# Skills & plugins news — updated daily | llmnet Apps [← Apps overview](/en/) # Skills & plugins news By Ivo Donker · October 23, 2026 — created with AI assistance (writer: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash; critic: Gemini 3.8 Flash) All the news about Skills & plugins from our daily newsletter: 63 items, newest first. Headlines come from the source; the Dutch commentary is machine-written. ## Friday, October 23, 2026 - [College Degrees Still Matter. Employers Agree. 🎓 With all the conversations about artificial intelligence, skills-based hiring, and the chan](https://x.com/ParalegalPeople/status/2113286554915418558) · X · 2026-10-22This discusses university diplomas' value alongside AI and skills, which provides context about the labour market. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-23) ## Thursday, October 22, 2026 - [Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167583) · Hacker News · 2026-10-20Respan is an open-source Rust AI gateway with plugins, which offers indie developers a modular infrastructure. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-22) - [fix(update): prevent retained plugin stores from blocking activation](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/174973) · GitHub · 2026-10-17An update prevents stored plugin stores from blocking activation, which gives indie developers stability. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-22) - [Agent-Skills.market](https://agent-skills.market/) · Hacker News · 2026-10-19Agent-Skills.market appears to be a marketplace for agent skills, which can be a source of ready-made AI functionality for indie developers. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-22) ## Monday, October 19, 2026 - [I gave my marketing bot new skills. Brando, my Grok Bot agent, read three open-source marketing skill repos and built a playbook: sharper ho](https://x.com/mattwright75/status/2111819752897229029) · X · 2026-10-18This shows how a marketing bot has been updated with open-source skills, which gives ideas for automating go-to-market tasks. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-19) - [Which AI-related courses or skills should I learn to gain an advantage in Uganda’s education sector?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Uganda/comments/1x6luwa/which_airelated_courses_or_skills_should_i_learn/) · Reddit · 2026-10-15This is about AI courses for the education sector in Uganda, less directly relevant to technical product development. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-19) - [fix(update): prevent retained plugin stores from blocking activation](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/174973) · GitHub · 2026-10-17This is a bugfix to prevent stored plugin stores from blocking activation, relevant to plugin development. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-19) - [20 Indie SaaS & Startup Building Skills Every Developer Should Have 🚀 From validating an idea to building a product, collecting payments, an](https://x.com/arjunkshah21/status/2110838127392899429) · X · 2026-10-15This is an overview of 20 skills for building indie SaaS, useful for the validation and payment process. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-19) ## Sunday, October 18, 2026 - [Which AI-related courses or skills should I learn to gain an advantage in Uganda’s education sector?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Uganda/comments/1x6luwa/which_airelated_courses_or_skills_should_i_learn/) · Reddit · 2026-10-15This covers AI-related skills for the education sector, useful for specific regions' market research. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-18) - [fix(update): prevent retained plugin stores from blocking activation](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/174973) · GitHub · 2026-10-17This concerns a bugfix to prevent plugin storage from blocking activation, relevant for stable plugin management. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-18) - [SkillSpector v2.13.0 — Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, d](https://x.com/KitPloit/status/2111487667988729983) · X · 2026-10-17This is SkillSpector v2.13.0, a security scanner for AI agent skills to detect vulnerabilities, which helps to deliver secure code. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-18) - [20 Indie SaaS & Startup Building Skills Every Developer Should Have 🚀 From validating an idea to building a product, collecting payments, an](https://x.com/arjunkshah21/status/2110838127392899429) · X · 2026-10-15This covers twenty skills for building an indie SaaS, ranging from validation to payments, directly applicable to solopreneurs. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-18) ## Saturday, October 17, 2026 - [Which AI-related courses or skills should I learn to gain an advantage in Uganda’s education sector?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Uganda/comments/1x6luwa/which_airelated_courses_or_skills_should_i_learn/) · Reddit · 2026-10-15AI courses provide advantages in specific educational sectors, which helps target regional skill development. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-17) - [fix(update): prevent retained plugin stores from blocking activation](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/174973) · GitHub · 2026-10-17A plugin update fix prevents store retention issues, which ensures correct plugin activation for development tools. