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Show HN: SkillWorks – every Claude Code skill, scored on whether it loads

SkillWorks, a nightly index of Claude Code skills, has scored 503,570 listings and found 48,190 that fail to load, according to data rebuilt on 2026-08-22. The project, which reads 23,438 repositories, scores each artifact 0–100 based on four weighted components: works (40%), maintained (25%), adopted (20%), and docs (15%).

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Show HN: SkillWorks – every Claude Code skill, scored on whether it loads
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Read from the source and scored 0–100 on four weighted components, every night.

503,570 listings · 392,227 skills · 80,636 subagents · 23,442 plugins · 7265 marketplaces · 6,267 with a tracked install count · 48190 that do not load · rebuilt 2026-08-22

Artifact Score Type works 40 maint 25 adopt 20 docs 15 Reach Last commit
[find-skills](/skills/vercel-labs/skills/find-skills)vercel-labs/skills

[ui-ux-pro-max](/skills/nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill/ui-ux-pro-max)nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill

[pptx](/skills/anthropics/skills/pptx)anthropics/skills

[docx](/skills/anthropics/skills/docx)anthropics/skills

[mcp-builder](/skills/anthropics/skills/mcp-builder)anthropics/skills

[turborepo](/skills/vercel/turborepo/turborepo)vercel/turborepo

[vercel-optimize](/skills/vercel-labs/agent-skills/vercel-optimize)vercel-labs/agent-skills

[sandbox-bench](/skills/vercel/next.js/sandbox-bench)vercel/next.js

[microsoft-foundry](/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/microsoft-foundry)microsoft/azure-skills

[azure-quotas](/skills/microsoft/azure-skills/azure-quotas)microsoft/azure-skills

Browse all 504kEvery row links to the checks it passed, the checks it failed, and the facts each component was computed from.

The index, in numbers #

2026-08-22Listings scored 503,570

2026-08-22Skills, subagents, plugins and marketplace repositories, every one of them read from the file rather than from a list somebody maintains.Repositories read

23,438

Every repository opened and read so far, across all runs to date. Found through GitHub topic and code search, the skills.sh registry, the large awesome-lists, and anything submitted here.Will not load

48,190

2026-08-22Each one fails a check Claude Code needs to register it at all. Published in full at/brokenrather than quietly dropped.

With a tracked install count

6,267

2026-08-22Real installs from the skills.sh registry. Everything else falls back to repository stars, and says which of the two it is showing.## Four things Claude Code can load

Each is a different file shape with a different set of ways to be broken, so each is indexed and scored separately.

392,227

Skills

Folders of instructions Claude Code loads on demand, defined by a SKILL.md file.

80,636

Subagents

Named agents with their own prompt, model and tool allow-list, defined by a markdown file under agents/.

23,442

Plugins

Packaged bundles of skills, agents, hooks, MCP servers and LSP servers, installed from a marketplace repo.

7,265

Marketplaces

Repos that publish a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json at their root, which Claude Code adds as a plugin source with /plugin marketplace add.

What a README list cannot tell you #

The alternatives are an awesome-list nobody re-checks and a scraper that counts stars. Both answer “does this exist”. Neither answers “will this load”.

The question An awesome-list README SkillWorks
Does the frontmatter parse? Not checked Checked on every artifact, every night
Are the files it references in the repository? Not checked Resolved, and listed by name where they are missing
How many are broken right now? Unknown 48190 of 503,570, published at

How the score is built #

The full method Four weighted components, all four read straight from the repository. No execution, no model judging anything, no hand curation, and no way to buy a point.

40% of the score

Works

Does it parse, does it declare a name and a description, does it reference files that are actually there. A failure here is what sets the will-not-load verdict.

25% of the score

Maintained

Days since the last commit on the repository that publishes it, on a steep curve, and whether that repository has been archived.

20% of the score

Adopted

Install counts from the skills.sh registry where they exist; repository stars and 30-day star velocity where they do not.

15% of the score

Documented

Length of the instructions, worked examples, bundled scripts and references — how much a model actually has to go on.

48190 of them will not load #

All 48190 Popular, starred, and structurally broken. This is the half of the index the other directories do not publish, and it is most of the reason this one exists — these are the six with the largest audiences.

Artifact What stopped it Reach
[vercel-react-native-skills](/skills/vercel-labs/agent-skills/vercel-react-native-skills)vercel-labs/agent-skills

[convex-create-component](/skills/get-convex/agent-skills/convex-create-component)get-convex/agent-skills

[momentic-result-classification](/skills/momentic-ai/skills/momentic-result-classification)momentic-ai/skills

[clerk-setup](/skills/clerk/skills/clerk-setup)clerk/skills

[clerk-nextjs-patterns](/skills/clerk/skills/clerk-nextjs-patterns)clerk/skills

By what it is for #

All categories Assigned from the artifact’s own name, description and repository topics by deterministic keyword rules, applied fresh every night. Counts are of listings that pass every structural check.

Nobody else re-reads the files #

Every list of Claude Code skills was assembled once and has been decaying ever since. A repository is archived, a frontmatter block is edited into something that no longer parses, a referenced file is renamed — and the list recommending it stays exactly where it was. Nothing on it says whether any of it still works, because nothing on it ever checked.

This index reads the file. Every SKILL.md, every agent markdown file, every plugin and marketplace manifest is fetched from the repository that publishes it and put through the same structural checks Claude Code’s own applies, once a night. 48190 of the 503,570 listings here fail one of them, and they stay listed, with the check they failed named on the row — a directory that hides its own bad results is a list again.

The score is four measured components and nothing else. No model is asked whether a skill is good, nothing is executed in a sandbox, nobody curates, and sponsorship sits outside the ranking and cannot move a number. All of that is written down at /methodology before it says anything else.

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