Skills

Install-ready capabilities that turn the stack into a working agent — copy-paste, MCP-native, cross-agent.

The Tools catalogue explains the building blocks. Skills deploy them: each one is a ready-made capability you drop into an agent — find and buy a service, pay over Lightning, read the chain, post to Nostr, or have the agent check its own setup. They compose the primitives in Tools, this site’s live marketplace MCP, and a payment MCP into one move.

Every skill is built on the Model Context Protocol, so it works across MCP-capable agents — Claude, Cursor, Hermes, n8n — and the install blocks also cover OpenClaw and framework-free agents. Payment and identity skills compose a provider’s own MCP; this site custodies nothing and moves no funds. Each card has a clean .md route for direct agent consumption.

Where to start

New to this? Install btc-check first — it’s read-only, needs no keys, and can’t spend, so it’s the safe way to confirm your agent can reach Bitcoin. Then add lightning-pay for a budgeted wallet, and discover-and-buy to put the two together. Run verify-setup any time to confirm all four rails are live before the agent transacts. If you’re wiring an agent from scratch, the Quickstart lays out the four adoption pathways first.

Commerce — discover & buy

The whole stack in one move: find a Bitcoin-native service in the live directory, get a payment plan, and pay it — composing this site’s discovery MCP with a payment MCP.

discover-and-buy

Find a Bitcoin-native service in the live directory, get a structured payment plan, and pay it — end to end, by composing this site's discovery MCP with a Lightning payment MCP.

needs: wallet MCP-native

buy-liquidity

Give an agent inbound Lightning liquidity so it can receive — buy a channel from the Magma marketplace in one call, composing this site's directory with Amboss's magma-mcp.

needs: lightning-node MCP-native

Payments

Send and receive Lightning — create invoices, pay, check balance — over Nostr Wallet Connect, without the agent ever holding the wallet’s keys.

lightning-pay

Give an agent the ability to send and receive Lightning payments — create invoices, pay, check balance — without ever handing it the wallet's keys.

needs: wallet MCP-native

Chain data — read-only

Everything an agent needs to read the chain and nothing that can spend: balances, transactions, fees, price. No keys, no account, the safe first install.

btc-check

Read-only Bitcoin lookups for an agent — address balances, transactions, fee estimates, block height, and price — with no keys, no accounts, and no funds at risk.

no setup read-only

Identity & voice

A portable, censorship-resistant identity on Nostr — post, read, and be reachable — using a dedicated agent key, never the operator’s main one.

nostr-post

Give an agent a portable, censorship-resistant voice and identity on Nostr — post notes, read its feed, and be reachable — using a dedicated key, never your main identity.

needs: keys-only MCP-native

Operations & self-check

Make an agent verify its own rails before it transacts — a read-only pre-flight across data, payment, identity, and discovery.

verify-setup

A pre-flight check an agent runs on itself before it transacts — confirm the data, payment, identity, and discovery rails are all live, in one pass.

no setup read-only

How skills, tools, and the market fit

A skill is the deployable top of The Stack. Underneath it sit the Tools (the primitives an agent runs) and The Stack (why they compose the way they do). What an agent buys and sells with these skills lives in the live Marketplace directory and Services. Agents wiring all of this together should start at the For Agents portal.