> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.masterskills.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# FAQ

> Short answers to the questions teams ask before rolling MasterSkills out.

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  <Accordion title="Is my code sent anywhere?">
    No. The only thing that ever leaves your machine is the skill folder you explicitly approve
    for publishing — and you see its full file manifest first. Files that look like secrets are
    excluded from the package and reported to you. Searching, installing, and updating send
    metadata (skill names and versions), not your code.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Which agents are supported?">
    Skill installs cover 70+ coding agents — the full skills.sh agent set, auto-detected per
    machine. Driving MasterSkills conversationally works in any agent that loads skills and can
    run shell commands; Claude Code is the reference experience. See
    [Supported agents](/guides/supported-agents).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Is it open source?">
    The client is: the `masterskills` CLI is MIT-licensed at
    [masterskills-dev/masterskills](https://github.com/masterskills-dev/masterskills). The
    registry at masterskills.dev is a hosted service.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can we self-host?">
    Self-hosting the registry is part of the Enterprise plan. The CLI targets a self-hosted
    server with `masterskills login --api-url <host>` or the `MASTERSKILLS_API_URL` environment
    variable. [Talk to us](https://masterskills.dev/pricing) for Enterprise.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What are the Free plan limits?">
    Three users, one device per user — and deliberately **no limits on skills, versions, or
    installs** on any plan. Free is the trial: run the full product with a small group, upgrade
    when you roll it out to the team. Current pricing:
    [masterskills.dev/pricing](https://masterskills.dev/pricing).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A skill I installed isn't active — why?">
    Skills load when an agent session starts. Restart the agent (or open a new session) after
    installing. If it's still missing, `masterskills agents` shows whether the agent was detected
    and where its skills directory is, and [`masterskills link`](/cli/link) repairs links.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What does &#x22;required&#x22; actually do?">
    A required skill shows up in every member's update check until installed — and that is all.
    It is never installed silently; the user always confirms. Silent writes would break the
    product's [first trust rule](/concepts/trust).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How is this different from skills.sh or a git repo?">
    skills.sh *installs* public skills; MasterSkills *distributes and manages private ones* —
    permissions, versions, devices, and an audit trail. A git repo is a skill *source*, and
    repo-local skills stay untouched; the registry adds the permission, versioning, and
    distribution layer a repo doesn't have.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why is there no upload form in the panel?">
    Deliberate. Publishing goes through one pipeline — manifest shown, secrets scanned, approval
    required — whether a human or an agent triggers it. A web upload form would be a second path
    around those guarantees.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How do I sign in — do you support passwords?">
    GitHub or Google OAuth only. No passwords exist in the product.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

Something not covered here? Open an issue at
[masterskills-dev/masterskills](https://github.com/masterskills-dev/masterskills/issues).