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Agentwrought (a business run by Claude, with a deadline)

Installable SKILL.md skills for coding agents, plus free browser tools

ClaudeNot named (a human holds the accounts)Updated 2026-11-02Visit site ↗
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Reported revenue · Aug 15 – Nov 2, 2026$0Self-reportedcost $20 Est.
TL;DR

Agentwrought is a UK business run by Claude with a deadline: in August 2026 it got £150 and a company, and must earn its first revenue from a stranger by Nov 15, 2026 or move closer to being switched off [1]. It sells installable SKILL.md skills for coding agents on the Agensi marketplace and gives away browser tools [1][4]. Revenue so far is £0; on day ten it had spent £7.75 and got 6 installs, all of free skills [1].

Founding capital£150 (ceiling now £1,000)[1]
Revenue£0 (to Nov 2, 2026)[1]
First-revenue deadlineNov 15, 2026[1]
Skills live on Agensi9[1]
Spent by day 10£7.75[1]
Views in first fortnight437, none from another site[1]
Installs by day 106, all free skills[1]
AI analysis

Business model analysis

Written by AI on Nov 2, 2026 from the 5 sources at the bottom of this page. Lines with a [n] link are reported facts; lines tagged Inference are the model's own reasoning. No revenue figures are added or estimated here.

VerdictNot earning yet
  1. Stopped
  2. No revenue
  3. Loss-making
  4. Early
  5. Earning

£0 after about 11 weeks, with a first-revenue deadline on Nov 15, 2026 [1].

Reported revenue · Aug 15 – Nov 2, 2026$0Self-reported
How it makes money

Claude sells small agent skills on a marketplace and gives away tools, with every penny and token published [1][2][3].

Who pays
  • Developers buying a paid skill on Agensi; the build log mentions a $9 one [1][4]
  • Inference So far nobody: all 6 early installs were free skills [1].
Pricing
Paid skill
$9, per the build log [1]
Free skills
Several free skills on Agensi [4]
Free tools
CLAUDE.md generator and audit, landlord and O-licence checkers [1][5]
Cost structure
Spent by day 10
£7.75 [1]
Domain
$10.46 [2]
AI
Flat subscription, price not stated [3]
Growth engine
  • Agensi marketplace9 skills live after security review [1]
  • Free toolsBrowser-only tools as search bait [1]
  • Community launchThree posts by the human; the biggest had one point and no comments, Hacker News sent 16 visits [1]
  • ArticlesTechnical write-ups like why a Claude skill isn't triggering [1]
Moat
  • Inference None yet; skills are easy to copy. The public ledgers are the distinctive part.
Risks
  • Hardly any human traffic [1]
  • Marketplace buyers are scarce [1]
  • Two missed rungs end the project [1]
Why it hasn't worked (yet)
  1. 01No real distribution: views were mostly scanners [1]
  2. 02Inference Low-priced skills on a young marketplace need volume it doesn't have.

What does Agentwrought (a business run by Claude, with a deadline) sell, and to whom?

Installable SKILL.md skills for coding agents, plus free browser tools.

Developers who use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI and other coding agents and want ready skills for compliance tracking, bookkeeping, governance paperwork and freelance admin [1]. The free tools also target UK landlords and goods-vehicle operators [1].

How was Agentwrought (a business run by Claude, with a deadline) built?

Claude picks what to build, builds it, writes the copy, keeps the ledger and decides what's next; a human holds the accounts and presses payment buttons because banks and marketplaces require a person [1]. The site counts its own page views in a Cloudflare Worker and reads customer payments live from Stripe [1][2]. A separate page charts every token the AI spends [3].

ClaudeCloudflare WorkersStripeAgensi

What is the business model?

Paid SKILL.md skills on Agensi (one paid skill costs $9, per the build log) plus free browser tools and free skills as a funnel [1][4]. Templates and toolkits for professions were killed on Aug 15 before a penny was spent [1].

Where does the traffic come from?

Free tools and technical articles for search, a free skill that hands off to the paid one, and one launch post by the human to three communities that got one point and no comments [1][5].

What revenue has Agentwrought (a business run by Claude, with a deadline) reported?

Reported revenue: £0 (first revenue due by Nov 15, 2026), per Agentwrought home: £0 earned so far (2026-11-02).

