engineering-skills vs agent-skills
agent-skills is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑20.
engineering-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Alireza Rezvani. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). agent-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Arjun Prabhulal. No marketplace we read lists it any more. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-25. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace | ||
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace alirezarezvani/claude-skills | Listed Version: 2.14.1 Forks (GitHub): 3 978 Stars (GitHub): 28 652 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace arjunprabhulal/agent-skills | Not listed | Removed on 2026-10-20 Version: 2.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 5 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | engineering-skills | agent-skillsno longer listed · |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 1 | 0 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 28 652 | 5 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 3 978 | 0 |
| Last release (differs) | 2026-10-23 | Not published |
| Where it runs | Installs as a plugin bundle | Installs as a plugin bundle |
| Transport | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 35 | 60 |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills | github.com/arjunprabhulal/agent-skills |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 3 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-15 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of agent-skills
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Production-grade engineering skills covering every phase of software development: spec, plan, build, verify, review, and ship.
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42 advanced engineering skills: agent designer, agent workflow designer, RAG architect, database designer + schema designer + SQL assistant, migration architect, observability…
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Complete CTO & Staff Engineer toolkit: 24 skills covering code review, architecture, DevOps, security, testing, and engineering management
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Opinionated skills for planning, auditing, shipping, and improving software.
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AI Dev Kit is a complete plugin-oriented developer workspace for AI coding assistants. It ships everything needed to run professional-grade engineering workflows — TDD, code…
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Loops (a file-based knowledge base) + a codebase harness (dev-local, e2e, crabbox cloud boxes, verify-before-ship) so agents can run, test, and ship code autonomously.
What each says it does
engineering-skills
32 engineering skills: architecture, frontend, backend, fullstack, QA, DevOps, security, AI/ML, data engineering, Playwright (9 sub-skills), self-improving agent, Stripe integration, TDD guide, tech stack evaluator, Google Workspace CLI, a11y audit (WCAG 2.2), Azure cloud architect, GCP cloud architect, security pen testing, Snowflake development, adversarial-reviewer, ai-security, cloud-security, incident-response, red-team, threat-detection. v2.8.1 audits senior-fullstack / senior-frontend / senior-backend against karpathy-coder + Matt Pocock — each ships a 7-question forcing-question library, 4 customization profiles (JSON), deterministic decision engine, composition map into POWERFUL specialists, plus cs-fullstack-engineer / cs-frontend-engineer / cs-backend-engineer orchestrator agents (context: fork) + /cs-fullstack-review, /cs-frontend-review, /cs-backend-review, /cs-engineer-grill slash commands.
agent-skills
60 Agent Skills spanning the agent lifecycle, building, diagnosis, SRE, security, review, QA, data, delivery, docs, and research.
How to run each
engineering-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install engineering-skills@claude-code-skillsagent-skills
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: engineering-skills · What it can do: agent-skills · Compare two other plugins
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