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-17) - [20 Indie SaaS & Startup Building Skills Every Developer Should Have 🚀 From validating an idea to building a product, collecting payments, an](https://x.com/arjunkshah21/status/2110838127392899429) · X · 2026-10-15Indie SaaS building skills cover idea validation and payments, which helps solo developers ship products. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-17) ## Friday, October 16, 2026 - [Which AI-related courses or skills should I learn to gain an advantage in Uganda’s education sector?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Uganda/comments/1x6luwa/which_airelated_courses_or_skills_should_i_learn/) · Reddit · 2026-10-15This concerns information about AI skills for the education sector, which is less directly relevant to technical software development. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-16) - [20 Indie SaaS & Startup Building Skills Every Developer Should Have 🚀 From validating an idea to building a product, collecting payments, an](https://x.com/arjunkshah21/status/2110838127392899429) · X · 2026-10-15This concerns twenty skills for building a SaaS startup, which is directly relevant to indie developers who want to bring a product to market. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-16) - [[Bug]: a parked "plugins reload --wait" holds the plugin-replacement gate with no deadline and blocks the start of every isolated agent run on the Gateway](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/173061) · GitHub · 2026-10-15This concerns a bugfix for a blockage in plugin replacements during agent runs, which is relevant when working with automated agent environments. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-16) - [Your AI stack is a mess of saved prompts and open tabs. AI Revenue Stack: ✅ 100+ Claude Skills ✅ 14 ChatGPT Agents ✅ 10 n8n Workflows ✅ AI A](https://x.com/JahedKarim6510/status/2110752388923748496) · X · 2026-10-15This concerns a bundle with Claude skills, ChatGPT agents and n8n workflows, which is relevant for streamlining business processes. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-16) ## Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - [AI is a tool and using it well takes skill](https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/) · Hacker News · 2026-10-12This states that AI is a tool that requires skill to use well, relevant for effectively deploying tooling. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-13) - [Show HN: Skills Hub, a desktop app for managing AI agent skills](https://github.com/qufei1993/skills-hub) · Hacker News · 2026-10-12This is a desktop app for managing AI agent skills, useful for organising agent capabilities. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-13) ## Monday, October 12, 2026 - [Show HN: Skills Hub, a desktop app for managing AI agent skills](https://github.com/qufei1993/skills-hub) · Hacker News · 2026-10-12This item shows a desktop app for managing AI agent skills, which provides an overview in local agent configuration. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-12) - [Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you](https://tech.criteo.com/blog/human-skills-ai-cant-develop-junior-engineers/) · Hacker News · 2026-10-07This item discusses skills that AI cannot develop for you, which is relevant for personal growth as a programmer. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-12) ## Sunday, October 11, 2026 - [GitHub Digest — 10 October 2026 pm-skills, textual, FinderSearch, steamac, animate — AI agent skills, terminal frameworks, macOS and Linux t](https://x.com/alexdelrosso/status/2109052853797154840) · X · 2026-10-10This is a GitHub overview with terminal frameworks and AI agent skills, useful for discovering new developer tools. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-11) - [Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you](https://tech.criteo.com/blog/human-skills-ai-cant-develop-junior-engineers/) · Hacker News · 2026-10-07This is a discussion about programming skills that AI cannot develop, relevant for the growth of developers. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-11) ## Tuesday, October 6, 2026 - [I absolutely love DeepSeek Harness (dsh) paired with local models, but I always struggled to keep up with its releases. So I built a plugin:](https://x.com/devopsfortunato/status/2105033070957015164) · X · 2026-09-29The plugin for DeepSeek Harness simplifies keeping track of updates for local models, which saves indie developers time during integration · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-06) ## Sunday, October 4, 2026 - [TOP OPEN-SOURCE AI REPOS THIS WEEK DeepSeek Harness, 242,859. An agent harness where the model, the tools, and the interface are all plugins](https://x.com/tsncrypto/status/2106498229160317260) · X · 2026-10-03This is an open-source AI repository called DeepSeek Harness, relevant for deploying model tools. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-04) - [holy sh*t, this repo gives one AI agent an entire company's playbook The README lists 388 skills across 20 domains and support for 13 coding](https://x.com/tsukiema_/status/2105714965801849150) · X · 2026-10-01This is a repository with business playbooks and skills for AI agents, relevant for automating business processes. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-04) - [Claude isn’t just an AI chatbot—it can become your entire AI Operating System. From persistent context and custom skills to automation, codi](https://x.com/codeby_jack/status/2106351600415670419) · X · 2026-10-03This describes Claude as an operating system with persistent context and automation, useful for workflow integration. