About TheSkillz
TheSkillz is the vetted app store for AI agent skills. We curate a small catalog of skills that actually work — procedures with commands, checks and output formats — instead of indexing every markdown file on GitHub.
What is an AI agent skill?
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file — YAML frontmatter (name, description) plus markdown instructions — that teaches a coding agent a repeatable procedure. Agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI load the skill when a task matches its description.
How is this different from free skill directories?
Free directories index everything, including skills with prompt-injection payloads and dangerous tool permissions. Every skill here is scanned, hash-pinned, manually reviewed, and rated by verified users. Paid skills are sold under a clear licence with the reviewed content pinned to a SHA-256 hash, and we step in if a listing didn't do what its page says.
How is a skill verified?
Every submission is scanned automatically the moment it arrives, then read by a human before it goes live. The scanner checks for hidden Unicode (tag, bidi and zero-width characters that hide text from reviewers), prompt-injection and concealment phrases, credential access (SSH keys, .env, cloud and browser credential stores), remote-code-execution primitives (curl | bash, base64 decode-and-run, eval of fetched content, reverse shells), over-broad tool permissions in frontmatter (allowed-tools: Bash(*), bypassPermissions), encoded or obfuscated payloads, and every external URL against an allow-list of documentation hosts. Each skill gets a 0–100 score and a verdict; anything with a critical finding is blocked from publishing unless an admin explicitly overrides. The published SKILL.md is pinned to a SHA-256 hash shown on its page, so what you install is exactly what was reviewed.
Who is the seller and how are creators paid?
Creators set their own price ($1–$100, or free). TheSkillz verifies every skill, runs checkout through Polar (merchant of record, so VAT and sales tax are handled), and keeps a 30% platform fee; creators receive 70% of every sale, paid out monthly.
How do I install a skill?
Free skills: curl -fsSL https://theskillz.dev/install/<slug> | bash. Paid skills: download the zip from your account and unzip it into .claude/skills/ (or the equivalent folder for your tool).
Can I get a refund?
Skills are digital content delivered the moment you buy them, so purchases are non-refundable by default and refunds are not available on request. Where you live gives you mandatory statutory rights — an EU or UK withdrawal right, for example — those still apply; Polar is the merchant of record and processes any refund. Beyond that we refund at our discretion in one case: the listing was materially wrong about what the skill does, or the download was broken. Claims go in within 14 days and must show it — order id, the skill version and content hash, the exact line of the listing you say is untrue, what actually happened with reproduction steps, which agent and version you ran, and a transcript or screenshots. The full process is in the Terms of Use.