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MODULE 2.2

🏆 Showcase: the best in each group

Six catalog groups, their reference skills, and why they’re good—using real installs and sources from skills.sh. Direct application of the signals from module 2.1.

6
Topics
40
Minutes
Inter.
Level
Curated.
Type
AI/Agents 12,9M DevOps 8,3M Web 4,5M Marketing 2,3M Data 0,79M Testing 0,60M
1

🎨 Web & Frontend

With 4.694 skills e 4,5M installs, is the most mature group for frontend developers. All three references are vendor-backed with very high install counts—very low risk to install.

frontend-design

488k

anthropics/skills

Anthropic’s own design guidelines. Official source + 488k installs = the reference for a beautiful, consistent interface.

vercel-react-best-practices

443k

vercel-labs/agent-skills

React best practices from Vercel, the owner of Next.js. Description focused on generating/reviewing components. Perfect composition with the next one.

web-design-guidelines

358k

vercel-labs/agent-skills

Web design guidelines: layout, spacing, accessibility. Atomic and composable with frontend-design.

💡 Recommended combo

frontend-design + vercel-react-best-practices + web-design-guidelines = a complete frontend agent, with each piece independently testable.

2

🤖 AI / LLM / Agents

The largest group in the catalog: 12.693 skills e 12,9M installs. It’s the heart of the ecosystem — including the tools that build other skills.

SkillSourceInstalls
agent-browservercel-labs332k
skill-creatoranthropics246k
vercel-composition-patternsvercel-labs195k

Why skill-creator is special

skill-creator (246k, anthropics) is the canonical tool for creating skills — it’s meta: a skill that teaches the agent to write skills. It’s the anatomy reference you’ll study in Track 3.

agent-browser (332k) gives the agent browser control to test and extract data; vercel-composition-patterns (195k) teaches how to compose components and agents.

💡 Start here

If you’re going to install only one skill from this group, install skill-creator: it teaches you to evaluate and create all the others.

3

🗄️ Data & Databases

1,385 skills e 0.79M installs. A smaller group by volume, but where module 2.1's "prefer the vendor" rule shines: the best ones are written by the database companies themselves.

✗ Avoid for SQL/Postgres

  • ✗generic ownerless repo "sql-helper"
  • ✗A skill that mixes five different databases
  • ✗No updates since the Postgres changes

✓ The references

  • ✓supabase-postgres-best-practices — 203k · supabase
  • ✓supabase — 99k · supabase
  • ✓neon-postgres — 38k · neondatabase

Vendor-backed = the company that makes the database writes the best practices:

npx skills add supabase/...        # supabase-postgres-best-practices (203k)
npx skills add neondatabase/...    # neon-postgres (38k)

The why

supabase-postgres-best-practices leads with 203k because it comes from the people who operate Postgres at scale. Maximum trust: the source knows the edge cases no one documents.

4

☁️ DevOps & Cloud

Only 907 skills, but 8.3M installs — the second largest by install volume. The emblematic case is the suite microsoft/azure-skills: five cohesive skills, each with between ~358k and 360k installs.

F

microsoft-foundry

~360k

Microsoft’s AI platform (Azure AI Foundry). The top of the suite.

AI

azure-ai

~358k

Azure AI services. Composable with the rest of the suite.

D

azure-deploy · azure-diagnostics · azure-prepare

~358-360k

Deploy, diagnostics, and environment setup — each stage of the cycle is an atomic skill.

💡 The suite’s lesson

Microsoft didn't make an "azure-everything". It made five focused skills (foundry, ai, deploy, diagnostics, prepare) that work together — exactly the scope pattern from module 2.1, which is why they dominate the niche with huge install counts.

5

🧪 Testing & QA

1,339 skills e 0.60M installs. A lean but important group: it proves that skills aren't only about stack — they also encode engineering discipline.

test-driven-development

107k

obra/superpowers

A skill for process: teaches the agent to write the test before the code. It’s not about a framework—it’s about method. It shows that a skill can encode discipline, not just syntax.

playwright-best-practices

45k

E2E tests

End-to-end testing best practices with Playwright. Atomic and specific: it triggers only when you write browser tests.

Process skill vs. stack skill:

test-driven-development   → COMO trabalhar (método, vale para qualquer linguagem)
playwright-best-practices → COM O QUE trabalhar (ferramenta específica)

💡 Insight

Process skills such as TDD are underrated. They change agent behavior across every project, not just within one stack—very high ROI per installed skill.

6

📈 Marketing / Office / Finance

The ecosystem goes far beyond developers. Entire groups are dedicated to non-technical work: Marketing & SEO adds up to 2,3M installs, and Office&Files and Finance&Business have their own showcases.

marketing-psychology

84k · coreyhaines31

Psychological triggers applied to copy and campaigns. Author with a marketing track record—a trusted source outside the dev world.

lark-slides

139k · larksuite

Slide generation in Lark. Vendor-backed (larksuite/cli)—the office suite itself writes the skill.

stripe-best-practices

stripe/ai

Payment best practices from Stripe itself. For integrating billing, the official source is irreplaceable.

The pattern repeats

Even in business categories, the same signals apply: lark-slides and stripe-best-practices are vendor-backed; marketing-psychology comes from an author with a reputation in the field. Clear description, focused scope, reliable source — it doesn’t matter whether it’s code or copy.

✅ Module Summary

✓
Web & Frontend — frontend-design (488k), vercel-react-best-practices (443k), web-design-guidelines (358k): the mature frontend combo
✓
AI / Agents — largest group (12.9M); skill-creator (246k) is the meta-skill to start with
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Data & Databases — supabase-postgres-best-practices (203k) leads; prefer the database vendor
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DevOps & Cloud — the azure-skills suite (~358-360k each) proves the power of composable atomic skills
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Testing & QA — test-driven-development (107k) is a process skill; playwright-best-practices (45k) is a stack skill
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Marketing / Office / Finance — lark-slides (139k), marketing-psychology (84k), stripe-best-practices: the catalog is for everyone

Next:

Module 2.3 — ⭐ Best Examples by Quality Signal — now that you’ve seen the showcase by group, explore the skills that perfectly embody each quality signal, ready for you to imitate.