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-04) - [AI security is about to be the highest-paid skill in tech. Everyone's building AI agents. Almost nobody's securing them. Master these 10 con](https://x.com/Dhanush_Nehru/status/2106385601557852655) · X · 2026-10-03This emphasises AI security as a skill when building agents, relevant for securing applications. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-04) ## Saturday, October 3, 2026 - [Bear market or not, RareSkills still cooks. Over the past year, we built and refined an AI tutor that teaches Zero Knowledge Proofs interact](https://x.com/RareSkills_io/status/2105631837234311388) · X · 2026-10-01RareSkills has built an interactive AI tutor for Zero Knowledge Proofs, which is relevant for technical education. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-03) - [The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) launched its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) courses on Fr](https://x.com/bworldph/status/2105983634088083965) · X · 2026-10-02TESDA has launched cloud and AI courses, which is relevant for taking technical training programmes. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-10-03) ## Sunday, September 27, 2026 - [AI is changing education today. How will schools, universities, teachers, and learning itself change - and which skills will become most val](https://x.com/Homerasm/status/2102419033945493692) · X · 2026-09-22 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-27) - [Stop learning AI randomly. Start building AI skills strategically. 🧠⚡The AI world is moving insanely https://fast.New models. New tools. New](https://x.com/alexhalescoder/status/2103041982478319999) · X · 2026-09-24 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-27) - [this is pure treasure: 20 AI agent skills that cover the entire build-to-launch loop. specs, architecture, agents, backend, data, UI, testin](https://x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/2103828182541734166) · X · 2026-09-26 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-27) - [https://uizze.com/ - free UI taste skill that stops coding agents shipping AI slop https://reactbits.dev - 171 animated React components wit](https://x.com/csaba_kissi/status/2103015949058400497) · X · 2026-09-24 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-27) ## Friday, September 25, 2026 - [AI is changing education today. How will schools, universities, teachers, and learning itself change - and which skills will become most val](https://x.com/Homerasm/status/2102419033945493692) · X · 2026-09-22 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-25) - [Stop learning AI randomly. Start building AI skills strategically. 🧠⚡The AI world is moving insanely https://fast.New models. New tools. New](https://x.com/alexhalescoder/status/2103041982478319999) · X · 2026-09-24 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-25) ## Sunday, September 20, 2026 - [THIS IS PURE TREASURE FOR ANYONE BUILDING AI AGENTS. 20 OPEN-SOURCE AI AGENT SKILLS WITH *776K+ COMBINED GITHUB STARS* THAT COVER RESEARCH,](https://x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/2101223518570488027) · X · 2026-09-1920 open-source AI agent skills with more than 776k GitHub stars are listed, a useful source for indie developers building agents. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-20) - [fix(skills): add the ESM extension pass to the store-adapter build script](https://github.com/fixpoint-labs/flow-state-dev/pull/1874) · GitHub · 2026-09-17The commit adds an ESM extension to the store adapter build script, enabling indie developers to bundle their skill bundles better. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-20) ## Saturday, September 19, 2026 - [feat: WordPress-style Plugin Architecture for SaaS](https://github.com/NavaSanganakah-Multiventures/school-management/pull/37) · GitHub · 2026-09-17A WordPress-like plugin architecture for SaaS has been implemented, making it easier for indie developers to build extensions. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-19) ## Friday, September 18, 2026 - [feat: WordPress-style Plugin Architecture for SaaS](https://github.com/NavaSanganakah-Multiventures/school-management/pull/37) · GitHub · 2026-09-17 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-18) - [Consolidate technical learning platform and add SkillForge AI Arena](https://github.com/rrahul0904/leetcode-platform/pull/31) · GitHub · 2026-09-18 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-18) - [feat: add AI Agent Skills & Plugins section (bootgs/skills)](https://github.com/oshliaer/google-apps-script-awesome-list/pull/209) · GitHub · 2026-09-13 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-18) ## Wednesday, September 16, 2026 - [We found 5 open source AI github repos to level up your AI research and building skills. 1. LLM-FINGERPRINT-DETECTOR This tool fingerprints](https://x.com/sentient_found/status/2099498411460612287) · X · 2026-09-14 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-16) - [We open-sourced 73 business Agent Skills — SEO/AEO, marketing, copy, ops, market sizing, exec advisory. Not script wrappers: each is ~2KB of](https://x.com/meshcodeai/status/2098790788734001395) · X · 2026-09-12 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-16) - [feat: add AI Agent Skills & Plugins section (bootgs/skills)](https://github.com/oshliaer/google-apps-script-awesome-list/pull/209) · GitHub · 2026-09-13 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-16) - [.