find-skills

name	find-skills
description	Discover and install agent skills — first from the official Fastfold catalog (github.com/fastfold-ai/skills), then from the open skills.sh ecosystem (npx skills find). Use when the user wants to find, search, browse, list, or add new skills/capabilities (e.g. fold, MD, protein design) to the agent CLI.

Find Skills

This skill has no scripts. Do not run python scripts/... for it. Use the skills.manage tool (actions: find, install, list, info, remove), and only fall back to the fastfold skills ... CLI or npx skills ... when the tool is unavailable.

Help the user discover agent skills and install the ones they want. Search in two tiers — the trusted Fastfold catalog first, then the broader open ecosystem — and always scan live, because both catalogs grow over time.

• Fastfold catalog (first-party, trusted): https://github.com/fastfold-ai/skills (skills under skills/<name>/)
• Open ecosystem (skills.sh): https://skills.sh — the package manager for community skills

When to Use This Skill

• The user asks to "find skills", "search skills", "what skills are available", "list fastfold skills", or "add a skill".
• The user asks "how do I do X", "is there a skill for X", or "can you do X" where X is a specialized capability the agent lacks.
• The user wants to extend the agent with folding, MD, protein design, reporting, or other packaged workflows.

Workflow

Tier 1 — Fastfold catalog (try this first)

The Fastfold catalog is first-party and curated. Scan it live with the skills.manage tool:

skills.manage(action="find")                   # list everything currently available
skills.manage(action="find", query="protein")  # filter by name/description/tag

Present the returned name, install_source, and description as a short numbered list. (Equivalent CLI: fastfold skills find [query].)

Tier 2 — Suggested provider collections

When the Fastfold catalog lacks a capability, also consider these curated third-party collections (install the whole collection, or browse it first). Each is installable with fastfold skills add <source> or npx skills add <source>:

• K-Dense-AI — scientific agent skills: K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills (https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills)
• Anthropic — life-sciences skills: anthropics/life-sciences (https://github.com/anthropics/life-sciences#skills)
• DeepMind — science skills: google-deepmind/science-skills (https://github.com/google-deepmind/science-skills)

Tier 3 — Open ecosystem (skills.sh)

For anything else, search the open ecosystem with the Skills CLI (requires Node/npx):

npx -y skills find <query>

npx skills is the package manager for the open agent-skills ecosystem (https://skills.sh). When recommending ecosystem skills, prefer quality signals:

• Official / audited sources (e.g. Fastfold, Anthropic, Vercel) over unknown authors.
• Higher install counts (prefer ~1K+) and GitHub stars.
• Check the skills.sh leaderboard / "official" listings before suggesting niche repos.

Always summarize a few ranked options with their source and install command — do not auto-pick.

Confirm

Ask the user which skill(s) to install. Never install without explicit confirmation. Ecosystem skills run third-party code; call this out before installing anything outside the Fastfold catalog.

Install

Prefer the agent tool when enabled:

skills.manage(action="install", source="fastfold-ai/skills@skills/<name>")
skills.manage(action="install", source="<owner>/<repo>@<subpath>")   # ecosystem skill

If the tool returns blocked: true (agent-initiated install disabled), tell the user to run one of:

• One Fastfold skill (native): fastfold skills add fastfold-ai/skills@skills/<name>
• All Fastfold skills at once: fastfold skills add fastfold-ai/skills
• Inside the interactive session: /skills-add <install source>
• From the ecosystem (Node): npx skills add <owner>/<repo> (optionally --skill <name>)
• Or enable agent installs: fastfold config set skills.allow_agent_install true

Confirm availability

Installed skills are picked up on the next message (the system prompt reloads each turn) — no restart needed. Verify with skills.manage(action="list") or fastfold skills list.

Sources You Can Install From

• Fastfold catalog (whole repo): fastfold-ai/skills
• Fastfold catalog (one skill): fastfold-ai/skills@skills/<name>
• Any GitHub URL: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/tree/<ref>/<subpath>
• GitHub shorthand: <owner>/<repo>@<subpath>
• A local path to a skill directory.

Notes

• Installs use a native git clone and fall back to npx skills add automatically when needed.
• Both catalogs are dynamic — re-run discovery instead of assuming a fixed set of skills.
• Default to the Fastfold catalog; reach for the open ecosystem only when the catalog lacks the capability, and prefer trusted/popular/audited skills there.