--- title: "awesome-agent-skills vs agents" type: "comparison" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/compare/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills-vs-wshobson-agents" tools: ["voltagent-awesome-agent-skills", "wshobson-agents"] --- # awesome-agent-skills vs agents Neutral, constraint-first comparison with live GitHub stats. | | [awesome-agent-skills](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md) | [agents](/tools/wshobson-agents.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tagline | A collection of over 1000 agent skills compatible with multiple AI agents. | Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for multiple AI and coding tools | | Stars | 27,576 | 37,649 | | Forks | 2,953 | 4,038 | | Open issues | 49 | 4 | | Language | - | Python | | 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 | 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 | MIT | | Categories | AI Agents | AI Agents | ## Trust and health _Sourced signals - not a safety guarantee. No winner column._ | | [awesome-agent-skills](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md) | [agents](/tools/wshobson-agents.md) | | --- | --- | --- | | Maintenance | Active (82%) | Very active (96%) | | Days since push | 7d | 0d | | Open issues (now) | 49 | 4 | | Owner type | Organization | User | | Security scan | No lockfile | No MCP manifest | | Full report | [trust report](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/trust.md) | [trust report](/tools/wshobson-agents/trust.md) | **Typed relationship:** awesome-agent-skills _(alternative)_ agents agents offers a curated marketplace of skills similar to what is provided by awesome-agent-skills, offering compatibility with multiple AI agents. ## Shared compatibility - **Cursor**: [awesome-agent-skills](/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills.md) - Works with Cursor; [agents](/tools/wshobson-agents.md) - Works with Cursor ## 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 ## 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-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.. - agents offers a curated marketplace of skills similar to what is provided by awesome-agent-skills, offering compatibility with multiple AI agents. - Tags unique to awesome-agent-skills: awesome-lists, codex-skills, claude-code-skills, community-built. - - **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 ### 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.. - agents offers a curated marketplace of skills similar to what is provided by awesome-agent-skills, offering compatibility with multiple AI agents. - 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-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. ## 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-agent-skills and agents? awesome-agent-skills: A collection of over 1000 agent skills compatible with multiple AI agents.. 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-agent-skills over agents? Choose awesome-agent-skills over agents 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.; agents offers a curated marketplace of skills similar to what is provided by awesome-agent-skills, offering compatibility with multiple AI agents; Tags unique to awesome-agent-skills: awesome-lists, codex-skills, claude-code-skills, community-built; - **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 choose agents over awesome-agent-skills? Choose agents over awesome-agent-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.; agents offers a curated marketplace of skills similar to what is provided by awesome-agent-skills, offering compatibility with multiple AI agents; 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-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. ### 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-agent-skills or agents more popular on GitHub? agents has more GitHub stars (37,649 vs 27,576). Stars measure visibility, not whether either tool fits your constraints. ### Are awesome-agent-skills and agents open source? Yes - both are open-source projects on GitHub (awesome-agent-skills: MIT, agents: MIT). ### Where can I find alternatives to awesome-agent-skills or agents? GraphCanon lists graph-backed alternatives at /tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/alternatives and /tools/wshobson-agents/alternatives (/tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-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/voltagent-awesome-agent-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-agent-skills or agents? awesome-agent-skills: Active. 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-agent-skills and agents? GraphCanon publishes per-repo trust reports with dated maintenance, provenance, and scan summaries: awesome-agent-skills: /tools/voltagent-awesome-agent-skills/trust; agents: /tools/wshobson-agents/trust. --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=voltagent-awesome-agent-skills`](/api/graphcanon/graph?tool=voltagent-awesome-agent-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/_