The Rise of AI Asset Marketplaces: Why Developers Need a Registry for Skills, Prompts, and MCP Configs

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The AI tooling ecosystem is growing faster than anyone can keep up with. New MCP servers appear daily. Claude Code skills are being shared in GitHub gists, Discord channels, and random blog posts. System prompts and agent workflows are scattered across dozens of repos with no standard format. If you have worked with AI coding assistants for than a few months, you know the pain: you had a perfect MCP config for Supabase three projects ago, but now you cannot find it. Someone shared a great code review skill on Discord, but the message is buried.