when did paid skill marketplaces become a thing

Reddit r/AI_Agents 06/03/26, 08:09 AM News

Summary

Commentary on the emergence of paid, subscription-based skill marketplaces for closed-source skills, noting how quickly this model has appeared after an era of free GitHub repos.

went looking for a skill and realized there're some closed-source marketplaces that popped up recently. fine, whatever. but some of them are already on a subscription model?? like monthly recurring, for skills you can't even read the source of we've got an app store, a game store... skill store is unironically next at this rate huh. felt like 5 min ago this was all just free github repos edit: the subscription part is what gets me. one-time payment for a skill i could maybe justify. but recurring, for closed source, this fast into the ecosystem? somebody's clearly betting this becomes a real category

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