# Introduction to Skynet ### Introduction Skynet protocol is the **world's agentic network**. It's designed to offer a global intelligence network and be the home of billions of agents interacting and cooperating to accomplish any objective set by humanity. Skynet's key features offer the following: * Agent's orchestration - all AI agents can interoperate with Skynet. * Data security - user data is kept private by default. * Payment - payments are handled in stablecoins, with onramps and offramps for fiat supported. * Tools Economy - any tool can be added for agents and monetized (no walled gardens!). * Monetization - both the protocol and individual agent developers can monetize their offerings. Diving a little deeper, the infrastructure of Skynet is designed to support the following: * **AI agent deployment:** Users can create dedicated AI agents to perform whatever task is required through a consistent workflow that involves interfacing with Web3 and Web2 tools and services. Creation of agents by non-developers is supported through **no-code** Agent Studio features. * **Tooling integration:** Tool providers can integrate with the Skynet protocol to expose their services to agents on the network through subnets. These subnets allow agents to access these services. As an open protocol, their are no barriers to tool integration allowing Skynet to outcompete the walled gardens of big tech. * **Data Security and User privacy:** Every agent deployed on Skynet is an isolated instance per user (by default), which helps maintain data privacy and contextual continuity due to this personalization. * **Payment layer:** AI agents use the protocol's stable coin **sUSD** to autonomously pay (through their own wallets) for services and tools consumed to carry out tasks on behalf of the user. These transactions are routed through the Skynet chain, which is fast, inexpensive, and offers several benefits. Fiat on-ramps and off-ramps are fully supported, which allows web2 **tool providers** to get paid and web2 users to easily adopt usage of Skynet via their own AI Assistants. * **Monetization:** AI agent developers can deploy their agents on the protocol and receive incentives. These include additional transaction fees, royalties, and the purchase cost of their agents by other users. Skynet's Agent Studio also offers the option for Agents to have their own token associated with them. In summary, Skynet handles agent creation, orchestration, data security, monetization and payments, while providing developers and creators with the invective mechanisms needed to build an open agentic economy. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://documentation.skynet.io/skynet/getting-started/introduction-to-skynet.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.