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Aug 30, 2026·3 min read·by emdly

emdly is live — a home for the files your agents read

Today we open emdly to everyone. A catalog of agent skills in plain Markdown, reviewed before they go live, installable with one command or straight from Claude over MCP. Here is what is in the box and what comes next.

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Today emdly opens to everyone. If you have ever pasted the same "how we review a PR" instructions into a third repo, or lost the one prompt that made an agent good at your support inbox, this is for you.

What emdly is

A catalog of skills: plain .md files that tell an AI agent how to do one job — when to use it, the rules, and exactly what the output must look like. Browse them by category, upvote the ones that earn it, and install them wherever your agent runs. Every skill has a stable raw URL, a version history you can pin, and a license.

Next to the public catalog sits your private Brain — the Markdown files that say what is true in your context: conventions, product facts, the tone of voice. Skills say how to work; the Brain says what to know. Both are files, both are yours.

What you can do today

  • Install a skill in one command. npx @emdly/cli add owner/skill drops the file into ./skills. Or curl the raw URL — emdly.com/raw/owner/skill.md, add @v3 to pin a version.
  • Let Claude find skills itself. Add https://emdly.com/mcp as an MCP server in Claude Desktop, claude.ai or Claude Code. Claude searches the catalog, loads a skill, and — once you approve the sign-in in your browser — reads and writes your Brain.
  • Publish your own. Sign in with Google or GitHub, paste a .md, submit. Automated checks and an AI safety scan run first, then a person reads it. Approved skills go live with a version number and, if everything came back clean, the Security checked badge.
  • Script it. The REST API (/v1/skills) does everything the site does; /llms.txt and any page with .md appended give agents a machine-readable view.

The catalog opens with a base set of skills across seventeen categories — code review, ticket ops, e-commerce, SEO, hiring, finance and more — each one written by hand and run through the same review every submission gets.

What it costs

Browsing, installing and publishing are free, and will stay free. We make money later, on things teams pay for anyway; the files never get a paywall.

What comes next

Diffs between versions on the site, a CLI that keeps a project's skills up to date, and a hosted agent that runs your skills on your own model key — in private preview now. Tell us what you would build with it: [email protected].

Start with the catalog, or with the skill you have been copy-pasting for months. It is probably good enough to publish.