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# SkillGild: AI agent skills marketplace

### Your agent is underqualified. Upgrade its skills.

Production-ready **AI agent skills**, tools and developer workflows for **Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI** and any **MCP** client.<br />
Your agent calls them, SkillGild runs them.

[**Website**](https://skillgild.dev) ·
[**Browse skills**](https://skillgild.dev/skills) ·
[**Docs**](https://skillgild.dev/docs) ·
[**Agent setup**](https://skillgild.dev/docs/quickstart-agents) ·
[**Pricing**](https://skillgild.dev/pricing) ·
[**Learn**](https://skillgild.dev/learn)

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## What is SkillGild?

[SkillGild](https://skillgild.dev) is a marketplace for discovering, publishing and monetizing reusable AI agent skills, developer tools and workflows.

- **Developers** install hosted skills into the coding agent they already use and call them through MCP.
- **Creators** [apply to publish](https://skillgild.dev/docs/creators) their own skills and workflows for those agents to use.
- **Teams** invite members to an organization and share the skills the organization unlocks.

Every developer ends up rebuilding the same prompts, workflows and integrations. On SkillGild, someone who knows the job well builds a skill once, and every agent that needs it can reuse it.

> [!NOTE]
> This repository is SkillGild's public home on GitHub: product overview, community guidelines, and the place to report issues and request features. It does **not** contain the SkillGild application source code or the contents of any marketplace skill.

## Watch: SkillGild in 60 seconds

<a href="https://skillgild.dev/about">
  <img src="./assets/skillgild-launch-film.gif" width="840" alt="Opening of the SkillGild launch film: 'Your agent is underqualified', then 'Meet SkillGild', discovering skills such as Brag, LiveCanvas, Logo Design and Academic Plotting, and installing one with the skillgild CLI" />
</a>

<sub>The opening of the launch film. <a href="https://skillgild.dev/about">Watch the full film on the About SkillGild page</a>, or <a href="https://media.skillgild.dev/media/site/brand/skillgild-launch-film-720p.mp4">download the MP4</a>.</sub>

## Supported agents

One SkillGild account and one connection work across agents.

<table>
  <tr>
    <td align="center" width="140">
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/install-claude-code-skills"><img src="https://skillgild.dev/images/agents/claudecode-color.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="Claude Code logo" /></a><br />
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/install-claude-code-skills"><b>Claude Code</b></a>
    </td>
    <td align="center" width="140">
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/install-codex-skills"><img src="https://skillgild.dev/images/agents/codex-color.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="OpenAI Codex logo" /></a><br />
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/install-codex-skills"><b>Codex</b></a>
    </td>
    <td align="center" width="140">
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/cursor-mcp-setup">
        <picture>
          <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="./assets/agents/cursor-dark.svg" />
          <img src="https://skillgild.dev/images/agents/cursor.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="Cursor logo" />
        </picture>
      </a><br />
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/cursor-mcp-setup"><b>Cursor</b></a>
    </td>
    <td align="center" width="140">
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/gemini-cli-skills"><img src="https://skillgild.dev/images/agents/geminicli-color.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="Gemini CLI logo" /></a><br />
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/gemini-cli-skills"><b>Gemini CLI</b></a>
    </td>
    <td align="center" width="140">
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/cli-agent-skills">
        <picture>
          <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="./assets/agents/mcp-dark.svg" />
          <img src="https://skillgild.dev/images/agents/mcp.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="Model Context Protocol (MCP) logo" />
        </picture>
      </a><br />
      <a href="https://skillgild.dev/learn/cli-agent-skills"><b>Any MCP client</b></a>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI connect through SkillGild's local MCP server. Any other client that can run a local stdio MCP server works too.

