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    How to Sell Skills on Agensi

    Built a great skill? Here's how to list it on Agensi, set your price, pass the security review, and start earning from every sale.

    March 30, 20267 min read
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    If you've built a SKILL.md skill that solves a real problem, other developers will pay for it. Agensi makes it straightforward to list your skill for Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex CLI, Cursor, and other agents. Set a price, and start earning. This guide walks through the entire process from submission to your first sale.

    Quick Answer: To sell skills on Agensi, create an account, connect a Stripe account, package your skill as a zip file with a SKILL.md, and submit it for security review via the Creator Dashboard. Once approved, set a price and your skill will go live on the marketplace. You receive 80% of sales monthly.

    Why sell on Agensi?

    There are free ways to share skills: push to GitHub, post on Reddit, share in a Discord. Those are great for visibility, but they don't compensate you for the work you put in.

    Agensi is a curated marketplace where developers buy skills as one-time purchases. Creators keep 80% of every sale. There are no subscriptions, no license keys, and no recurring fees for buyers. You build it once, list it once, and earn from every sale indefinitely.

    Every skill on Agensi also goes through security review, which means buyers trust what they're installing. That trust translates to higher conversion rates than a random GitHub repo.

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    What sells well

    The skills that sell best solve specific, painful problems. A few patterns we've seen work:

    Stack-specific workflow tools. A skill tuned for Next.js 15 with App Router, Tailwind, and Prisma is more valuable than a generic "web development" skill. Developers pay for specificity.

    Team workflow automation. Skills that encode complex multi-step processes (deployment checklists, release management, incident response) save teams hours of documentation and training.

    Domain expertise. If you're an expert in database optimization, security auditing, or accessibility, your knowledge encoded as a skill is worth money.

    Free skills work too. Free listings build your reputation and drive traffic to your paid skills. Many successful creators have a mix of free and paid skills.

    How to submit a skill

    Step 1: Create your account

    Sign up at agensi.io and connect a Stripe account through Stripe Connect. You'll need this for payouts even if you're listing free skills (you can add paid skills later).

    Step 2: Prepare your skill

    Package your skill as a zip file containing at minimum a SKILL.md file with valid frontmatter (name and description fields). Include any supporting files (scripts, references, assets) in the zip.

    Make sure your SKILL.md has a clear, accurate description. This is what buyers see on the listing page, so it needs to explain what the skill does and who it's for.

    Step 3: Submit

    Go to your Creator Dashboard and click "Submit a Skill." Upload your zip file, set a price (or free), add tags, and write a listing description.

    Step 4: Security review

    Every submission goes through an automated 8-point security scan:

    1. File structure validation
    2. File type screening
    3. Dangerous command pattern detection
    4. Secrets detection
    5. Environment variable harvesting analysis
    6. Network access auditing
    7. Obfuscation detection
    8. Prompt injection screening

    If your skill passes the automated scan, it goes to manual review. Most clean submissions are approved within 24-48 hours.

    Step 5: Go live

    Once approved, your skill appears in the marketplace, in category pages, and in the public catalog API. Buyers can find it through search, category browsing, or AI agent discovery.

    Pricing your skill

    There's no single right price. Here are some guidelines:

    Free works for simple utility skills, skills that showcase your expertise, and your first listings while building reputation.

    $5-15 works for solid single-purpose skills that save 15-30 minutes of work per use. Most of the marketplace sits in this range.

    $20-50 works for comprehensive skills that encode deep domain expertise or replace significant manual processes.

    Look at comparable skills on the marketplace and price relative to the value your skill provides. A skill that saves a developer an hour of work every week is easily worth $20+ as a one-time purchase.

    Protecting your IP

    Every download on Agensi is buyer-fingerprinted. A unique identifier is embedded in the SKILL.md frontmatter, linked to the buyer's account. This is invisible to the agent runtime and doesn't affect functionality.

    If your skill leaks, you can upload the file to your piracy reporting dashboard. Agensi matches the fingerprint to the exact buyer and provides enforcement options: warning emails, account suspension, or a pre-filled DMCA takedown notice.

    Getting discovered

    Several things help your skill get found:

    Write a clear description. Buyers search by keyword, so include relevant terms. "Writes conventional commit messages from staged changes" is better than "helps with git."

    Choose accurate tags. Tags drive category filtering. Use specific tags that match how developers search.

    Build to demand. Check the Skill Request Board to see what buyers are actively looking for. Building to proven demand means you have interested buyers on day one.

    Cross-promote. Link to your Agensi listing from your GitHub profile, Twitter/X bio, and blog posts. The marketplace drives discovery, but external traffic helps too.

    Payouts

    Creators receive 80% of each sale. Payouts are processed through Stripe Connect on Stripe's standard schedule for your country (typically weekly). You can track earnings and payout history in your Creator Dashboard and Stripe Dashboard.

    Ready to list your first skill? Submit it here.

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