Add 828 skills from gh-skills migration - #16
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Imports skills from the nine repositories that account for ~81% of public gh-skills install volume: github/awesome-copilot 411 microsoft/skills 161 k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills 158 mattpocock/skills 41 shader-slang/slang-skills 29 paulnsorensen/easy-cheese 18 cli/cli 5 smartcrabai/agent-skills 4 github/gh-stack 1 Descriptions are taken from each SKILL.md's own YAML frontmatter rather than generated, so catalog copy matches what the publisher wrote. Excluded 31 entries whose files are already catalogued from a sibling repo (microsoft/skills vendors microsoft/azure-skills under .github/plugins/, with identical blob SHAs) and collapsed 6 in-repo duplicates where a skill is mirrored under a dot-directory. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: 4ada9d73-ee8a-4d8f-8342-12b7d5917a46
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Adds 828 skills from the nine repositories that account for roughly 81% of public
gh-skillsinstall volume, as preparation for migratinggh-skillsonto AgentFinder.What is added
github/awesome-copilotmicrosoft/skillsk-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skillsmattpocock/skillsshader-slang/slang-skillspaulnsorensen/easy-cheesecli/clismartcrabai/agent-skillsgithub/gh-stackCatalog grows 1,104 to 1,932 entries.
Why these repos
gh-skillsinstall demand is heavily concentrated, and the catalog previously served only about 3% of it. The two sets were built differently: the catalog is vendor-curated top-down, while gh-skills demand is community-driven bottom-up.github/awesome-copilotalone is 39% of public installs and had zero entries here.These nine repos take coverage from 3% to roughly 81% of public installs. The remaining ~200 repos are worth 16,705 installs between them, so they are deliberately left out as long tail.
Descriptions
Taken from each
SKILL.md's own YAML frontmatter rather than generated, so the copy matches what each publisher wrote. Where frontmatter had no description, the first prose paragraph is used. All are trimmed at sentence boundaries to the existing 152-character convention.Deduplication
Three cases were handled rather than imported blindly:
microsoft/skillsvendorsmicrosoft/azure-skillsunder.github/plugins/with identical blob SHAs, and those entries already exist (194 discovered, 161 added)..claude/skills/andskills/, which would have produced two files sharing one URN. The canonical path is kept.github/awesome-copilotandgithub/gh-stackcan clash; disambiguated with a repo prefix.Validation
identifier,metadata.sourceSetand publisher directory are mutually consistenturlcontainsmetadata.repoPathNotes for review
paulnsorensen/easy-cheese(18 skills, 16,669 installs) is worth a human look. It is actively developed, but the skills are cheese-themed (melt,mold,cure,brie), so it may be a demo or joke set that would look odd ranked highly.shader-slang/slang-skillshas 8,789 installs but only 1 star. It is a legitimate vendor repo for the Slang shading language; flagged because it would fail a stars-only quality bar.