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Show HN: SkillScout, ranking AI tools by how you work instead of popularity

SkillScout launched as a free tool that ranks AI skills, plugins, MCP servers and apps against a user's own work profile rather than by popularity, in a market the launch post puts at more than 200,000 such tools. The service asks a user's existing AI assistant to write a profile of the areas they use it for and where it falls short, then scores each tool against those gaps, returning picks in about two minutes. SkillScout states its server never saves the profile.

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Show HN: SkillScout, ranking AI tools by how you work instead of popularity
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Skills, plugins, MCP servers and apps. New ones arrive every day, and there are now more than 200,000 of them.

Every list ranks what is popular. None of them know how you work, so you are left guessing which tool is worth your time.

Your AI already knows how you work. Ask it, and it writes a profile of the areas you use it for and where it falls short.

SkillScout gives every tool a score for you and ranks them against your gaps, not by how popular they are.

Your picks arrive in about two minutes. SkillScout is free, and its server never saves your profile. Open SkillScout.

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