How this works, and what it does not do

Using SkillHub

What is a Skill?

A Skill is one person's working method, written down as a file your agent can load. It carries the instructions, the sequence and the judgement calls a practitioner would otherwise keep in their head. It is not a course and not a single prompt. Every listing is built from the same structured fields, so before you download anything you can read the promise, who it is for, who it is explicitly not for, what you get back, and a real sample of the output.

How do I install one?

Press Download on the Skill page. You get one file. Drop that file into your agent's skills folder, reload the agent if it needs it, then ask it to do the job the Skill describes. There is no installer and no connected account. The file is yours once it is downloaded, and where it goes is up to whichever agent you use. Skills indexed from GitHub are not hosted on SkillHub: their listing shows the author's own install command and a link to the source instead.

Does anything run on SkillHub?

No. SkillHub hosts listings and files. Nothing is executed here, so the output you get depends on your agent, your inputs and your context, not on us.

Do I need an account to download?

No. Free Skills download without signing in. An account is only needed to publish a Skill of your own or to save one so it is easy to find later.

Who can publish a Skill?

Anyone with an account. There is no editorial review before a listing appears, and no automated scan of the file. If a listing misrepresents itself, use the Report button on the Skill page.

Money

What does it cost?

Browsing costs nothing, and a Skill marked free costs nothing to download. Skills with a price cannot be bought: payment processing is not built, so a paid listing shows its price and a disabled button, and no file is issued for it.

How do creators get paid?

They do not, yet. There are no payouts, no commission and no payment processing anywhere in the product today. Publishing now puts your method in front of people and gives you download counts and the occasional report on whether it solved someone's problem.

Trust and data

What does verified mean?

Nothing yet. There are no verification badges, no tiers and no trust scores, and no creator on SkillHub is currently verified. That is a decision rather than an oversight: a score computed from claims nobody checked would look authoritative while meaning very little.

How do I judge whether a Skill is any good?

Read the listing, and read the sample output hardest. A creator who cannot show what their method produces is telling you something. The other useful signals are the not-for field, the answer to why your agent cannot already do this alone, and, where anyone has reported back, how many people said the Skill solved their problem. There are no star ratings, reviews or comments.

What data do you collect?

Analytics events: pages viewed, searches, downloads, filters, and clicks on the main actions. Each is tied to a random identifier kept in your browser, plus a session identifier that lasts until you close the tab. Alongside each event SkillHub records coarse context: country derived from your IP address, device type, browser, language, screen size, referrer and any campaign parameters in the link you arrived on. If you have an account, SkillHub holds what you gave it for that, and events from a signed-in session carry your user id. If you answer the two optional questions, what made you install a Skill and whether it solved your problem, those answers are stored too. Passwords and the contents of unpublished Skills are not logged.