A curated marketplace for portable agent skills with source and license review, isolated analysis, signed release records, permission manifests, compatibility tests, and creator payouts.
Genesis score7.23/10
Make Skillmint real.0/500
500 more votes and Skillmint is authorized for build.
0%500 to authorize
Backing is the vote. When an idea crosses 500, we pull it into the build pipeline and ship it for real — the votes decide what gets built next, not an editor.
The opportunity
193K+Stars on confirmed substrate
1Existing curated registry
0Automatic trust from signature
The case
Agent skills can carry instructions, scripts, dependencies, network calls, secrets access, and destructive capabilities across several developer tools. Skillmint inspects source and packaging, runs bounded analysis, publishes a signed release record, and shows users the exact permissions and changes before installation. It never calls a sandbox verdict proof of safety, treats a signature as author trustworthiness, silently executes install hooks, or pays creators from unverifiable usage events.
Who pays — and why
Individual developers and engineering teams installing reusable agent skills, plus creators seeking a trusted distribution and payout channel.
What it unlocks
A versioned skill package with author identity, source, license, dependencies, instructions, scripts, declared files, network destinations, tools, secrets, privileges, and data behavior
Static, isolated, behavioral, compatibility, and policy test results with environment, coverage, limitations, and reproducibility
Signed release and transparency records that establish bounded provenance and integrity without certifying safety
Rapid agent-tool adoption creates a current trust and monetization gap.
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Buyer persona
Skill users and creators are concrete marketplace participants.
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Convergence
Two cross-references and one inbound link provide moderate echo.
Why it scored well
A massively adopted portable skill substrate, an existing curated registry, and no combined trust-plus-payment marketplace found support the concept.
What's holding it back
The registry incumbent can expand, safe analysis is incomplete, tool compatibility changes quickly, marketplace abuse and payouts add operations, and no copying barrier is evidenced.
Signals detected4 sources crossed
Signalrepository research carried in Genesis
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