@trailofbits released 3 skills to help write patches: `post-patch-validation` helps agents test that fixes are correct https://t.co/wtsGX8Q](https://x.com/dguido/status/2099865541380845848) · X · 2026-09-15 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-16) ## Tuesday, September 15, 2026 - [If you’re vibe coding an app, Save these websites 👇 - https://opendesign.dev Open-source design skills for AI coding agents. - https://](https://x.com/neropursue/status/2098749308338102329) · X · 2026-09-12 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-15) - [SwiftUI Agent Skill: Install and use with AI coding tools https://www.avanderlee.com/ai-development/swiftui-agent-skill-build-better-views-w](https://x.com/CocoaDevBlogs/status/2099466768892698891) · X · 2026-09-14 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-15) ## Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - [🔥 Check out this free open-source GitHub tool: skills! Discover skills, a free open-source GitHub project that lets your AI learn new abilit](https://x.com/johonsayed/status/2096637341196558773) · X · 2026-09-06 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-09-09) ## Wednesday, August 26, 2026 - [Why the Future of AI Depends on Skills, Not Just Smarter Models For years, AI progress has been measured by one thing: bigger and smarter mo](https://x.com/Shihoron_media/status/2092494626150387736) · X · 2026-08-26The article argues that the future of AI depends more on skills than on larger models alone, relevant for indie developers who want to develop their own expertise. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-26) - [Enrol in these 35 FREE CERTIFICATION COURSES to upgrade your skills: 1. Build Powerful AI Agents with OpenAI Tools Professional Certificate](https://x.com/Mohiniuni/status/2091805209777348738) · X · 2026-08-2435 free certification courses are offered, including a course to build AI agents with OpenAI tools, which can help indie developers expand their skills. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-26) ## Tuesday, August 25, 2026 - [Remove false skill and pattern counts from academy hero](https://github.com/frankxai/frankx.ai-vercel-website/pull/534) · GitHub · 2026-08-24This is a change that removes incorrect skill and pattern counts from an academy page, which contributes to correcting AI-tool UIs for indie developers. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-25) - [Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/the-hollywood-creatives-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs) · Hacker News · 2026-08-22This is about Hollywood creatives training AI for their own work, showing indie developers how AI is changing creative work. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-25) - [Enrol in these 35 FREE CERTIFICATION COURSES to upgrade your skills: 1. Build Powerful AI Agents with OpenAI Tools Professional Certificate](https://x.com/Mohiniuni/status/2091805209777348738) · X · 2026-08-24This mentions 35 free certification courses, including building AI agents with OpenAI tools, which helps indie developers improve skills. · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-25) ## Saturday, August 22, 2026 - [Hi there! Yes, you can connect your own AI agent and add Binance Skills through Agent OS to access supported capabilities such as market dat](https://x.com/hamybinance/status/2090469941158047955) · X · 2026-08-20 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-22) - [feat: add CrewAI HOL Guard pre-tool runtime adapter](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/hol-guard-plugin/pull/53) · GitHub · 2026-08-21 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-22) - [Agentic provenance: framework plugins, AI-coding-harness capture, and provenance analysis](https://github.com/ORNL/flowcept/pull/351) · GitHub · 2026-08-21 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-22) ## Friday, August 21, 2026 - [Google Is Enforcing Against AI Content at Scale. I Tried Three Ways to Hide It And All Three Failed. | Free open-source humanist plugin with tools to run your own tests](https://www.reddit.com/r/claudeskills/comments/1vuh65u/google_is_enforcing_against_ai_content_at_scale_i/) · Reddit · 2026-08-21 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-21) - [feat(autom): add autom.dev search plugin](https://github.com/corsairdev/corsair/pull/878) · GitHub · 2026-08-21 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-21) - [BetterClaude - A powerful Claude wrapper that adds a layer of customization and productivity tools such as theme kits, skills marketplace, widgets, cli tab, team sync, all within the claude desktop app.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_developers/comments/1vuicad/betterclaude_a_powerful_claude_wrapper_that_adds/) · Reddit · 2026-08-21 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-21) - [BetterClaude - A powerful Claude wrapper that adds a layer of customization and productivity tools such as theme kits, skills marketplace, widgets, cli tab, team sync, all within the claude desktop app.](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoders_/comments/1vu18xa/betterclaude_a_powerful_claude_wrapper_that_adds/) · Reddit · 2026-08-21 · [newsletter](/en/nieuwsbrief-2026-08-21)