find-skills

name	find-skills
description	Analyze the active repository and find Claude Code skills from known marketplaces that would be useful for this project. Use when the user asks "what skills are useful for this project?", "find skills for my repo", "what plugins should I install?", "are there any skills for this?", or "recommend skills". Optionally searches online if the user explicitly includes "online" or "search the web" in their request.
tools	Bash, PowerShell, Read, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate
model	sonnet

Find Skills

Analyze the active repository, then find and recommend Claude Code skills from known marketplaces that would be valuable for this project.

This skill is read-only. It produces a recommendation report. It does not install anything or modify any file.

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Task Tracking

Before doing any work, call TaskCreate for each phase below. Call TaskUpdate (status in_progress) when you begin a phase and TaskUpdate (status completed) when you finish it.

• Determine search mode
• Understand repository
• Load known marketplaces
• Online search (create only if online mode is active)
• Match skills to project
• Write report

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Phase 1: Determine Search Mode

Check the user's prompt for an explicit instruction to search online. Search online only if the prompt contains one of:

• "online"
• "search the web"
• "search online"
• "web search"
• "internet"

Default is offline only — local marketplace catalogs and known marketplace URLs only.

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Phase 2: Understand the Repository

Gather enough context to judge skill relevance. Run all of these in parallel:

# Project identity
cat README.md 2>/dev/null | head -60 || true
cat package.json 2>/dev/null || cat pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null || \
  cat Cargo.toml 2>/dev/null || cat go.mod 2>/dev/null || \
  cat pom.xml 2>/dev/null || cat build.gradle.kts 2>/dev/null || \
  cat build.gradle 2>/dev/null || true

# Languages present
find . -maxdepth 4 \
  -not -path "*/.git/*" -not -path "*/node_modules/*" \
  -not -path "*/vendor/*" -not -path "*/.venv/*" -not -path "*/dist/*" \
  \( -name "*.java" -o -name "*.kt" -o -name "*.py" -o -name "*.js" \
     -o -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.tsx" -o -name "*.go" -o -name "*.rs" \
     -o -name "*.cs" -o -name "*.rb" -o -name "*.php" \) \
  | sed 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10

# Framework signals
grep -rl "spring\|django\|fastapi\|flask\|express\|nestjs\|rails\|laravel\|gin\|axum" \
  --include="*.json" --include="*.toml" --include="*.gradle" --include="*.xml" \
  . 2>/dev/null | head -10 || true

# REST API signals
grep -rl "@RestController\|@Router\|app\.route\|router\.\(get\|post\|put\|delete\)\|@Controller\|@RequestMapping\|FastAPI\|express()" \
  --include="*.java" --include="*.kt" --include="*.py" --include="*.ts" \
  --include="*.js" . 2>/dev/null | head -5 || true

# CI/CD and automation signals
ls -la .github/workflows/ 2>/dev/null || true
ls -la .gitlab-ci.yml Jenkinsfile Makefile 2>/dev/null || true

# Git history activity
git log --oneline -20 2>/dev/null || true

# Existing installed skills / plugins
cat ~/.claude/settings.json 2>/dev/null | grep -A5 '"skills"\|"plugins"' || true
ls ~/.claude/plugins/ 2>/dev/null || true

# CHANGELOG presence
ls -la CHANGELOG.md CHANGELOG.rst changelog.md 2>/dev/null || true

# Docs presence
ls -la README.md docs/ 2>/dev/null || true

# Logging patterns
grep -rl "log\.\(info\|debug\|error\|warn\)\|logger\.\|logging\." \
  --include="*.java" --include="*.kt" --include="*.py" --include="*.ts" \
  --include="*.js" --include="*.go" . 2>/dev/null | wc -l || echo "0"

Build an internal profile of the project:

• Primary language(s)
• Framework(s) detected
• Whether it has REST APIs
• Whether it has CI/CD
• Whether CHANGELOG.md exists
• Whether docs exist and are complete
• Logging coverage (rough count)
• Project size and complexity
• Project purpose and domain — infer from the README, package description, folder names, and file content what the project does. Examples: "a CLI tool for managing deployments", "a machine learning pipeline for image classification", "an e-commerce backend", "a developer tool for code analysis". This is distinct from the tech stack and must be stated explicitly in your internal profile. It determines which non-technical skills (e.g. brainstorming, documentation, changelog generation) are relevant, and can surface skills whose value comes from the project's purpose rather than its implementation details.

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Phase 3: Load Known Marketplaces

Always check these known marketplace catalogs (fetch the catalog, do not install):

Marketplace 1 — easier-life-skills (dan323)

This is the primary known marketplace. Read its catalog:

# Check if it is installed locally
cat ~/.claude/plugins/easier-life-skills/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json 2>/dev/null || true

If not found locally, use the WebFetch tool to fetch the raw catalog from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dan323/easier-life-skills/master/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

The catalog lists every available plugin with its name, description, category, and keywords. Use it to build the candidate pool.

