SkillLicenseScan – license compliance scanner for Agent Skills

Helps indie devs tell if a trending Agent Skill repo can be used commercially

Problem

GitHub's daily trending list is full of Claude Agent Skill projects with the same shape but wildly different licenses: the top-starred 189-star project is under PolyForm Noncommercial, a sibling is MIT, and high-star AGPL repos are unusable for closed-source SaaS. Devs fork based on a one-line README and get burned later.

Solution

Paste a GitHub repo or trending URL and it fetches the LICENSE text, classifies it into commercial-closed / commercial-open / reference-only, highlights copyleft, patent and commercial restrictions, and produces an 'fork risk score' using stars, recent commits and dependency licenses. A browser badge shows the verdict right on the GitHub page.

Users

Indie developers and small SaaS teams planning to build commercial products on top of open-source Agent Skills, plus tech-selection leads

MVP

Paste-a-URL verdict with license class and risk score; coverage of MIT/Apache/AGPL/PolyForm/BSL and friends; GitHub page badge extension; batch scan of a saved trending watchlist; weekly trending license-change digest email.

Revenue

Free single-repo scans; subscription for batch scans, shared team allowlists and exportable compliance reports; enterprise tier with private repo scanning and audit logs

Why now

Agent Skills are in their chaotic early boom, and license divergence on the same-name projects just started appearing; whoever builds the classification rule set now gets a data moat. Pure rules plus LLM is a perfect solo build.