SkillsMP is a free search engine for agent skills. It collects SKILL.md files from public GitHub repositories and says it has more than 3 million. It's a good fit if you're a developer who wants to search open-source skills and review the code yourself. If you'd rather have a skill that someone wrote for your job, keeps up to date and refunds if it doesn't work, and you want to use it in Claude or ChatGPT without a terminal, KissMySkills is the alternative: 2,500+ written skills, $19 each or $9 a month for all of them.
Every SkillsMP detail below comes from skillsmp.com and its About page, checked on 21 October 2026. We haven't verified their numbers ourselves. · By the KissMySkills team
SkillsMP vs KissMySkills at a glance
| SkillsMP | KissMySkills | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An index of open-source skills found on GitHub | A catalog of skills, agents and prompt packs we write and maintain |
| Size | "3,000,000+" skills, by the site's own count | 2,500+ items, filed by job and industry |
| Price | Free. The About page links to optional Ko-fi donations | $19 per skill one-time, or Library $9/month / $59/year for the whole catalog. Free trial, free tools |
| Who wrote the skills | Thousands of GitHub authors | Our team, using one template for every skill |
| Quality check | No review step described. The site tells you to review the code before installing | Written and edited in-house. 30-day money-back guarantee |
| How you install | Go to the source repo and install by hand | Download the ZIP and upload it to Claude, or connect once and ask for the skill by name |
| Works with | The site names Claude Code, Codex CLI and ChatGPT | Claude (all plans), Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI; ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu |
| For developers | Free REST API (50 requests a day without a key, 500 with a free key) and an MCP server | MCP connector with search, CRM, SEO and generator tools on paid plans |
| Who runs it | An independent community project, "not affiliated with Anthropic or OpenAI" | A registered business in Poland, also independent of Anthropic and OpenAI |
When SkillsMP is the better choice
Use SkillsMP if you're a developer and these apply to you:
- You need a niche technical skill, for a framework, a CLI or an internal tool, that nobody sells. With millions of indexed files, there's a good chance someone has written one.
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You can read code. Many GitHub skills include scripts. If you'll open
scripts/before installing anything, a free index is a perfectly sensible source. - You want to build on it. The free API and MCP server make it easy to search skills from your own tools.
- Budget is zero. SkillsMP costs nothing. That's a real advantage, and we won't pretend otherwise.
When KissMySkills is the better choice
Use KissMySkills if these sound like you:
- Your work isn't code. Most skills on GitHub are written by developers, for developers. Ours are built around jobs: SEO, finance, recruiting, legal, sales, support, teaching. Each one knows what to ask first, the order of work and what never to guess.
- You don't want to vet files. Every skill comes from one team using one template. If one doesn't do what it says, you get your money back within 30 days.
- You don't use a terminal. Connect once in Claude (Free plan included) and say "KMS, load the SEO specialist". No GitHub, no folders.
- You want it to stay current. When we improve a skill, Library subscribers get the new version through the connector automatically.
Keyword clusters, technical audits and content briefs in one SKILL.md, written for marketers rather than developers. Works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Code.
See the SEO skill →Can you use both?
Yes. Both use the same open Agent Skills (SKILL.md) format, so a skill from a GitHub repo you found on SkillsMP and a skill from our catalog sit in the same skills folder and load the same way. A common setup: free open-source skills for developer tasks, written specialists for everything else.
How to check a free skill before you install it
SkillsMP itself advises reviewing code before installing. Here is what that means in practice, for a skill from any index:
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Read the whole
SKILL.md. Watch for instructions to send data to a URL, to read files outside the task, or to ignore what you say. -
Open every script. A skill with a
scripts/folder can run code when your agent uses it. If you can't tell what a script does, skip it. - Check the repo. Look at the last commit date, the open issues and the license. Stars show popularity, not safety.
- Test it on a throwaway task first, with tool approvals switched on.
Other SkillsMP alternatives
- Anthropic's own skills: a small, reviewed set, free, mostly for documents and code.
- skills.sh: a free community index with an install command for many agents.
- Agensi: free and paid skills for coding agents, with a security scan on each listing.
- claudeskills.info: a free index of GitHub skills.
We compare them with checked prices in Best Claude skills marketplaces, and one by one in KissMySkills vs Agensi and KissMySkills vs LobeHub.
Try the whole catalog before you pay
The Library subscription loads every skill through one connector: $9 a month or $59 a year, with 10 file downloads a month included. Need a CRM as well? AI CRM is $15 a month or $129 a year, and Both is $19 a month or $169 a year. There's a free trial, no card needed.
Start the free trial → Browse the catalogIn summary:
SkillsMP is a free, very large search index of open-source GitHub skills. It's best for developers who review code themselves. KissMySkills is the paid alternative for everyone else: written, maintained skills for real jobs, installed without a terminal and backed by a 30-day refund. Both use the same SKILL.md format, so you can mix them.
Related guides
- Agent Skills: what SKILL.md is and where it works
- Where to buy Claude skills
- Free vs paid Claude skills
- How to install a Claude skill
SkillsMP is a third-party site; facts about it are quoted from skillsmp.com as of the date above and may have changed since. KissMySkills is not affiliated with SkillsMP, Anthropic or OpenAI.
