The standards that won
Skills Warehouse builds on open standards, not competing with them. The format war is over. We are the best implementation, the richest catalogue, and the most trusted trading venue on top of the standards that won.
SKILL.md
The cross-agent instruction format for agentic skills. Supported by 20+ platforms. 247k+ GitHub stars. The portable unit of agentic capability.
Read the full guide →MCP
Model Context Protocol — the connectivity standard for AI agents. 10,000+ public servers, 97M monthly downloads. Donated to Linux Foundation December 2025.
Read the full guide →Warehouse Skill Envelope
The internal ingestion format — a private superset of SKILL.md + MCP manifest adding provenance, license, security attestation, and compatibility metadata. Always exports back to plain SKILL.md/MCP. The moat is the pipeline, not a competing standard.
Physical Skill Card
Structured format for human procedural knowledge. Task, tools, materials, steps, tolerances, safety, failure modes, difficulty, time. Human-readable + machine-readable JSON. The content layer for embodied AI.
Our commitment to open standards
Skills Warehouse does not compete with SKILL.md or MCP. We build on them. The Warehouse Skill Envelope is an internal ingestion format — it adds metadata that powers our catalogue, but always exports back to plain SKILL.md and MCP. We will never require the ecosystem to adopt a proprietary format. The moat is the pipeline and the trust, not lock-in.