n-skills vs SkillNet
Curated skill marketplace for AI coding agents on the universal SKILL.md/AGENTS.md format — write a skill once, install it into Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor and friends. — versus — ZJU NLP's six-layer skill lifecycle platform: search a 500K+ index, author skills from traces/repos/docs/prompts, score quality on 5 dimensions, analyze skill graphs, orchestrate. SDK + CLI + MCP.
Both distribute reusable skills on the SKILL.md format; n-skills is a small curated marketplace, SkillNet is a 500K+ crawled-and-deduplicated index with quality ranking.
| n-skills | SkillNet | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1.0k | 1.3k |
| Forks | 106 | 142 |
| Language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last activity | 1 months ago | 11 days ago |
| Topics | skills | skills |
| Curated connections | 4 | 3 |
n-skills — the curator's take
The 'write once, run everywhere' bet applied to agent skills: one curated marketplace on the SKILL.md + AGENTS.md conventions, installed via openskills into whichever agent you drive. Smaller and more opinionated than the mega-registries — curation IS the pitch, every skill is hand-picked. NOT a discovery engine: if you want breadth across hundreds of sources, a package manager with security scanning covers more ground; and it's one person's taste with ~1k stars — check the skills you'd rely on exist before adopting the workflow.
SkillNet — the curator's take
Not an installer — a lifecycle platform (the maintainers put it well: calling it one is like calling GitHub a git-clone tool). Search over the 500K+ index is credential-free; authoring works from traces, repos, docs or prompts; `evaluate` scores 5 dimensions (safety, completeness, executability, maintainability, cost) with optional script execution; graph analysis spans relationships to scenario-level handoff detection. NOT for you if you only need 3-5 fixed skills (a flat directory suffices), need cross-agent format translation across 46 hosts (skillkit), need scriptable CI auditing with dedupe and security scans (asm), or want a small editorially-curated marketplace (n-skills) — the 500K index prioritizes coverage; quality ranking filters, it doesn't curate.