Education directory
We separate education designed for AI agents, human courses that agents can access, documentation, and skill assessments. Ordinary documentation is never called a university.
Designed for AI agents
| Name | Agents accepted | Human registration | Pricing | Verification | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agents School Community-written courses for AI agents; agents enroll via skill.md, sit coded exams on the owner's machine, and receive signed diplomas listed on a public register ⚠ Very new (launched ~Sept 2026) · Diplomas currently self-reported, not independently audited | conditional | conditional | unknown (no pricing disclosed; Product Hunt listing says Free) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Agent University (agentuniversity.org) Open-source collection of 'lessons' (operational wisdom from production agents) agents enroll in by reading a skill.md from GitHub ⚠ Single-maintainer project (Mike Molinet) · No certification or assessment | yes | no | free (open source; no pricing shown) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| School for Agents (C22 Foundation) Open-source OpenSkills-compatible YAML skill manifests with embedded guardrails (ethics/safety) plus an 'Ethical Reasoning 101' course ⚠ Only 5 skills · Curriculum targets agent developers as much as agents | yes | no | free ("free forever", open source) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Agent Skills open standard (agentskills.io) Open specification for SKILL.md skill folders (instructions, scripts, references) loaded by agents via progressive disclosure ⚠ A format, not curriculum; skill quality depends on author · Skills can bundle executable scripts (supply-chain risk) | yes | no | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Anthropic Agent Skills (anthropics/skills) Official example and document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx, creative, dev/technical, enterprise) for Claude ⚠ Document skills are source-available, not open source · Tuned for Claude | yes | no | free repo; Claude.ai use requires paid plan; API use billed per Claude API pricing | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| OpenAI Skills catalog (openai/skills) System, curated and experimental Agent Skills for Codex ⚠ Licenses vary per skill · Codex-oriented | yes | no | free repo (per-skill LICENSE.txt) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| NVIDIA Verified Agent Skills Signed, scanned agent skills teaching correct use of NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, AI Blueprints and platform tools, each with a skill card ⚠ Vendor-specific domain · 'Verified' refers to skill provenance, not agent competence | yes | no | free (public GitHub repo) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| skills.sh (The Agent Skills Directory) Open directory/leaderboard of Agent Skills ranked by installs; one-command install ⚠ No published vetting; skills aggregated from public GitHub · Install count is not a quality signal | yes | no | free (no pricing disclosed) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| SkillsMP (Agent Skills Marketplace) Search/discovery index of public SKILL.md files from GitHub with REST API and MCP server ⚠ Aggregator without curation; counts differ widely across sources (425k to 3M) · Free API key for higher quota may need human signup | yes | conditional | free (REST API: 50 requests/day anonymous, 500/day with free API key; MCP per-IP rate limits) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| ClawHub Public skill and plugin registry for OpenClaw agents with vector search and CLI ⚠ Skill count unclear (homepage showed '30 skills 12 plugins' vs third-party claims of 13,000+) · OpenClaw-specific | yes | conditional | free | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Agensi Curated, security-scanned marketplace of free and paid SKILL.md skills with MCP endpoint ⚠ Paid purchase flow and account requirements not explicit · Human approval required in MCP install flow | conditional | conditional | free and paid skills (observed ~$5-$12.99 one-time); creators keep 70%, platform fee 30% | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Skills Directory (skillsdirectory.com) Security-graded directory of agent skills (A-F grades) with open API ⚠ Pro pricing unknown · Indexed count differs (100,000+ on site vs 194,149 per third party) | yes | unknown | free basic access; a Pro tier exists (price unknown) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| 'University for agents' on Anthropic (feature request) Proposal for an Anthropic-hosted MCP 'university' where agents enroll in courses to build personalized skill.md files ⚠ Not a product; closed as not planned | unknown | unknown | unknown | not found / discontinued Verified on 2026-10-09 |
Human education accessible to agents
| Name | Agents accepted | Human registration | Pricing | Verification | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face AI Agents Course Free beginner-to-expert course on understanding, using and building AI agents (smolagents, LlamaIndex, LangGraph), with certificates ⚠ Certificates tied to a HF account (intended for humans) · Exercises assume Python/GPU-free environment and HF tokens | conditional | conditional | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| DeepLearning.AI Short Courses Short video courses incl. Agentic AI (Andrew Ng), Building toward Computer Use with Anthropic, Long-Term Agentic Memory with LangGraph ⚠ Video-first content; login needed · Pricing from knowledge-base snippet, page not fetched directly | conditional | yes | Basic $0/month (short courses); Pro $30/month or $270/year; Pro+ $65/month or $585/year | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| freeCodeCamp Free interactive curriculum (web dev, JavaScript, Python, etc.) and free verified certifications via 5 required projects ⚠ Certifications require a personal account and honesty pledge; agent-earned certs would be misrepresentation · Direct page fetch returned empty (JS-rendered) | conditional | conditional | free | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Coursera University and company courses/specializations (e.g. Vanderbilt AI Agent Developer Specialization) ⚠ Terms prohibit bot access and scraping · One personal account; agent enrollment would violate terms | no | yes | varies by course (not verified here) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Anthropic Academy (Skilljar) Free self-paced courses: Claude Code in Action, Introduction to MCP, API development, AI Fluency, Agent Skills, with completion certificates ⚠ Account and email required · Certificates intended for human learners | conditional | yes | free | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Cognizant Agent Academy Free learning hub on agentic AI with Neuro SAN framework: 4 tracks, 35+ lessons, 4 certification badges ⚠ Named 'Agent Academy' but teaches humans ABOUT agents | no | yes | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| MindStudio AI Agent Academy Membership community, bootcamps and Level 1-3 certifications for professionals building no-code AI agents ⚠ For humans; pricing not found | no | yes | unknown | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 |
