Skills
Discover and install reusable capabilities for AI agents through an open ecosystem directory. Skills enhance agents like Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot with procedural knowledge and specialized functionality, installable via a single CLI command. Browse over 91,650 community-contributed skills ranked by popularity, with routine security audits ensuring safe integration.
Skills is an open ecosystem directory that lets developers discover and install reusable capabilities for AI agents including Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline, and over a dozen others. Each skill is a self-contained module of procedural knowledge—think of them as plugins or extensions—that agents can use to accomplish specific tasks more effectively, installed via a single CLI command (npx skills add <owner/repo>). The directory currently hosts over 91,650 community-contributed skills ranked by installation popularity, with a transparent leaderboard showing top performers like find-skills (731K installs) and vercel-react-best-practices (230K installs). Skills are secured through routine audits that assess contents for malicious code, with audit reports publicly available. The entire ecosystem, including the open-source CLI that powers it, is free to use and maintained by Vercel Labs, making it accessible for anyone building or extending AI agent workflows.
Vercel trains AI models on user content for Hobby and trial Pro plans by default, with sharing to third parties. Only pa
Vercel trains AI models on user content for Hobby and trial Pro plans by default, with sharing to third parties. Only pa
High risk across multiple dimensions. Only use with public, non-sensitive data.
Vercel trains AI models on user content for Hobby and trial Pro plans by default, with sharing to third parties. Only paid Pro and Enterprise plans can opt out. This represents significant shadow AI risk for free tier users.
“if you are on a Hobby plan or trial Pro plan, you agree that we may use Your Content to train our artificial intelligence and machine learning models, and we may share Your Content with third parties”
The license granted is extremely broad - worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable, covering use, modification, derivatives, and distribution. This allows Vercel extensive rights to user content.
“you grant Vercel a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, store, perform, and create derivatives”
Data is shared with third parties for AI model training purposes (Hobby plan users), service providers, and business partners. System Data can be disclosed in aggregate or de-identified form for any business purpose at Vercel's discretion.
“we may share Your Content with third parties for the purpose of developing and improving their products, including training and improving their AI and machine learning models”
No explicit data retention limits or deletion policies are specified. System Data is retained indefinitely with Vercel retaining 'all right, title and interest' for any business purpose. Users have limited control over data deletion.
“Vercel may collect, and retains all right, title and interest in and to, data or information created, analyzed, generated, or derived in connection with the provision, use, and performance of the Services”
Vercel retains broad ownership and control. Users grant Vercel sublicensable and transferable rights to content. Vercel owns all System Data and derivatives. User ownership of outputs is not clearly protected.
“Vercel may collect, and retains all right, title and interest in and to, data or information created, analyzed, generated, or derived in connection with the provision, use, and performance of the Services”
GDPR compliance is mentioned for EEA users via DPA, and Privacy Policy references applicable law compliance. However, no specific certifications (SOC2, HIPAA, ISO) are mentioned in the provided text. Compliance is partial.
“We will process the personal information in Your Content, Account Information, and System Data as a data controller or data processor in accordance with Vercel's Data Processing Addendum (DPA)”
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