You already wrote the skill.
We made the marketplace.
Techne Skills is a curated, paid market for the small folders of plain files that power Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and the next generation of AI coding agents. Free skills exist on GitHub. We host the ones built to be sold — by creators who use them, maintain them, and stake their name on them.
- No subscription
- 90% lifetime royalty for founding creators
- Only 100 founding spots
- ▸SKILL.md
- ▸scripts/
- └audit-page.js
- ▸references/
- └conversion-rubric.md
- ▸assets/
- └report-template.md
--- name: landing-page-review-agent description: Use this when the user wants an AI agent to review a landing page for clarity, positioning, trust, conversion and UX issues. version: 1.0.0 author: Techne Skills --- # Review workflow 1. Identify the page's primary audience. 2. Check whether the hero explains the offer clearly. 3. Review the CTA, proof, trust signals and objections. 4. Score on clarity, credibility, urgency and conversion. 5. Return a prioritised list of fixes.
▪ what we're building
Expertise lives in private notes and
team Slacks. We made it shippable.
Techne Skills is where the procedural memory of working software people gets packaged, priced, and read on demand by their agents.
▪ Why now
A new market category is forming. Early creators define it.
Agents are eating workflows.
Coding agents have moved from autocomplete to operators. They need expert protocols to act well.
Expertise is trapped in prompts.
The best workflows live in private notes and team Slacks. Skills make them portable.
Reusable skills are a new unit.
Not a course, not an app — a structured workflow your agent installs and runs.
▪ What is a skill?
A skill is procedural memory for an AI agent.
LLMs know a lot of facts. Skills teach them how work actually gets done — the steps, rules, examples, scripts and judgement needed to perform one specific job well.
- Starts with a simple SKILL.md file
- Triggered by name and description
- Loads instructions only when relevant
- Can include scripts, references and assets
- Runs locally through the user's agent
- Versioned and portable across agents
● The paid layer
Free skills exist. So do free libraries on GitHub. Techne is what you reach for when you need it to actually work.
Free skills on GitHub are a great place to learn. They're a hard place to depend on. Most are abandoned within 90 days, written by people testing an idea, not maintained, not versioned, not warranted to work with your agent next month.
Skills sold on Techne are different by design.
Built by people who use them.
Every Techne creator uses their own skill in their own work. They're not scraping repos or generating skills with AI — they're packaging the procedures they actually run. Their name goes on it. Their reputation rides on it.
Maintained.
Creators commit to lifetime updates. When agents change, skills get updated. When the SKILL.md spec changes, skills follow. You buy once, you own a working skill.
Backed by their author.
Every skill is tied to its author and traceable to its buyer. You know who wrote it. You can read what else they’ve shipped before deciding.
▪ Progressive disclosure
How your agent loads a skill — without flooding context.
Skills load in three tiers. The agent scans lightweight names and descriptions first, then pulls the full workflow only when a task matches, and reaches for scripts, references and assets only on demand.
Your agent sees the description first. It only loads the full workflow when the task matches — so you can install many skills without flooding the context window.
▪ Anatomy of a skill
What's actually inside the folder your agent loads.
A skill is a small folder of plain files — versioned, portable, and read by your agent on demand. The structure follows the open agentskills.md spec.
- ▸SKILL.md
- ▸scripts/
- └audit-page.js
- ▸references/
- └conversion-rubric.md
- ▸assets/
- └report-template.md
--- name: landing-page-review-agent description: Use this when the user wants an AI agent to review a landing page for clarity, positioning, trust, conversion and UX issues. version: 1.0.0 author: Techne Skills --- # Review workflow 1. Identify the page's primary audience. 2. Check whether the hero explains the offer clearly. 3. Review the CTA, proof, trust signals and objections. 4. Score on clarity, credibility, urgency and conversion. 5. Return a prioritised list of fixes.
- 01SKILL.md
The trigger.
The entry point. A name and description the agent reads to know when to apply the skill. Plus the full workflow it runs once it decides this skill applies.
- 02scripts/
Executable steps.
Optional Python, JS or Bash the agent can run locally to do real work — fetch a page, parse a PDF, hit an API.
- 03references/
Loaded on demand.
Rubrics, policies, examples and guides the agent only reads if the task actually needs them. Keeps context lean.
- 04assets/
Templates and outputs.
Report templates, sample data and reusable output formats the skill ships back to the user.
Skills can include executable scripts that run locally on your machine. Only install skills from creators you trust — and review what's inside before you run them. Every Techne Skills listing shows the full file tree before purchase.
▪ How it works
A two-sided market designed around real software practice.
▪ I'm a...
↔ tap to switchCreate a creator profile
Claim your handle, add a bio and badges.
Author your SKILL.md
Use our template or bring your own.
Set price & compatibility
Pick the agents you support and the price.
Submit for curation
Quality bar is high. Review takes 24-48h.
Earn on every install
Founding creators take home £8.46 on a £10 sale. Standard creators take home £8.00. Payouts every two weeks.
▪ Founding creator program
Ready to ship your first skill?
We're hand-picking the first 100 founding creators. 90% lifetime royalty · 48-hour application response.
▪ Creator FAQ
▪ Creator benefits
Built for creators who treat workflows as products.
Publish once
One skill folder, every supported agent.
You keep most of the money
On a £10 sale, founding creators take home £8.46. Standard creators take home £8.00. Stripe fees are the only deduction.
Curated audience
Serious buyers, not free tier tourists.
Traceable downloads
Every download is tied to the buyer and device that initiated it. If your skill appears somewhere it shouldn’t, we know who put it there.
Versioning
Ship updates the way you ship code.
Real analytics
Installs, ratings, revenue — in one place.
▪ The founding offer
We're not measuring vanity metrics yet — here's what we are committing to.
Founding spots
Lifetime royalty
Application response
Launching
▪ FAQ
Common questions.
▪ Founding creator program
Help define the skills economy.
We're onboarding the first hundred creators by hand. Get featured placement, direct support, and a permanent founding creator badge.