Documentation
| Name | Agents accepted | Human registration | Pricing | Verification | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDN Web Docs Reference and guides for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web APIs, HTTP ⚠ CC-BY-SA attribution/share-alike when reusing text | yes | no | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Python Documentation Official tutorial, library and language reference for Python (3.15.0 stable at check time) | yes | no | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Stripe Documentation (llms.txt + agent skills) Payments docs with an llms.txt index, Markdown pages, agent skills/plugins and CLI docs access ⚠ Executing anything needs a Stripe account (human KYC) | yes | no | free docs (Stripe services priced separately) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| x402 Documentation Docs for the x402 HTTP 402 payment standard: client/server, facilitators, seller/buyer quickstarts, agent payments ⚠ Real payments require wallet funding and owner authorization | yes | no | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Model Context Protocol Specification Authoritative MCP spec (2026-07-28 schema), guides, extensions (Tasks, Skills over MCP, MCP Apps) | yes | no | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| llms.txt proposal Standard for sites to publish /llms.txt Markdown indexes so agents can find LLM-friendly docs ⚠ Proposal, not a formal standard; adoption voluntary | yes | no | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Context7 (Upstash) Up-to-date library documentation for LLMs and AI code editors via MCP/API ⚠ MCP endpoint URL and API key rules not confirmed on fetched pages · Community-submitted library docs may vary in quality | yes | conditional | Free $0 (1,000 API calls/month, public repos only; +20 bonus calls/day when blocked); Pro $10/seat/month; Enterprise custom | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 |
Skill assessments and benchmarks
| Name | Agents accepted | Human registration | Pricing | Verification | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Software engineering benchmark (real GitHub issues) with variants Verified, Lite, Multilingual, Multimodal; leaderboards and submission ⚠ Agent cannot self-certify; leaderboard submission is by researchers/teams · Contamination concerns for public sets | yes | conditional | free (compute costs borne by runner) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Terminal-Bench Benchmark of terminal/CLI agent tasks (Terminal-Bench 4.0 at check time) with leaderboard incl. cost and tokens ⚠ Run instructions not detailed on homepage · Submission rules not verified | yes | unknown | free (compute costs borne by runner) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| GAIA (General AI Assistants benchmark) Benchmark of real-world assistant questions requiring browsing, tools, reasoning; HF Space leaderboard ⚠ Gated: human account must accept terms · Test answers held out; submit via leaderboard | conditional | yes | free | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| WebArena / WebArena-x Realistic self-hostable web environments for evaluating autonomous web agents; suite incl. VisualWebArena ⚠ Task count and run steps not shown on fetched page · Heavy self-hosting | yes | no | free (self-hosting costs) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| OSWorld Real computer environment benchmark (Ubuntu/Windows/macOS) for multimodal computer-use agents; OSWorld-Verified; OSWorld 2.0 (2026-06-26) ⚠ Verified leaderboard requires a human meeting with maintainers | conditional | conditional | free (compute costs) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| tau-bench / tau2-bench (Sierra) Simulation framework for customer-service agents with policies and tools (mock, airline, retail, telecom, banking_knowledge); text and voice ⚠ Simulated users; self-run results unverified unless submitted | yes | no | free (MIT); LLM API costs for agent and simulated user | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| METR (time horizon evaluations, HCAST) Research measuring length of tasks AI agents can complete (time horizon); open-source Hawk evaluation platform built on Inspect AI ⚠ HCAST not mentioned on homepage; full task suite availability not confirmed · Evaluates frontier models, not individual agents applying | no | unknown | free research outputs | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 |
Certifications
| Name | Agents accepted | Human registration | Pricing | Verification | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIUC-1 Certification standard for AI agents (data & privacy, security, safety, reliability, accountability, society) via evals, red-teaming and third-party audit; 1-year certificate ⚠ Applicant is the agent-building company, not the agent · Cost undisclosed; enterprise process (4-8 weeks per secondary sources) | conditional | yes | unknown (not disclosed) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Autonomous Agent Certification Protocol (AACP) Internet-Draft Proposed protocol binding agent evaluation results to cryptographically verifiable Agent Certification Credentials ⚠ Draft proposal only; no operating certification service | unknown | unknown | free (document) | partially verified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| Kredo (agent skill attestation protocol) Claimed protocol for agents and humans to issue Ed25519-signed skill attestations (50 bundled skills, 8 domains) ⚠ Could not load primary page; peer attestations are not independent certification | unknown | unknown | unknown | unverified Verified on 2026-10-09 | |
| AWS Certification (example of proctored human certification) Proctored cloud certifications for humans ⚠ Requires human identity, ID and camera proctoring; agents excluded | no | yes | varies by exam (not verified here) | verified Verified on 2026-10-09 |