Best skills for Idea (2026)
find-skills is the best skill for the Idea phase — 21.7k GitHub stars, 2M installs. Strong alternatives: find-skills and customer-research.
663 curated skills for builders in the Idea phase, ranked by real adoption (installs, then GitHub stars). Every pick links to install commands and trust signals.
Curated by Skillselion · ranked by adoption from the skills.sh registry & GitHub.
The top 10 skills for idea
| # | Skill | For | Stars | Installs | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find-skills Search skills.sh and install agent skill packages when you need a capability you do not have in the repo yet. | Claude Code | 21.7k | 2M | 0 |
| 2 | find-skills Search skills.sh, Clawhub, and GitHub in one run to shortlist installable agent skills with per-registry popularity, match relevance, and optional security scans. | Claude Code | 6 | 92.2k | 0 |
| 3 | customer-research Synthesize interviews, surveys, support tickets, reviews, and community signals into ICP insight, JTBD, and VOC so positioning and copy stop being guesswork. | Claude Code | 32.4k | 45.1k | 0 |
| 4 | ai-research-explore Run bounded, auditable exploratory research on top of an explicit current_research context without mixing trusted and candidate lanes. | Claude Code | 412 | 32.1k | 0 |
| 5 | competitor-profiling Turn a list of competitor URLs into structured competitive-intelligence markdown profiles for positioning, validation, and later comparison pages. | Claude Code | 32.4k | 28.3k | 0 |
| 6 | anysearch Give your coding agent real-time web search, 23 vertical domain queries, parallel batch lookup, and URL content extraction via AnySearch. | Claude Code | 2.7k | 27.8k | 0 |
| 7 | byted-web-search Give Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw agents live web and image search via Volcengine when answers need current facts, sources, or verification. | Claude Code | 0 | 23.7k | 0 |
| 8 | baoyu-url-to-markdown Fetch almost any URL and turn it into clean markdown on disk using the baoyu-fetch CLI with site-specific adapters and Chrome CDP. | Claude Code | 20.9k | 22.7k | 0 |
| 9 | tavily-search Run LLM-oriented web search from the agent via the Tavily CLI when you need fresh sources, news, or domain-filtered results. | Claude Code | 363 | 20.8k | 0 |
| 10 | gws-keep Create, list, update, and delete Google Keep notes through gws so your agent can capture research snippets and todos without leaving the terminal. | Claude Code | 26.9k | 19.2k | 0 |
Common questions
What is the best skill for the Idea phase?
find-skills is the top-ranked skill for Idea, with 2M installs and 21.7k GitHub stars — Search skills.sh and install agent skill packages when you need a capability you do not have in the repo yet..
What are the best alternatives to find-skills for idea?
Strong alternatives ranked just behind find-skills are find-skills and customer-research. All 663 options are compared in the table above, ranked by real adoption.
How do I install find-skills?
Run: npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills
How are these skills ranked?
By real adoption — installs first, then GitHub stars — across the 663 curated skills tagged to the Idea phase. Data from the skills.sh registry and GitHub.
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