Mattpocock/skills jumped 10.1k stars this week and is now sitting at #2 trending behind…
mattpocock/skills jumped 10.1k stars this week and is now sitting at #2 trending behind deepseek-harness. two weeks ago the open-source ai-coding story was about the harness, this week it is about the skill — and the skill is the file the harness reads. whoever owns the convention for what a skill is owns the next 12 months of agent tooling.
the vendors are about to discover they are racing a wiki.
Context
The mattpocock/skills repository is MIT licensed and showed 247,112 stars when read. The deepseek-harness repository showed 212,481 stars. A secondary report from mer.vin dated 6 September 2026 says the skills repo was number 2 on GitHub's daily trending list that day with 2,206 stars in 24 hours, on a base of about 254,200.
The mer.vin report supports number 2 on the daily list for 6 September 2026. It does not name deepseek-harness as number 1 and does not show a 10.1k weekly gain, so both are unverified. Its base of 254,200 differs from the 247,112 on the GitHub page, and that difference is unreconciled here, so neither is preferred. A GittTrend snippet of 27.6k stars in 30 days covers another period and neither supports nor refutes a weekly figure. That whoever owns the skill convention owns the next 12 months, and that vendors are racing a wiki, are the author's opinion and prediction.
Related work
- mattpocock/skills on GittTrend ↗Aggregator; 30-day figure; snippet only.
- deepseek-harness repository (GitHub) ↗The repository the note names.
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- A dated star history for the week in question.
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 6 September 2026 at 02:03 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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