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AI Skills · Open-source software · Adoption research

Open does not mean
zero-risk.

We review what a project helps you do, what it can access, how it is licensed, whether it is maintained, and how to remove it. Stars are dated discovery signals—not the verdict.

5 reviewed profilesReviewed 2026-08-20No affiliate ranking
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A publication gate before a project becomes a page

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Identifiable license and commercial-use boundary

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Installation and complete removal path

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File, command, network, telemetry, and MCP behavior reviewed

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Maintenance, release, or security evidence available

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Product Hunt signals, checked against GitHub

Observed 2026-08-27. Rankings and follower counts can change; every snapshot below states what it proves and what remains untested.

Review published

T3 Code

Promoted to a complete adoption review. The decision is not its chart position, but whether multi-agent control justifies a wider permission radius across terminals, repositories, and remote sessions.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 20,101 stars · 4,743 forks · pushed 2026-08-23 · MIT
Next evidence gate

Validate Supervised mode, remote-session revocation, and background-service removal in a disposable worktree.

Watchlist

Toolport

Kept on the watchlist. Lazy MCP discovery may reduce standing context, but vendor benchmarks cannot be generalized to every model, tool set, and task.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 184 stars · 49 forks · pushed 2026-08-23 · MIT
Next evidence gate

Reproduce token use at equal task success and verify keychain storage, tool quarantine, sharing behavior, and complete removal.

Watchlist

Hotcell

Kept on the watchlist. Self-hosted sandboxes and default-deny egress can matter to buyers, but the project is young and launch attention cannot substitute for isolation testing.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 17 stars · 3 forks · last pushed 2026-08-01 · Apache-2.0
Next evidence gate

Validate container-escape boundaries, per-sandbox token lifetime, egress allowlists, resource ceilings, and cleanup residue.

Watchlist

Open Index

Added to the watchlist. A structured context graph can be easier to audit than ever-growing Markdown, but writable-by-default MCP, remote serving, and persistent state widen permission and backup boundaries.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 106 stars · 4 forks · last pushed 2026-08-12 · MIT
Next evidence gate

Compare read-only with the writable default and verify tokens, single-writer limits, backup recovery, connector provenance, and complete removal.

Watchlist

envfix

Added to the watchlist. Zero dependencies, secret-safe output, and Git checks for .env files have clear value, but both the project and real-world evidence are very early.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 8 stars · 1 fork · last pushed 2026-08-10 · MIT
Next evidence gate

Test fix mode, CI output, and removal residue in disposable repositories with missing, duplicate, empty, and tracked .env files.

Watchlist

Open Analytics

Added to the watchlist. It combines cookieless analytics, funnels, revenue attribution, self-hosting, and MCP, but a midnight identity rotation weakens cross-day journeys; using identify reopens personal-data, consent, and deletion questions.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 353 stars · 33 forks · 100 commits · AGPL-3.0 (observed 2026-08-27)
Next evidence gate

Compare page, source, and funnel counts against GA4 on the same anonymous traffic; verify GPC/DNT, Stripe read-only scope, export and deletion, and AGPL source-offer duties for modified network services.

Watchlist

Compound Engineering

Added to the watchlist. Its 33 skills connect requirements, planning, work, simplification, review, and captured learning for quality-minded teams. The autonomous lfg flow can edit, commit, push, open a PR, and watch CI, giving it a much wider permission radius than a prompt library.

Observed repository snapshotGitHub: 24.6k stars · 2.0k forks · 1,283 commits · MIT (observed 2026-08-27)
Next evidence gate

Run only requirements and planning in a secret-free disposable worktree, then open write, test, Git, and remote permissions one at a time; verify cross-host install, update, stale-cache cleanup, and complete removal.

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Reviewed adoption paths

Official skill examples, community catalogs, workflow frameworks, self-hosted data tools, and agent control planes solve different jobs.

SEO intelligenceConditional recommendation

OpenSEO

A fit for small teams that want keyword, backlink, site-audit, GSC, and agent workflows in a controllable interface. Do not treat it as a complete Ahrefs or Semrush replacement with its own index, zero external data cost, or production SEO data that can be exposed to agents without review.

Adoption status
Conditional
License
MIT
Review due
2026-09-15
Snapshot
12,679 · Fork 1,450 · 2026-08-20
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Agent control planeConditional recommendation

T3 Code

A fit for technical teams already using Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Grok Build, or OpenCode that want one desktop, web, or mobile control surface for local agent sessions. It is not a standalone model subscription, security boundary, or maintenance-free cloud development environment.

Adoption status
Conditional
License
MIT
Review due
2026-09-19
Snapshot
20,101 · Fork 4,743 · 2026-08-23
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Skill examplesOfficial reference

Anthropic Skills

A strong official reference for skill structure, progressive disclosure, and complex document workflows. Do not treat the whole repository as one uniformly licensed, production-ready skill bundle.

Adoption status
Reference only
License
Mixed by directory
Review due
2026-11-10
Snapshot
170,496 · Fork 20,280 · 2026-08-20
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Community catalogConditional recommendation

Awesome Copilot

A useful discovery layer for Copilot skills, agents, instructions, hooks, and plugins. Inclusion or high stars are not a security audit or proof of fit.

Adoption status
Conditional
License
MIT
Review due
2026-11-10
Snapshot
38,018 · Fork 4,800 · 2026-08-20
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Workflow frameworkConditional recommendation

Superpowers

Fits agentic coding teams that want brainstorming, planning, testing, debugging, and review enforced as a workflow. It is a poor fit for occasional lightweight skill use or teams unwilling to accept process constraints.

Adoption status
Conditional
License
MIT
Review due
2026-11-10
Snapshot
274,308 · Fork 24,557 · 2026-08-20
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Do not install before you can reverse the decision.

Use a temporary project, remove sensitive data, record file and network behavior, compare one real task against a no-skill baseline, and prove the uninstall path.

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