Why is everyone using these?
Resources: https://thenextnewthing.ai/l/top-skills-sep16
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Andrew Warner and Robbie Abed break down the 10 most-installed AI skills from GitHub, including skills that help agents find other skills, improve software design, browse the web, follow engineering best practices, and become better tutors.
Andrew and Robbie start with Find Skills, a Vercel skill that works like an app store for AI skills, helping agents discover and install the right capabilities for a task. They then explore Matt Pocock’s Grill Me and Grilling skills, which push AI to ask better questions and stress-test ideas before work begins. Anthropic’s Frontend Design skill is next, helping agents create more distinctive interfaces instead of falling into the familiar “AI-generated” design patterns. They also look at Vercel’s Agent Browser, which gives agents headless control of a web browser, and Matt Pocock’s setup skill for bringing engineering workflows and best practices into a repository.
The list also includes Vercel’s React Best Practices skill, which helps agents follow performance recommendations for React and Next.js, Lark Doc for interacting with ByteDance’s workplace platform, and Matt Pocock’s Teach skill, which turns an AI agent into a persistent tutor that builds lessons over time and remembers what you've already learned. Finally, they explore Vercel’s Web Design Guidelines, covering accessibility, forms, typography, animation, and other practical web standards. Throughout the episode, Andrew and Robbie show what these skills actually do, how they work together, and why packaging repeatable workflows into skills can make AI agents more capable.
Links featured:
- **find-skills** — vercel-labs/skills — (https://github.com/vercel-labs..../skills/blob/main/sk
- **grill-me** — mattpocock/skills — (https://github.com/mattpocock/....skills/blob/main/ski
- **frontend-design** — anthropics/skills — (https://github.com/anthropics/....skills/blob/main/ski
- **agent-browser** — vercel-labs/agent-browser — (https://github.com/vercel-labs..../agent-browser/blob/
- **setup-matt-pocock-skills** — mattpocock/skills — (https://github.com/mattpocock/....skills/blob/main/ski
- **vercel-react-best-practices** — vercel-labs/agent-skills — (https://github.com/vercel-labs..../agent-skills/blob/m
- **grilling** — mattpocock/skills — (https://github.com/mattpocock/....skills/blob/main/ski
- **lark-doc** — (https://github.com/larksuite/c....li/blob/main/skills/
- **teach** — mattpocock/skills — (https://github.com/mattpocock/....skills/blob/main/ski
- **web-design-guidelines** — vercel-labs/agent-skills — (https://github.com/vercel-labs..../agent-skills/blob/m
00:00 - Top 10 AI Skills
00:27 - Find Skills
01:03 - Grill Me
02:15 - Frontend Design
03:02 - Robbie Abed & NoMiddle
03:54 - Agent Browser
05:33 - Setup Matt Pocock Skills
06:27 - Vercel React Best Practices
07:39 - Grilling
08:42 - Lark Doc
09:36 - Teach
10:48 - Web Design Guidelines
11:24 - Why AI Skills Are Easy to Use
12:18 - Deep Dive With Matt Pocock
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