Skill comparison
Compare agent skills before installing.
Put high-signal skills side by side and inspect quality, adoption, freshness, install readiness, use-case fit, and warnings in one place.
Comparing 4 skills
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Decision summary
Sherpa is the strongest overall pick here because it has a 98/100 readiness score and fits Coding agents.
Strongest overall
Sherpa
Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack.
Fastest prototype
Sherpa
Best first install candidate based on install readiness and adoption.
Freshest repo
Sherpa
Most recent maintenance signal among this shortlist.
| Signal | Hear Command line interface for the built-in speech recognition and transcription capabilities in macOS. | Speech Swift AI speech toolkit for Apple Silicon — ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and diarization powered by MLX and CoreML | Ollama Voice Mac Mac compatible Ollama Voice | Sherpa Speech-to-text server framework with next-gen Kaldi |
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| Quality | 85/100 Excellent | 87/100 Excellent | 66/100 Promising | 87/100 Excellent |
| Decision verdict | 96/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. | 98/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. | 68/100 Prototype first Prototype with this skill first; keep a fallback candidate ready. | 98/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack. |
| Adoption | 661 stars 0 installs | 894 stars 0 installs | 517 stars 0 installs | 940 stars 0 installs |
| Freshness | May 19, 2026 | Jun 14, 2026 | Aug 21, 2025 | Jun 16, 2026 |
| Use-case fit | ||||
| Stack fit | ||||
| Platform hints | Objective-C, Speech, Claude Code | Swift, Speech, Claude Code | Python, Speech, Claude Code | C++, Speech, Claude Code |
| Warnings | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet | No OpenAgentSkill engagement data yet |
| Best for | Coding agents workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Coding agents workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Coding agents workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals | Coding agents workflows · Claude Code teams · teams that value GitHub adoption signals |
| Not ideal for | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review | teams that need a vendor-supported SLA · high-compliance environments without internal security review |
| OpenAgentSkill engagement | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies | 0 views 0 install copies |
| Install | $ npx skills add sveinbjornt/hear | $ npx skills add soniqo/speech-swift | $ npx skills add apeatling/ollama-voice-mac | $ npx skills add k2-fsa/sherpa |