Hands-on Test on Top AI Skills

I Ran Matt Pocock's Triage Skill on a Stale Backlog of Issues

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I expected a fancy issue sorter and got a discipline. My plan was simple: take a repo whose issues nobody had touched in months and let the Triage skill from mattpocock/skills (223K stars, skills.sh #11, roughly 33,000 weekly installs) sort them out. What I actually ran into was a strict five-state machine, a verification gate that stopped me cold, and a comment disclaimer I’d never have thought to add. Here’s the walkthrough, including the part where the skill refused to move forward until I proved a claim.

I Installed a 9.4k-Star Business Skill Pack and Ran Its Diagnosis

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The install finished in under a minute. The surprises came after: the CLI reported 31 skills where the README’s badge promises 30, two of the 73 “supported” agents refused the install, and the diagnosis skill dissolved its own example question when I actually ran it. I installed dbskill — a 9.4k-star Chinese business-toolkit pack from dontbesilent — on a small Linux server, ran its dbs-diagnosis workflow on a real case, and kept notes on everything that didn’t match the marketing. Here’s the full test.