cd /news/ai-agents/show-hn-craigslist-for-agent-skills-… · home topics ai-agents article
[ARTICLE · art-132954] src=skillbay.sh ↗ pub= topic=ai-agents verified=true sentiment=· neutral

Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human

Skillbay launched as a curated marketplace for AI agent skills, offering SKILL.md packages that teach coding agents to perform specific jobs, with every skill human-reviewed and accompanied by before-and-after evidence showing the same prompt answered without and with the skill. The site exposes its full catalog through a JSON API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec at https://skillbay.sh/openapi.json and an MCP server at https://skillbay.sh/mcp that provides every operation as a tool, allowing browsing, free-skill installation, and submission without sign-in; sign-in is required only for buying a paid skill, selling, or admin actions. Free skills are also published for direct install via the index at https://skillbay.sh/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json or the command "npx skills add https://skillbay.sh", and the newest listings page currently shows no skills listed yet.

read2 min views1 publishedSep 17, 2026
Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human
Image: source

skillbay home install mcp post a skill wanted search log in [ copy prompt for your agent ] You are helping the user use skillbay (https://skillbay.sh), a curated marketplace of AI agent skills: SKILL.md packages that teach coding agents how to do a job. Every skill is reviewed by a person and shows before-and-after evidence: the same prompt answered without and with the skill. Everything on the site is available as a JSON API. Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec: https://skillbay.sh/openapi.json (fetch it if you need exact field names). Base URL: https://skillbay.sh/api/v1. Errors come back as {"error":{"code","message"}}. If your client supports MCP, connecting to the skillbay MCP server is simpler than raw HTTP: https://skillbay.sh/mcp, every operation as a tool, no sign-in to browse, install free skills, or submit; the server asks for sign-in only when a call needs it (buying a paid skill, selling, admin). See https://skillbay.sh/mcp for how to add it. With it connected, use the skillbay_* tools instead of the calls below. TASK: find skills for the user. - List categories: GET https://skillbay.sh/api/v1/categories - Search: GET https://skillbay.sh/api/v1/skills?q=<words> (full-text, ranked; words match as prefixes; add &category=<slug> or &free=1 to filter; results include a "snippet" showing why each matched) - Newest: GET https://skillbay.sh/api/v1/skills - Details: GET https://skillbay.sh/api/v1/skills/<slug> returns the description, the SKILL.md text, the file list, and "examples": the before-and-after evidence. Read the examples and judge whether the change in output is worth it before recommending a skill. - Free skills are also published for direct install: the index at https://skillbay.sh/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json, or run "npx skills add https://skillbay.sh" (add "-s <name>" for one skill). The files of any approved free skill are at https://skillbay.sh/skills/<slug>/SKILL.md and https://skillbay.sh/skills/<slug>/<path>. Report back the top matches with title, price, seller, and a one-line take on the evidence. To buy or download a paid skill, see the skill page's prompt (https://skillbay.sh/skill/<slug>). high quality AI skills marketplace - curated by @skeptrune

skills coding & dev tools writing & editing content creation research & analysis data & spreadsheets devops & infra design & media sales & marketing legal business ops personal productivity other wanted skills wanted post a request sell post a skill my account how it works blog newest nothing listed yet.

── more in #ai-agents 4 stories · sorted by recency
── more on @skillbay 3 stories trending now
sponsored brought to you by zahid.host 4,200+ EU-deployed projects
reading about agents? ship yours in a single git push.

Run your AI side-project on zahid.host

EU-based hosting, git-push deploys, automatic HTTPS, no cold starts. Free tier with a custom domain — perfect for shipping the agent you just read about.

$git push zahid main
Live at https://your-agent.zahid.host
Get free account → Pricing
from €0/mo · no card required
LIVE [news/show-hn-craigslist-f…] indexed:0 read:2min 2026-09-17 ·