The State of AI Agent Skills 2026
As of 2026, the Skillselion catalog tracks 82,494 AI coding-agent tools - 59,807 agent skills, 9,891 MCP servers and 10,411 marketplaces - with 214M combined installs. Here's what the agent-tooling ecosystem looks like for developers shipping with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
Source: the Skillselion catalog (skills.sh registry & GitHub), 2026. Data as of November 5, 2026. Free to cite with a link.
The ecosystem by tool type
Agent skills and MCP servers make up the overwhelming majority of the catalog - skills are the largest single category, with MCP servers close behind as the connective tissue that gives agents real-world tools. Marketplaces, which bundle and distribute the rest, are a smaller but structurally important slice.
Tools by build stage
The catalog is heavily weighted toward the Build phase - the hands-on-keyboard work of writing the product - and much thinner across the earlier and later stages, where the agent-tooling ecosystem is still maturing and a new tool faces the least competition.
The biggest categories
By subject, developer- and AI-tooling categories dominate - unsurprising for tools built to help engineers build with agents. The long tail (finance, data, infrastructure) shows the ecosystem spreading well beyond pure coding.
The most-installed agent skills
| # | Agent skill | By | Stars | Installs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find Skills | vercel-labs | 38.1k | 4M |
| 2 | Grill Me | mattpocock | 313k | 1M |
| 3 | Hyperframes Cli | heygen-com | 79k | 1M |
| 4 | Agent Browser | vercel-labs | 45.5k | 1M |
| 5 | Hyperframes | heygen-com | 79k | 1M |
| 6 | Grill With Docs | mattpocock | 313k | 1M |
| 7 | Media Use | heygen-com | 79k | 1M |
| 8 | Improve Codebase Architecture | mattpocock | 313k | 1M |
The most-starred mcp servers
| # | MCP server | By | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labelhead Artist Momentum MCP | paperclipai | 111k |
| 2 | Scrapling MCP | D4Vinci | 96.7k |
| 3 | Sequential Thinking MCP | modelcontextprotocol | 91.8k |
| 4 | Context7 MCP | upstash | 64.2k |
| 5 | Chrome DevTools MCP | ChromeDevTools | 54.8k |
| 6 | Metabase MCP | metabase | 50.2k |
| 7 | Codebase Memory MCP | DeusData | 48.1k |
| 8 | PostHog MCP | PostHog | 40.6k |
The most-starred marketplaces
| # | Marketplace | By | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Superpowers | Jesse Vincent | 312k |
| 2 | Ecc | Affaan Mustafa | 297k |
| 3 | Anthropic Agent Skills | Keith Lazuka | 187k |
| 4 | Ponytail | Dietrich Gebert | 185k |
| 5 | Prompts.Chat | Fatih Kadir Akın | 176k |
| 6 | Ui Ux Pro Max Skill | nextlevelbuilder | 145k |
| 7 | Addy Agent Skills | Addy Osmani | 113k |
| 8 | Claude Mem | Alex Newman | 113k |
How this report is compiled
Every figure is a live count over the Skillselion catalog - agent skills, MCP servers and marketplaces ingested from the skills.sh registry and GitHub, updated automatically and ranked by real installs. Install counts come from the registry; star counts from GitHub. The numbers regenerate daily, so this page always reflects the current state of the ecosystem rather than a frozen snapshot.
Free to cite. Reference these figures in articles, talks or research with a link to this page (https://skillselion.com/state-of-ai-agent-skills-2026). Browse the full catalog by type or best-of phase.
Need numbers that will not move? Because this page recounts daily, a figure you cite today may read differently tomorrow. For a frozen, dated edition — fixed numbers, a stated method and the raw dataset as a download — see the Agent Economy Census, the Agent Skill Security Census, the Agent Skill Clone Census, or browse every edition in Skillselion Research. Standing method: How Skillselion Research is done. For one page of headline numbers with their sources, see AI Agent Statistics.
Go deeper with the guides: what Claude Code skills are, how to install a skill, Matt Pocock's skills, mapped, and the full guides library.