• 5minread The room was full of people who had already used skills. • Tuesday night we hosted Skills Night in San Francisco, an event for developers building on and aroundskills.sh, the open skills ecosystem we’ve been growing since the idea started as a single weekend of writing. • What began as Shu Ding sitting down to document everything he knows about React has grown into over 69,000 skills, 2 million skill CLI installs, and a community moving incredibly fast. • Skills Night is heading to New York Join us in New York for our next skills.sh event. • See from developers how they’re using skills to make their agents smarter. • Join us in New York Here is what we learned.

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  • Skills Night, a developer‑focused event hosted in San Francisco, highlighted the rapid growth of skills.sh, an open‑source ecosystem that now hosts over 69,000 skills and has seen more than 2 million CLI installs. The platform, created by Shu Ding to package React knowledge into reusable “skills,” offers a simple CLI for installing skills across multiple coding agents. As the library expands, quality and security concerns have prompted partnerships with Gen, Socket, and Snyk to audit and monitor skills, aiming to balance speed with safety. The next Skills Night will take place in New York, inviting developers to explore how skills are enhancing agent intelligence.
  • Skills Night, a developer gathering in San Francisco, highlighted the rapid expansion of the skills.sh ecosystem, now hosting over 69,000 reusable “skills” that power coding agents. The event traced the project’s origins to a weekend of React documentation by Shu Ding, which evolved into a CLI (npx skills) that installs skills across major agents and feeds telemetry to a public leaderboard. Rapid growth raised security concerns, prompting partnerships with Gen, Socket, and Snyk to audit and monitor skills for malicious code. The community plans to continue the event in New York, showcasing how developers are leveraging skills to enhance agent intelligence.

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