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Last Brew Time: Jun 9, 2026, 7:35 AM PT

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The center of gravity has shifted from building models to taming the coding agents we already have

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Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

Agent Skills is a fast-rising, high-credibility skill pack for AI coding agents from Addy Osmani (engineering lead on Google Chrome), packaging Google-style engineering practices into portable markdown skills that work across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI. Growth has been exceptional and the ecosystem is active, with only minor install bugs reported.

  • ~49,600 GitHub stars and 5,500+ forks in roughly four months since a February 2026 launch
  • Authored by Addy Osmani, engineering lead on Google Chrome, drawing on Software Engineering at Google practices
  • 22 lifecycle skills plus 7 slash commands, portable across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI
  • Actively amplified across X by AI-dev creators and covered in hands-on YouTube walkthroughs
  • Reported issues are minor and operational, such as a setup hook failing when the plugin path contains a space

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What People Are Saying

  • "from Google just dropped his new Agent Skills and it's incredible"X reply

  • "brings 19 engineering skills inspired by Google best practices"X reply

  • "this 22-skill setup can 10x performance"YouTube post

  • "strengthen security skills: threat modeling, SSRF, supply chain"GitHub issue

  • "add web-performance-auditor persona and /webperf command"GitHub issue

  • "SessionStart hook fails when plugin path contains a space"GitHub issue

  • "how to set up on an existing project?"GitHub issue

GitHub48.4K

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

Market Signal

Why It Has Market Pull

Goose is one of the most credible open-source AI coding agents available today: originally built inside Block, it was donated to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation and now sits alongside MCP as community-governed infrastructure. Adoption is broad and the project ships constantly, though some users still find its file-editing behavior overly aggressive.

  • ~48,000 GitHub stars and 5,000+ forks, with the original repository now redirecting to the foundation-governed home
  • Latest release v1.37.0 shipped in June 2026 on a near-weekly cadence
  • Governed by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation after Block donated the project in late 2025
  • Model-agnostic: runs against any LLM and extends through MCP with a large catalog of community extensions
  • Long-term reliability is mixed: praised for small additive edits, criticized for being too aggressive on larger changes

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What People Are Saying

  • "results are quite good for small, additive features"HN comment

  • "I actually really like the approach they are taking"HN comment

  • "far too aggressive with tweaking files"HN comment

  • "the process literally doesn't save me any time"HN comment

  • "requires you to set up a remote provider first"HN comment

  • "MCP custom extensions not registering tools"GitHub issue

  • "extension manager tools listed but not callable"GitHub issue

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GitHub

FULL Augment Code, Claude Code, Cluely, CodeBuddy, Comet, Cursor, Devin AI, Junie, Kiro, Leap.new, Lovable, Manus, NotionAI, Orchids.app, Perplexity, Poke, Qoder, Replit, Same.dev, Trae, Traycer AI, VSCode Agent, Warp.dev, Windsurf, Xcode, Z.ai Code, Dia & v0. (And other Open Sourced) System Prompts, Internal Tools & AI Models

AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary

PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ agentic skills, commands, and plugins — from discovery to strategy, execution, launch, and growth.

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Create employee training that keeps up with your company. Honen turns team knowledge into interactive AI-led courses in seconds, complete with adaptive lessons, simulations, and learner insights. When your docs, tools, or processes change, courses update automatically.

browse.sh — an open catalog of browser automation skills for any website. Find reusable SKILL.md recipes that teach AI agents to complete tasks online, and install them with the browse CLI.

Vaani is a voice-preserving AI dubbing tool to help you dub in 40+ languages, in one go, at a fraction of the cost of a traditional dub session. Where other tools give you a generic AI voice and lips that drift off-beat, Vaani clones your voice, preserves your music, and holds the meaning across languages, with frame-accurate lip sync. Built for anyone creating videos, from creators and brands to media companies, OTTs and studios.

Run your Claude AI artifacts natively on your Mac, fully offline. No browser. No cloud. Instant playback. Claude Artifact Player lets you open and run the interactive files that Claude's Artifacts feature generates — HTML pages, React JSX components, and TypeScript TSX files — directly on your Mac, without a browser and without uploading anything anywhere.

Supaste is a local-first clipboard and screenshot history app for Mac. Save copied text, links, images, files, code, colors, and screenshots in a beautiful searchable timeline.

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

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Hi HN, not sure if anyone would be interested, but just wanted to share that I've been maintaining my small tool called 'lowfat' that helps me filters some of my verbose CLI output. It's a single binary, works as an agent hook or a shell wrapper. It has a plugin system to customize filters per command. The idea is pretty simple: agents don't need the full kubectl get -o yaml or any 10k-line dump to make decisions. So that lowfat sits in between, strips the noise, and passes through what matters.... (154 points, 77 comments).

