// Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
| name | malo-find-skills |
| description | Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill. |
This skill helps you discover and install skills from the open agent skills ecosystem (https://skills.sh). Based on the find-skills skill by Vercel, adapted for this Nix-managed environment.
Use this skill when the user:
All paths below (e.g. home/claude.nix, configs/claude/skills/) are relative to the nix-config directory.
Skills are split into two categories:
configs/claude/skills/ committed to the nix-config repo. These are skills we author and maintain.npx skills add. These are managed by an activation script in home/claude.nix and are gitignored (they appear as symlinks in the skills directory, not regular directories).The activation script defines a list called externalSkills. On every nh darwin switch --no-nom, it removes all Claude Code external skills and reinstalls only the declared ones. This keeps external skills declarative and reproducible.
Run the find command with a relevant query:
npx skills find [query]
For example:
npx skills find react performancenpx skills find pr reviewnpx skills find changelogYou can also browse skills at https://skills.sh/
When you find relevant skills, present them with:
To try a skill immediately:
npx skills add <owner/repo> --skill <name> -g -a claude-code -y
Always pass -a claude-code to avoid installing for other agents. The -g flag installs globally (user-level) and -y skips prompts.
If the user wants to keep the skill across rebuilds, add it to the externalSkills list in home/claude.nix:
externalSkills = [
"anthropics/skills --skill pdf"
"owner/repo --skill new-skill" # <- add here
];
Then nh darwin switch --no-nom will install it on every activation.
If no existing skill fits, or the user wants to build their own:
configs/claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter (name and description) and instructionsreferences/, scripts/, or other supporting filesIf no relevant skills exist:
This skill should be used when the user asks for "deep research", "research team", "comprehensive analysis", "research report", "investigate thoroughly", "compare X vs Y in depth", or needs synthesis across multiple sources with verification. It spawns a coordinated team of researcher agents across multiple rounds, with the lead triaging findings and creating targeted follow-up tasks. Scales from Focused (2 researchers, 1-2 rounds) to Comprehensive (4 researchers, 3-4 rounds with cross-verification). Do NOT use for simple lookups, debugging, or questions answerable with 1-2 searches.
This skill should be used when performing web research beyond a simple single search -- looking into topics, comparing options, investigating questions, finding recommendations, or any task where effective use of Exa, Firecrawl, and Reddit tools matters. Triggers on "research", "look into", "investigate", "compare", "find out about", "search for", "find information", "what do people think about", "what are the best", "look up", or multi-source search tasks. Also invocable explicitly by deep-research team members via the Skill tool.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "audit claude permissions", "audit permissions", "review local claude settings", "promote permissions to global", "clean up claude settings", "find permission patterns", or wants to identify project-local Claude Code permissions that should be added to global configuration.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "add a cask to homebrew", "create a homebrew cask", "add an app to homebrew", "new cask for", "homebrew cask for", "package an app for homebrew", "submit to homebrew-cask", "make a cask", "contribute a cask", or wants to package a macOS application for Homebrew.
Workaround for Claude Code filtering BMP PUA Unicode (U+E000-U+F8FF). Supplementary PUA Nerd Font icons like (U+F0000+, e.g. nf-md-github, nf-md-kubernetes, nf-md-battery) can be written directly. BMP PUA icons (Powerline, Font Awesome, Devicons) require placeholder syntax like {{ U+E0A0 }} or {{ nf-fa-star }} (without spaces), which hooks auto-convert. Invoke when reading or writing Starship configs, tmux themes, shell prompts, or statuslines.
This skill should be used when working with Vercel AI SDK, AI Gateway, streamText, generateText, generateObject, streamObject, tool calling, or AI SDK providers. Also relevant for "ai-sdk", "@ai-sdk/*" packages, or questions about AI SDK patterns, configuration, and best practices.