A recent analysis of 58,751 AI agent skills revealed a highly concentrated distribution of installs, with a Gini coefficient of 0.96. This indicates that a small fraction of skills account for the vast majority of installations, with half of all 158 million installs going to just 198 skills, or 0.34% of the catalog. The study also found that the AI agent skill economy is largely free, with only 55 skills having a price tag out of nearly 80,000 listings. Skills designed for interrogation and those related to meeting summarization and productivity tools are among the fastest-growing categories. AI
IMPACT Highlights the concentration of adoption in the AI agent skill ecosystem, suggesting a challenging market for new entrants.
RANK_REASON Analysis of a large dataset of AI agent skills using a statistical metric. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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- AI agent skills
- Anthropic
- AWS
- Brazil
- ByteDance
- Feishu
- Gini coefficient
- Lark
- OpenAI
- Skillselion
- South Africa
- World Bank
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