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Getting started with SkillHub

Install, browse, and publish your first skill. A guided tour through the catalog and the CLI — in twelve minutes from zero to your own published skill.

SkillHub is an open marketplace for AI agent skills — small, composable behaviour packs that drop into Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, or any other host that speaks the skill protocol. This post is the shortest useful tour: install the CLI, find a skill that matters to you, and publish your first one.

Install the CLI

The CLI ships as an npx package — no global install needed. Verify it works by listing what’s installed locally:

terminal
npx skillhub --help
npx skillhub list

Find a skill that matters to you

The catalog has 256+ WordPress skills, 1,000+ design-system skills, and a long tail of niche helpers. Sort by aiScore to surface skills the auto-review pipeline graded as Pass:

terminal
npx skillhub search "wordpress theme" --sort aiScore --limit 5
What is aiScore? Every public skill gets reviewed by an AI rubric across six axes (clarity, scope, surface, tokens, composability, decay). Skills with the Pass badge cleared all three primary axes — start with those when you’re new.

Install, try, decide

Pick the highest-scoring result and install it locally. Skills land in ~/.claude/skills/ by default:

terminal
npx skillhub install Jeffallan/claude-skills/wordpress-pro
npx skillhub list

If it’s not what you wanted, remove it cleanly:

terminal
rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/wordpress-pro

Publish your first skill

A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file at the root. Push it to GitHub, then submit:

terminal
npx skillhub submit owner/repo/skill-name
Write the README for the second user. The single best predictor of skill quality is whether the author wrote it for someone other than themselves. Name the user, name the use case, give one example of when this skill is the right tool — and one example of when it isn’t.

Where to next

Skim the auto-review report on any installed skill (npx skillhub review <skill-id>) to see the rubric in action. When you’re ready to ship something polished, the Skill Spotlight category here is a good source of fully-worked examples.

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