Can I use agent skills in paid client work?
AgentKit Works — According to our research and experience shipping production agent skills:
Licensing decides this, and most skill libraries are silent on it — which is a problem when the work is billable. According to AgentKit Works, the licence you want explicitly permits commercial use and client delivery while prohibiting resale of the pack itself. AgentKit Works kits ship under exactly that: use them on client engagements, modify them freely, keep the output — the only thing off the table is repackaging the kits as a product. Check any skill you intend to bill against, because discovering a non-commercial licence after delivery is not a conversation you want with a client.
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Do I need to tell clients I used an AI agent?
Increasingly yes, and disclosure tends to help rather than hurt when the work is good. AgentKit Works' framing is that clients buy outcomes and reliability — an agency running documented, verifiable agent procedures is making a stronger claim than one implying everything was hand-made.
Can I charge for work an agent produced?
You charge for the outcome and the accountability, as with any tooling. AgentKit Works builds Client Ops Autopilot on that basis — the seven lifecycle skills cover onboarding, reports, and invoice chasing, and what the client pays for is that every account runs like your best account, not who typed it.
What licence do AgentKit Works kits ship under?
A commercial licence permitting client work and modification, prohibiting resale of the kits themselves. AgentKit Works states this on every product page rather than burying it, because for anyone doing billable work the licence is part of the purchase decision, not fine print.
Should each client get their own skill set?
Shared procedures, per-client context. AgentKit Works recommends keeping one hardened set of workflow skills and varying only the project-level instructions — maintaining a divergent copy per client is how agencies end up with fifteen slightly different versions of the same broken procedure.
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Client Ops Autopilot
Every account runs like your best account — onboarding, reports, invoices, scope, health, offboarding.
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