SkillGild

Upcoming features

What we are building next: new skill types, streaming, checkout, creator payouts and more.

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Here is what we are building next for SkillGild. Each feature below is marked as upcoming, and details may change before it launches. For everything you can use today, see the API and execution reference.

#Runs and execution

Feature What it will do Status
More skill types Skills that call approved tools, combine other skills, call external HTTP services, or use built-in platform capabilities, alongside today's prompt-based skills. Upcoming feature
Multi-step skills Creators define a skill as a pipeline of steps, such as a model call, an asset search, template rendering and output validation. Upcoming feature
Queued execution Long-running skills run in the background on isolated workers with their own resource and time limits. Upcoming feature
Streaming output Receive a skill's output as it is generated, through Server-Sent Events. Upcoming feature
Cancellation Stop a long-running execution from your agent, the CLI, an SDK or the API. Upcoming feature
Execution status tracking Follow every run through queued, running, streaming, completed, failed and cancelled states. Upcoming feature
Automatic retries Transient provider errors are retried with exponential backoff, while invalid input and access errors never are. Upcoming feature
Sandboxed creator code Creators can ship code that runs in strictly isolated, resource-limited sandboxes with no access to anything outside the run. Upcoming feature

#Models

Feature What it will do Status
More model providers Skills powered by models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and more. Upcoming feature
Image, video and audio skills Skills that generate images, video and speech. Upcoming feature
Model tiers Skills choose a capability tier, such as reasoning, coding or fast image generation, and SkillGild picks the best available model for it. Upcoming feature
Automatic failover Runs move to a healthy provider when one is degraded. Upcoming feature

#For creators

Feature What it will do Status
Skill bundle upload Upload a skill as a bundle: a manifest, private instructions, input and output schemas, assets, templates and examples. Upcoming feature
Test console Run draft versions with form or JSON input, watch output stream in, and inspect each step's duration, usage, cost and errors. Compare versions side by side. Upcoming feature
Draft previews Run unpublished versions yourself, or share them with your team, before review. Upcoming feature
Creator dashboard A full studio with skills, versions, logs, analytics, revenue, payouts, team and settings. Upcoming feature
Creator analytics Views, acquisitions, conversion, runs, active users, revenue, latency, error rate and version adoption, split by web, API and agent. Upcoming feature
Creator teams Share ownership of your skills with teammates. Upcoming feature
Pricing and payouts Choose how your skill is priced and get paid for every sale. Upcoming feature
Schema editor Define your skill's input and output schemas yourself in the creator studio. Upcoming feature

#Marketplace and discovery

Feature What it will do Status
Ratings and reviews Ratings and written reviews, with a badge for reviewers who have actually used the skill. Upcoming feature
Smarter search Ranked full-text search across names, descriptions, tags, categories, creators and use cases. Upcoming feature
Recommendations Trending, recent and top-rated skills, plus more from the same category or creator. Upcoming feature
Creator profiles A public page for every creator and their skills. Upcoming feature
Richer skill pages Screenshots, demos, use cases, sample output, version history, changelog, reviews and FAQs. Upcoming feature
Your skill library Your skills in one place, with run history, usage, favorites, per-skill settings and changelogs. Upcoming feature
Guided agent setup Step-by-step setup that connects your agent to SkillGild without the terminal. Upcoming feature
Downloadable, open-source and private skills Download skills whose creators allow it, discover open-source skills, and share private skills with chosen people, teams or organizations. Upcoming feature

#Billing

Feature What it will do Status
Checkout and subscriptions Buy paid skills and manage subscriptions yourself, with refunds and cancellation. Upcoming feature
Flexible pricing Free, freemium, one-time, subscription, usage-based and enterprise pricing. Upcoming feature
Usage-based billing Metering by runs, tokens, images, video seconds, compute and storage. Upcoming feature
Team plans Buy access for your whole organization, with pooled allowances. Upcoming feature
Orders and coupons Order history, receipts and promotional codes. Upcoming feature

#Access and security

Feature What it will do Status
Fine-grained API key scopes Keys limited to exactly what they need, such as reading skills, running skills, or reading executions, usage or billing. Upcoming feature
Key restrictions Limit a key to specific skills, an environment, a monthly usage cap or, for enterprise, a list of IP addresses. Upcoming feature
Version pinning Lock your access to a version range of a skill. Upcoming feature
Creator secrets Creators can attach their own encrypted API credentials for the services their skill uses. Upcoming feature
Data retention controls Choose how long execution records are kept. Upcoming feature

#Developer tools

Feature What it will do Status
More CLI commands whoami, info, add, remove, skills and usage, plus run --input input.json to read input from a file. Upcoming feature
Project skill config Pin the skills a project uses, by ID and version range, in a config file you commit with your code. Upcoming feature
More MCP tools Skill details, execution history and your library, available directly to your agent. Upcoming feature
Published SDKs @skillgild/sdk on npm, skillgild on PyPI and a versioned Go module. Upcoming feature
CLI installers Prebuilt binaries and package-manager installs, with no Go toolchain required. Upcoming feature

#Events, files and insights

Feature What it will do Status
More webhook events skill.published, skill.updated, purchase.completed, subscription.started, subscription.cancelled, entitlement.created and entitlement.revoked. Upcoming feature
Live execution events execution.queued, execution.started, execution.progress and partial-output events for your UI, CLI and integrations. Upcoming feature
Files and assets Skills that accept and return files, and creator assets stored securely with per-file access rules. Upcoming feature
Usage insights Your runs, spend, favorite skills and API usage in your account. Upcoming feature