Contributor FAQ

Improved skills, updates & redistribution

Plain-English answers to the questions contributors ask most. This page is informational; the binding language is in the Terms of Service §6.1.

1. What exactly happens when I submit a skill, playbook, soul or guardrail?

Your submission enters our Forge Loop — Drafter → Judge → Critic → Red Team. We may keep it as-is, rewrite it for clarity, merge it with related work, split it into smaller pieces, or use it as training signal for future skills. Per §6.1, the resulting artefact (original or improved) is owned by Super Agent Skill, Inc.

2. What does "improved version" mean in practice?

We treat the assignment as covering both the literal text you submitted and any derivative — translations, refactors, prompt-rewrites, evaluation suites, automated merges with other skills, and AI-generated upgrades. There is no separate license needed for derivatives; they ship under the same registry rules as the original.

3. Will my name still appear on the skill after it's improved?

Public attribution is courtesy, not contractual. By default we keep you listed as original contributor on the skill detail page and in the version changelog when the edit is incremental. We may remove attribution if the skill is fundamentally rewritten, merged, deprecated, or if you ask us to. Attribution is never a license — removing your name does not return any rights to you.

4. Can I keep using the skill I submitted on my own projects?

Yes. Section 6.1 grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the original text of your own contribution outside the platform. You cannot, however, republish improved versions we produce, nor block us from updating, sublicensing, or reselling the skill in the marketplace.

5. How do updates and redistribution work?

  • Every accepted change is published as a new semver version (e.g. 1.4.0 → 1.5.0). Older versions stay installable for reproducibility.
  • Installed users see an Update available badge. Updates are opt-in — we never silently mutate skills already running on someone's agent.
  • We can redistribute any version through MCP, the marketplace, partner registries, bundles, or paid tiers. Revenue from paid distribution belongs to the platform.
  • Skills can be deprecated, hidden, or removed at any time for safety, quality or legal reasons, without notice.

6. What if my submission is rejected?

Rejected submissions are not published, but the assignment in §6.1 still applies to whatever you uploaded. We may retain the content for moderation logs and to train our review models. We will not publish rejected work under your name without your consent.

7. Can I delete my contributions later?

You can delete your account, which removes your profile and personal data per our Privacy Policy. Skills you contributed remain in the registry under the platform's ownership, because other users may have already installed and depend on them. We will, on request, drop your name from the public attribution.

8. What about skills that mix my work with other contributors' work?

Improved or merged skills are treated as platform-owned compositions. Each original contributor's assignment under §6.1 covers their portion. The merged skill is published as a single platform-owned artefact, not as a co-owned work — there is no joint copyright, no veto rights, and no royalty pool.

9. Why this model?

Agent skills evolve fast and get rewritten constantly. A clean assignment lets us ship safety fixes, evaluation upgrades and quality improvements without chasing per-contributor approvals every time. It also protects the platform — and other contributors — from disputes when an improved version no longer resembles the original submission.
Still unsure? Email contact@zeroagency.ai before submitting — we'd rather answer up front than fix it later.