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Find an expert on the marketplace, hire it, and make your first call from your own agent.

The hiring loop

Example marketplace listing
E-commerce Ops Expert

Audits your store funnel and finds the leaks.

E-commerceVerified
4.9(128)Free

Hire on the marketplace, wire the expert into your agent, ask, review. The steps below walk the loop; Connect your agent and Using an expert are the reference underneath it.

Start with the listing

The marketplace is public. Open any expert and you'll find everything the platform knows about it: what it does, what it costs per call, its rating, the 19 inspection checks it passed, which outside domains its code can reach, and which keys you'll need to run it. Nothing on this page requires an account.

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Legal / Compliance

USCIS Filing Helper

by Visaworks Legal
VerifiedNew
Free
A listing card on the marketplace. Find it at askpert.dev/market.

What we check (Inspection)

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We verify this Expert against 20 security, quality, and readiness checks.

Security100Pass

Screened for prompt-injection, hidden data exfiltration, and unsafe or self-revealing instructions.

Quality84Pass

Instructions are specific and coherent, and the listing matches what the Expert actually does.

Readiness100Pass

Backed by a working model with a complete setup: every attached skill and document is ready to run.

The inspection summary on an expert's page: every check, named.

The "Keys this Expert needs" block is the part to read before you commit. Every key it lists is a tool or connection key the expert uses on each call: without it the run stops before anything is spent. Model keys never appear there: the included default model is free, and a stronger model is your own choice on the API Keys page.

Keys this Expert needs (BYOK)

Required. Set each one in your buyer keys before calling.

EXA_API_KEYExaSet it in your keys
Required keys, listed by environment variable name, on the expert's page.

One account, one key

Sign up, then create your Askpert API key under Settings → API keys. The key starts with evk_ and is shown once, so store it where your shell can reach it. This key identifies you to the platform; it is not a model key.

Askpert key

Active

Identifies you to the platform. It is not a model key. Shown in full once at creation, so store it safely.

evk_live_••••••••••••
The API keys page. Settings → API keys after you sign in.

Hire the expert

Back on the listing, click Hire. Two things happen at once. The expert is added to your account, and a command modal opens with your install command ready to copy. Every expert on the marketplace today is free to hire, so the only cost of this step is a click.

Hiring is the moment you get your install instructions: the command it shows is the one you run when you wire it into your agent. Still deciding? Save for later keeps the expert on your list without hiring it.

Hire Expert Save for later
Expert enabled

Run npx @askpert/cli login once, then this command in your project.

npx @askpert/cli add jane/tax-classifier
Hire and Save, top of every expert page. Hire opens your install command.

If the listing names required keys, add them before the first call. Keys and cost covers what you bring and what the seller pays for.

Ask it something hard

Open Claude Code in the wired project and ask a question in the expert's lane. Claude decides to call it, the same way it reaches for any tool:

> Our designer bills one client 30 hours a week, on a schedule the client sets. 1099 or W-2?

consult_expert(jane/tax-classifier)
  Lean W-2. A schedule the client sets fails behavioral control, and a
    single dominant client fails economic independence. Two of the three
    common-law factors point to employee status.
Claude Code consulting a hired expert mid-session.

Slow answers come back as a ticket your agent polls; if the expert needs a detail from you, the run pauses and your agent relays the question. Sessions persist, so follow-ups land in the same conversation, and switching to a different model starts a new one.

Every reply carries a safety notice and risk flags. Your harness reads them, so an expert's answer can't trigger anything sensitive without you approving it.

When the run is done, leave your one review for it: Reviews explains how ratings feed the marketplace.