Agent Skills & Plugins · Reviewed 28 Oct 2026

BuySkills

Marketplace for AI agent plugins and skills with CLI, dashboard, and VS Code extension.

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BuySkills at a glance

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

BuySkills is a marketplace for AI agent plugins and skills, offering a CLI, visual dashboard, and VS Code extension for discovery and management S54. It serves developers and creators who want to install skills across 18+ agents or publish and monetize their own from private GitHub repositories S54. Its practical value is a unified interface for browsing, installing, and selling skills, with automated payouts and revenue sharing S54.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: BuySkills is a marketplace for AI agent plugins and skills S54.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of discovering, installing, and managing skills across multiple AI agents S54.
  • Intended users: Developers and creators who use AI agents or build and sell skills S54.
  • Product scope: It is a marketplace platform with a CLI, visual dashboard, and VS Code extension S54.
  • Positioning: The vendor positions it as a one-stop marketplace for plugins and skills, with a single CLI for many agents S54.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims to let creators publish from private repos and get paid automatically S54.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
DevelopersInstall and manage skills across multiple AI agents from one CLI S54.
Skill creatorsPublish skills from a private GitHub repo and earn revenue from sales S54.
VS Code usersBrowse, install, and sync skills without leaving the editor S54.
Agent usersAsk an agent to find and install a missing capability on demand S54.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Marketplace browsingUsers can discover plugins and skills by category, keyword, or curated collections S54.
CLI installationUsers can install and manage skills via the `bskills` CLI, which detects agents and configures skill paths S54.
VS Code extensionUsers can manage skills across 18+ agents directly inside VS Code S54.
Skill publishingCreators can publish skills from a private GitHub repo by connecting a URL, setting a price, and shipping updates automatically S54.
Agent-driven installationUsers can ask an agent like AI modelCode to find and install a missing capability through the CLI S54.
Documentation skillsThe marketplace includes skills that draft and maintain READMEs, docstrings, ADRs, and changelogs S1.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
AI modelCodeIntegrationUsers can ask AI modelCode to search and install skills from the marketplace S54.
VS CodeExtensionUsers can manage skills across 18+ agents directly inside VS Code S54.
GitHubIntegrationCreators connect a private repo to publish skills; updates ship automatically on push S54.
StripePayment integrationCreators receive payouts via Stripe Connect S54.
SolanaPayment integrationCreators get paid in USDC on Solana S54.
18+ agents (e.g., Cursor, AI model, Codex)IntegrationThe CLI detects and configures skill paths for supported agents S54.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
CommunityFreeFree community skills S54Not established
Premium skillsCreator-set; minimum Not establishedPaid premium skills S54Publisher sets price; no standard buyer subscription stated S54
Creator — USDC5% platform fee per saleSolana settlement in USDC S54Network costs separate S54
Creator — cards15% + $0.50 platform fee per saleStripe processing S54Not established

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
github.com625.5github copilot plugins, github copilot plugin
reddit.com415.5github copilot plugins
marketplace.eclipse.org221.5github copilot plugins, github copilot plugin
docs.github.com225github copilot plugins, github copilot plugin
plugins.jetbrains.com226github copilot plugins, github copilot plugin
kenmuse.com113github copilot plugin
en.wikipedia.org117github copilot plugin

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

First-party claims:

  • Testimonials position BuySkills against manual config management: "I stopped maintaining my own dotfiles repo of agent skills entirely" W18
  • Claims of cross-agent support (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) and one CLI for 18 agents W10W18
  • Marketplace model with 85% revenue split and Stripe payouts W16

Scout inference:

  • The catalog does not include competitor names or comparative data, so a full competitive landscape cannot be constructed from this evidence W1
14

AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.0%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
otherBuySkills is the premier marketplace for AI agent plugins and skills. Install once with the bskills CLI and sync across Claude Code, Cursor, and 18+ agents. Build, publish, and earn.https://buyskills.ai/
otherRun a single command. The interactive setup detects every AI agent on your machine and wires up the skill paths for you.https://buyskills.ai/
otherInstantly reach thousands of AI agent users worldwide. No marketing budget required — we bring the customers to you.https://buyskills.ai/
integrationsBrowse documentation skills Publish a documentation skillhttps://buyskills.ai/plugins/amp/documentation/
integrationsBrowse documentation skills Publish a documentation skillhttps://buyskills.ai/plugins/claude-code/documentation/
integrationsBrowse documentation skills Publish a documentation skillhttps://buyskills.ai/plugins/cline/documentation/
integrationsBrowse documentation skills Publish a documentation skillhttps://buyskills.ai/plugins/codex/documentation/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

First-party claims:

  • The site describes itself as a marketplace for AI agent plugins and skills, with CLI-based discovery and install W2W3W6
  • Agents can search and install skills on demand: "Ask Claude Code for a capability it's missing. It searches the marketplace and installs the right skill itself" W23
  • Supports multiple AI agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, AMP, Cline, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Goose, Kilo W10W25W49W73W97W121W145W169W193W217

Scout inference:

  • The site's content is highly relevant to AI agent ecosystems, which may improve visibility in AI-assisted search contexts W2W23
  • The catalog does not include AI visibility metrics (e.g., LLM mentions, AI search appearances), so no quantitative assessment is possible W1
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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Important pagehttps://buyskills.ai/plugins/github-copilot · 2 sampled keywords · best position 59
Competitor gap6 first-page appearances across github copilot plugins, github copilot plugin

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • pricing: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

First-party claims:

  • Testimonials highlight specific value props: speed of setup, cross-agent sync, revenue split, curation quality W13W15W16W17
  • The site offers both free and paid skills, with pricing shown per listing W47W95W119W144W168W215W239
  • Creators can publish from private GitHub repos and get paid via Stripe W14W16

Scout inference:

  • The evidence suggests opportunities to expand content around specific agent integrations (e.g., more categories beyond documentation) and creator monetization stories W16W25
  • The catalog does not include marketing performance data (conversion rates, campaign results), so opportunity sizing is limited W1

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

No citation-grounded independent review links were found.

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
TestimonialPriya Nairtestimonial — # Discover powerful plugins & skills. (BuySkills / Plugins & Skills for AI Agents)

Independent mentions

  • buyskills.ai — Website Launch Record / Website Launches — # buyskills.ai Apr 25, 2026 #-- BuySkills / Plugins & Skills for AI Agents BuySkills is a technology-focused marketplace and platform that enables developers and creators to publish, manage, and monetize plugins and skills for AI agents. It offers a GitHub-connected workflow, a visual dashboard, and Stripe-powered payouts, with a global audience and transparent revenue sharing for both buyers and creators. Launch record Apr 10, 2026 Domain registered Apr 25, 2026 — 8:13 AM UTC Launch detected Ap
  • BuySkills — by A2AX - Visual Studio Marketplace — Marketplace browser — Search and discover skills without leaving your editor - One-click install — Install skills to any supported AI agent (global or per-project ... , Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Roo Code, Amp, Aider, Codex, Continue, Zed,
  • makram24/MiniCRM-MCP — MCP server is free. For production-safe agent behaviour (schema-first CategoryIds, confirm-before-write, multi-match contacts), use the operator skills: - English: SkillHQ · BuySkills — $24 · Agensi - Magyar: SkillHQ · BuySkills — $24 · Agensi
  • SydMontague/BuySkills — # SydMontague/BuySkills - Stars: 1 - Forks: 0 - Watchers: 1 - Open issues: 0 - Default branch: master - Created: 2012-01-03T22:52:02Z ## Languages - Java ## Top Contributors - SydMontague (97 contributions)

