trending-skills
Fetches skills.sh trending rankings. Use when asking about skill rankings or popular tools.
Why use this skill?
Get real-time insights into popular tools with trending-skills. Track leaderboard rankings and view detailed documentation for top-performing developer skills.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hjw21century/trending-skillsWhat This Skill Does
The trending-skills skill serves as an interface for the skills.sh platform, enabling users to retrieve real-time data on the most popular and trending technical skills within the OpenClaw ecosystem. By leveraging automated browsing capabilities, this tool tracks key metrics like installation counts and rankings, providing developers and AI agents with actionable insights into industry trends. It effectively bridges the gap between static repositories and dynamic skill popularity, allowing users to stay informed about which tools are currently gaining traction.
Installation
To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, use the following CLI command:
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hjw21century/trending-skills
Ensure you have the required dependencies installed for optimal functionality. For core ranking features, run:
pip install playwright
playwright install chromium --with-deps
If you intend to utilize the detailed skill investigation feature, also install the optional packages:
pip install beautifulsoup4 lxml requests
Use Cases
This skill is ideal for developers, technical researchers, and AI agents needing to audit popular workflows or determine the relevance of specific automation tools. Use it to keep your skill library updated with community-vetted solutions, compare the adoption rates of different tools, or research the specifications of a particular skill when you need detailed documentation on its usage and rules.
Example Prompts
- "今天技能排行榜"
- "Top 10 skills"
- "remotion-best-practices是什么"
Tips & Limitations
- Data Accuracy: This skill relies on the skills.sh platform. If the remote source is unreachable or undergoing structural changes, fetching may fail. Always ensure your internet connection is stable.
- Performance: Because this skill uses Playwright to render the page, the first execution after installation or a period of inactivity may experience a slight delay due to browser initialization.
- Detail Fetching: The
detailfeature is an optional add-on. If you encounter issues while looking up specific skill definitions, ensure the optionalbeautifulsoup4andlxmllibraries are properly installed in your local Python environment. - Security: Since this skill performs network requests to scrape data, ensure your firewall settings allow traffic from the browser-based fetcher.
Metadata
Not sure this is the right skill?
Describe what you want to build — we'll match you to the best skill from 16,000+ options.
Find the right skillPaste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.
{
"plugins": {
"official-hjw21century-trending-skills": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: network-access, external-api
Related Skills
github-topics
Fetches GitHub topic trending repositories. Use when asking about GitHub trending repos or open source projects.
fs-street
Fetches articles from Farnam Street RSS. Use when asking about decision-making, mental models, learning, or wisdom from Farnam Street blog.
x-tweet-fetcher
Fetch tweets from X/Twitter without login or API keys. Supports regular tweets, long tweets, quoted tweets, and full X Articles. Zero dependencies, zero configuration.
ai-daily
Fetches AI news from smol.ai RSS. Use when user asks about AI news or daily tech updates.
agent-estimation
Accurately estimate AI agent work effort using the agent's own operational units (tool-call rounds) instead of human time. Use when asked to estimate, scope, plan, or evaluate how long a coding task will take. Prevents the common failure mode where agents anchor to human developer timelines and massively overestimate. Outputs a structured breakdown with round counts, risk factors, and a final wallclock conversion.