Last push first: MCP lists are ranking the host product
14 Aug 2026 dump. 8,433 servers. No install count on any row. Stars sit on the GitHub repo, and that repo is often a whole product.
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One product under three names holds 53.7% of copy-installs
The Skillselion Clone Census (frozen August 12, 2026) content-matched 79,848 listings. 3,443 are verified copies. They hold 26,061,541 installs, 15.8% of the install mass that day. 4.3% of listings co
Aug 18, 20262 min read1Grill Me led Google. Find Skills led installs. Same Claude Code rail, August 17.
The Skillselion Trending in search rail is ranked by rising Google queries, not by the install leaderboard. On August 17, 2026 those two rankings split. Grill Me sat at #1 in search: 876,468 installs,
Aug 17, 20262 min readMCP Server Stars Belong to the Repository, Not the Server
Disclosure: we are Skillselion, an independent directory of Claude Code, Codex and Cursor extensions. We are not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI or Cursor. We rank agent skills by install count. As
Aug 15, 20269 min readSnyk Fails 697 AI Agent Skills, ZeroLeaks Fails 0: The Auditors Disagree on What Safe Means
On 12.7% of the AI agent skills that two auditors both rated, one says HIGH or CRITICAL while the other says LOW or SAFE about the exact same code. That number comes from the Agent Skill Security Cens
Aug 13, 20265 min read3The Skill Search Data Says Developers Want Agents With Design Judgment (August 12 Snapshot)
Disclosure: I run Skillselion, a live catalog of agent skills refreshed daily from skills.sh, GitHub and MCP registries, ranked by real installs. Every number below was pulled from it on August 12, 20
Aug 12, 20264 min readCursor's Slack Agent Is a Control Plane Now. Give It Operational Skills
On July 17, Cursor added plan-first Slack replies, named multi-repository environments, and the ability for its agent to read and post across channels. Once a coding agent can start from Slack, coordi
Jul 18, 20264 min read3The Claude Code changelog is a security feed now. The install data says developers have not noticed.
Open the Claude Code changelog from this week and read it the way you would read a CVE feed. Version 2.1.212 fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands like rm without a permission prom
Jul 17, 20264 min readDevelopers are not searching for more powerful Claude Code skills. They are searching for taste.
Pull the Google Trends breakout list for Claude Code skills this week and the demand does not match the discourse. The loud posts are still about the 132-agent mega-stack: dozens of subagents, a wall
Jul 13, 20264 min read5
