open-skills vs skill-madness
open-skills is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by Alexandru Mares. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). skill-madness is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by ivy00johns. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Community GitHub marketplaces). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-24. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace | ||
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace allemaar/open-skills | Listed Version: 1.8.0 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 15 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Community marketplace ivy00johns/skill-madness | Not listed | Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 3 Stars (GitHub): 11 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 | open-skills | skill-madness |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 15 (better) | 11 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 1 (worse) | 3 (better) |
| Last release | Not published | 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) | 79 | 76 |
| Licence (differs) | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/allemaar/open-skills | github.com/ivy00johns/skill-madness |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 0 | 2 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-22 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
open-skills
Reusable skills for AI coding agents. Every skill has a readable SKILL.md; 40 of 70 also carry a declarative protocol.yon with named steps, rules, and gates validated structurally by @younndai/yon-parser. Validation does not enforce runtime obedience. Read before you trust.
skill-madness
Install all 76 Skill-Madness skills: the 14-phase orchestrator, 10 role agents with exclusive file ownership, 2 contract skills (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/Pydantic/TS/JSON Schema), 4 git workflow skills, 7 meta/skill-management skills, 39 cross-cutting workflow skills (plan-builder, repo-deep-dive, ui-brief, mermaid-charts, llm-wiki, …), and 13 autonomous-loop skills (fix-until-green, babysit, coverage-loop, …).
How to run each
open-skills As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add allemaar/open-skills
/plugin install open-skills@open-skillsskill-madness As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add ivy00johns/skill-madness
/plugin install skill-madness@skill-madnessCommands 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: open-skills · What it can do: skill-madness · Compare two other plugins
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