Claude skills marketplaces, compared
A Claude skills marketplace is a catalog of installable SKILL.md instruction files for Claude. Six notable ones exist in 2026, and they differ far more in how skills get in (hand-picked vs. scraped from GitHub) than in what they look like. Here's the honest comparison — every claim sourced from each site's own pages.
The comparison table
| Marketplace | Catalog size (self-reported) | Curation | Author credit | Install | Safety screening | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AugmentClaude(this site) | 800+ listings (532 distinct skills — some are listed for more than one agent type) | Hand-picked — every listing individually selected and categorized by a human | Every listing: original author, license, and GitHub source link | One-paste terminal command; no CLI or account needed to install | Community submissions pass an AI safety screen before publishing | Free |
| SkillsMP | “2,000,000+ open-source skills” (automated GitHub aggregation) | Automated aggregation; site states it “does not rush to judge skills” | Yes — creator, repository, and license shown | Copy-paste prompt, “Run in Manus” button, or ZIP download | None stated — “always review code before installation” | Free (donations; free API) |
| CrossAITools | “21,600+ skills, 2,500+ marketplaces, 12,500+ MCP servers” | Automated ranking by install count, GitHub stars, and votes | Partial — author GitHub links; license not shown on pages we checked | Copy an install command from the detail page | None stated beyond usage-metric filtering | Free |
| Skills Directory | “96,903 indexed skills” (live counter) | Automated indexing + community submissions and collections | Partial — contributor GitHub names; license not detailed | npm/CLI tooling (openskills / npx skills add) | Automated scanner — “50+ security rules, 10 threat categories” | Not stated |
| Smithery | 18,734 skills shown (MCP-first platform; skills are secondary) | Automated registry with publisher self-service; “Verified” filter | Structural — skills namespaced by GitHub org/repo with stars | Smithery CLI + hosted “toolbox” connections | “Verified” badge; methodology not stated | Free browsing; pricing page present |
| Claude Skills Market | “37+ free community skills” | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Free skills section |
All competitor cells come from each site's own public pages, verified July 3, 2026. Sites change — if a cell is outdated, tell us and we'll correct it.
The real difference: aggregation vs. curation
The big catalogs are automated indexes. SkillsMP aggregates from GitHub and says plainly that it "does not rush to judge skills"; Skills Directory indexes ~97,000 and runs an automated security scanner over them; CrossAITools ranks by install counts and stars; Smithery is an MCP-infrastructure platform with a skills registry attached. All of that is genuinely useful for exhaustive search.
AugmentClaude makes the opposite trade: a human picks every skill, keeps the real author's name and license on it, and community submissions pass an AI safety screen before anyone can install them. The catalog is smaller on purpose — 800+ listings (532 distinct skills; some are listed for more than one agent type, and we'd rather be transparent about that than quote a big number). Skills install with one pasted command — no CLI tooling, no account to install. And where no aggregator helps you choose, Sprout recommends skills conversationally and curated bundles package a whole job into one install.
Where others genuinely win: raw coverage (if a skill exists anywhere on GitHub, the aggregators probably have it), social-proof signals like install counts and star rankings (CrossAITools, Smithery), a published automated security-scanning methodology at scale (Skills Directory), and public APIs for agents (SkillsMP). If those matter more to you than curation, use them — several are excellent at what they do.
Common questions
What is the best Claude skills marketplace?
It depends on what you need. For exhaustive coverage, the automated aggregators (SkillsMP, Skills Directory, CrossAITools) index tens of thousands to millions of skills straight from GitHub. For a hand-picked catalog where every skill is human-reviewed, credited to its real author with a license, and installable with one pasted command, that's AugmentClaude. For MCP server infrastructure rather than skills, Smithery is the specialist.
What is the largest Claude skills marketplace?
By self-reported count, SkillsMP claims over 2,000,000 aggregated open-source skills, followed by Skills Directory (~97,000 indexed) and CrossAITools (21,600+). These are automated indexes of public GitHub content rather than reviewed catalogs, so size and quality are different questions.
Is there an official Anthropic skills marketplace?
No — none of the sites compared here are affiliated with Anthropic, including AugmentClaude. Anthropic's official distribution channel is Claude Code plugin marketplaces (/plugin marketplace add), plus its own GitHub repositories of example skills.
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