Marketplace 2 — skills (anthropics)

The official Anthropic skill marketplace. Read its catalog:

# Check if it is installed locally
cat ~/.claude/plugins/skills/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json 2>/dev/null || true

If not found locally, use the WebFetch tool to fetch the raw catalog from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/master/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

Local marketplace index

# Check if there are other marketplaces registered locally
cat ~/.claude/settings.json 2>/dev/null | grep -A20 '"marketplaces"\|"pluginSources"' || true
find ~/.claude/plugins -name "marketplace.json" 2>/dev/null | head -10 || true

Load any additional marketplace catalogs found.

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Phase 4: Online Search (only if explicitly requested)

Skip this phase entirely if the user did NOT explicitly request an online search.

If online search is requested, use WebSearch to find additional Claude Code skill marketplaces and individual skills relevant to the project's domain:

Search queries to run (adapt to the project's detected domain):

• "claude code" skill plugin marketplace {primary_language}
• "claude code" skill plugin {framework_name} (for each detected framework)
• site:github.com "claude-plugin" "SKILL.md" {domain_keyword}

For each GitHub repository found:

• Check for a .claude-plugin/marketplace.json or individual SKILL.md files
• Extract skill name, description, and install instructions
• Add to the candidate pool

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Phase 5: Match Skills to the Project

For each skill in the candidate pool, score its relevance to this project. A skill is relevant if it solves a real problem this project has right now, not hypothetically.

Scoring heuristics

Technical signals

Condition	Boost
Project has no CHANGELOG and skill generates one	High
Project has REST APIs and skill finds breaking changes	High
Project has no docs / minimal README and skill creates docs	High
Project has significant logging gaps and skill audits logging	High
Project has CI/automated tasks and skill automates agent tasks	Medium
Project has dead code indicators (large old codebase, private methods) and skill finds dead code	Medium
Skill's keywords overlap with detected frameworks/languages	Low boost

Purpose and domain signals

Match skills based on what the project is for, not just how it is built. Read each skill's catalog description as a value proposition and ask: does this deliver value to someone working on this kind of project?

Condition	Boost
Project is a developer tool / SDK / library — consumers need clear docs	High for documentation skills
Project is in active development with unclear direction or early stage — brainstorming is high value	High for brainstorm skill
Project is a public-facing product with versioned releases — changelog matters for external consumers	High for changelog skill
Project is a data pipeline / ML / batch processing system — observability and logging quality are critical	High for logging skills
Project is a large, long-lived codebase with multiple contributors — dead code accumulates faster	Higher for dead-code skills
Skill's description explicitly addresses the project's domain (e.g. "REST API" skill for a REST service)	Medium–High
Skill solves a workflow problem the project's maintainers would face given its stated purpose	Medium

Irrelevance signals (exclude or rank last)

• Skill already installed (found in ~/.claude/plugins)
• Skill addresses a domain not present in this repo (e.g. REST-breaking-changes skill for a CLI with no HTTP layer)
• Skill's purpose is fully covered by an already-installed skill

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Phase 6: Output Report

Always produce the report in the format below, sorted by relevance (most relevant first). Show at most 7 skills. If fewer than 3 are genuinely relevant, say so honestly rather than padding with low-relevance suggestions.

## Skill Recommendations for {project name}

{One sentence describing the project, for context.}

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### Recommended Skills

#### 1. {skill-name}  ·  {marketplace-name}  ·  Relevance: High / Medium / Low

**What it does**: {One sentence from the catalog description.}

**Why it fits this project**: {Specific reason grounded in what was observed in the repo.
  May reference technical signals ("your project has 18 REST endpoints but no CHANGELOG.md")
  OR purpose/domain signals ("as a public SDK, consumers depend on versioned release notes").
  Never generic — "Could be useful for API projects" is not acceptable.}

**Install**:
\`\`\`
/plugin marketplace add {marketplace-owner}/{marketplace-name}
/plugin install {marketplace-name}/{skill-name}
\`\`\`

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#### 2. ...

(repeat for each recommended skill)

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### Skills Checked but Not Recommended

| Skill | Reason skipped |
|---|---|
| {skill-name} | {One-line reason — e.g. "Already installed", "No REST APIs detected", "Docs already complete"} |

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### Marketplaces Searched

- easier-life-skills (dan323) — {N} skills checked
- skills (anthropics) — {N} skills checked
{- any additional marketplaces found}
{- Online search: {N} results checked}  ← only if online mode was used

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_To install any skill above, copy the install commands. Skills are read-only analysis tools
unless their description says otherwise._

If no skills are relevant

## Skill Recommendations for {project name}

No skills from the checked marketplaces are a strong fit for this project right now.

**Checked marketplaces**: easier-life-skills (dan323) — {N} skills reviewed, skills (anthropics) — {N} skills reviewed

**Reason**: {Brief explanation — e.g. "All available skills target domains not present in
this repo (REST APIs, logging, documentation), and your project is already well-covered
in those areas."}

Consider running `/find-skills online` to search for additional skill marketplaces.