The best Claude skills marketplace depends on whether you want files or finished work. If you are comfortable in a terminal, start with the free options - skills.sh, claudeskills.info, and Anthropic's own plugin directory inside Claude Code. If you want paid skills that have been security-scanned before listing, Agensi is the one doing that. If you are not a developer and want a finished specialist you install as a ZIP in the Claude desktop app, that is KissMySkills (1,000+ skills, $14.99 each) or Claude Protocol (501 skills, $3.99 each).
Every marketplace, catalogue size and price on this page was checked in August 2026. Third-party vendors change pricing without notice - confirm on their own site before you pay.
What is a Claude skills marketplace selling?
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file at its root. That file holds YAML metadata at the top and plain-English instructions below it, and it can carry optional scripts/, references/ and assets/ folders alongside. When the skill is switched on, Claude reads those instructions and behaves like a specialist in that job instead of a generalist.
A marketplace is anywhere you get those folders. Some are search engines over public GitHub repositories and charge nothing. Some are shops that write the files themselves and charge per file. A few also sell prompt packs (a set of prompts you paste one at a time, no install) and agents (a skill plus an activation prompt that drives a whole multi-step job).
The seven places worth knowing, compared
| Marketplace | Cost (checked Aug 2026) | Catalogue | How you install it |
|---|---|---|---|
| KissMySkills | Skills $14.99, prompt packs $9, agents $32. Free generators, no sign-up. | 1,000+ skills, 158 prompt packs, 55 agents, organised by job title | Upload the ZIP in the Claude desktop app, or paste the SKILL.md text into custom instructions |
| Claude Protocol | $3.99 per skill; category bundles $7-$78; $99 for the whole catalogue | 501 skills across 20 business categories | Markdown files for Claude Projects or Claude Code |
| Agensi | Paid per skill, one-time, creators keep 70%. Agensi Pro is $9/month for MCP access. | Agensi's own site claims 2,000+ skills, each run through an 8-point security check | One curl command into ~/.claude/skills/
|
| skills.sh | Free | Community-submitted, ranked by install count |
npx skills add owner/repo; works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini and others |
| claudeskills.info | Free | Says it has indexed 42,816+ skills from public repos | Follow the install notes in each linked GitHub repo |
| Anthropic's own directories | Free | Small and hand-reviewed: the anthropics/skills repo plus an Anthropic-managed plugin directory and partner plugins |
/plugin inside Claude Code, or clone the repo |
| LobeHub, SkillsMP | Free | Scraped aggregators - LobeHub lists 169K+, SkillsMP claims 800,000+ filtered at 2 GitHub stars | Read the source on GitHub, then install by hand |
Which one is right for you?
You write code and want to pay nothing
Use skills.sh. The install is one command, it ranks skills by how many people actually installed them, and it targets more than just Claude. claudeskills.info is the better browse if you want breadth - it points at the original repo so you can read the file before it touches your machine, which you should do.
You want something Anthropic has looked at
Use the official anthropics/skills repository and the plugin directory built into Claude Code. The catalogue is tiny compared to the aggregators, and that is the point - everything in it has been reviewed rather than scraped.
You want paid skills for coding agents, with a safety check
Use Agensi. Its 8-point check covers prompt injection, data exfiltration, hard-coded secrets, dangerous shell commands, obfuscation, outbound fetches, credential access and privilege escalation. Nobody else in this list publishes a check like that, and for files you are about to give an agent with filesystem access, it matters.
You want a lot of business skills cheaply
Look at Claude Protocol. At $99 for all 501 files it is the lowest cost per skill of anything paid here. You are buying volume, not depth - expect to edit.
You are not a developer and want one finished specialist
Use KissMySkills. You get a named role - a CFO, a content marketing manager, a chief of staff - written as a working brief rather than a template, delivered as a ZIP you upload without opening a terminal. Every purchase carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the free generators let you see the output style before you spend anything.
Upload Lena, switch her on, and Claude produces content calendars, campaign briefs and editorial strategy without you writing the prompt scaffolding first.
View Lena →Salary comparisons on this page are ZipRecruiter US averages, checked June-August 2026. They are the cost of employing a person, not a like-for-like substitute for a $14.99 file - read them as scale, not as a saving.
How do you install a Claude skill?
