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Ecosystem Study · April 2026

The AI Agent Skills Ecosystem: Registry, Scanner, and User View

Three views of the same ecosystem disagree about what is broken. The registry is 96.6% installable. Scanners flag 37%. Users — across 16,635 classified reports — spend 55% of their complaint volume on operational correctness. Security is 1%. Open dataset, CC BY 4.0.

96.6%

Apt-installable

36.8%

Scanner-flagged

55%

Operational pain

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