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by Oskar Austegardoaustegard/claude-skills150 stars
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Discover and load skills on demand from /mnt/skills/user/. Use when you need a capability but don't know which skill provides it, when the boot-emitted skill list is names-only and you need a full description, or when you want to list the catalog. Verbs are list (names only), search (rank by name/description match against a query), and show (emit the full SKILL.md for a named skill).

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Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/oaustegard/claude-skills/finding-skills

This session only. Nothing lands on disk.

SKILL.md

≈101 tokens always: the name and description. ≈451 when used: this file. ≈72 more on demand in 1 file.

Finding Skills

Skills on disk at /mnt/skills/user/ are a catalog — too expensive to preload as descriptions in every session's context. This skill is the on-demand accessor, analogous to Anthropic's ToolSearch for MCP tools.

Usage

PY=/home/user/.spokes/claude-skills/finding-skills/scripts/skills.py

# List every skill by name (cheap, ~1.4KB)
python3 "$PY" list

# Search by keyword — ranks name matches above description matches
python3 "$PY" search "adversarial review"

# Load the full SKILL.md of a specific skill
python3 "$PY" show challenging

In a live CCotw session the script lives at /mnt/skills/user/finding-skills/scripts/skills.py.

When to reach for this

  • You have a task where a skill might help but no obvious name comes to mind → search <keywords>
  • The boot emitted names-only and you want the description of a candidate → show <name>
  • You want catalog breadth before picking an approach → list

Pattern

  1. search "<what you want to do>" — get 3–10 ranked candidates
  2. show <top-pick> — read its SKILL.md
  3. Follow the SKILL.md's instructions (which may point at scripts/, references/, etc.)

Stop at step 1 if none of the candidates fit — don't shoehorn an unrelated skill onto the task.

Ranking

  • Exact match on skill name: 100
  • Substring match on skill name: 10
  • Substring match in description: 1 per match (multiple hits compound)

Case-insensitive throughout. Results sorted high-to-low, ties broken by name.

Output format

  • list: one skill name per line
  • search: tab-separated <name>\t<description (truncated to 200 chars)>, one per line
  • show: raw SKILL.md contents to stdout; exit 1 with a stderr message if not found

All three are line-oriented so they compose with grep, head, etc.

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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    This skill provides a local discovery mechanism for other agent skills. It allows the agent to list, search, and read the documentation of skills stored on the filesystem. The skill is self-contained, uses only standard Python libraries, and does not perform any network operations or access sensitive credentials.

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Provenance

Signed by skilld at 4b31e7d. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

Last checked against GitHub yesterday.

Activeupdated 2 months ago

Capability

metadata
{
  "version": "0.1.0"
}

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