● Mission briefAI capabilities · Oct 2026
Flight readiness for AI capabilities
Verified
Skills
The scoreboard for AI skills.
Mike Livingston · October 2026
00Verified Skills
01 Pre-flight checkVehicle: any AI skill
Skills, like rocket parts, need test results.
Pre-flight checklistAI skill
Test harnessNo-go
OracleNo-go
Regression testingNo-go
Download countsInflated
Launch statusHold
01 / 05The hook
02 The ten-names questionTelemetry: public
Every great ecosystem had a public scoreboard from day one.
Jobs / Cook
App Store
✓ Scoreboard
10M downloads in 3 days · 2008
Benioff
AppExchange
✓ Scoreboard
162 apps at launch · 2006
Huang
CUDA
✓ Scoreboard
100M+ CUDA GPUs · 2008
Bezos
Marketplace
✓ Scoreboard
61% of paid units · Q4 2025
Nadella
GitHub
✓ Scoreboard
28M+ developers · 2018
Zuckerberg
Facebook Platform
✓ Scoreboard
85+ apps at launch · 2007
Musk
Supercharger
✓ Scoreboard
6 stations at launch · 2012
Collison
Stripe
✓ Scoreboard
$1.9T volume · 2025
Lütke
Shopify App Store
✓ Scoreboard
21,000+ apps · 2025
Pichai
Google Play
✓ Scoreboard
450K+ apps · 2012
Where is the scoreboard for AI skills?
✕ AI skills · no scoreboard
02 / 05Sources: company releases & SEC filings
03 The value-metric gapTelemetry review
Apps have a value metric. AI skills don't.
CH-1 · Proven app stores● Signal
$550B+
paid to developers · App Store, since 2008
Measured: review, ratings, payouts · Source: Apple, Jan 2026
CH-2 · AI skills○ No signal
Value: ?
3M+skills indexed
~1 in 2installed only once
36.8%of scanned skills had a security flaw
Sources: SkillsMP · Vercel, Sep 2026 · Snyk, Feb 2026
03 / 05Green = measured · flatline = unmeasured
04 The answerFlight sequence
SpaceX flight standards, applied to AI capabilities.
T–3
Test
On the test stand
T–2
Score
Live telemetry
T–1
Pay
Only on verified output
T–0
Kill
No lift = scrubbed
Flight rule
Value = time and energy converted by output.
A small special-ops team: proven, multi-skilled people or skills.Not 100 single-skill bots.
04 / 05Test → score → pay → kill
05 The askGo for launch
● Go / no-go
Build the scoreboard for skills.
A neutral store with a value score and an accuracy score.
@xAI@grok@elonmusk
Mike Livingston
SKILL SCOREBOARDLIVE
SKILLVALUEACCURACYSTATUS
SKILL-AGO
SKILL-BGO
SKILL-CGO
SKILL-DNO-GO
ILLUSTRATIVE · SCORES MEASURED ON REAL TASKS
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