The native route, for a skill that arrives as a ZIP with SKILL.md at the root:
- Open the Claude desktop app and click Customize in the left sidebar, then Skills.
- Click + and upload the ZIP. Claude reads the
SKILL.mdand shows you a summary of what it does. - Toggle the skill on. Off means Claude ignores it entirely.
- Describe your task in a normal conversation. Claude pulls in the skill when the work matches it.
Anthropic lists Skills as available on every plan - Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. The real requirement is code execution. If the Skills menu is missing or greyed out, switch on Code execution and file creation under Settings > Capabilities. On Team and Enterprise an owner controls both code execution and Skills in Organization settings, so if it is off there you need to ask them rather than change a setting yourself.
If you cannot enable code execution, or you are working in ChatGPT or Gemini, use the fallback: open the SKILL.md file, copy everything in it, and paste it into custom instructions. You lose the automatic triggering, but the instructions still shape every reply in that conversation.
For free GitHub skills the install is different again: drop the folder into ~/.claude/skills/ yourself, or let npx skills add or Agensi's curl one-liner do it. Read the file first. It is going to run inside an agent that can touch your filesystem.
What these marketplaces do not do
This is the part the roundups usually skip, so here it is straight.
-
Catalogue size is a scraping statistic, not a quality signal. When a directory advertises 800,000 skills, it has crawled GitHub for files named
SKILL.md. A filter of "at least 2 stars" is not review. Most of that catalogue is somebody's weekend experiment. - Nobody benchmarks whether a skill improves output. There is no shared test set and no published before-and-after for skill files anywhere in this list, ours included. Install counts measure curiosity, not results.
-
A free skill file is unreviewed instructions handed to an agent. A
SKILL.mdcan tell the model to fetch a URL, read files or run a command. That is exactly why Agensi built a security scan - the risk is real, not theoretical. - A skill cannot supply information you did not give it. It changes how the model works, not what it knows. Ask a CFO skill about your margins without pasting your numbers and you will get a plausible-sounding structure filled with nothing.
- No skill knows your specifics. A legal skill does not know your jurisdiction, a finance skill does not know your accounting policy. Every one of them, at every price, needs you to supply that and check the output.
- Nothing works without code execution switched on. A greyed-out Skills menu is almost always this, not your plan - and on Team or Enterprise it may be an organisation-wide setting you cannot change.
Structures financial narratives, pushes back on assumptions, and turns your figures into board-ready reporting. Bring the numbers; Victor brings the shape.
View Victor →What does KissMySkills do differently?
- Sorted by job, not by tag. 1,000+ skills, 158 prompt packs and 55 agents filed under the role that does the work - marketing, sales, legal, finance, HR, engineering, creative.
- No terminal at any point. ZIP upload in the desktop app; copy-paste into custom instructions if you are using ChatGPT or Gemini, or cannot turn on code execution.
- Try the output before you pay. The free generators - bio, cover letter, ad copy, cold email, Excel formulas - need no sign-up.
- Flat one-time pricing. Skills $14.99, prompt packs $9, agents $32. No subscription.
- 30-day money-back guarantee. Instant download by email; refund on request inside 30 days.
Pick a specialist by role - finance, legal, marketing, sales, HR and more - upload the ZIP, switch it on. Or run a free generator first, no sign-up.
Explore the catalog →
Five finance agents in one download - for when a single CFO skill is not the whole job.
View Finance Agent Bundle →In summary:
Free and comfortable with a terminal: skills.sh, claudeskills.info, or Anthropic's own directory. Paid and security-scanned for coding agents: Agensi. Volume on a budget: Claude Protocol at $99 for 501 files. A finished, no-code specialist for Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: start with Ryan - Chief of Staff or Victor - CFO at $14.99, or the Finance Agent Bundle for five at once. 30-day money-back guarantee on everything.
Compare specific marketplaces
KissMySkills vs Claude Protocol · KissMySkills vs Agensi · KissMySkills vs ClaudeSkills.info (free vs paid) · KissMySkills vs LobeHub
Best Claude skills by role
Best Claude skills for CFOs & finance · Best Claude skills for legal teams · Best Claude skills for marketing · Best Claude skills for executives · How to install a Claude skill, step by step
Explore the catalog: All Skills · All Prompts · All Agents · Free AI Generators