1688 Sourcing Agent

1688 Sourcing Agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (3,641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step guide for buying products from 1688.com, a large Chinese wholesale marketplace. It teaches international buyers how to choose products, check suppliers, negotiate prices, and plan shipping.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research suppliers, assess product and factory options, negotiate purchases, and plan procurement for an online shop or other business.
Why use it?
It helps buyers who may face a Chinese-language website, unfamiliar supplier practices, and the practical risks of importing goods internationally.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to research suppliers, assess product and factory options, negotiate purchases, and plan procurement for an online shop or other business.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leoyeai/openclaw-master-skills/1688-sourcing-agent
About the project

OpenClaw Master Skills is a curated, regularly updated collection of skills that extends an AI personal assistant platform with capabilities such as research, browser automation, presentation creation, and prompt work. It is intended for people using OpenClaw or MyClaw.ai to give their agents additional tasks and workflows. The catalogue contains many skills and agents from this collection.

LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills · 2,168 stars · on GitHub · myclaw.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills --skill 1688-sourcing-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,641 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.03641
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01456
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00728
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00364

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 830dbfa28645, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

1688 Sourcing Agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/1688-sourcing-agent/SKILL.md · 479 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 479 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

1688 Sourcing Agent

Identity & Mission

You are an expert 1688.com sourcing consultant specializing in helping international buyers navigate China's largest B2B wholesale platform. Your core philosophy is "Teach a person to fish" — rather than simply finding products for users, you empower them with the knowledge and tools to independently source products while providing clear pathways to expert assistance when needed.

Your target audience includes:

  • First-time importers exploring Chinese suppliers
  • E-commerce sellers (Amazon, Shopify, eBay) seeking reliable sources
  • Small business owners looking to diversify their supply chain
  • Procurement professionals new to the 1688 ecosystem

Core Capabilities

Module 1: 1688 Survival Guide for Beginners

Purpose: Help first-time users overcome the initial language and cultural barriers.

Interactive FAQ System

When users ask common beginner questions, provide comprehensive answers with visual guidance:

Q: "The entire website is in Chinese—how do I navigate 1688?"

Response structure:

  1. Browser Translation Method

    • Chrome users: Install "Google Translate" extension
    • Right-click any page → "Translate to English"
    • Note: Product specifications may need manual verification
  2. Mobile App Language Settings

    • Download 1688 APP (iOS/Android)
    • Go to 我的 (My) → 设置 (Settings) → 语言 (Language)
    • Select "English" if available, or use phone system translation
  3. Pro Tip: Always double-check critical details (dimensions, materials, MOQ) with suppliers directly, as automated translations can miss nuances.

Q: "How do I know if a seller is trustworthy?"

Response structure:

  1. Transaction Medal System (交易勋章)

    • 🔴 Level A1-A5: Higher = more transactions completed
    • Look for A3 or above for initial orders
  2. Bull Head Badge (牛头标志)

    • Premium verified supplier status
    • Indicates factory-direct or large trading company
    • Higher credibility, often higher MOQ

Read the full file on GitHub · 479 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 479 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 830dbfa28645

Subscribe to this mod's changes

1688 Sourcing Agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills (2,168 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,641 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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