This morning started like most mornings. Scrolling through Slack and WhatsApp communities, coffee in hand. Except today, every channel was buzzing about the same thing.
Vercel launched skills.sh.
If you haven’t heard about it yet, here’s what matters: anyone can now package their expertise as a skill that tools like Claude Code, Antigravity, and Codex can read, understand, and use. Not documentation. Not a tutorial. Actual executable expertise.
Within six hours, 20,000 downloads. Stripe published skills. Anthropic published skills. The big players weren’t waiting to see if this would stick. They were already contributing.
I spent part of my morning using the Squirrelscan skill to audit websites. Eye-opening doesn’t quite cover it. The tool didn’t just identify problems. It handed me an implementation plan. Claude Code started working through fixes while I watched. Last week, this same workflow would have taken me hours of manual setup, multiple tool switches, and a lot more patience.
I’ve been installing skills all morning. SEO analysis. Writing structure. Coding best practices. Each one feels like adding another expert to my team, except these experts work at midnight without complaining and never forget the methodology.
Here’s what hit me: this makes audited, community-approved best practices available to everyone. Not gated behind certifications or expensive consulting. Just available.
There’s an old saying about change happening slowly, then all at once. We’ve been in the “slowly” phase for a while now. This morning felt like the latter.
The expertise that used to live in someone’s head, protected by scarcity and gatekeeping, is becoming infrastructure. Accessible. Reproducible. Improvable by the community.
I don’t know exactly where this goes, but I know we’re not going back.