{
  "name": "SkillVerdict verdicts",
  "description": "Independent verdicts on Claude Code and agent skills. Each one links to its page with the cons and sources.",
  "homepage": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/",
  "method": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/how-we-review.html",
  "updated": "2026-11-04",
  "labels": {
    "install": "Install",
    "caution": "Install with caution",
    "skip": "Skip",
    "copy": "Redistributed copy — install the original"
  },
  "count": 25,
  "verdicts": [
    {
      "name": "agent-browser",
      "skill": "agent-browser",
      "repo": "vercel-labs/agent-browser",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "Powerful Chrome automation for agents, npm install and logged-in sessions included. Powerful, useful, and not a casual install.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/agent-browser.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/agent-browser.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "ai-video-generation",
      "skill": "ai-video-generation",
      "repo": "101-skills/superpowers",
      "verdict": "Redistributed copy — install the original",
      "verdictKey": "copy",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "A frozen August snapshot of inference.sh's skills under a superpowers name that is not obra's. Paid cloud models, curl-pipe-sh CLI. Use the original.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/ai-video-generation.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/ai-video-generation.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "brainstorming",
      "skill": "brainstorming (superpowers)",
      "repo": "obra/superpowers",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "obra/superpowers' pre-build questioning skill, plus an optional local visual-companion server. Read the server part before you enable it.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/brainstorming.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/brainstorming.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "claude-seo",
      "skill": "claude-seo",
      "repo": "AgriciDaniel/claude-seo",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "A huge 25-sub-skill, 19-agent SEO suite with its own Python runtime and Chromium. Capable, MIT, and heavy — install deliberately.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/claude-seo.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/claude-seo.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "copywriting",
      "skill": "copywriting (marketingskills)",
      "repo": "coreyhaines31/marketingskills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "Corey Haines' v2.3.2 marketing copy skill, instructions-only, MIT, diagnoses your brief before drafting. Best marketing pick in this batch.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/copywriting.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/copywriting.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "design-mobile-apps",
      "skill": "design-mobile-apps",
      "repo": "designed-by-ai/skills",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "Sleek's mobile design API skill, here as a mirror of the official repo. Needs a paid Sleek plan for real use and sends your brief to Sleek.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/design-mobile-apps.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/design-mobile-apps.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "find-skills",
      "skill": "find-skills",
      "repo": "vercel-labs/skills",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "What vercel-labs' skill-discovery skill does, that it installs other skills via npx, safety notes, install command and alternatives.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/find-skills.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/find-skills.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "frontend-design",
      "skill": "frontend-design",
      "repo": "anthropics/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "Anthropic's official design-guidance skill, no scripts, Apache-2.0 LICENSE.txt in folder, what it changes and who it's for.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/frontend-design.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/frontend-design.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "git-guardrails-claude-code",
      "skill": "git-guardrails-claude-code",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-03",
      "published": "2026-11-03",
      "summary": "A 507-byte hook that blocks git push and reset --hard, but fails open without jq and misses git -C repo push. A seatbelt, not a boundary.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/git-guardrails-claude-code.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/git-guardrails-claude-code.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "grill-me",
      "skill": "grill-me",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "A 5-line wrapper that invokes the substantive grilling skill. Install the pack, not the wrapper alone — no scripts, MIT, user-invoked only.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/grill-me.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/grill-me.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "grill-with-docs",
      "skill": "grill-with-docs",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "A two-line wrapper that runs grilling plus domain-modeling, writing ADRs and a glossary into your repo. MIT, no scripts, user-invoked only.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/grill-with-docs.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/grill-with-docs.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "handoff",
      "skill": "handoff",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "A 940-byte skill that writes a session summary for the next agent to your temp folder, tells it to redact secrets and to link rather than copy. MIT.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/handoff.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/handoff.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "hyperframes",
      "skill": "hyperframes",
