find-skills

name	find-skills
description	Discover and load agent skills from the SkillsMP marketplace. Use when the user asks "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill for X", "can you do X" where X is a specialized capability, or expresses interest in extending agent capabilities.

Find Skills

Search the SkillsMP marketplace (~900K skills indexed from GitHub) and load any candidate into the current session via the load_skill_from_url tool.

Workflow

1. Search

Hit the public REST API. Anonymous works (50 req/day, 10 req/min, keyword search).

curl -fsSL "https://skillsmp.com/api/v1/skills/search?q=<query>&sortBy=stars&limit=10" | jq

Useful parameters:

• q (required) — keywords, max 200 chars
• sortBy — stars or recent (default: recent)
• limit — up to 50
• category — slug from https://skillsmp.com/categories
• occupation — SOC slug from https://skillsmp.com/occupations

Each result has: id, name, author, description, githubUrl, skillUrl, stars, updatedAt.

On HTTP 429, back off and tell the user (rate limit hit).

2. Filter

SkillsMP indexes the GitHub long tail; many useful skills sit at 0 stars. Don't hard-floor by stars.

In order of weight:

• description matches the user's intent
• Author/repo reputation — known-good: anthropics, vercel-labs, microsoft, obra, ComposioHQ
• Stars ≥10 is a soft positive signal; treat low stars as neutral, not disqualifying

3. Preview the skill text

Before recommending, read the actual SKILL.md. Convert the API's githubUrl to raw:

• githubUrl: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/tree/<ref>/<subpath>
• raw URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/<ref>/<subpath>/SKILL.md

One-liner (replaces /tree/ with / so neighbouring slashes survive):

RAW=$(echo "$githubUrl" | sed 's|github.com|raw.githubusercontent.com|; s|/tree/|/|')/SKILL.md
curl -fsSL "$RAW"

Skim the frontmatter and body to confirm fit and surface anything important (required tools, env vars, caveats).

4. Recommend

Show the user 1–3 options. For each:

• name (and author)
• one-line summary drawn from frontmatter description
• stars
• skillUrl for the marketplace page
• githubUrl for the source

Example:

Found a couple of options:

1. playwright by A-Kuo (0 stars)
   Browser automation from the terminal via playwright-cli.
   https://skillsmp.com/skills/a-kuo-cipher-cursor-skills-playwright-skill-md
   Source: https://github.com/A-Kuo/CIPHER/tree/main/.cursor/skills/playwright

2. ...

Want me to load one?

5. Load on confirm

Pass the API's githubUrl straight to the tool — it already has the right shape:

load_skill_from_url(url="<githubUrl>")

Then Read SKILL.md from the returned dir and follow it for the rest of the task.

6. No matches

Say so, offer to do the task with general capabilities. Optionally suggest the user create their own skill (see the managing-skills skill).