What's this about?
Researchers surveyed agent-skill registries and report 77.86% of skills had no stars or comments. They found widespread privilege-related evidence in readable skills and substantial disagreement among scanners. The counts describe the sampled registry, not every skill ecosystem.
What exactly is a skill registry?
A catalog of instruction packages that tells an agent how to perform specialised work. Since instructions may request tools or permissions, downloading a skill is closer to adding software than reading a harmless article.
What's the community saying?
No substantial 24-hour community thread was found; this is an author-reported preprint.
- Absence of feedback is not evidence of safety.
- Scanner disagreement limits simple safe/unsafe badges.
- Review permissions, source and behaviour before running a skill.