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Developer tools · A few weeksAnywhere· Source · Sep 2026

Developers can't easily keep track of which agent skills they have installed or whether they still work.

Developers and teams who use agent skill files with AI coding agents

Where it stands

  1. Sourced (done)
  2. Kit (done)
  3. Wanted (next)
  4. Building
  5. Solved

How this problem came to be

  1. Found2 sourcesnews.ycombinator.com, agentskills.io
  2. Quoted3 claimseach checked against its page
  3. BriefWrittenand what solved looks like
  4. Market1 signals320 points on Hacker News
  5. Kit5 steps15 tools · 6 routes
  6. People0 want0 live it · 0 would test

The problem, broken down

Who it hurts
Developers and companies who collect skill files for AI coding agents.
The moment
When a skill silently stops being used, conflicts with another, or a team wants everyone on the same set.
What people do today
People keep skills in dotfiles with symlinks between agent folders, in private repos, or push them with company bootstrap scripts.
Why it's unsolved
Skills are plain folders shared across many different agents, so no single tool owns listing, checking and distributing them.
What solved looks like
A command-line tool that lists every skill installed across agents on a machine, flags duplicates and broken file references, checks each SKILL.md against the spec, and runs each skill's example prompts as a smoke test. Demonstrated on a folder of 20 community skills.

Evidence

Every claim is tied to the source it comes from
Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? (September 2026) ↗
  1. 1A September 2026 Ask HN thread asked how people find skills, keep them organized and make sure they actually work.
  2. 2Replies described dotfiles with symlinks, private GitHub repos and company bootstrap scripts, and one said distributing company-managed skills is ‘currently awkward’.
Agent Skills overview ↗
  1. 3Agent Skills is an open format: a folder with a SKILL.md file holding at least a name and a description, plus optional scripts and reference files.

Written from the cited sources. Anything they don't say is left as a question, not a guess.

Sources

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  1. [1]Agent Skills overview
  2. [2]Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? (September 2026)
What the source says, in short

A September 2026 Ask HN thread asked how people find skills, keep them organized and make sure they actually work. Replies described dotfiles with symlinks, private GitHub repos and company bootstrap scripts, and one said distributing company-managed skills is ‘currently awkward’. Agent Skills is an open format: a folder with a SKILL.md file holding at least a name and a description, plus optional scripts and reference files.

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How big this is, from the evidence

  • Hacker News ↗Builders' pull · Medium confidence320 points on Hacker News

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