      "repo": "heygen-com/hyperframes",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "HeyGen's HTML-to-video skill is capable and Apache-2.0, but it drives an unpinned npx CLI with usage telemetry and optional paid cloud rendering.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/hyperframes.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/hyperframes.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "hyperframes-cli",
      "skill": "hyperframes-cli",
      "repo": "heygen-com/hyperframes",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "A clear command map for HeyGen's video CLI, including cloud, Lambda and publish commands, plus default feedback reports to HeyGen.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/hyperframes-cli.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/hyperframes-cli.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "hyperframes-registry",
      "skill": "hyperframes-registry",
      "repo": "heygen-com/hyperframes",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-11-04",
      "summary": "Local search over 450 video blocks, but items install from main and load CDN scripts without integrity checks. Apache-2.0.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/hyperframes-registry.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/hyperframes-registry.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "improve-codebase-architecture",
      "skill": "improve-codebase-architecture",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "Scans for shallow modules, writes a visual HTML report to your temp folder, then grills you on one refactor. MIT, no scripts.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/improve-codebase-architecture.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/improve-codebase-architecture.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "media-use",
      "skill": "media-use",
      "repo": "heygen-com/hyperframes",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-11-04",
      "summary": "One command for music, voice, images and grades, with 45 scripts, account-linked telemetry and an instruction never to tell you prices. Set a credit limit.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/media-use.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/media-use.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "pdf",
      "skill": "pdf",
      "repo": "anthropics/skills",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "Anthropic's PDF processing skill runs Python scripts for forms, merging and OCR, and its license is Proprietary — read before you redistribute.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/pdf.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/pdf.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "prototype",
      "skill": "prototype",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-11-04",
      "summary": "Builds a one-file HTML logic demo or switchable UI variants to answer one design question. No scripts, MIT, but it commits and comments on issues.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/prototype.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/prototype.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "reddit-automation",
      "skill": "reddit-automation",
      "repo": "flowkit-labs/skills",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "Drafts disclosed Reddit replies with a human posting each one — but it is a byte-identical republish and a funnel to a paid service.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/reddit-automation.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/reddit-automation.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "security-review",
      "skill": "security-review (Sentry)",
      "repo": "getsentry/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "Confidence-based reporting, data-flow research before flagging, 17+ reference guides. The strong security skill in this batch.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/security-review-sentry.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/security-review-sentry.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "security-review",
      "skill": "security-review (davila7 templates)",
      "repo": "davila7/claude-code-templates",
      "verdict": "Redistributed copy — install the original",
      "verdictKey": "copy",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-19",
      "summary": "davila7's cc-skill-security-review is 96% identical to affaan-m's original security-review (author field still affaan-m). Install the original instead.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/security-review-davila7-copy.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/security-review-davila7-copy.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "tdd",
      "skill": "tdd",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "Red-green loop rules, agreed test seams and named anti-patterns like tautological tests. Instructions only, MIT, and it asks before testing anything.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/tdd.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/tdd.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "triage",
      "skill": "triage",
      "repo": "mattpocock/skills",
      "verdict": "Install with caution",
      "verdictKey": "caution",
      "verified": "2026-11-03",
      "published": "2026-11-03",
      "summary": "Labels, briefs and closes issues through a clear state machine. User-invoked, MIT, but it runs external PR code to verify it — use a sandbox.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/triage.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/triage.svg"
    },
    {
      "name": "vercel-react-best-practices",
      "skill": "vercel-react-best-practices",
      "repo": "vercel-labs/agent-skills",
      "verdict": "Install",
      "verdictKey": "install",
      "verified": "2026-11-04",
      "published": "2026-10-30",
      "summary": "70 prioritised React and Next.js performance rules from Vercel, markdown only. One rule suggests adding an npm package — check it first.",
      "url": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/verdicts/vercel-react-best-practices.html",
      "badge": "https://skillverdict.vercel.app/badges/vercel-react-best-practices.svg"
    }
  ]
}