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AI Agent Skill Marketplace with Validated Security Scanning

Developer teams building AI coding agents lack a trusted marketplace to discover, validate, and distribute agent skills securely. The recent explosion of agent skill repos on GitHub (tech-leads-club/agent-skills reaching 4k stars in days) shows massive demand for a curated registry with supply chain security guarantees.

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Problem Statement

Developers installing agent skills from GitHub have no way to verify they are safe, compatible, or maintained. Skills can access file systems, execute code, and make network requests. Current discovery is manual GitHub search with no quality signals beyond stars.

The Idea

A verified marketplace for AI agent skills with automated security scanning, compatibility testing, and one-click installation across Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and other AI coding assistants.

Why Now

AI coding agents became mainstream in 2025-2026 with Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot all supporting skill/extension systems. The agent-skills ecosystem is fragmented across GitHub repos with no security validation, creating supply chain risk identical to early npm days.

Target User

Senior developers and engineering leads at companies using AI coding agents who need to standardize and secure their teams' agent skill usage.

Target Market

AI developer tools and agent infrastructure market

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  • MVP scope & feature boundaries
  • Step-by-step validation plan
  • Score rationale across 11 dimensions
  • Monetization model & pricing angle
  • Competitors with links
  • Acquisition channels & go-to-market
  • Risks & counter-evidence

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