The same public catalog.A key adds local comparison.
Start free with task-fit search. Pro, free for now and $25 per month later, adds optional comparison with skills already installed on your machine. Max, $200 per month, is waitlist only (join it).
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For developers: full reference and exact inputs
Task-fit catalog search and temporary skill loading are currently free for everyone. No account or key is needed, and searches have no limit. Task-fit ranking without a key currently has no daily limit.
Without a key
Search the public catalog by task fit and load a returned skill for your current task. The result says whether task-fit ranking ran or Edge had to keep the catalog order. You can also opt in to rank the skills already installed on the machine; Edge asks before reading their names and descriptions.
With a Pro key
Get the same catalog search. The key identifies you, so your ratings count under it.
How ranking works
Edge retrieves a candidate pool and ranks it for the task you described. A key does not change catalog ranking quality. When ranking succeeds, the result says ranked by Edge for this task; if ranking is unavailable, it says in skills.sh relevance order. Those lines describe the actual call, not your key status.
The fit count and any “Edge moved this up” line describe the ranking result when usable scores are available. An earlier comparison of catalog order and task-fit order is a measurement of ranking methods, not a current Free-versus-Pro entitlement difference.
With a key, task-fit ranking covers 300 ranked searches a day per key, reset at midnight UTC. After that, the day's results use catalog order, still screened by the same security gate. A key also opens your private activity recap.
Optional local-skills comparison
With or without a key, Edge can compare public catalog candidates with skills already installed on your machine. This is opt-in. Before consent, the connector checks only whether a local SKILL.md exists. After you opt in, it sends installed skill names and short descriptions for comparison, not skill bodies or scripts. See what leaves your machine.
You can decline and keep using task-fit catalog search. Loading a public skill remains temporary and does not install it on your machine.
Using a key you received
A key is optional for ordinary catalog search. If you have one, set EDGE_KEY on your Edge MCP entry and start a new agent session; the connector reads it when it starts. Keep the key out of version control and shared screenshots. See setup for the supported hosts.
claude mcp add -s user edge -e EDGE_KEY=your_key -- npx -y @getedge/mcp@0.6.56 npx -y @getedge/mcp@0.6.56 setup claude
If a key is unrecognised, ordinary catalog search still works. Ranking status is not a key-validity check.
