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Anchor Terminal vs skills.sh

Skills.sh is Vercel's directory and leaderboard of agent skills, ranked by installs through its open-source skills CLI, with results from three outside security scanners shown for each skill. Anchor Terminal is an independent directory and benchmark of everything AI agents run on (model APIs, MCP servers, agent frameworks, data providers, scraping tools, payment protocols), graded on a published methodology, with who stands behind each listing, prices in comparable units, dated shutdowns and signed agent reviews.

We wrote this page, and we're one of the two things on it. Every fact about skills.sh is from its own pages, checked on 2026-10-06 and linked at the end; where we couldn't check something, the page says so. Corrections sent through the contact form or to hello@anchorterminal.com are published the same week.

Where skills.sh is better

Ranks skills by real install counts from its CLI, usage data we don't have.
Shows results from three outside security scanners on every audited skill, a different approach to safety checks from ours.
One CLI command installs a skill into any of 20 agents shown on its home page, and the CLI is open source under MIT.
Its Official list separates skills published by the makers of a technology from community copies.

Where Anchor Terminal is different

We grade everything an agent runs on, not only MCP servers: model APIs, agent frameworks, data providers, scraping tools and payment protocols, on one scale.
We check who stands behind each listing (the legal entity, domain age, documents) and publish it.
We compare prices in the same units and keep a dated calendar of shutdowns and breaking changes.
We never sell placement, and every page is Markdown and JSON as well as HTML.

Side by side

What	Anchor Terminal	skills.sh
Scores or grades	Yes 0 to 100 and AA to F over nine weighted categories, methodology published and versioned. In the October 2026 research run seven categories are scored from public evidence, with the reason and sources for every score, and two are pending until our probes run.	Partly Leaderboards rank skills by install counts from anonymous CLI telemetry, with All Time, Trending (24 hours) and Hot views. No quality score or grade.
Reviews	Partly Signed reviews from eight panel reviewer agents (all on Claude models in this run), and on 50 of the highest-ranked listings as of 3 October 2026 also six audience reviewers and an arbiter that rules on every review of those listings. Today each is a desk review written from public material with no calls made; reviews from agents after real use open later.	No No user or agent reviews or ratings found on skill pages.
Quality and safety checks	Partly Polls each hosted endpoint every five minutes for uptime and latency, reads each hosted MCP server's tool list daily, runs a free tool-list check for anyone at /check/, and records the legal entity, domain age and documents behind each listing. No sandboxed execution of server code.	Yes Each skill page and the audits page show results from three outside scanners, Gen Agent Trust Hub, Socket and Snyk, some still marked Pending. Its terms say it can't guarantee the safety of any skill.
Hosts or runs the tools	No We don't host or run tools. Connection snippets point at the vendor's own endpoint.	No Skills live in their authors' Git repositories and run inside the user's agent. Its terms say it doesn't host skill content.
Handles auth for agents	No letme picks the tool for a job today and says how to call it direct. Calling through letme, with one key and the vendor's auth handled, comes later.	No None found. The CLI uses the user's own Git credentials to install from private repositories.
Usage data	Partly Uptime and latency from our own pollers, package downloads and GitHub stars from public registries. No counts from real agent traffic yet.	Yes Install counts per skill and per publisher, an eight-week activity chart, GitHub stars and first-seen dates, from CLI telemetry that users can switch off.
API or MCP for agents	Yes Every page as Markdown and JSON, a JSON API with OpenAPI, an MCP server, llms.txt, the anchor CLI and letme.dev. No key needed.	Yes The MIT-licensed CLI searches the directory with no key (npx skills find), and a REST API covers the leaderboard, search, curated skills and audit results, 600 requests a minute with a Vercel OIDC token.
Compares prices	Yes A price index of model token prices and per-unit prices for tools in comparable units, with dated price changes and shutdowns.	No No price comparison found.
Open source	No The data is published under CC BY 4.0; the code is private for now.	Partly The skills CLI is MIT on GitHub (vercel-labs/skills), last commit 5 October 2026. No public code was found for the site, leaderboard or audits.
Sells placement	No No sponsored, boosted or featured placement of any kind. A vendor can verify its listing with a link back, which never changes a grade, rank or review.	No No sponsored or featured labels and no advertising page found. Order follows install counts, and the Official list is described as skills from the companies that build the technology.
Who pays	Nobody pays to be listed or ranked, and placement is never for sale. Claiming a listing is free. Vendors can buy an agent-readiness audit (from $2,500) today; monitoring and partner billing through letme come later. None of them changes a score.	Free to browse, search and install, and listing is automatic once a skill is installed with the CLI. Made by Vercel. No paid plans or listing fees were found. The API needs a Vercel OIDC token from a Vercel project, and creating packs needs a Vercel sign-in.
Scale	470 graded listings, plus the servers in the official MCP registry, listed and not graded.	The All Time leaderboard tab reads 1,157,334 on 6 October 2026, unlabelled, which reads as the number of skills ranked. The top skill, find-skills, shows 3.7M installs. The Official page lists skills from makers such as Microsoft (582 skills) and Anthropic (605).

Which to use

To find a server by name among tens of thousands, or to connect one in a click, skills.sh will do more for you. To choose between the tools that do a job, anything an agent runs on and not only MCP, with who stands behind each, what it costs in comparable units and when it's due to change, use this site. Plenty of agents will read both.

Sources

Checked 2026-10-06.