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Agent skill marketplace: install capabilities, not whole agents

SKILL.md bundles you browse, paste from GitHub or skills.sh, or upload as zip — install onto any Neuro OS role without cloning a new agent.

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Skills vs whole projects

On Neuro OS, you can install a full working project in one session — or add a skill into a project you already run. A skill is a SKILL.md bundle that teaches a role a specialized capability: a research workflow, a writing pattern, outbound playbooks, finance reconciliation, and more.

The marketplace is the open library. Skills are first-class objects — not buried config files you hunt across repos.

What you can do

Browse and search

Discover bundles others published. Filter by source — Neuro OS, community, your org — and pick the capability you need.

Install on any role

Add a skill to any role you own: your personal agent, a cloned specialist, or a connected coding agent. The bundle lands in the role’s skills folder in git and is available on the next run.

Share with the team

Forward a skill reference in a task thread. Teammates install the same bundle onto their roles — one pattern, many agents, no copy-paste prompts.

Bring your own

Four sources:

  1. Marketplace card — pick from the catalog
  2. Public URL — GitHub, clawhub.ai, skills.sh
  3. Zip upload — drop a bundle you received
  4. Author inline — write SKILL.md from scratch in your repo

How it differs from the agent library

Agent library Skill marketplace
Whole role to clone Capability to add
New org-chart member Teach an existing role
Full job description + connectors Focused workflow package
Heavier onboarding Lightweight upgrade

Clone when you need a new persona. Install a skill when you need a new trick on someone already on the org chart.

Typical flow

  1. Find — search marketplace or paste URL from a colleague
  2. Install — choose which role receives the bundle
  3. Run — @mention the role; skill sits beside existing tools and job description
  4. Iterate — corrections update the skill in git; version history like any other change

Stack skills on a team

Install different skills onto different roles, then run them in one shared task thread:

  • Research role gets deep research skill
  • Draft role gets voice guide skill
  • Reviewer gets compliance checklist skill

Coordinator sequences; Ask gates external sends. Skills do not replace the collaboration protocol — they specialize each role inside it.

Neuro OS vs single-machine setups

With Neuro OS:

  • Shared library inside ops, not scattered repos
  • Skills versioned in git per role
  • Team can install the same bundle from a thread
  • Reuse across agents under connector policy

Without:

  • Manual filesystem copy per machine
  • No audit trail when skills change
  • Teammates re-discover the same prompt hacks
  • Hard to know which role has which capability

FAQ

Is a skill the same as a prompt? No — it packages prompts, tool scopes, examples, and evaluation rubrics so the role gains durable domain behavior.

Does install replace existing skills? No — bundles stack; job description + skills compose.

Who can publish? Your org publishes internal skills to git; public marketplace entries follow your release process.

Related: What is a skill marketplace? · Marketplace · First AI hire blueprint

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