| name | skill-finder |
| description | Discover and install Claude Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages) from across the ecosystem by querying live registries. Use when the user wants to find a skill for a task, browse what skills exist for a topic, check whether someone has already built a skill, refresh the skill catalog, or get install commands for a skill. Reads the official Anthropic marketplaces plus community registries (SkillsMP REST API, GuildSkills cross-agent catalog) and ranks by trust and popularity. |
| metadata | {"author":"blake","version":"1.0"} |
Skill Finder
Find Agent Skills (the SKILL.md package format) anywhere in the ecosystem and return ranked, install-ready results. This skill compounds: it reads from registries that already index tens of thousands of skills, so it stays current without me re-crawling GitHub.
When to use
- "Is there a skill for X?" / "find me a skill that does Y"
- "What skills exist for ?" (pdf, security, react, testing, marketing...)
- "Refresh / re-run skill discovery"
- The user wants an install command for a specific skill
How to find skills
Run the reader. It queries live registries, dedupes, and ranks (official first, then by stars / security grade):
node "C:/Users/Blake/.claude/skills/skill-finder/scripts/find-skills.mjs" "<query>" --limit 25
Flags:
--limit N — how many results (default 25)--sources skillsmp,official,guild — which registries (default skillsmp,official; add guild for the heavy 75MB cross-agent catalog with security grades)--json — machine-readable output
Examples:
node .../find-skills.mjs "security audit" --limit 15node .../find-skills.mjs "" --sources official — list the full official catalognode .../find-skills.mjs "kubernetes" --sources skillsmp,official,guild — widest net
If node is unavailable, fall back to curl: see references/registries.md for the raw endpoints and example requests.
How to install a found skill
Two install paths dominate. Pick based on where the skill lives:
- Vercel
skills CLI (works for any GitHub repo with a SKILL.md):
npx skills add <github-url-or-owner/repo> --skill <name>
- Claude Code plugin marketplace (for repos shipping
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json):
/plugin marketplace add <owner/repo> then /plugin install <plugin>@<marketplace>
- Manual: clone the skill folder into
~/.claude/skills/<name>/ (user scope) or <project>/.claude/skills/<name>/ (project scope), then /reload-skills or restart.
Always tell the user the source repo and that skills are executable instructions — only install from sources they trust.
Ongoing discovery (feeds)
To catch newly published skills over time, poll these (see references/registries.md for the full list):
https://github.com/anthropics/skills/commits/main.atom — new/updated official skillshttps://skillsmp.com/api/skills?q=&sortBy=recent — newest community skillshttps://skills.sh — install-telemetry leaderboard (true popularity)
Reference
references/registries.md — every registry, its read path (API/JSON/raw), schema, and example requests.references/catalog.md — a curated, ranked snapshot of the most useful skills as of 2026-06-14, organized by category.
