CROSS-CATEGORY: Skills Libraries Are Becoming the Extension Point in Design and Work Tools, Replacing the Plugin Marketplace

MiniMax Design, Figma Release Notes, Asana investor release (Aug 20, Aug 13, Jun 4, 2026)·medium signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy link

Three separate products now ship a skills library instead of a plugin store: Figma's agent skills authored in markdown and published to Community (Aug 13), MiniMax Design launching Aug 20 with a director program that pays revenue share on Skills, and Asana's AI Teammates Skills library for repeatable work shipped in June. The mechanic is identical across all three, a portable text artifact that teaches an agent a repeatable workflow, and it is displacing the compiled-plugin-plus-approval-queue model that design and work tools have used for a decade. For builders, the distribution question changes: you write a skill file, not an app.