Skills - Agent Skills Marketplace

The definitive Visual Marketplace & Lifecycle Manager for AI Coding Agent Skills
Manage, discover, inspect, and toggle .agents/skills with one click.

🌟 Overview

Modern AI coding agents—including Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, and OpenCode—rely on specialized instruction packages called Agent Skills (.agents/skills/**/SKILL.md).

Until now, discovering and managing these skills required raw terminal commands (npx skills find, npx skills add) with no visual feedback, no way to review rule documentation before installing, and no easy way to toggle skills to save context tokens.

Agent Skills Finder & Store brings the full VS Code Extensions Marketplace experience to AI Agent Skills:

• 🛍️ Live Registry Marketplace: Search over 100+ community and official skills in real time.
• 📖 Pre-Install Documentation Inspection: Read the actual SKILL.md rules, categories, and code examples before deciding to install.
• ⚡ Tactile Activation Switches: Turn skills Active or Disabled on the fly without deleting files to conserve agent context tokens.
• 🌐 Project vs. Global Scope: Instant visual pills distinguishing workspace-specific skills (📁 Project) from machine-wide skills (🌐 Global).
• 🔄 Real-Time Auto-Sync: Background installation with native progress notifications and live file-system watchers—no manual refresh required.

📸 Screenshots

🛍️ Live Marketplace Search & Real-Time Documentation

Inspect authentic skill documentation, ratings, install counts, and purpose banners before installation:

⚡ Tactile Switches, Scope Badges & Quick Controls

Toggle active skills, view project vs. global scopes, open source markdown, or uninstall:

🚀 Key Features

1. 🔍 Live Online Marketplace (skills.sh Registry)

• Fast, debounced search across the entire open skills registry.
• Real domain categorization with custom visual badges:
  • 🎨 Design / UX: UI styling, typography, animations, Tailwind patterns.
  • 💠 Frameworks: React best practices, Next.js App Router, Vue, Expo.
  • 🧪 Testing / QA: Playwright, Jest, Vitest, end-to-end automation.
  • 🐙 Git / VCS: Conventional commits, pull request templates, branching.
  • ⚡ Meta / Core: Agent discovery, customizations, workflows.
  • ⚙️ Tools & Backend: Supabase, PostgreSQL, Prisma, APIs, Docker.

2. 📖 Pre-Install SKILL.md Inspection

• Never install a skill blind. Clicking any search result card opens a dedicated Marketplace Details View.
• Automatically fetches and renders the repository's authentic SKILL.md markdown directly from GitHub:
  • Purpose Banner (🎯 What this skill is for): High-level overview and agent trigger criteria.
  • Rule Categories by Impact: CRITICAL, HIGH, and MEDIUM impact rules formatted in clean tables.
  • Code Blocks: Fenced, syntax-formatted good vs. bad examples.
  • One-Click Install: Install directly with real-time feedback.

3. 🟢 Tactile On/Off Switch (Save Context Tokens)

• When working on focused tasks, too many active skills bloat your AI agent's context window.
• The tactile switch safely renames SKILL.md to SKILL.md.disabled:
  • Active (🟢): Agent discovers and loads the rules.
  • Disabled (○): Agent ignores the skill completely without deleting your configuration.

4. 📁 Project vs. 🌐 Global Machine Scope

• Clear scope chips show exactly where each skill lives:
  • 📁 Project: Workspace-specific at ./.agents/skills/<name>/
  • 🌐 Global: Shared machine-wide at ~/.agents/skills/<name>/
• Smart deduplication ensures project-level overrides always take precedence over global versions.

5. 🔄 Real-Time File System Auto-Sync

• Native file watchers monitor .agents/skills and global directories continuously.
• When an installation completes or files change on disk, the UI updates instantly with ✓ Installed without needing a manual refresh.

🤖 Supported AI Coding Agents

Fully compatible with any coding agent adhering to the open .agents/skills specification:

⌨️ Command Palette Shortcuts

Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P):

📂 Standard Skill Folder Structure

The extension organizes skills according to the standard agent specification:

```text your-project/ ├── .agents/ │ └── skills/ │ ├── vercel-react-best-practices/ │ │ ├── SKILL.md <-- Active skill │ │ └── rules/ │ │ ├── async-parallel.md │ │ └── bundle-barrel-imports.md │ └── web-design-guidelines/ │ └── SKILL.md.disabled <-- Disabled skill (ignored by agent) ```

🛠️ Building & Packaging from Source

To package the extension into a .vsix bundle for manual installation or marketplace upload:

```bash cd extensions/agent-skills-manager npx @vscode/vsce package ```

This creates agent-skills-marketplace-1.14.0.vsix ready to upload to the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX Registry.

📄 License

MIT License © 2026 MrAlt. Built for the open AI Agent ecosystem.