In-harness skills marketplaces (Perplexity Computer's trial-credit playbook)
Where it stands: Perplexity Computer's hosted skills marketplace is running a time-limited-free trial-credit playbook — four skills in four days through late October, including two outside-creator entries; adoption of the promo pattern and redemption numbers are the open watches.
- 2026-10-21 (~6:06 PM ET, Arav Srinivas on X — x.com/AravSrinivas): /graphify on Perplexity Computer — the Graphify skill (codebase → interactive map of files/functions/dependencies) enters Computer's skills marketplace with the first recorded trial-credit promotion — /graphify tasks free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user. Watch: whether other marketplace skills copy the time-limited-free-trial pattern.
- 2026-10-22 the second instance in 24 hours — /php2shell-exposure-check on Perplexity Computer with the same time-limited-free structure (free through October 31, 5,000 credits per user — x.com/AravSrinivas); the open watch on whether other marketplace skills adopt the limited-free-trial pattern is answered affirmatively.
- 2026-10-23 the third instance in three days is also the marketplace's first third-party creator skill — Taste Skill (~11:33 AM ET — x.com/AravSrinivas): LexnLin's open-source skill "now integrated inside," /taste-skill tasks free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user; it "sets an art direction before Computer builds a website," layout and type drawing on 247 sites from Awwwards and One Page Love — a distinct function from /graphify's codebase visualization.
- 2026-10-24 (~11:51 AM ET — x.com/AravSrinivas): the fourth instance in four days — /impeccable, the second outside-creator skill after the Taste Skill: an open-source skill built by @pbakaus that reviews an interface and fixes what a designer would flag (layout, type, contrast, accessibility), pitched to build interfaces that don't look like AI-generated slop; tasks free through October 31, up to 5,000 credits per user, the same structure as the rest of the playbook. Watch carried forward: whether the daily cadence continues, and what usage or credit-redemption numbers surface.