Skills Night: 69,000+ ways agents are getting smarter
By Steven Van ·
Vercel says its skills.sh ecosystem has passed 69,000 skills and 2 million CLI installs, and is adding security audits from Gen, Socket, and Snyk.
Vercel's skills.sh ecosystem, an open project for distributing knowledge to coding agents as markdown "skills," has grown to more than 69,000 skills and 2 million CLI installs since it began as a weekend project by engineer Shu Ding. The company shared the figures at a Skills Night event in San Francisco.
To address quality and security issues that came with the growth, Vercel announced audit partnerships with Gen, Socket, and Snyk. Socket said its static analysis combined with LLM-based checks catches things like a skill that looks clean as markdown but includes a Python file that opens a remote shell on install. The results will feed a new Audits leaderboard with per-skill assessments and recommendations.
Partners also showed demos of how they are using skills:
- Expo showed Claude Code driving native iOS feature upgrades, including new SwiftUI components and gesture-driven transitions, through Expo skills, along with a work-in-progress skill that reads the native iOS view hierarchy to fix keyboard handling bugs.
- Mintlify said it now auto-generates a skill for every documentation site it hosts, including Coinbase and Perplexity, and that coding agents account for 50% of traffic to those sites, up from 10% a year ago.
- Sentry built Warden, a harness that runs skills as linters on pull requests via GitHub Actions.
