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title: "garden-skills vs awesome-agent-skills"
type: "comparison"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/conardli-garden-skills-vs-voltagent-awesome-agent-skills"
tools: ["conardli-garden-skills", "voltagent-awesome-agent-skills"]
---

# garden-skills vs awesome-agent-skills

Neutral, constraint-first comparison with live GitHub stats.

| | [garden-skills](/tools/conardli-garden-skills.md) | [awesome-agent-skills](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tagline | ConardLi's open-source Skills collection | A collection of over 1000 agent skills compatible with multiple AI agents. |
| Stars | 9,262 | 27,576 |
| Forks | 1,238 | 2,953 |
| Open issues | 12 | 49 |
| Language | CSS | - |
| Adopt for | Garden Skills is an open-source collection of production-ready skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. It includes a variety of functionalities such as web design, knowledge retrieval, image, and | awesome-agent-skills is a curated collection of over 1000 agent skills, ensuring practical use cases and quality by sourcing from official development teams and community contributors. It supports multiple AI platforms,硌 |
| Persona | - | - |
| Runtime | - | - |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Categories | Data & Retrieval, AI Agents, Model Training, Computer Vision | AI Agents |

## Trust and health

_Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._

| | [garden-skills](/tools/conardli-garden-skills.md) | [awesome-agent-skills](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Days since push | 27d | 7d |
| Open issues (now) | 12 | 49 |
| Owner type | User | Organization |
| Full report | [trust report](/tools/conardli-garden-skills/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/trust.md) |

**Typed relationship:** garden-skills _(alternative)_ awesome-agent-skills

Both Garden Skills and voltagent/awesome-agent-skills are curated collections of skills for various AI agents, providing a variety of functionalities like web design, image generation, etc.

## Shared compatibility

- **Cursor**: [garden-skills](/tools/conardli-garden-skills.md) - Works with Cursor; [awesome-agent-skills](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md) - Works with Cursor

## Decision facts: garden-skills

- **Adopt for:** Garden Skills is an open-source collection of production-ready skills for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. It includes a variety of functionalities such as web design, knowledge retrieval, image, and

## Decision facts: awesome-agent-skills

- **Pricing:** freemium - MIT license; free to use for all projects. Contributions from the community drive its growth and maintenance.
- **Requirements:** Compatible with multiple AI platforms such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc., ensuring wide applicability.
- **Adopt for:** awesome-agent-skills is a curated collection of over 1000 agent skills, ensuring practical use cases and quality by sourcing from official development teams and community contributors. It supports multiple AI platforms,硌

## Choose when

### Choose garden-skills if…

- Both Garden Skills and voltagent/awesome-agent-skills are curated collections of skills for various AI agents, providing a variety of functionalities like web design, image generation, etc.
- Tags unique to garden-skills: gpt-image-2, rag, skills, claude.
- Also covers Data & Retrieval, Model Training, Computer Vision.
- When you are specifically looking to extend the functionality of AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex with production-ready skills.

### Choose awesome-agent-skills if…

- Pricing: MIT license; free to use for all projects. Contributions from the community drive its growth and maintenance..
- Requirements: Compatible with multiple AI platforms such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc., ensuring wide applicability..
- Both Garden Skills and voltagent/awesome-agent-skills are curated collections of skills for various AI agents, providing a variety of functionalities like web design, image generation, etc.
- Tags unique to awesome-agent-skills: awesome-lists, agent-skills, codex-skills, claude-code-skills.
- - **When you need a diverse range of high-quality skills**: awesome-agent-skills offers a wide array of skills vetted from leading tech companies like Anthropic, Google Labs, Stripe, Vercel, and many

## When NOT to use garden-skills

- If you are working on projects that do not require the specific skills supported by this collection such as those related to web presentations, articles, or image generation.
- When the AI coding agents you use are not compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. Garden Skills is designed specifically for these platforms and might not be directly applicable to others.
- If your project demands a level of customization beyond what pre-built skills offer without additional development work, as Garden Skills focuses on providing ready-to-use capabilities.

## When NOT to use awesome-agent-skills

- - **If you prefer bulk-generated skill repositories**: Unlike other collections, awesome-agent-skills focuses on real-world engineering team contributions rather than mass AI-generated content.

## Common questions

### What is the difference between garden-skills and awesome-agent-skills?

garden-skills: ConardLi's open-source Skills collection. awesome-agent-skills: A collection of over 1000 agent skills compatible with multiple AI agents.. See the comparison table for live GitHub stats and shared categories.

### When should I choose garden-skills over awesome-agent-skills?

Choose garden-skills over awesome-agent-skills when Both Garden Skills and voltagent/awesome-agent-skills are curated collections of skills for various AI agents, providing a variety of functionalities like web design, image generation, etc; Tags unique to garden-skills: gpt-image-2, rag, skills, claude; Also covers Data & Retrieval, Model Training, Computer Vision; When you are specifically looking to extend the functionality of AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex with production-ready skills.

### When should I choose awesome-agent-skills over garden-skills?

Choose awesome-agent-skills over garden-skills when Pricing: MIT license; free to use for all projects. Contributions from the community drive its growth and maintenance.; Requirements: Compatible with multiple AI platforms such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, etc., ensuring wide applicability.; Both Garden Skills and voltagent/awesome-agent-skills are curated collections of skills for various AI agents, providing a variety of functionalities like web design, image generation, etc; Tags unique to awesome-agent-skills: awesome-lists, agent-skills, codex-skills, claude-code-skills; - **When you need a diverse range of high-quality skills**: awesome-agent-skills offers a wide array of skills vetted from leading tech companies like Anthropic, Google Labs, Stripe, Vercel, and many.

### When should I avoid garden-skills?

If you are working on projects that do not require the specific skills supported by this collection such as those related to web presentations, articles, or image generation. When the AI coding agents you use are not compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. Garden Skills is designed specifically for these platforms and might not be directly applicable to others. If your project demands a level of customization beyond what pre-built skills offer without additional development work, as Garden Skills focuses on providing ready-to-use capabilities.

### When should I avoid awesome-agent-skills?

- **If you prefer bulk-generated skill repositories**: Unlike other collections, awesome-agent-skills focuses on real-world engineering team contributions rather than mass AI-generated content.

### Is garden-skills or awesome-agent-skills more popular on GitHub?

awesome-agent-skills has more GitHub stars (27,576 vs 9,262). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints.

### Are garden-skills and awesome-agent-skills open source?

Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub (garden-skills: MIT, awesome-agent-skills: MIT).

### Where can I find alternatives to garden-skills or awesome-agent-skills?

GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at /tools/conardli-garden-skills/alternatives and /tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/alternatives (/tools/conardli-garden-skills/alternatives.md, /tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/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/conardli-garden-skills-vs-voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md mirrors this page for agents and LLM crawlers, with the same stats table and FAQ answers.

### Which is better maintained, garden-skills or awesome-agent-skills?

garden-skills: Active. awesome-agent-skills: 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 garden-skills and awesome-agent-skills?

GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: garden-skills: /tools/conardli-garden-skills/trust; awesome-agent-skills: /tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/trust.

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=conardli-garden-skills`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=conardli-garden-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/_
