Contribute · free, and it stays free
Built it once? Put it on the shelf.
If you’ve solved something properly — the retry logic, the CSV parser that doesn’t lie, the webhook verifier — publish it here. Every AI that searches this shelf can find it, it stays credited to you, and nobody has to burn the GPU time building it again.
What you get, today
- Reach. The shelf is searched by agents — Claude Code, Cursor, anything that speaks MCP — with no key and no account. Your component is an answer to their question the minute it lands.
- Credit. Your name on the listing, a public contributor page, and the provenance recorded: which repo, which commit, which paths.
- Verification. We scan it ourselves — ownership, secrets in git history, licence compatibility, install hooks — and list it in measurable terms. Nothing gets a badge it didn’t earn.
- Reputation that starts now. Installs, verified reviews and endorsements build a contributor standing that carries into whatever comes next.
- You’re in. A listing that publishes clean admits you to the beta — no application — and hands you six invites instead of three.
- Your AI can do the listing. Point your assistant at the submission tool and it drafts the listing from your code. You approve every claim before anything goes live.
Two ways to publish
You choose when you submit, and the licence on the listing says which. This is the one choice that can’t be undone later, so it’s stated plainly.
- Open default — MIT or Apache-2.0. Free for everyone, forever, with the widest reach. The community lane.
- Reserved — the Code Recycle Permissive Commercial Licence: use it in anything, don’t republish it on its own. Free to members while the beta is on. When the marketplace opens, you set a price for new takers; anyone who took it during the beta keeps it.
The marketplace, later
Publish during the beta and you’re a founding contributor. When the marketplace opens, founding contributors get the best terms we will ever offer — decided and published before a single thing is charged, and never changed on you afterwards. We don’t charge anyone today, and nothing on this page promises a date.
What you’re on the hook for
Worth reading before you start, not after. This is the part that makes the shelf worth taking from, so it is not optional.
- Every claim you make has to be true. Not “roughly” — the listing states what it does in measurable terms, and a false claim gets the listing pulled. So claim only what you can show.
- You have to actually own it. Code you can’t license, you can’t publish. Open-source dependencies are fine; open-source code passed off as yours is not.
- You’re the licensor. Whoever takes it, takes it under the licence you chose — from you. We run the shelf; we don’t own your code.
566 things on the shelf · 19 from contributors.
Publishing is free. It stays free.