# AI use cases for Best Skills (LinklyAI/best-skills) Repo: [LinklyAI/best-skills](https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) | Use cases: 5 | Page: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/ A daily-updated set of Top 100 Agent Skills rankings that merges installs, growth, and social buzz from skills.sh, ClawHub, Tencent SkillHub, GitHub, X and other communities, published as open CSV data. This file holds every use case of this repo. Each one starts with a "## " heading and ends with its URL. - Ask an agent which skills are worth installing: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/ask-agent-about-skill-rankings/ - Install the ranking data as a skill for an agent: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/install-best-skills-as-standing-knowledge/ - Find skills gaining installs and social attention: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/spot-fast-rising-and-talked-about-skills/ - Compare skill installs across China and global registries: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/compare-china-and-global-skill-installs/ - Shortlist verified official agent skills: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/shortlist-verified-official-skills/ ## How to ask an agent which skills are worth installing with Best Skills Repo: [LinklyAI/best-skills](https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) | Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 15 minutes | Basis: From the README Give an AI agent the ranking guide so it can answer questions about top skills from current data. **Who it is for:** A developer who wants to pick agent skills for a project and would rather ask an AI agent than read every table. **The problem:** Skill registries each show only their own ecosystem, so comparing skills across them by hand is slow. **The outcome:** The agent answers with named skills, their scores, and the source counts behind each score. ### Steps 1. Open https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills and note the Top 10 tables in the README. 2. Open a session in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenClaw. 3. Paste this line into the session: Read https://linkly.ai/skills/llms.txt 4. Ask a question such as which skills score highest for frontend work, and request the Cov value and per-platform counts for each answer. 5. Open the matching CSV in the newest dated folder under data/ and confirm the agent's numbers match it. ### Prompt to paste into your agent ```text Read https://linkly.ai/skills/llms.txt, which describes the LinklyAI best-skills rankings. Answer this question: . Return the top three skills with their Worth-Installing Score, Cov value and per-platform counts. Verify one number against the matching CSV in data/ from the LinklyAI/best-skills repo. ``` ### Caveat The rankings change daily and the README shows only a Top 10 preview, so confirm answers against the dated CSV files. Disclaimer: Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk. Full text: https://dedupedai.com/disclaimer/ URL: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/ask-agent-about-skill-rankings/ ## How to install the ranking data as a skill for an agent with Best Skills Repo: [LinklyAI/best-skills](https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) | Difficulty: Intermediate | Time: 30 minutes | Basis: From the README Install the Best Skills repo as a skill so an agent keeps the rankings as standing context. **Who it is for:** A developer who asks an agent about skill rankings often and wants that context available in every session. **The problem:** Pasting the llms.txt link into each new session repeats the same setup work. **The outcome:** The agent loads the Best Skills skill and can use the ranking files without being given the link again. ### Steps 1. Make sure Node.js with npx is installed (inferred). 2. Run `npx skills add https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills --skill best-skills` in a terminal. 3. Start a new agent session in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenClaw. 4. Ask the agent to list the rankings it can read and which file holds the 7-day trending data. 5. Check that the agent cites a file from the newest dated folder under data/. ### Prompt to paste into your agent ```text Use the best-skills skill installed from https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills. Name the ranking list that answers this question: , then give the CSV file path and its top three rows. Verify that the file path exists in the repo's data/ folder. ``` ### Caveat The README gives the install command for this skill but does not describe what the skill contains beyond the ranking files, so check it before relying on it. Risk, remote script: The install command pulls a skill from a GitHub URL into the agent, so read the skill contents before letting the agent act on them. Disclaimer: Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk. Full text: https://dedupedai.com/disclaimer/ URL: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/install-best-skills-as-standing-knowledge/ ## How to find skills gaining installs and social attention with Best Skills Repo: [LinklyAI/best-skills](https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) | Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 15 minutes | Basis: From the README Compare the 7-day trending list with the social buzz list to see which skills are rising and talked about. **Who it is for:** A team lead or indie developer who wants to know which agent skills are gaining traction this week before adopting one. **The problem:** Install counts alone can lag, and social posts are scattered across X, Hacker News, Bluesky and GitHub. **The outcome:** A short list of skills that appear both in the weekly install gains and in the social buzz counts. ### Steps 1. Open the newest dated folder under data/ in the LinklyAI/best-skills repo. 2. Open rankings/trending-7d.csv and note the skills with the highest Weekly Δ% values. 3. Open rankings/social-buzz.csv and note which of those skills also show counts for X, HN, Bluesky or GitHub. 4. Check the Installs column for each shortlisted skill to confirm the install base is large enough for your use. 5. Visit the skill's source page linked in the README table before installing. ### Prompt to paste into your agent ```text Using the LinklyAI/best-skills repo, compare rankings/trending-7d.csv and rankings/social-buzz.csv from the newest dated folder under data/. List skills that appear in both files, with their Weekly Δ% and their X, HN, Bluesky and GitHub counts. Verify each skill name appears exactly as written in both CSVs. ``` ### Caveat The README says social judgements are made by a decision model and that a Weekly Δ% can be negative, so read both columns before drawing conclusions. Disclaimer: Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk. Full text: https://dedupedai.com/disclaimer/ URL: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/spot-fast-rising-and-talked-about-skills/ ## How to compare skill installs across China and global registries with Best Skills Repo: [LinklyAI/best-skills](https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) | Difficulty: Beginner | Time: 15 minutes | Basis: From the README Use the top installs file to see which skills lead on skills.sh, ClawHub and Tencent SkillHub. **Who it is for:** A developer or product owner who ships to China and to global markets and needs to know which agent skills are popular in each. **The problem:** Each registry counts only its own ecosystem, so a skill's total reach is hard to judge from one source. **The outcome:** A side-by-side view of each skill's installs on each platform, with gaps between markets visible. ### Steps 1. Open the newest dated folder under data/ in the LinklyAI/best-skills repo. 2. Open rankings/top-installs.csv. 3. Sort or scan the skills.sh, ClawHub and SkillHub CN columns for the skills that matter to your market. 4. Note blank entries as skills not listed on that platform rather than zero installs. 5. Confirm any figure you plan to use against the platform link on the same row. ### Prompt to paste into your agent ```text From rankings/top-installs.csv in the LinklyAI/best-skills repo, list the top five skills by SkillHub CN installs and the top five by skills.sh installs, and report any skill that appears in both lists. Verify that you treat empty platform cells as not listed, not as zero. ``` ### Caveat The README says install counts from each platform are kept as originals and are not added together, so compare them side by side rather than summing. Disclaimer: Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk. Full text: https://dedupedai.com/disclaimer/ URL: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/compare-china-and-global-skill-installs/ ## How to shortlist verified official agent skills with Best Skills Repo: [LinklyAI/best-skills](https://github.com/LinklyAI/best-skills) | Difficulty: Intermediate | Time: 30 minutes | Basis: From the README Pull the Official 100 list to pick skills published by verified publishers on each registry. **Who it is for:** A security-minded developer or team lead who only wants to install skills from verified publishers. **The problem:** Many listed skills come from unknown publishers, which makes safe selection slower. **The outcome:** A shortlist of skills with the vendor and the platform that verified each one. ### Steps 1. Open the newest dated folder under data/ in the LinklyAI/best-skills repo. 2. Open rankings/official-100.csv. 3. Read the Verified by column and keep only the skills your team approves. 4. Open the vendor link for each shortlisted skill and review it before installing. ### Prompt to paste into your agent ```text Open rankings/official-100.csv in the LinklyAI/best-skills repo from the newest dated folder under data/. List the first five skills with their vendor and Verified by value. Verify that every row you list has a non-empty Verified by value. ``` ### Caveat The README defines verified publishers by platform but does not describe the verification process, so review each skill yourself before relying on it. Disclaimer: Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk. Full text: https://dedupedai.com/disclaimer/ URL: https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/linklyai-best-skills/shortlist-verified-official-skills/