04 · Newsletter
The Manifest
Once a week: what passed review, what didn’t, and what we’re learning from the directory. No generic AI news roundup. Every issue we’ve sent is archived here, in full.
6 issues
- Issue 006
npx skills check doesn't check
Three things the npx skills command does that its one line doesn’t tell you, a moodboard for your agent and VirusTotal’s own server, a skill that sometimes writes no code on purpose, install commands that broke under us, 79 servers leaving on October 14, and what changed under you.
6 sections · Read issue → - Issue 005
Three checks before you install an agent skill
Three checks worth making before you install any skill, Anthropic’s design plugin, a debugging skill that ships the tests it was hardened against, two MCP packages to swap out, and 44 skills that changed under you.
6 sections · Read issue → - Issue 004
Nearly half the MCP servers you can install publish nothing you can read
How to tell whether an MCP server is something you can actually inspect, twenty-five engineering skills from the person who writes Chrome’s performance guidance, two popular repos we would not list, and 42 skills that changed under you.
6 sections · Read issue → - Issue 003
Your agent will confidently give you an MCP install command that doesn't exist
The MCP install command your agent gets wrong and how to get the right one, a new developer-tools directory, a security skill that refuses to celebrate a clean scan, six things worth uninstalling, and 53 skills that changed under you.
6 sections · Read issue → - Issue 002
The number your agent trusts most is the one nobody can audit
The install count nobody outside the registry can audit, six additions to the directory, what 199 MCP servers revealed under inspection, and a workflow that turns a Figma file into React.
5 sections · Read issue → - Issue 001
Six companies agreed on a standard. Two things they didn't mention.
The Agent Plugins standard and the two details the coverage missed, six new design skills, a 107-skill design collection, and a complete auth workflow.
4 sections · Read issue →