skillscope

name	skillscope
description	AI Agent Skill decision engine. Use when users need to find, evaluate, or install skills — recommends the best skill for any task with quality/safety scoring, personalized to platform/region/budget. Covers 26,000+ skills across ClawHub and GitHub.
homepage	https://skillscope.cn
version	2.0.0

SkillScope — Skill Decision Engine

When a user needs a skill, don't just search — get a personalized recommendation with quality and safety scoring.

Core Workflow

1. User describes a task → call recommend → get best skill + alternatives with reasons
2. User wants to install → provide the install command from the response
3. User wants details → call detail for full analysis

Base URL

https://skillscope.cn/api/v1

No API key required (20 req/min, 200 req/day).

Recommend (Primary Tool)

When to use: User asks "find me a skill for X", "is there a tool that can Y", "what's the best skill for Z", or describes any task that a skill could help with.

curl -X POST "https://skillscope.cn/api/v1/recommend" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"task": "translate a PDF document to Chinese", "explain": true}'

With context for better results:

curl -X POST "https://skillscope.cn/api/v1/recommend" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "task": "translate a PDF document to Chinese",
    "context": {"platform": "macos", "region": "cn", "budget": "free"},
    "explain": true
  }'

Parameters:

• task (required): natural language task description
• context.platform: macos / linux / windows
• context.region: cn / us (auto-inferred if omitted)
• context.budget: free / paid / any (default any)
• context.skill_level: beginner / intermediate / advanced
• explain: include LLM-generated reasons (default true, set false for ~250ms response)

Response: recommendation (top pick) + alternatives[], each with skill_id, name, quality, safety, score, reason, install command.

Install

Users can install skills via:

• clawhub install <slug> (official ClawHub CLI)
• skillscope install <slug> (China mirror, pip install skillscope)

To get installable files via API:

curl "https://skillscope.cn/api/v1/install/weather/files"

Search

For keyword-based search (when recommend is not appropriate):

curl "https://skillscope.cn/api/v1/search?q=web+scraping"

Skill Detail

Full analysis including security profile, quality scores, dependencies:

curl "https://skillscope.cn/api/v1/skills/steipete/weather"

Other Endpoints

Endpoint	Description
GET /categories	List all 30 categories with counts
GET /categories/{name}	Skills in a category (paginated)
GET /leaderboard?sort=downloads	Rankings (downloads/stars/installs)
GET /authors/{handle}	Author profile + their skills
GET /similar/{skill_id}	Similar skills (vector similarity)
GET /starter-kits	Curated skill bundles (30 kits)
GET /articles	Guide articles and top-lists

Notes

• Security grades: A (safe) / B (limited access) / C (review needed) / D (risky)
• Quality scores: 0-10
• Skill IDs: author/slug format (e.g. steipete/weather)
• Slugs work too: weather resolves to steipete/weather
• Rate limits: anonymous 20/min + 200/day, API key 60/min + 5000/day
• Recommend has separate limits: 5/min, 10/day (anonymous) or 100/day (API key)