Observed Signal · May 24, 2026 · Technical Release · Source: DEV Community · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Neutral
Indexing 2,000 Claude Code Skills by Installs
A developer built orangebot.ai/skills, a ranked, filterable index of 1,998 public Claude Code skills sorted by weekly install volume, and describes the stack, SEO fixes, and what install data reveals about AI coding in 2026. The site uses a static JSON pipeline (skills_index.json) regenerated by a daily Python scraper, a Next.js 16 App Router front end with server-rendered top lists and client interactive islands, and Firebase hosting. The author published four commits (shipped 2026-05-23) to SSR key pages, clean the sitemap, add visible navigation, and create 50 skill detail pages. Install data shows a power-law distribution (top publishers: Microsoft, inferen-sh, Vercel) and the #1 skill—find-skills (vercel-labs)—at 753,732 weekly installs, suggesting discovery skills and curated publisher bundles are major distribution levers for agent ecosystems.
Signals the growing importance of skills and discovery as distribution primitives in agent/LLM ecosystems; measurable install-volume data and publisher concentration (Microsoft, Vercel, inferen-sh) are relevant to platform and developer-distribution strategies, but this is a niche developer-tooling release rather than a major platform policy change.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- orangebot.ai/skills is a ranked, filterable index of 1,998 public Claude Code skills sorted by weekly install volume.
- The index is produced as a single public JSON file (public/data/skills_index.json, ~2.5MB) generated by a Python scraper and read by a Next.js site (revalidate every 6 hours).
- The top skill in the index is find-skills (vercel-labs/skills) with 753,732 weekly installs.
- Microsoft's github-copilot-for-azure family ships 22 skills totaling 2,858,606 installs; the full index reports ~19.2M cumulative weekly installs across 401 publishers.
- Four commits shipped on 2026-05-23 implementing SSR for hub pages, sitemap cleanup, visible homepage navigation, and 50 skill detail pages, bringing the sitemap to 219 URLs.
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