Hi HN! We’re Jimmy and Ray. Jimmy is a Thiel Fellow with a Ph. D. from MIT who has worked on programming tools for 15 years; Ray became VP of Sales at a $2B company when he was 19 and has built side-businesses vibe-coding. Last year, we set to answer the question “If AI can write code 100x faster, then why aren’t you shipping 100x faster?” What we learned shocked us — even fairly nontechnical people and solo founders told us they were spending more than half of their development time reading the... (53 points, 26 comments).

At my work they provided a single Claude subscription for everyone on the team. To be honest I like kiro better as it provides a way better SDD management. But the company can't provide it and I can't afford it yet. Turns out I had the skill creator skill in my claude instance so I made use of it to create this Skill. I made it fully by using Claude but I wanted to make it open source, so I asked it to help me make tests and preparations for it, even a CI to run python tests. Well, we got this r... (40 points, 17 comments).

I’ve spent the last seven months building a tool I wish I’d had in my previous roles. MimicScribe is a macOS menu bar app that fits the "AI notetaker" category. It has accurate on-device speaker identification (a first possibly?), real-time meeting talking points for discovery calls, and a fully keyboard- and voice-driven interface. I believe the accuracy of the speaker ID system is its biggest strength. I used fluid audio’s port of ( https://github.com/fluidInference/FluidAudio ) Pyannote's com... (32 points, 9 comments).

Hey I'm Will from the Prisma team, engineering manager and also the lead developer on Prisma Next. I'd like to introduce you all to the next version of Prisma: a full rewrite in TypeScript that builds on the established patterns in Prisma and comes with a family of skills that integrate it into whatever AI tooling you're using in 2026. (Read the announcement on our blog here: https://pris.ly/pn-ea ) The three topics in the title are brand new concepts in Prisma Next so let me give you a quick ru... (13 points, 2 comments).

nightwatch is a local-first, read-only layer on top of your monitoring. it groups alert storm into incidents, flags noisy checks and has an agent that can investigate for you live systems. You can e.g. jump from the incident into the agent directly. the reason for this weekend project is that we had a kubernetes upgrade that went wrong, and at some point a rollback wasn't possible anymore, so it had to be fixed live during the night while several problems came together. We run a lot of different... (32 points, 9 comments).

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Generate any application by Vibe Coding it DeepSite is a Vibe Coding Platform designed to make coding smarter and more efficient. Tailored for developers, data scientists, and AI engineers, it integrates generative AI into your coding projects to enhance creativity and productivity. DeepSite v4 is a Hugging Face Space tagged with docker, region:us. It has 16617 likes on Hugging Face.

Track, rank and evaluate open LLMs and chatbots Modern React interface for comparing Large Language Models (LLMs) in an open and reproducible way. 📊 Interactive table with advanced sorting and filtering 🔍 Semantic model search 📌 Pin models for comparison 📱 Responsive and modern interface 🎨 Dark/Light mode ⚡️ Optimized performance with virtualization The project is split into two main parts: React Material-UI TanStack Table & Virtual Express.js FastAPI Hugging Face API Docker The application is containerized using Docker and can be run using: Open LLM Leaderboard is a Hugging Face Space tagged with docker, leaderboard, modality:text, submission:automatic, test:public. It has 14010 likes on Hu...

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Create your own AI comic with a single prompt Last release: AI Comic Factory 1.2 The AI Comic Factory has an official website: aicomicfactory.app For more information about my other projects please check linktr.ee/FLNGR. If you like the AI Comic Factory, let me know! I am always creating new spaces and exploring new ideas for demos, meaning I don't have much time to take care of all of them (I wish I could clone myself or ask robots to do it). If you appreciate the AI Comic Factory and would like to leave a tip, that would be very kind 🫶 First, I would like to highlight that everything is open-source (see here, here, here, here). However the project isn't a monolithic Space that can be dupli...

Kolors Virtual Try-On is a Hugging Face Space tagged with gradio, region:us. It has 10102 likes on Hugging Face.

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Wan2.2 Animate is a Hugging Face Space tagged with gradio, region:us. It has 5118 likes on Hugging Face.

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AudioCraft is a PyTorch library for deep learning research on audio generation. AudioCraft contains inference and training code for two state-of-the-art AI generative models producing high-quality audio: AudioGen and MusicGen. Installation AudioCraft requires Python 3.9, PyTorch 2.0.0. To install AudioCraft, you can run the following: We also recommend having ffmpeg installed, either through your system or Anaconda: At the moment, AudioCraft contains the training code and inference code for: MusicGen: A state-of-the-art controllable text-to-music model. AudioGen: A state-of-the-art text-to-sound model. EnCodec: A state-of-the-art high fidelity neural audio codec. Multi Band Diffusion: An EnC...

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