Skill Me vs. prompt marketplaces
Prompt marketplaces got the demand right and the format wrong: a paid prompt is still a paste-and-pray text file with no review, no versioning, and no persistence.
Price
Prompt marketplaces
Pay per prompt.
Skills
The whole catalog is free and MIT licensed.
Installation
Prompt marketplaces
Copy, paste, repeat per conversation.
Skills
Installed by the model itself; persists across conversations and clients.
Review
Prompt marketplaces
Unreviewed listings.
Skills
Every skill screened for prompt injection; criteria public.
Provenance
Prompt marketplaces
Anonymous sellers.
Skills
Every skill links to its original source and author on GitHub.
The honest verdict
There is no case where pasting a purchased prompt beats installing a reviewed, free skill that the model picks for you.