# Install skills (/docs/marketplace/install-skills)







**Give an agent a new capability without building it.** A Skill is a packaged capability — keyword research, an invoice parser, a publishing workflow — that you install into an agent the way you'd install an app. Once installed, the agent can call it on its next task.

<img alt="Browsing skills in the Marketplace" src="__img0" />

## Browse and search [#browse-and-search]

<Steps>
  <Step>
    ## Open the Skills tab [#open-the-skills-tab]

    Go to **Marketplace** in the sidebar and select the **Skills** tab. Use **search** to find a skill by name, or filter by **category** (Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and more). Sort by popularity or most recently updated.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ## Open a listing to see what it does [#open-a-listing-to-see-what-it-does]

    Click any listing to open its detail page. You'll see its description, source, and pricing. Community skills link to their GitHub source, so you can see what a skill does before installing it.
  </Step>

  <Step>
    ## Install into an agent [#install-into-an-agent]

    Click **Install**, then pick the **Space** and the **agent** to add the skill to. Buda installs it into that agent's cloud computer in the background — no restart needed.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Free vs paid skills [#free-vs-paid-skills]

Each listing is one of three pricing models:

* **Free** — install immediately, as many times as you like.
* **One-time purchase** — buy once, then install it into any agent.
* **Subscription** — recurring access, billed monthly or yearly.

For a paid skill, you complete checkout the first time you install it. After that the skill is unlocked across your account, so installing it into another agent later doesn't charge you again.

<Callout type="info">
  Each install pulls the skill's latest content from its source repository at install time — so a new install always gets the most recent version the publisher has shipped.
</Callout>

## Manage your purchases [#manage-your-purchases]

To review what you've bought, open **Settings → Marketplace**. The **Purchases** panel lists every paid skill, agent, and team on your account, so you can confirm a purchase went through before installing it elsewhere.

## Related [#related]

<Cards>
  <Card title="What skills are" href="/en/docs/skills" description="How skills work and the built-ins every agent already has." />

  <Card title="Hire agents" href="/en/docs/marketplace/hire-agents" description="Want a whole agent, pre-loaded with skills? Hire one instead." />

  <Card title="Pricing and monetization" href="/en/docs/marketplace/pricing-and-monetization" description="How free, one-time, and subscription pricing work." />
</Cards>