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The Lua Marketplace

The Marketplace is where developers share reusable pieces of agent functionality with each other — either a single skill, or a full agent template.
The Marketplace command tree is lua marketplace [noun] [action], where noun is skill or template. See the Marketplace Command reference for every action and flag.

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Skills vs. agent templates

Both are published, versioned, and installable — but they operate at different scopes.

Skill

A single reusable tool package — e.g. a CRM lookup, a payment integration, a moderation filter. Install it into an agent that already has its own persona, other skills, webhooks, and jobs. Composable: install as many as you need alongside your existing setup.

Agent Template

A published blueprint of an entire agent — its persona (with fill-in variables), skills, webhooks, jobs, triggers with editable presets, declared connections (“a CRM” — Salesforce or HubSpot), and the model. Deploying one gives you a working agent wired into the tools you’ve already connected — created fresh in one call, or installed onto an agent you already run.
Use a skill when you want to add one capability to an agent you’re already building. Use an agent template when you want a working agent from a known-good blueprint — a one-off deploy from the catalog, or a fleet of near-identical agents kept in sync as the blueprint evolves. A common pattern: build and tune one merchant’s support agent by hand, then publish it as a template so every new merchant onboards from the same starting point, and every improvement rolls out to all of them with a single apply. Templates never touch a target agent’s environment variable values, channels, or name — those stay per-agent. Persona travels with the template as a fill-in-the-blanks starting point, but an agent that already has a persona keeps it, and your post-install persona edits survive updates. See Agent Templates for the full model.

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Ecosystem Roles

Publishing Skills

Publish your skills to the world. Manage versions, environment variables, visibility, and listings.

Installing Skills

Browse verified skills, search by capability, and install with one command.

Publishing Templates

Turn a working agent into a template: draft, author, publish, review, and roll out updates.

Deploying Templates

Deploy a template in minutes — reuse your connections, confirm your automations, operate and update the install.

Agent Templates

The model behind both: what a template contains, its lifecycle, review, and update consent.

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Key Features

  • 🌍 Global Discovery: Public skills and templates are indexed and searchable by name, description, and tags.
  • 🔒 Private Visibility: List a skill or create a template as private — only your organization can find and install it. Everyone else gets a not-found, same as if it didn’t exist.
  • 📦 Semantic Versioning: Full support for major.minor.patch skill versioning; templates version as sequential integers per template.
  • ⚙️ Smart Configuration: Environment variables are declared per-version and configured interactively (or via flags) at install time.
  • 🔄 Update Management: Upgrade an installed skill to a newer version, or roll a template out to every consenting agent that has it installed — with previews before accepting, and re-consent whenever an update changes what a template can access.
  • 🛡️ Reviewed Public Catalog: Public templates are platform-reviewed per version before anyone can install them; orgs can additionally allow, deny, or require approval for template installs.
You can jump directly into either domain non-interactively, e.g. lua marketplace skill search --query "CRM" or lua marketplace template status --template-id tpl_abc. See the Marketplace Command reference for the full flag set.