SkillSwap: Marketplace for Vetted AI Agent Skills
A marketplace where consultants, copywriters, and ops specialists publish tested Skills (e.g., "SaaS cancellation saver", "appointment-booking receptionist") that small businesses can install into their agents, with ratings, refunds, and revenue share.
Independent consultants and small agencies selling their expertise as AI Skills, and SMBs buying them
- Publish flow that validates a Skill runs cleanly in supported agents and produces consistent outputs
- Buyer-side preview that runs the Skill on a sample business scenario before purchase
- 70/30 revenue split with monthly payouts and a dispute/refund process if the Skill breaks
- Skill bundles by industry (dental clinics, law firms, e-commerce) curated by domain experts
As MCP gives way to Skills as the preferred abstraction for shaping agent behavior, a curated marketplace can ride the same wave that produced Shopify app stores and WordPress plugin economies.
AI agent skills ecosystem grew from 1 registry in Dec 2025 to 8 major marketplaces by Q2 2026, indicating real ecosystem pull, though SMB buyer behavior is not yet validated and the cited Dev.to source had only 15 reactions.7 AI Agent Skills Marketplaces in 2026 (Compared) ↗
Market is already crowded: Agensi, skill.broker, CastKit, Skills.sh (Vercel-backed), SkillsMP (800K scraped), LobeHub (169K), ClaudeSkills.info, MCP Market, plus 2,500+ GitHub plugin marketplaces — Agensi in particular is a near-identical model (vetted, 80/20 split, SMB-facing $9/mo Pro tier).7 AI Agent Skills Marketplaces in 2026 (Compared) ↗skill.broker | AI Agent Skills Marketplace ↗
Monetization model is proven at Agensi (80/20 creator split, $9/mo Pro MCP access, paid + free skills) and validated by the Shopify App Store (developers keep 100% up to $1M, 85% above) and Anthropic taking 0% cut — but actual SMB willingness-to-pay for packaged Skills is still unproven.7 AI Agent Skills Marketplaces in 2026 (Compared) ↗Revenue share for Shopify App Store developers ↗
Skills are emerging as the preferred agent-shaping abstraction over MCP, Anthropic ships an official directory, Vercel-backed Skills.sh launched Jan 2026, and Anthropic charges 0% revenue share — all signals the category is durable and structurally favored.Anthropic Just Hit a $965B Valuation... Marketplace Builds on Claude ↗7 AI Agent Skills Marketplaces in 2026 (Compared) ↗
Building a vetted marketplace with security scanning, ratings, refunds, and revenue share is non-trivial engineering and trust-building work, made harder by the need to differentiate from 8 existing competitors and attract creators in a winner-take-most race.7 AI Agent Skills Marketplaces in 2026 (Compared) ↗