The room was full of people who had already used skills. Tuesday night we hosted Skills Night in San Francisco, an event for developers building on and around , the open skills ecosystem we've been growing since the idea started as a single weekend of writing. What began as Shu Ding sitting down to document everything he knows about React has grown into over 69,000 skills, 2 million skill CLI installs, and a community moving incredibly fast.skills.sh Here is what we learned. The origin story is worth retelling because it shapes how we think about the project. is one of the most talented web engineers I've ever worked with.

He knows things about React and the browser that most people will never discover. Last year, he sat down on a weekend and wrote it all down. A kind of web bible. We wanted to figure out how to ship it. We considered a blog post or documentation that the next generation of models might eventually learn - but we wouldn't see the results until Claude Sonnet 8, or GPT-9. On the other hand, an MCP server felt too heavy for what was essentially a collection of markdown documents.Shu Ding Skills made sense as the quickest way to deliver on-demand knowledge. While…