How Do You Monetize Agent Skills? (Open Question)

Summary

Seva's open strategic question about agent skill monetization — if personal agents can do the work without the external SaaS, what exactly is being sold? An unresolved question worth tracking.

Key Frames

The agent skill monetization problem — open strategic question

"If all important work is done by personal agents, people stop buying services their agent can't connect to. And once connected, the external service isn't needed — just the context and instructions. It's not clear how to monetize that. This is an open question about where the value accrues in the agentic economy."

Original (Russian)

Вопрос: а как может выглядеть монетизация agent skills?

Если принять за факт, что вся важная работа будет выполняться личными агентами аля claude code (но с нормальным интерфейсом для неразработчиков), то люди перестанут покупать сервисы к которым нельзя подключиться своим агентом. А когда подключился оказывается, что внешний сервис и не нужен особо, нужен только правильный контекст и инструкции — agent skill из нескольких текстовых файлов.

Но непонятно как это монетизировать?

English Translation

Question: what does monetization of agent skills look like?

If we accept as a fact that all important work will be done by personal agents like Claude Code (but with a normal interface for non-developers), then people will stop buying services that their agent can't connect to. And once connected, it turns out the external service isn't really needed — you only need the right context and instructions: an agent skill made of a few text files.

But it's not clear how to monetize this.

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