Skills Marketplaces

I’ve enjoyed learning about agent skills over the past few months. I’ve learned a lot browsing some skills marketplaces and plugins. Some of my favorite have been:

• Anthropic
  • https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
  • https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official
• OpenAI: https://github.com/openai/skills
• Sentry’s marketplace: https://github.com/getsentry/skills
• Compound Engineering Plugin
• https://skills.sh/

It’s now possible to easily setup a skills marketplace for your own organization. That way your employees have a central place to contribute new skills and install and use existing skills. I’ve tried to make this easier by creating a skills marketplace template here: https://github.com/lawwu/skills-marketplace. It is a Cookiecutter Template for an Agent Skills Marketplace. I tried to consolidate some of the best practices I’ve seen across skills marketplaces. Some things it has:

• Symbolic links
  • CLAUDE.md -> AGENTS.md
  • .agents/skills -> ../plugins/my-skills/skills
• Github Actions
  • Claude Review
  • Skill Review
  • Validate-Frontmatter

The skills marketplace that I’m hosting here shows what this template looks like “in the wild.”

To create a version of the skills marketplace yourself for your organization, you can use a skill to set it up:

# install this marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add lawwu/skills
claude plugin install lawwu-skills@lawwu-skills

Then in claude:

/create-skills-marketplace

Or you can directly use cookiecutter to go through the flow but you will need to do some manual steps like add your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for the automated Claude and Skill-Review Github Actions. The above skill /create-skills-marketplace automates all of this.