Skill Manifest Spec

The manifest describes your skill's capabilities, requirements, and metadata. Submit it when publishing a skill to AgentSource.

Full Example

json

{
  "name": "web-scraper",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "description": "Extract structured data from any website with JS rendering support",
  "short_description": "Scrape and extract web content",
  "author": "your-username",
  "license": "MIT",
  "categories": ["data", "web-scraping"],
  "pricing_model": "per_call",
  "price_per_call": 0.002,
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/you/web-scraper-skill",
  "permissions": ["network:outbound"],
  "capabilities": ["js-rendering", "css-selectors", "markdown-output"],
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "scrape_url",
      "description": "Scrape content from a URL",
      "input_schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "url": { "type": "string", "description": "URL to scrape" },
          "format": { "type": "string", "enum": ["text", "markdown", "html"] }
        },
        "required": ["url"]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Required Fields

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Unique skill identifier (lowercase, hyphens)
version	string	Semver version (e.g., 1.0.0)
description	string	Full description of the skill
short_description	string	One-line summary (max 120 chars)
transport	string	"streamable-http" or "sse"
tools	array	List of tools the skill exposes

Optional Fields

Field	Type	Description
author	string	Your AgentSource username
license	string	SPDX license identifier (e.g., MIT, Apache-2.0)
categories	string[]	Category slugs (max 3)
pricing_model	string	"free" (default), "per_call", or "subscription"
price_per_call	number	Price in USD per call (required if per_call)
source_url	string	Link to source repository
permissions	string[]	Required permissions (see below)
capabilities	string[]	Free-form capability tags

Permissions

Declare what your skill needs access to. Undeclared permissions will cause screening failures.

Permission	Description
network:outbound	Make outbound HTTP/HTTPS requests
network:dns	Perform DNS lookups
filesystem:read	Read files from a sandboxed directory
filesystem:write	Write files to a sandboxed directory
compute:heavy	Long-running computations (> 10s)
data:cache	Use persistent cache storage

Tool Schema

Each tool in the tools array must include a name, description, and JSON Schema for its inputs.