled resources.
Tradeoffs
The command-line client fetches the catalog and skills from a CDN, so first-time acquisition depends on network availability. Only cached downloads support offline work. The MCP server is stricter: startup fails when its registry cannot be fetched. Documentation advertises Node 22 or newer, while root package metadata requires Node 24 or newer.
How to use it well
Use it when a team wants repeatable instruction packs across supported coding agents, with controlled installation and updates. The interactive wizard suits manual selection; scripted commands suit reproducible setup; MCP suits agent-led discovery. It does not replace the host coding agent, and skills that call external services still require those integrations.
Technical notes+
The root package.json defines a private ESM Nx monorepo with packages/* and libs/* workspaces, public npm publishing configuration, validation, security scanning, linting and Jest test scripts. packages/cli/src/index.ts uses Commander for scripted commands and Ink for interactive views, while packages/cli/src/ports.ts injects shared Node adapters into core logic. packages/mcp/src/main.ts starts FastMCP over stdio, fetches the registry before startup, builds search indexes and refreshes them on a timer. packages/mcp/src/cdn.ts resolves the catalog version from npm once per process and builds pinned jsDelivr URLs rather than mutable latest URLs. packages/mcp/src/utils.ts serves registry-declared bundled files except the main instruction document. packages/cli/jest.config.ts, packages/mcp/jest.config.ts and packages/marketplace/jest.config.ts configure Jest discovery and coverage output.
Observed
- License
- MIT
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Packaging
- Private npm and Nx monorepo with public CLI and MCP packages
- Install surface
- Runs through npx or a global npm installation
- Interfaces
- Interactive and scripted CLI, plus a stdio MCP server
- Runtime
- Root package metadata requires Node.js 24 or newer
- Agent support
- Lists support for Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Aider, Windsurf and additional coding agents
Read from README.md, package.json, packages/cli/jest.config.ts, packages/mcp/jest.config.ts, packages/marketplace/index.d.ts, packages/marketplace/jest.config.ts, packages/marketplace/next.config.mjs, packages/mcp/src/cdn.ts, packages/cli/src/app.tsx, packages/mcp/src/main.ts, packages/cli/src/index.ts, packages/cli/src/ports.ts, packages/cli/src/types.ts, packages/mcp/src/types.ts, packages/mcp/src/utils.ts.
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