The first hundred skills on the shelf

The first hundred skills arrived without a playbook, which made them the playbook. A few patterns showed up so consistently they're now house wisdom.

Patterns we saw

• Verbs beat nouns — 'refactor', 'audit', 'rewrite' outperformed every clever brand name.
• Narrow scope, kept promise: the best-rated skills do one thing and say so.
• The one-line description is the product. Publishers rewrote it more than the skill itself.

Nobody installs a mission statement. They install a verb.

The shelf is longer now, but the bar hasn't moved: be specific, be checkable, and let the install curve argue for you.