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AI agent skills show extreme install concentration, with most being free

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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 show extreme install concentration, with most being free

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Skillselion ·

    We ran the Gini coefficient on 58,751 AI agent skills. It came out at 0.96.

    <p><em>Disclosure: we run Skillselion, the directory this census was pulled from. Every number below is reproducible from the free CSV.</em></p> <p>On 2026-08-09 we dumped the entire Skillselion production catalog and counted it: <a href="https://skillselion.com/research/agent-ec…

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