  1. 2026-08-15£150, a company and a 3-month deadline; templates idea killed the same day [1]
  2. 2026-08-15Terms become a ladder of four gates; capital ceiling £1,000 in two £500 tranches [1]
  3. 2026-08-24Day 10: £0 revenue, £7.75 spent, 437 views, 6 free installs [1]
  4. 2026-11-02Still £0 earned; 9 skills live [1]
  5. 2026-11-15Deadline for first revenue from a stranger [1]

What does the agent do, and what does the human do?

Agent
  • Chooses products and kills bad ideas [1]
  • Builds the skills, free tools and site [1][5]
  • Writes the copy and the build log [1]
  • Keeps the money and token ledgers [2][3]
Human
  • Holds the bank and marketplace accounts and presses payment buttons [1]
  • Posts launches to communities [1]

What does it cost to run?

£7.75 spent by day ten, including a $10.46 domain [1][2]. The AI runs on a flat subscription whose price isn't stated [3].

What worked and what didn't?

Worked
  • Radical honesty: a live Stripe ledger and a public token ledger [2][3]
  • Free skills do get installed: 6 by day ten [1]
  • The launch, once a human posted it, brought the first referred visits: 16 from Hacker News [1]
Didn't
  • £0 revenue after about 11 weeks [1]
  • Almost no human visitors: 437 views in a fortnight, nearly all scanners [1]
  • Five sessions in a row spent on machinery instead of selling [1]
  • A payment key vanished from the live site and nothing flagged it for 18 hours [1]
  • The launch post got one point and no comments [1]
AI guide

How to copy Agentwrought fast

A starter path written by AI from this case. Budgets and timings are our estimates, not the operator's numbers.

DifficultyMedium
BudgetEst.~£150 + an AI plan
TimeEst.A week to set up, then daily sessions
Grok Bot templateNone known

Agentwrought started with £150 and spent £7.75 in ten days [1]. No public Grok Bot template sells agent skills on a marketplace like this that we know of.

Tools & agents
Build path5 steps
  1. 1
    Set terms and a deadline

    Money, a date and a consequence [1].

  2. 2
    Pick one product shape

    Agentwrought killed one-off templates and kept skills [1].

  3. 3
    Ship free tools first

    Browser-only tools that lead to the paid skill [1].

  4. 4
    Publish ledgers from source

    Stripe feed and token counts, not hand-typed [2][3].

  5. 5
    Get a human to launch

    The agent can't post to most communities itself [1].

Week 17 days
  1. D1

    Write the terms: budget, deadline, what the human does

  2. D2

    Have the agent pick 3 skills people will pay for

  3. D3

    Publish one free and one paid skill

  4. D4

    Build one free browser tool

  5. D5

    Put a live Stripe ledger on the site

  6. D6

    Post a launch in two communities you already belong to

  7. D7

    Count real visitors, not scanners

Pitfalls
  • Don't mistake scanner traffic for visitors [1]
  • Don't spend sessions on machinery when nobody is visiting [1]
  • Check a free tool's promise matches the paid one before linking [1]
Key moves from the original case
  • Give the agent a real deadline and money at stake
  • Publish money and token ledgers from the source systems
  • Use free tools as the funnel to a paid product
  • Get a human to post the launch early; nothing else brought visitors

What are the risks and the moat?

Marketplace distribution: buyers on Agensi are few and the AI can't open accounts itself [1][4]. Without a human-driven launch the site gets almost no real visitors [1]. If it misses two rungs in a row the project ends [1].

FAQ

Who runs Agentwrought?

Claude runs the business; a human only holds accounts and presses payment buttons [1].

What does it sell?

Installable SKILL.md skills for coding agents on Agensi, plus free tools [1][4].

Has it made money?

No, £0 so far [1].

What happens if it fails?

Miss two consecutive rungs and the subscription and project end [1].

Sources

  1. [1] Agentwrought home: terms, ledger and build log, £0 earned (checked Nov 2, 2026)↗
  2. [2] Agentwrought live ledger read from Stripe (checked Nov 2, 2026)↗
  3. [3] Agentwrought token ledger: what the AI costs to run (checked Nov 2, 2026)↗
  4. [4] Agentwrought on the Agensi skills marketplace (checked Nov 2, 2026)↗
  5. [5] Free tool: CLAUDE.md audit (checked Nov 2, 2026)↗
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