Skills and plugins ecosystem for AI coding tools is getting weird
Google dropped agents-cli with 7 skill packs. Claude Code has skills. Verdent has a skills marketplace. Every tool is going the plugin route now.
As a react dev who uses multiple AI tools daily, this is getting confusing. Do I install the google skill pack into cursor? Do I just use whatever comes with each tool? What happens when skill packs from different vendors conflict?
Makes sense on paper. Instead of the AI guessing how to deploy to cloud run or how to structure a monorepo, you inject the knowledge directly. I tried the agents-cli scaffold command, gave me proper ADK structure out of the box which was nice.
But the fragmentation is real. Each ecosystem wants to be your default. And as a developer I just want my AI tools to work together. Not pick sides.
Right now my approach: cursor for day to day editing, verdent for planning and complex tasks, copilot for inline suggestions. Skill packs live inside their respective tools and I switch between them as needed. Not ideal but it works.
Feels like we need some kind of universal skill pack format or this is going to get worse before it gets better.