## What you can do

| | |
|---|---|
| **Discover AI agent skills** | [Explore AI agent skills](https://skillgild.dev/skills) by category, price and free runs, or start from a hand-picked [collection](https://skillgild.dev/collections). Categories include [Development](https://skillgild.dev/categories/development), [Design](https://skillgild.dev/categories/design), [Research](https://skillgild.dev/categories/research), [Video & Media](https://skillgild.dev/categories/video-media) and [Content Creation](https://skillgild.dev/categories/content-creation). |
| **Run free and Pro skills** | Free skills include a monthly run allowance per skill. [SkillGild Pro](https://skillgild.dev/pricing) adds premium skills and server tools. Your AI subscription stays separate. |
| **Use the SkillGild CLI** | One `skillgild` command handles browser sign-in, installs skill wrappers and runs the local MCP server your agent talks to. |
| **Connect through MCP** | Your agent can search for skills, start a session, call server tools and end the session through the [MCP tools](https://skillgild.dev/docs/quickstart-agents). |
| **Build on the API** | Call skills from your own code with the [REST API](https://skillgild.dev/docs/api) and the TypeScript, Python and Go client libraries. See the [developer quickstart](https://skillgild.dev/docs/quickstart-developers). |
| **Publish a skill** | [Become a creator](https://skillgild.dev/docs/creators): apply, create a skill, write its protected prompt and submit it for review. |
| **Share with your team** | Organizations let owners invite members and share the skills the organization unlocks. |
| **Refer and earn** | The [affiliate program](https://skillgild.dev/referral) pays commission on the Pro payments of people you refer. |

## Install and connect

You set this up once per machine. After that, every skill is available to every connected agent. Full instructions: [Connect your agent](https://skillgild.dev/docs/marketplace#connect-your-agent).

### 1. Install the SkillGild CLI

The `skillgild` CLI is both the sign-in tool and the local MCP server your agent talks to. It is a single binary with no dependencies.

macOS and Linux:

```sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SkillGild/skillgild/main/scripts/install-cli.sh | sh
```

Windows (PowerShell):

```powershell
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SkillGild/skillgild/main/scripts/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```

The installers download the latest [release](https://github.com/SkillGild/skillgild/releases) for your platform and check it against `checksums.txt` before installing. You can also download an archive from the releases page and put `skillgild` on your PATH.

### 2. Sign in

```bash
skillgild login
```

The CLI opens a device page in your browser. Check that the code matches (for example `ABCD-EFGH`) and click **Approve**. A revocable credential is saved to your operating system's credential store, never to a config file. Confirm with:

```bash
skillgild status
```

### 3. Install a skill

```bash
skillgild install brag --agent claude-code
```

Use `--agent codex`, `cursor`, `gemini-cli`, or `shared` (the default) to match your client. This example installs [Brag](https://skillgild.dev/skills/brag), a free skill that turns your project into a short launch video.

### 4. Register the MCP server with your agent

<details open>
<summary><b>Claude Code</b></summary>

```bash
claude mcp add --scope user skillgild -- $(command -v skillgild) mcp
```

Guide: [Install Claude Code skills](https://skillgild.dev/learn/install-claude-code-skills)
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Codex CLI</b></summary>

```bash
codex mcp add skillgild -- $(command -v skillgild) mcp
```

Guide: [Install Codex skills](https://skillgild.dev/learn/install-codex-skills)
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Gemini CLI</b></summary>

```bash
gemini mcp add --scope user skillgild $(command -v skillgild) mcp
```

Guide: [Gemini CLI skills](https://skillgild.dev/learn/gemini-cli-skills)
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Cursor</b></summary>

Add this to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`, or to `.cursor/mcp.json` in a project. Replace the path with the output of `command -v skillgild`:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillgild": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/skillgild",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}
```

Guide: [Cursor MCP setup](https://skillgild.dev/learn/cursor-mcp-setup)
</details>

<details>
<summary><b>Any other MCP client</b></summary>

Start `/absolute/path/to/skillgild mcp` as a local stdio MCP server.

Guide: [Add skills to a coding agent](https://skillgild.dev/learn/cli-agent-skills)
</details>

> [!TIP]
> Apps launched from an IDE may not inherit your terminal's `PATH`, so use the absolute path from `command -v skillgild`. Never put an API key in MCP JSON or TOML, or in a repository. The MCP process reads its credential from the OS credential store.

Restart or reload your agent session. You should then see the `skillgild_search_skills`, `skillgild_start_session`, `skillgild_call_tool` and `skillgild_end_session` tools.

**Prefer to let your agent do the setup?** Paste this into Claude Code, Codex, Curs