--- title: "awesome-claude-skills vs agents" type: "comparison" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills-vs-wshobson-agents" tools: ["composiohq-awesome-claude-skills", "wshobson-agents"] --- # awesome-claude-skills vs agents Neutral, constraint-first comparison with live GitHub stats. | | [awesome-claude-skills](/tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills.md) | [agents](/tools/wshobson-agents.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tagline | A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows | Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for multiple AI and coding tools | | Stars | 67,135 | 37,649 | | Forks | 7,522 | 4,038 | | Open issues | 949 | 4 | | Language | Python | Python | | Adopt for | awesome-claude-skills is a curated repository for enhancing productivity using Claude AI workflows. It supports integration with various coding agents and apps, enabling action-oriented tasks like sending emails, posting | agents is a comprehensive multi-harness plugin marketplace that extends the capabilities of several AI and coding tools, offering a wide array of components including plugins, agents, skills, and commands. | | Persona | - | - | | Runtime | - | - | | License | - | MIT | | Categories | AI Agents, Developer Tools | AI Agents | ## Trust and health _Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._ | | [awesome-claude-skills](/tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills.md) | [agents](/tools/wshobson-agents.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Maintenance | Steady (60%) | Very active (96%) | | Days since push | 47d | 0d | | Open issues (now) | 949 | 4 | | Owner type | Organization | User | | Full report | [trust report](/tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/wshobson-agents/trust.md) | **Typed relationship:** awesome-claude-skills _(alternative)_ agents Both agents and awesome-claude-skills curate collections of skills for Claude Code, offering an alternative way to manage and distribute those skills. ## Shared compatibility - **Cursor**: [awesome-claude-skills](/tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills.md) - Works with Cursor; [agents](/tools/wshobson-agents.md) - Works with Cursor ## Decision facts: awesome-claude-skills - **Adopt for:** awesome-claude-skills is a curated repository for enhancing productivity using Claude AI workflows. It supports integration with various coding agents and apps, enabling action-oriented tasks like sending emails, posting ## Decision facts: agents - **Pricing:** freemium - The tool operates on a free tier with premium features including access to the longest-horizon autonomous agents (Fable 5) which incur additional costs. - **Requirements:** Installation is dependent on the specific harness being used, with different setups for Codex CLI/Cursor, Gemini/OpenCode, and Claude Code.; The marketplace supports installation from registries or via clone + generate commands depending on the tool. - **Adopt for:** agents is a comprehensive multi-harness plugin marketplace that extends the capabilities of several AI and coding tools, offering a wide array of components including plugins, agents, skills, and commands. ## Choose when ### Choose awesome-claude-skills if… - Both agents and awesome-claude-skills curate collections of skills for Claude Code, offering an alternative way to manage and distribute those skills. - Tags unique to awesome-claude-skills: openai-codex, gemini-cli, composio, claude-code. - Also covers Developer Tools. - * If your workflow heavily involves integrations with 500+ apps for task automation via Composio. ### Choose agents if… - Pricing: The tool operates on a free tier with premium features including access to the longest-horizon autonomous agents (Fable 5) which incur additional costs.. - Requirements: Installation is dependent on the specific harness being used, with different setups for Codex CLI/Cursor, Gemini/OpenCode, and Claude Code.; The marketplace supports installation from registries or via clone + generate commands depending on the tool.. - Both agents and awesome-claude-skills curate collections of skills for Claude Code, offering an alternative way to manage and distribute those skills. - Tags unique to agents: orchestration, multi-agent, workflows, agentic-ai. - When you need to extend the functionality of tools like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, or Gemini CLI with pre-built modules. ## When NOT to use awesome-claude-skills - * If you are looking for a generic text generation model without integration capabilities since awesome-claude-skills focuses heavily on actionable integrations via Composio. - * For scenarios where the required skills or app integrations are not supported within the repository's extensive but still limited scope of 1000+ apps and skills. ## When NOT to use agents - When your primary requirement is to enhance tools other than the specific supported platforms (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI). - If you are looking for a solution that provides real-time translations or lowest-common-denominator artifacts across harnesses instead of harness-native idiomatic artifacts. ## Common questions ### What is the difference between awesome-claude-skills and agents? awesome-claude-skills: A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows. agents: Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for multiple AI and coding tools. See the comparison table for live GitHub stats and shared categories. ### When should I choose awesome-claude-skills over agents? Choose awesome-claude-skills over agents when Both agents and awesome-claude-skills curate collections of skills for Claude Code, offering an alternative way to manage and distribute those skills; Tags unique to awesome-claude-skills: openai-codex, gemini-cli, composio, claude-code; Also covers Developer Tools; * If your workflow heavily involves integrations with 500+ apps for task automation via Composio. ### When should I choose agents over awesome-claude-skills? Choose agents over awesome-claude-skills when Pricing: The tool operates on a free tier with premium features including access to the longest-horizon autonomous agents (Fable 5) which incur additional costs.; Requirements: Installation is dependent on the specific harness being used, with different setups for Codex CLI/Cursor, Gemini/OpenCode, and Claude Code.; The marketplace supports installation from registries or via clone + generate commands depending on the tool.; Both agents and awesome-claude-skills curate collections of skills for Claude Code, offering an alternative way to manage and distribute those skills; Tags unique to agents: orchestration, multi-agent, workflows, agentic-ai; When you need to extend the functionality of tools like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, or Gemini CLI with pre-built modules. ### When should I avoid awesome-claude-skills? * If you are looking for a generic text generation model without integration capabilities since awesome-claude-skills focuses heavily on actionable integrations via Composio. * For scenarios where the required skills or app integrations are not supported within the repository's extensive but still limited scope of 1000+ apps and skills. ### When should I avoid agents? When your primary requirement is to enhance tools other than the specific supported platforms (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI). If you are looking for a solution that provides real-time translations or lowest-common-denominator artifacts across harnesses instead of harness-native idiomatic artifacts. ### Is awesome-claude-skills or agents more popular on GitHub? awesome-claude-skills has more GitHub stars (67,135 vs 37,649). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints. ### Are awesome-claude-skills and agents open source? Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub. ### Where can I find alternatives to awesome-claude-skills or agents? GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at /tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills/alternatives and /tools/wshobson-agents/alternatives (/tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills/alternatives.md, /tools/wshobson-agents/alternatives.md), ranked by typed relationship edges rather than popularity votes. ### Is there a machine-readable version of this comparison? Yes. The markdown twin at /compare/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills-vs-wshobson-agents.md mirrors this page for agents and LLM crawlers, with the same stats table and FAQ answers. ### Which is better maintained, awesome-claude-skills or agents? awesome-claude-skills: Steady. agents: Very active. Compare maintenance labels, days since push, and release cadence in the trust section below - stars alone do not measure maintenance. ### Where are the full trust reports for awesome-claude-skills and agents? GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: awesome-claude-skills: /tools/composiohq-awesome-claude-skills/trust; agents: /tools/wshobson-agents/trust. --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=composiohq-awesome-claude-skills`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=composiohq-awesome-claude-skills) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_