MONTHLY REPORT
State of agent skills, October 2026
Generated on Nov 2, 2026 from the hotskills.dev data.
Totals at month end
- Repositories tracked
- 6,534
- Unique skills
- 86,525
- Stars
- 10,037,309
Growth over the previous month
- Stars added
- +987,550 +12.0%
- Repositories added
- +513 +8.5%
Growth counts only the 1,187 repositories with a star count at both month ends.
Show the numbers
| Month | Stars |
|---|---|
| September 2026 | 8,211,558 |
| October 2026 | 10,037,309 |
New this month
513 repositories were created this month.
- wheresryan22/anatomy 23,335 stars · created Oct 8, 2026
- Jakeschincariol/replica-skill 6,814 stars · created Oct 3, 2026
- alchaincyf/huashu-art-motion 5,860 stars · created Oct 6, 2026
- QingYunA/answer-me-with-html 4,966 stars · created Oct 2, 2026
- Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill 3,968 stars · created Oct 20, 2026
- openfilm/openfilm 3,908 stars · created Oct 4, 2026
- t3dotgg/tstack 2,546 stars · created Oct 24, 2026
- Jakeschincariol/founder-skill 2,281 stars · created Oct 7, 2026
- zhuyansen/new-term-radar 1,999 stars · created Oct 12, 2026
- alchaincyf/huashu-motion 1,940 stars · created Oct 18, 2026
Security levels
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| Security levels | Share |
|---|---|
| Instructions only | 10.1% |
| Local scripts | 12.3% |
| Network or broad shell | 77.6% |
Shares of the 849 repositories checked at their current commit; 5,685 are not checked yet. Automated signals, not a guarantee.
Token cost (estimate)
| Part | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontmatter (always loaded) | 74 | 114 | 153 |
| SKILL.md (on activation) | 737 | 1,353 | 2,394 |
Estimated tokens over 52,571 unique skills.
Project health
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| Project health | Share |
|---|---|
| Active | 74.1% |
| Slowing | 25.9% |
| Abandoned | 0.0% |
5,487 repositories have no health data yet.
Fastest-growing categories
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| Fastest-growing categories | Stars added |
|---|---|
| Engineering | +541,682 stars · 624 repositories |
| Design | +129,839 stars · 73 repositories |
| Data | +56,867 stars · 25 repositories |
| Security | +43,977 stars · 37 repositories |
| Productivity | +35,447 stars · 16 repositories |
| Research | +35,318 stars · 54 repositories |
| Marketing | +34,354 stars · 36 repositories |
| Operations | +28,471 stars · 21 repositories |
| Writing | +22,224 stars · 43 repositories |
| Education | +19,244 stars · 13 repositories |
Security level changes
16 moved to a riskier level and 28 to a safer one.
- AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- AgriciDaniel/claude-ads Instructions only → Network or broad shell on Oct 27, 2026
- AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian Instructions only → Network or broad shell on Oct 27, 2026
- DietrichGebert/ponytail Instructions only → Local scripts on Oct 27, 2026
- Fokkyp/SoftwareCopyright-Skill Network or broad shell → Local scripts on Oct 27, 2026
- Hao0321/video-autopilot-kit Local scripts → Network or broad shell on Oct 27, 2026
- Hello-Mr-Crab/pywechat Network or broad shell → Local scripts on Oct 27, 2026
- Leonxlnx/unlazy Network or broad shell → Local scripts on Oct 27, 2026
- LiamGvchi/gc-minimal-zine-poster Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- SawyerHood/dev-browser Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- alibaba/open-code-review Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- googleworkspace/cli Instructions only → Network or broad shell on Oct 27, 2026
- kepano/obsidian-skills Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- langchain-ai/deepagents Network or broad shell → Local scripts on Oct 27, 2026
- latent-spaces/brag Local scripts → Network or broad shell on Oct 27, 2026
- luongnv89/claude-howto Local scripts → Network or broad shell on Oct 27, 2026
- op7418/Humanizer-zh Network or broad shell → Local scripts on Oct 27, 2026
- phuryn/pm-skills Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- vercel-labs/skills Network or broad shell → Instructions only on Oct 27, 2026
- ZzzLc0405/photo-abstract-editorial Instructions only → Network or broad shell on Oct 28, 2026
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.
