The Skills Barn
open source · apache 2.0

The Skills Barn

326 production-ready Agent Skills for the tasks language models can't do reliably from training alone.

326
skills
10
catalogs
81%
metered
Free
tier on every endpoint

Ten catalogs

Every skill here is non-agent-native: it covers something a language model can't do reliably from its own training — current threat feeds, live warehouse state, licensed geospatial data, or deterministic validation against a published standard.

How it works

A Skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file — instructions an agent loads when a task matches. Skills are free. Where one needs live data or heavy compute, it calls a metered API endpoint that has a free tier.

For developers

Clone a skill into Claude Code:

cp -r skills/devops-infrastructure/ssl-certificate-lifecycle-monitoring ~/.claude/skills/

For agents

Every skill is indexed in manifest.json and llms.txt. Metered endpoints accept agent-native x402 payment — an agent pays per call in USDC, no human in the loop, after a free tier.

Common questions

What is an Agent Skill?
A SKILL.md file — plain-language instructions an agent loads when a task matches its description.

What does it cost?
The skills are free and open source. Skills that need live data call a metered endpoint with a free tier — you only pay for the data behind the skill.

Why not just let the model do it?
Because these tasks depend on things a model can't recall: today's CVE feed, your live warehouse state, licensed map data, or an exact answer from a standard the model only approximates.