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Skills v1.1.1: Interactive discovery, open source release, and agent support

Vercel open-sources Skills v1.1.1 with agent-native discovery—27 coding agents now supported.

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Why it matters

Vercel is shipping developer infrastructure built for AI agents, not humans. This moves agent tooling from experimental to production-ready, with built-in support for 27 coding agents and programmatic skill discovery—a signal that agent-native dev stacks are becoming table stakes.

The key facts

13 to know
  1. Skills v1.1.1 now fully open source

  2. Interactive discovery via 'npx skills find' replaces deprecated 'npx add-skill'

  3. Meta 'find-skills' skill for agents to discover capabilities programmatically

  4. Support for 27 coding agents

  5. 'npx skills update' command for offline skill refresh

  6. Non-interactive mode designed for automated workflows

  7. Skills v1.1.1 now fully open source on GitHub

  8. Interactive skill discovery with 'npx skills find' command

  9. Deprecated 'npx add-skill' command in favor of updated 'npx skills' interface

  10. Meta 'find-skills' skill added for agents to discover skills programmatically

  11. Non-interactive mode for automated/agentic workflows

  12. New 'npx skills update' command for local skill refresh

  13. Published Jan 26, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: adds interactive skill discovery and is now fully open source.skills@1.1.1 The new interactive discovery keeps the workflow simple for developers, while also giving agents a clear path to discover skills programmatically by replacing the deprecated command with the updated interface.npx…
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