skills — security grade SAFE, quality 65/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 65/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

by huggingface · Agent Tool · ★ 11.1k

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About skills

Hugging Face Skills Hugging Face Skills are definitions for AI/ML tasks like dataset creation, model training, and evaluation. The client plugin marketplaces expose the skill as the bootstrap path for core Hub operations; additional workflow skills can be installed on demand with or discovered by skill-aware clients over CLI/MCP integrations. The skills in this repository follow the standardized Agent Skills format. [!NOTE] Just want to give your agent access to the Hugging Face Hub? Start with . It's the recommended first Skill to install: it teaches your agent every command (search models, manage datasets and buckets, launch Spaces, run jobs) and is generated from your locally installed CLI so it stays current. How do Skills work? In practice, skills are self-contained folders that package instructions, scripts, and resources together for an AI agent to use on a specific use case. Each folder includes a file with YAML frontmatter (name and description) followed by the guidance your coding agent follows while the skill is active. [!TIP] If your agent doesn't support skills, you can use directly as a fallback.

Quick Facts

Stars11,088
Forks748
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score64.8642164679472/100
Open Issues58
Last Updated2026-09-22
Created2025-11-24
Platformspython
Est. Tokens~16k

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  • pbi-cli — semantic(0.24)+complementary+same_lang+shared_platform (48%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is skills?

skills is Give your agents the power of the Hugging Face ecosystem. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 11.1k GitHub stars.

What programming language is skills written in?

skills is primarily written in Python.

How do I install or use skills?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the skills GitHub repository at github.com/huggingface/skills. The project has 11.1k stars and 748 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does skills use?

skills is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to skills?

The top alternatives to skills on Agent Skills Hub include awesome-claude-code, open-saas, notebooklm-skill. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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