As of July 27, 2026, the all-time install leaderboard for Claude Code skills has a strange number one. Top spot belongs to find-skills, a Vercel Labs skill whose whole job is discovering and installing other skills. It sits at 2,688,992 installs in our live catalog, almost 4x the number two, Anthropic's frontend-design at 707,696.
And it is not coasting on an old lead. In the last day find-skills added 224 installs, ahead of every standalone skill in the catalog, including Matt Pocock's grill-me at 188.
What find-skills actually does
When you ask your agent how to do something, find-skills (GitHub) routes the question through a discovery flow instead of letting the model improvise: understand the task, check the skills.sh leaderboard for proven options, search with npx skills find, verify install counts and source reputation, then present install commands. Its quality gates prefer skills with 1,000+ installs from trusted sources like vercel-labs and anthropics.
In other words: it is a package manager with taste, running inside your agent.
Why a meta-skill tops the Claude Code skills leaderboard
We index 58,979 Claude Code skills. Nobody browses that. The scarce resource in this ecosystem is selection. Capability got cheap. Every skill you install is a standing instruction that competes for your agent's attention, so installing the wrong ten skills is worse than installing none.
That is why the discovery layer is compounding faster than any individual capability. The same pattern played out with npm: once the registry got big enough, the tools that won were the ones that told you what to install.
Two things the install data shows that a leaderboard screenshot will not:
Trust signals became install signals. find-skills filters by install count, which means high-install skills get recommended more, which raises their install counts. The rich get richer. This week's top risers behind find-skills are almost all from one author with an already-huge repo (mattpocock/skills, 189,813 stars): grill-me (GitHub) +188/day, tdd +148/day, grill-with-docs +143/day.
Raw install counts need filtering before you trust them. Whole bundles of skills move in lockstep when a vendor ships them together, so treat any riser list that mixes bundles with standalone skills with suspicion. Otherwise a calendar-integration bundle looks like the hottest thing in AI coding.
What this means for your Claude Code setup
If your agent does not have a discovery step, you are the discovery step. Either install a meta-skill like find-skills, or keep a vetted shortlist handy: our leaderboard ranks every skill by real installs, refreshed daily.
The most-installed skill in the ecosystem is the one that admits you should not have to guess. That is probably the clearest sign yet that agent skills are infrastructure now.
Data: live Skillselion catalog, July 27, 2026. We run skillselion.com, a directory of Claude Code, Codex and Cursor extensions, refreshed daily from skills.sh, GitHub and MCP registries, ranked by real installs.
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