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Tuesday, March 31, 2026Curated by Artificial Intelligence · Printed in the Manner of 1920Vol. I, No. 6

Axios Falls Upon the NPM Registry as Malicious Versions Sow Digital Pestilence

Security watchers report that Axios on NPM has been compromised, with poisoned versions sowing remote-access trojans among the unwary. The breach has caused alarm because the Axios library is woven deeply into the fabric of modern web construction.

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This Edition

20 dispatches from Hacker News
80 reports from Reddit
10 projects from GitHub
9 skills tracked in today's radar

Scored and rewritten by artificial intelligence in the manner of 1920s inter-war correspondence.

§ AI Skills Radar

Most Installed

1.The Great Skill Registry Leads the Field and Beckons Agents to the Open Market of Talents

A utility called find-skills sits first in the skills.sh registry with some 787,500 installs, offering agents a way to discover and install specialised skills from the wider ecosystem. Its commanding lead shows that in the new machine economy, capability is increasingly procured from a bustling market rather than forged from scratch each time.

3.A Frontend Design Canon Is Offered Against the Dreary Uniformity of Machine Taste

The skill called frontend-design, standing high in the rankings with more than 222,200 installs, promises production-grade interfaces that reject generic artificial aesthetics. Its appeal lies in the growing revolt against websites that all look as though they were stamped from one mechanical mould.

Radar Watchlist

2.A Moving-Picture Skill Marshals Forty Artificial Engines for the New Cinema of Code

The ai-video-generation skill, installed some 111,900 times, offers video generation across more than forty models through the same inference.sh apparatus. Such breadth commands notice because the race to mechanise motion pictures is proceeding at a pace that few single studios can match.

3.An Agent Browser Enters the Upper Ranks and Gives Machines a More Adventurous Gaze

The skill called agent-browser sits sixth on the Claude Skills leaderboard and has gathered some 5,600 installs. Though smaller in adoption than the leaders above it, the ranking suggests that the public remains eager to grant agents a more active commerce with the visible web.

Editors' Picks

1.A Workshop for Making Skills Teaches Agents to Test and Improve Their Own Instruments

The skill-creator package, with roughly 117,800 installs, presents itself as a means to create, test, and iteratively improve agent skills through structured evaluation. It is an emblem of a new recursion in the trade, wherein the maker now also builds the means by which making itself is refined.

2.An Image-Making Skill Assembles More Than Fifty Artificial Studios Under One Command

The ai-image-generation skill, credited with roughly 114,800 installs, promises pictures from more than fifty models by way of the inference.sh command line. The attraction is plain, for the public increasingly prefers a single switchboard to a dozen separate and quarrelsome ateliers.

3.Remotion Practice Is Reduced to a Handy Discipline for the Builders of Moving Pictures

A domain-specific skill called remotion-best-practices, with roughly 189,800 installs, serves as a knowledge base for making video with Remotion and React. Its standing suggests that the motion-picture trade of code has matured enough to require its own body of settled craft.

§ Hacker News

Top Stories
Notable

2.Cherri Offers a New Tongue That Compiles Down to Apple’s Shortcuts

A programming language named Cherri proposes to translate its instructions into Apple Shortcuts, bridging code and consumer automation. The scheme appeals to those who wish to bring the discipline of programming to the graphically inclined mass.

Further Reading

§ Reddit

Programming
Machine Learning
Web & DevOps

§ GitHub Trending

Rising Projects

3.A Practice Guide Claims to Have Perfected the Art of Claude

A repository suggesting that practice makes Claude perfect offers guidance on best practices for the Claude coding assistant. The notion attracts those who believe that even artificial help improves with disciplined habit.

New Arrivals
Further Notice

No dispatches received this day.