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Public story · 2026-09-09 · high
The npx skills tool holds 30,790 stars, but its issue count runs 2.5 times its open pull requests, a split rival skill catalogs don't share.
Why now: GitHub showed the repo carrying that backlog as of September 9, 2026.
The npx skills installer carries 833 open issues against 338 open pull requests, on a repo with 30,790 stars, per vercel-labs/skills on GitHub.
That matters for anyone who has already run the install command. A catalog with a stalled backlog just gets stale. An installer with one costs the person running it a broken build, a version mismatch, or a shell script that fails halfway through.
The split runs opposite of other skills catalogs. huggingface/funes and openai/skills trend on stars with almost no pull request activity, which fits a repo people browse, copy from, and leave. Vercel's repo behaves differently because it's a CLI that runs on someone's machine, touching Node versions, package managers, and shell setups a static list never has to.
Contributors have opened 338 pull requests against the backlog, so it isn't untouched. But 1,171 open items total is a lot for one installer to carry at once.
Read the open issues before you run the install command. The README's steps and what actually happens on your machine may not match.
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