The Skill Ecosystem Has a Locked Door Problem — So I'm Building the Lock

I've been using Claude Code and agent skills heavily for the past several months. At some point it clicked: the model is just the engine. The skill is the intelligence. That realization led me to a question that I couldn't find an answer to anywhere: if skills are this valuable, why does the entire skill ecosystem treat them like open-source recipes that anyone can copy? What's Broken Today Right now, every AI agent skill — on every marketplace — is a plain-text Markdown file sitting on someone'