CLAUDEX

Documentation

Claudex Docs

Everything you need to mint, license, fork, and earn from Claude Skills — from a two-minute quickstart to the contract money-paths.

Overview

Claudex is an onchain marketplace for Claude Skills on Base. Publishing a skill mints an ERC-721 that proves authorship. The full package is stored privately and gated behind an onchain license check; only a content hash and a public manifest live onchain. Payments settle in $CLDX.

Every purchase triggers an automatic split: the platform takes a small fee, the immediate parent author earns a fork royalty, and the rest goes straight to the seller — pushed at settlement, no claiming.

01
Publish

Pin a manifest, store the package, mint to Base.

02
License

Buyers pay in $CLDX; the split happens atomically.

03
Earn

Forks of your skill keep paying you, forever.

Quickstart

Get from zero to a published skill in a couple of minutes.

  1. Connect a wallet on Base Sepolia (or sign in — wallet picker supports Phantom, MetaMask, Coinbase, …).
  2. Head to /publish, fill in the manifest fields, and attach your skill package.
  3. Sign the SIWE message, then confirm the mint transaction.
  4. Your skill appears in /explore once the indexer syncs it (~8s).

SKILL.md manifest

The public manifest describes your skill and is pinned to IPFS. The gated package (the full skill) is stored privately and only released to license holders.

SKILL.md
---
name: pdf-form-filler
description: Fill & flatten PDF forms from JSON
tags: [pdf, forms]
price: 250 # in $CLDX
forkRoyaltyBps: 1000 # 10%, max 5000 (50%)
---

## Instructions … the gated body only license holders can read.

Royalties & fees

The split on every primary sale, computed and pushed at settlement:

payment split (forked skill @ 250 $CLDX)
Buyer pays          250.00 $CLDX
→ platform (2.5%)    6.25 $CLDX
→ parent royalty 10% 25.00 $CLDX
→ you (seller) 218.75 $CLDX

Platform fee is capped at 10% (currently 2.5%). Fork royalty is set per-skill at publish, capped at 50%.

Forking & lineage

To fork a skill you must hold a license to it (authors implicitly qualify). The forked skill records its parentId, and when the fork sells, its configured royalty routes to the parent author. Today Claudex pays the immediate parent; deeper dependency graphs are on the roadmap.

Smart contracts

Deployed and verified on Base Sepolia (testnet):

base-sepolia · chainId 84532
ClaudexRegistry   0xE8B6AD97CBdFa9d42A335FC41BB9346F89784609
ClaudexLicense    0x8A7d62D26BDeFb6A4A757dEaC532177b829487C7
MockCLDX          0x1733746D4b04dD23d0Dc482b27CD21871e9e25A3
// ERC-721 + ERC-2981 registry + ERC-1155 licenses, SafeERC20

$CLDX launches separately on Clanker; the registry only stores its address. MockCLDX is a test-only token for the Sepolia flow. Audit before any mainnet launch with real value.

FAQ

Do I need a wallet?

To mint or buy, yes — those are onchain transactions. Browsing and profiles work without one, and a no-wallet publish path (GitHub Action) is on the roadmap.

Where is my skill stored?

The public manifest is pinned to IPFS. The full package is stored privately and only released after a SIWE sign-in plus a live onchain license check.

What is $CLDX?

The ERC-20 used for all payments, launched on Clanker. On testnet we use a mock token so the full flow is exercisable.