Everything Is Becoming a Skill: AI Is Now the One Using Your Service

It’s time to rethink how we look at services.

According to Mintlify, the developer docs hosting platform, AI now accounts for nearly 50% of all documentation reads - up from just 15% a year ago.

Supabase’s numbers are even more dramatic. Last week, bot visits to their guides outnumbered human visits three to one.

The era of people manually searching and reading documentation - or even directly using services - is coming to an end in 2026. And the companies that recognized this first have already started building skills.

The Tailwind Warning

Tailwind CSS, widely regarded as the gold standard of CSS frameworks, announced a 75% workforce reduction two weeks ago.

• AI coding agents drove monthly downloads to 75 million
• But almost no one visited the official docs anymore
• Result: 40% traffic drop, 80% revenue loss

Downloads exploded while revenue collapsed. It’s a paradox that lays bare the limits of the traditional service business model in the AI era.

Anthropic’s Smart First Move

The turning point was Anthropic’s official release of a frontend design skill. It wasn’t just a feature - it opened up a plugin ecosystem where skills could be easily shared.

• Fully automated agent systems like the Ralph loop got packaged as skills
• Adoption spread rapidly beyond development into non-technical domains
• The organic growth pattern that once defined n8n templates is happening again

Services Are Jumping In

After seeing what happened to Tailwind, services started moving. They’re packaging their core knowledge as skills.

• Vercel: vercel-react-best-practices - a comprehensive React knowledge base that naturally integrates their deployment and logging pipeline
• Supabase: postgres-best-practices - covering PostgreSQL performance, security, and schema design
• Stripe: Payment integration guides
• RevenueCat: In-app purchase implementation
• Expo: React Native app development
• Neon: Serverless database operations
• Better Auth: Authentication system setup

Vercel’s approach stands out. Their skill makes it possible to build without deep React knowledge - and in doing so, naturally funnels users toward their deployment ecosystem.

Beyond Text: Video Is Next

Remotion released a skill yesterday, opening up an entirely new territory. Known among developers as the framework that makes TikTok-style video editing possible through code, Remotion’s move signals that skills aren’t limited to text and code generation anymore.

Video editing, content production, design - the boundaries are disappearing.

Building My Own

I built two skills recently: an agent-browser skill and an Excalidraw-based diagramming skill. Turning diagrams into images had always been a bottleneck in my workflow.

Now AI visits Excalidraw on my behalf, does the work, and brings back the result. What started as a personal need turned into the moment skills clicked for me.

The Bottom Line

People are no longer searching and reading directly. But context still requires human knowledge, and the decision to purchase a service still belongs to humans.

The answer is clear: you need to create context that automatically channels AI into your service.

Whether it’s an individual’s expertise or a company’s core knowledge - it’s time to prepare your skills. Because the primary users of our services are increasingly shifting from people to AI.