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



















