Start free: the skills to try before you pay a cent
Toby Banks — Founder, Skillzy
The dispatch
New listings, creator interviews, the occasional discount. Every other Friday.
The fastest way to know if a drop-in skill works for you is to run one — not read about one. So there are free ones, built to the same standard as the paid catalogue, made to be tried on your real work.
If you have never run an agent
Start with the free first-agent guide. Twenty minutes, no card, and at the end you have an agent doing one real thing. That is the whole proof of concept.
Featured listingYour first AI agent in 20 minutes.
Non-dev walkthrough: wire Claude into Telegram. Free.
Your first agent — free guide · Free →If you want to feel it work today
- Free invoice parser — point it at a messy invoice, watch it come back clean
- Free review-responder starter — see it draft a reply in your voice
- Free SKILL.md cheatsheet — the shape of a good skill, on one page
Invoice line-item parser.
Messy invoice text in. Structured line items out. Free.
Free invoice parser · Free →Featured listingReview responder — starter.
A stripped-down review responder. Free to try.
Free review-responder starter · Free →Run a free one against your actual work. If it holds up — and it will — the paid catalogue is the same builders, going deeper.
Featured listingThe SKILL.md cheat sheet.
One page. Every field. Free reference.
Free SKILL.md cheatsheet · Free →Liked this? Get the next one.
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