MONTHLY REPORT
State of agent skills, September 2026
Generated on Oct 28, 2026 from the hotskills.dev data.
Totals at month end
- Repositories tracked
- 6,076
- Unique skills
- 88,707
- Stars
- 8,211,558
Growth over the previous month
- Stars added
- +829,572 +11.3%
- Repositories added
- +404 +7.1%
Growth counts only the 1,136 repositories with a star count at both month ends.
New this month
404 repositories were created this month.
- yang0/handraw-style 3,866 stars · created Sep 5, 2026
- Vincentwei1021/anything2explainer 2,192 stars · created Sep 8, 2026
- EverettFish/holo-card-studio 1,840 stars · created Sep 7, 2026
- achimala/dream-loop 1,600 stars · created Sep 7, 2026
- jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills 1,462 stars · created Sep 6, 2026
- kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill 1,428 stars · created Sep 3, 2026
- larashero3-dotcom/lieflat-gongwen 1,236 stars · created Sep 2, 2026
- kaankiziltug/logo-design-skill 1,172 stars · created Sep 26, 2026
- mikehasa/golive-skill 1,108 stars · created Sep 23, 2026
- feitangyuan/onetake 1,070 stars · created Sep 26, 2026
Security levels
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| Security levels | Share |
|---|---|
| Instructions only | 13.7% |
| Local scripts | 7.1% |
| Network or broad shell | 79.2% |
Shares of the 701 repositories checked at their current commit; 5,375 are not checked yet. Automated signals, not a guarantee.
Token cost (estimate)
| Part | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontmatter (always loaded) | 67 | 97 | 146 |
| SKILL.md (on activation) | 849 | 1,606 | 2,769 |
Estimated tokens over 40,404 unique skills.
Project health
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| Project health | Share |
|---|---|
| Active | 73.2% |
| Slowing | 26.8% |
| Abandoned | 0.0% |
5,070 repositories have no health data yet.
Fastest-growing categories
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| Fastest-growing categories | Stars added |
|---|---|
| Engineering | +482,606 stars · 599 repositories |
| Design | +68,570 stars · 66 repositories |
| Productivity | +54,105 stars · 13 repositories |
| Data | +39,182 stars · 24 repositories |
| Security | +32,788 stars · 37 repositories |
| Research | +31,236 stars · 52 repositories |
| Operations | +25,351 stars · 21 repositories |
| Writing | +24,773 stars · 40 repositories |
| Marketing | +21,300 stars · 35 repositories |
| Uncategorized | +12,697 stars · 163 repositories |
Security level changes
0 moved to a riskier level and 0 to a safer one.
About these numbers
- Stars are end-of-day UTC values; month boundaries are Europe/Rome, so the edges can differ by an hour or two.
- Admission, security levels, health and categories are the current values, not the ones at month end.
- Unique skills are counted on the top 1000 repositories by stars, like the skills tracked on the site.
- Growth uses only repositories with a star count at both month ends (repos_with_history).
- Star history before the first real snapshot was reconstructed from GitHub star history (new stars per day; unstars are not visible): an estimate.
- Token counts are estimates.
