AMD Had Zero Agent Skills. I Built the First 10.

NVIDIA has 428+ agent skills on skills.sh. AMD had zero. This is the story of building the first open-source collection of agent skills for AMD ROCm GPU workloads — and why it matters for the entire AI ecosystem.

The Problem

If you've used AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, or Codex, you've probably encountered agent skills — reusable instruction sets that teach agents how to perform specific tasks. Skills are the building blocks of agent workflows: "set up my GPU", "deploy vLLM", "run YOLO inference", "check PPE compliance".

The agent skills ecosystem is powered by skills.sh, a registry that indexes skill repositories from GitHub. When you run npx skills add owner/repo, the CLI clones the repo and installs skills into your agent's configuration directory.

Here's the problem: