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title: "How do design systems distribute agent skills?"
description: "Through a package command: 17 of 19 ship official skills, 11 document npx skills add."
url: "https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/agent-skill-distribution.md"
canonical: "https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/agent-skill-distribution.md"
type: "question"
id: "agent-skill-distribution"
data_collected: "2026-07-26/27"
generated: "2026-07-28T06:01:02Z"
report: "State of AI in Design Systems — July 2026"
author: "Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent"
license: "CC-BY-4.0"
citation: "Deloumeau-Prigent, K. (2026). State of AI in Design Systems. https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/agent-skill-distribution.md"
---

> Snapshot of 2026-07-27. Every claim below links to the source URL it was taken from. Check the source before citing.

# How do design systems distribute agent skills?

Mostly through a package manager command rather than a download: 17 of the
19 systems ship official agent skills, and 11 of them document `npx skills add`
as the install path.

The 2 without official skills are [Cloudscape Design System](https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/systems/cloudscape-design-system.md), [U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)](https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/systems/uswds.md). The rest of the distribution
picture: a handful serve skills from a well-known discovery endpoint (see
https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/questions/well-known-skills.md), and some are bundled into a platform CLI rather than
published on their own. PatternFly ships the largest consumer set in the study; daisyUI sells paid
skills alongside its free one. Detail per system in each record, and in finding 2 at
https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/index.md.


Other questions this report answers, and the index of every file: https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/llms.txt

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Generated 2026-07-28T06:01:02Z from the State of AI in Design Systems — July 2026 dataset. Index of every machine-readable file: https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/llms.txt. JSON, SQLite and the MCP endpoint: https://state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/ai.md. Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent, CC BY 4.0.