Three authors dominate Claude Code's top 10 most-installed skills leaderboard

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The ten most-installed Claude Code skills belong to just three authors: Matt Pocock with five entries, Vercel Labs with four, and Anthropic — the format's creator — with one, according to install data from Skillselion as of July 29. Vercel Labs leads overall with its find-skills tool topping the chart at over 2.7 million installs, functioning as a discovery layer that helps users install other skills. Matt Pocock's dominance reflects an author-loyalty pattern, where developers adopt his entire engineering workflow at once, evidenced by his setup skill — which only prepares a repo for his other tools — nearing 500,000 installs. Anthropic's sole entry, frontend-design, ranks second with over 715,000 installs, meaning the open format's creator has been out-shipped on its own platform by independent contributors. Positions 11 through 25 are occupied by a cluster of Lark skills with near-identical install counts, suggesting bundle distribution rather than individual developer adoption.

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