8 Best Agent Skills Marketplaces and Directories in 2026 (Compared)
Aggregators, agent-native registries, and curated marketplaces are not the same thing. Here is how the top agent skills sources compare on review, security scanning, non-developer coverage, and creator payouts.
AgentVolt · · 7 min read
Why this matters
A year ago there was one place to get agent skills: Anthropic's GitHub repo, with a couple of dozen examples. Today there are directories indexing hundreds of thousands of SKILL.md files, a CLI installer from Vercel, registries attached to specific agents, and a handful of curated marketplaces. They are not interchangeable. Some are search engines over GitHub. Some review every listing. Some pay the people who build skills. Most do not.
This guide compares the agent skills marketplaces and directories that matter in 2026 - what each one is, who runs it, how it handles quality and security, and who it is actually for. If you are new to skills, read What Are Agent Skills? first.
The three kinds of skills marketplace
Before the list, it helps to know that "marketplace" covers three very different things.
Aggregators crawl GitHub for anything with a SKILL.md and index it. Huge catalogs, zero gatekeeping. Great for finding whether someone has already solved your problem; risky for installing without reading.
Agent-native registries are attached to a particular product - a CLI installer or an agent runtime - and mostly hold community submissions. Convenient if you live in that tool.
Curated marketplaces review skills before listing them, usually scan for security issues, and often charge for access. Smaller catalogs, much higher floor.
Which one you want depends on whether you are a developer browsing for ideas or a person who needs a skill that works the first time and will not exfiltrate your API keys. Security research in early 2026 found flaws in more than a third of the skills on one open registry, which is the strongest argument for knowing which kind of source you are using.
The best agent skills marketplaces and directories in 2026
1. AgentVolt
Type: curated marketplace Size: 1,000+ skills Cost: $49/month for the full library (AgentVolt Pro), cancel anytime
AgentVolt is built for people who want skills to work, not skills to browse. Every listing is expert-built or reviewed and security-scanned before it goes live, and the catalog leans toward jobs outside engineering - sales, content, productivity, finance, creator work - where most directories are thin. Skills install in about 30 seconds into any agent on the open standard (Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and 40+ others), and many let you set tone, audience, and output format before install so the file ships tuned to you.
It is also one of the very few marketplaces with a creator program: people who publish skills get a branded landing page and a recurring revenue share on the subscribers they bring in, which is why a lot of the catalog comes from practitioners rather than scraped repos.
Best for: non-developers and small teams who want vetted skills for real work, and creators who want to publish.
We run this one, so weigh that as you read. The rest of this list is here because we think you should know about it.
2. Anthropic's official skills repo
Type: curated, first-party Size: a few dozen skills Cost: free
Anthropic maintains a public GitHub repository of reference skills, including the document skills for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF that ship with Claude. Small, meticulously written, and the best examples of the format if you are learning to write your own.
Best for: learning how a good SKILL.md is structured; document-handling skills.
3. skills.sh
Type: agent-native registry / installer Size: tens of thousands of listed skills, with a public install leaderboard Cost: free
Run by Vercel, skills.sh pairs a directory with a one-line installer (npx skills add <owner/repo>) that drops a skill into the right folder for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and others. Listings are community-submitted and the site shows install counts, which is a useful popularity signal. Some listings carry security audit results; most do not.
Best for: developers who want npm-style installs from the terminal.
4. SkillsMP
Type: aggregator Size: hundreds of thousands of indexed skills Cost: free
SkillsMP crawls GitHub for SKILL.md files and indexes them with AI-powered search. It is the biggest catalog by a wide margin and the best place to check whether a skill for your exact niche already exists. It does no review of what it indexes.
Best for: discovery and research. Read before you install.
5. LobeHub Skills
Type: aggregator Size: 100,000+ skills Cost: free
LobeHub runs a large skills directory alongside its agent platform, with community ratings layered on top of an aggregated catalog. Browsable through a web UI rather than a CLI.
