bestskills.dev - A curated site for selected skills and reviews

deepnotes — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:40:07 +0000

Skills are genuinely useful, but one frustrating thing is: finding a good one that actually fits my needs is not easy.

Recently, I wanted to draw an architecture diagram for my website. I headed over to skills.sh and searched for the keyword architecture diagram, and there were 36 Skills in total. I tried several of the top-ranked ones, but unfortunately none of them worked out for me.

Ironically, a lesser-known Skill with only a few hundred installs ended up being the perfect fit. It renders architecture diagrams with HTML, which gives far better tweakability compared to SVG-based alternatives.

All this trial and error cost me two whole hours — time I’d rather have spent hanging out with friends.

That’s exactly the pain point I ran into, and it’s the whole reason I built my project bestskills.dev

bestskills.dev

My goal with bestskills isn’t to become yet another huge, all-in-one directory. Instead, I’m focusing on curating a small list of vetted, verified Skills.

For every recommended Skill, I’ve done a full in-depth review. I rate them across four dimensions: standards compliance, output quality, security, and conciseness. I also break down what each Skill does well, where it could still be improved, and what insights we can learn from the author’s SKILL.md documentation.

If you’re looking for useful Skills, building your own, or just trying to figure out what actually makes a great Skill — feel free to check it out:bestskills.dev

Also feel free to drop a comment and nominate the next Skill you’d like me to review and benchmark.

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bestskills.dev - A curated site for selected skills and reviews