ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered 2 Vercel releases since Jan 2026, most recently skills.sh on Jan 22, 2026. Highlights include skills.sh. 1 of them shipped with open weights. Every entry below has the episode segment where we covered it live, plus primary-source links where we have them.
Vercel launches skills.sh, an 'npm for AI agents'
Vercel launched skills.sh, a registry where you can browse and install agent skills from the command line for any agent, including Clawdbot. It hit 20K installs within hours, and releases like Browser Use shipping as a skill signal a broader shift from MCP servers toward skills.
Vercel releases official agent skill packs for Next.js and React
Vercel began releasing official agent skill packs for Next.js and React, packaging its framework expertise in the agent skills standard. Ryan Carson highlighted that you can point any skills-compatible coding agent at the pack and it installs the skills for you, an early sign of experts shipping domain knowledge as skills.
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