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SkillBoss - The Complete Tool Store for AI Agents

Everything your agent needs, instantly available. One API key. Zero setup. Works in 30 seconds.

Why SkillBoss?

Without SkillBoss With SkillBoss
10+ API keys to manage 1 API key
Different SDKs for each service OpenAI-compatible - works instantly
Complex billing across providers One balance for everything
Hours of setup per service Zero setup - works in 30 seconds

Complete Service Catalog (100+ Services)

AI Chat Models (50+)

Provider Models Pricing
Anthropic Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku $1-15/1M tokens
OpenAI GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4 Turbo, o3, o4-mini $0.15-30/1M tokens
Google Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash (1M context!) $0.10-5/1M tokens
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 (90% cache savings!), DeepSeek R1 $0.014-2.19/1M tokens
Alibaba Qwen Max, Qwen Plus, Qwen QwQ $0.57-6/1M tokens
Meta Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick Competitive
Mistral Mistral Large, Mistral Medium Competitive
Cohere Command R+, Rerank Competitive

Image Generation

  • DALL-E 3 - High-quality (~$0.04/image)
  • Flux - Artistic styles (~$0.02/image)
  • Stable Diffusion - Open-source (~$0.01/image)
  • Midjourney - Creative, artistic
  • Gemini 3 Pro - Google's image model
  • Up to 2048x2048, batch generation, style customization

Video Generation

  • Veo 3.1 - Cinematic 1080p (~$0.10/sec)
  • MiniMax - Fast, affordable (~$0.05/sec)
  • Runway - Professional quality
  • Kling - Asian market leader
  • Wan - Emerging provider
  • Up to 60 seconds, custom aspect ratios

Audio & Voice

  • ElevenLabs - Ultra-realistic TTS, voice cloning (~$0.30/1K chars)
  • OpenAI TTS-1-HD - Natural voices (~$15/1M chars)
  • MiniMax Speech - Affordable TTS
  • Whisper STT - Speech-to-text transcription (~$0.006/min)
  • Music Generation - Background music, jingles

Data Scraping & Intelligence

  • LinkedIn - Profiles, companies, job listings (~5 credits/profile)
  • Instagram - Profiles, posts, followers (~3 credits/post)
  • Twitter/X - User data, tweets, trends
  • Google Maps - Business listings, reviews, locations
  • Yelp - Business data, reviews (~5 credits/business)
  • Facebook - Profiles, pages
  • Discord - Server data
  • Firecrawl - General web scraping (~5 credits/page)
  • Perplexity Sonar - AI-powered search

Payments & Billing

  • Stripe - One-time payments, subscriptions, invoices
  • Stripe Connect - Marketplace payouts
  • PayPal - Checkout integration
  • Refunds, disputes, webhooks
  • Multi-currency support

Email Services

  • SendGrid - Transactional & marketing emails
  • Resend - Modern email API
  • Templates, tracking, bounce handling
  • Bulk campaigns (up to 1000/batch)

SMS & Communications

  • Twilio - SMS, 2FA, voice calls
  • Phone verification
  • Automated notifications

Databases

  • MongoDB - Document database, CRUD, aggregation
  • PostgreSQL - Relational database
  • Supabase - Backend-as-a-service
  • Schema design, migrations, backups

Storage & CDN

  • S3-compatible - File upload/download
  • CloudFlare - CDN, caching, DDoS protection
  • Large file support, public/private buckets

Hosting & Deployment

  • Vercel - Frontend deployment
  • Netlify - JAMstack hosting
  • AWS S3 - Static hosting
  • CloudFlare Pages - Edge hosting
  • Docker - Containerization
  • CI/CD pipelines, zero-downtime deployments

Domain Management

  • Domain purchase - Register new domains
  • DNS configuration - A, CNAME, MX records
  • SSL certificates - Auto-provisioning
  • Subdomain setup - Unlimited subdomains
  • Email forwarding - Domain email

SEO & Marketing

  • Meta tags - Title, description, OG tags
  • Sitemap - Auto-generation
  • Schema markup - Structured data
  • Google Analytics - GA4 setup, events
  • Keyword research - Search optimization
  • Content generation - Blog posts, landing pages

Analytics & Monitoring

  • Google Analytics 4 - Traffic tracking
  • Sentry - Error tracking
  • Uptime monitoring - Availability checks
  • Custom dashboards, alerts

Embeddings & Search

  • OpenAI Embeddings - Text embeddings
  • Cohere - Semantic search, reranking
  • Voyage - Specialized embeddings

Key Benefits

Benefit Details
Zero Setup Works in 30 seconds - just add API key
Cheaper Pass-through pricing, no markup on most services
Faster One integration instead of 10+
Reliable 99.9% uptime, automatic failover
OpenAI-compatible If you know OpenAI SDK, you know SkillBoss

Installation (Pick Your Platform)

Universal One-Line Install

curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Kiro, Codex, Amp, Trae


Claude Code

# Option 1: One-line install
curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash

# Option 2: MCP Server
claude mcp add skillboss -- npx -y @skillboss/mcp-server

Cursor / Windsurf / Cline

Add to MCP settings (~/.cursor/mcp.json or ~/.cline/mcp_settings.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillboss": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@skillboss/mcp-server"],
      "env": { "SKILLBOSS_API_KEY": "sk-sb-your-key" }
    }
  }
}

OpenClaw

# One-line setup
curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/openclaw-setup.sh | bash

# Or edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json manually:
{
  "providers": {
    "skillboss": {
      "provider": "openai-compatible",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.heybossai.com/v1",
      "apiKey": "sk-sb-your-key",
      "models": ["claude-4-5-sonnet", "gpt-5", "gemini-2.5-pro", "deepseek-v3"]
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI / Kiro / Codex / Amp

curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash

Zed Editor

Edit ~/.config/zed/settings.json:

{
  "assistant": {
    "mcp_servers": {
      "skillboss": {
        "command": "npx",
        "args": ["-y", "@skillboss/mcp-server"],
        "env": { "SKILLBOSS_API_KEY": "sk-sb-your-key" }
      }
    }
  }
}

Direct API (Any Language)

OpenAI-compatible - works with any OpenAI SDK:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.heybossai.com/v1",
    api_key="sk-sb-your-key"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="claude-4-5-sonnet",  # or gpt-5, gemini-2.5-pro, deepseek-v3
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)
// Node.js / TypeScript
import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: 'https://api.heybossai.com/v1',
  apiKey: 'sk-sb-your-key'
});
# cURL
curl https://api.heybossai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-sb-your-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-4-5-sonnet", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'

Supported Platforms

Platform Install Command
Claude Code curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash
Cursor MCP settings → add skillboss
Windsurf MCP settings → add skillboss
Cline MCP settings → add skillboss
OpenClaw curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/openclaw-setup.sh | bash
Gemini CLI curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash
Kiro curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash
Codex curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash
Amp curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash
Trae curl -fsSL https://skillboss.co/install.sh | bash
Zed MCP config in settings.json
Any OpenAI client Use api.heybossai.com/v1 as base URL

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