Best for: browsing by category with some community signal.
6. ClawHub
Type: agent-native registry Size: 20,000+ skills Cost: free
ClawHub is the skills registry for OpenClaw, the open-source personal agent. It displays security scan results, license, and version on listings - a feature added after Snyk's ToxicSkills audit of the registry found 76 confirmed malicious skills and flaws in roughly 37% of the catalog. Still the place to go if you run OpenClaw.
Best for: OpenClaw users. Check the scan result on every listing.
7. Tessl Registry
Type: curated registry with security scoring Size: growing Cost: free tier
Tessl built a registry that attaches Snyk-powered security scores to every skill, which makes it one of the few open sources where you can see risk before installing. Developer-oriented.
Best for: developers who want an open registry with a security signal.
8. GitHub collections (addyosmani/agent-skills, alirezarezvani/claude-skills, and others)
Type: curated personal collections Size: dozens to a few hundred per collection Cost: free
Several well-known engineers maintain hand-picked collections on GitHub. Addy Osmani's agent-skills focuses on production-grade engineering skills; alirezarezvani/claude-skills is a large multi-domain set that also covers marketing, product, and operations. Quality is high because a single opinionated maintainer decides what goes in.
Best for: developers who trust a maintainer's taste and are happy to copy folders.
How they compare
| Marketplace | Type | Reviewed before listing | Security scanning | Non-dev coverage | Creator payouts | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AgentVolt | Curated | Yes | Yes | Strong | Yes | $49/mo |
| Anthropic repo | First-party | Yes | Internal | Documents only | No | Free |
| skills.sh | Registry | No | Partial | Moderate | No | Free |
| SkillsMP | Aggregator | No | No | Broad but unvetted | No | Free |
| LobeHub | Aggregator | No | Community ratings | Moderate | No | Free |
| ClawHub | Registry | No | Yes (post-audit) | Moderate | No | Free |
| Tessl | Registry | Partial | Yes (Snyk) | Low | No | Free tier |
| GitHub collections | Curated | Yes (by maintainer) | No | Varies | No | Free |
How to choose
If you write code and live in a terminal, skills.sh or a GitHub collection you trust will serve you well, and SkillsMP is where you go to check whether something already exists. Read every file before you install it; the open registries have no floor.
If you are in sales, marketing, content, finance, or operations, the open directories are thin in your area and heavy in engineering, and you are the person least likely to spot an obfuscated payload in a Markdown file. A curated marketplace costs money precisely because someone else did that reading. That is what AgentVolt is for.
If you build skills, the question is whether you want to be paid. Most directories index your work for free. AgentVolt shares revenue.
Frequently asked questions
What is the biggest agent skills marketplace?
By raw count, the aggregators - SkillsMP and LobeHub index hundreds of thousands of SKILL.md files scraped from GitHub. By vetted catalog, AgentVolt at 1,000+ reviewed skills is among the largest curated libraries.
Are agent skills marketplaces free?
Most open directories are free because they index public GitHub content. Curated marketplaces that review and scan skills generally charge a subscription; AgentVolt Pro is $49/month for the whole library.
Do skills from one marketplace work in every agent?
Yes. All of them use the same SKILL.md open standard, so a skill from any source works in Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and 40+ other agents. Only the install path differs; our install guide covers each one.
Which marketplace is safest?
The ones that review and scan before listing. Snyk's audit of an open registry found security flaws in about 37% of skills and dozens that were outright malicious, so for anything touching real data, prefer a source that can tell you what its review covers.
Pick your source, then pick fewer skills
Whichever marketplace you use, the research is consistent: two or three focused skills per task beat sprawling bundles, and a short list is easier to audit. Choose the source that matches how you work, install the skill for the job you repeat most, and add the next one when the first is a habit.
Browse the AgentVolt marketplace - 1,000+ expert-built, security-scanned skills for sales, content, productivity, finance, and development, installable in any agent you already use.