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipDocumentation skills draft and maintain human-readable context around your code — READMEs, inline docstrings, architecture decision records, and changelogs — all kept in sync with what the code actually does. When instalsource
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyNot published on the collected pages.—
Security and complianceAll transactions are encrypted with TLS 1.3 and processed through Stripe's PCI DSS Level 1 certified infrastructure — the highest security standard in the industry.source
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered2026-04-10—
Domain expires2028-04-10—

Not found on the collected pages: contact and support, legal and privacy, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Product FAQFAQAnswers common product, workflow, pricing, privacy, ownership, API, and team questions. (source)Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for AMP / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for AMP. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. (source)Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for Antigravity / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for Antigravity. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. (source)Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for AI modelCode / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for AI modelCode. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. ([source](https://buyskills.ai/plugins/AI modelcode/documentation/))Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for ClawdBot / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for ClawdBot. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. (source)Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for Cline / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for Cline. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. (source)Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for Codex / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for Codex. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. (source)Not dated
Best Documentation Skills for Cursor / BuySkillsDocumentationDiscover the best documentation plugins and skills for Cursor. Install with one command, sync across every AI coding agent you use. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)The product is delivered as a web marketplace, a CLI, and a VS Code extension S54.S54
Platforms and appsThe CLI is installed via npm; the VS Code extension runs in VS Code S54.S54
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)The CLI and VS Code extension provide interfaces for browsing and installing skills S54.S54
Data ownership and exportCreators' code stays in their private GitHub repo; BuySkills never takes ownership S54.S54
Performance and reliability claimsNot published on the collected pages.—
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2026-04-10 — Cloudflare, Inc
Domain expires2028-04-10
First archived2026-04-29 — web archive
TLS certificateGoogle Trust Services, valid, expires 2027-01-14
Security headersX-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy
Headers not servedHSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversaarav.ns.cloudflare.com, peaches.ns.cloudflare.com

Not measurable: rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 99/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 0
  • Notices: 6

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed182https://buyskills.ai/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed177<https://buyskills.ai/plugins/AI modelcode/>
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed183https://buyskills.ai/plugins/github-copilot/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed171https://buyskills.ai/plugins/windsurf/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed171https://buyskills.ai/plugins/kiro-cli/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed171https://buyskills.ai/plugins/opencode/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200BuySkills \Plugins & Skills for AI Agents11668110 ms
200Best AI modelCode Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1602162 ms
200Best Cursor Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1579218 ms
200Best GitHub Copilot Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1604178 ms
200Best Windsurf Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1572172 ms
200Best Cline Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1574388 ms
200Best Codex Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1568199 ms
200Best AI modelPlugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1567133 ms
200Best Goose Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1568166 ms
200Best Kilo Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1555162 ms
200Best Kiro CLI Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1597156 ms
200Best OpenCode Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1567136 ms
200Best Roo Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1572178 ms
200Best Trae Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1552126 ms
200Best AMP Plugins & Skills in 2026 \BuySkills1569156 ms

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct0.0%
search0.0%
search organic0.0%
search paid0.0%
social0.0%
social organic0.0%
social paid0.0%
referrals0.0%
paid referrals0.0%
mail0.0%
gen ai0.0%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

First-party claims:

  • No search console or analytics data is present in the evidence catalog W1W25

Scout inference:

  • The catalog does not support any search console or analytics analysis W1

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not name any competitors. Evidence gaps include: no company ownership, contact, legal, or uptime information; no independent reviews or ratings; no detailed documentation or changelog; and no explicit API or SDK for third-party developers. Pricing for premium skills is creator-set with no minimum published. The claim of "thousands of users" is unverified.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from buyskills.ai, including the homepage and documentation-skill category pages for various agents. The static collector completed all 15 requests; browser rendering rendered 8 pages. An external proof search was performed but no verification requests were made. Limitations: the catalog contains mostly marketing copy and category pages, with limited technical, legal, or customer evidence.

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