Finding Skills
Discover and load skills on demand from /mnt/skills/user/. Use when you need a capability but don't know which skill provides it, when the boot-emitted skill list is names-only and you need a full description, or when you want to list the catalog. Verbs are list (names only), search (rank by name/description match against a query), and show (emit the full SKILL.md for a named skill).
Install
$ agentstack add skill-oaustegard-claude-skills-finding-skills ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Links to your public security report.[](https://agentstack.voostack.com/security/report/skill-oaustegard-claude-skills-finding-skills) Reliability & compatibility
Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
Finding Skills
Skills on disk at /mnt/skills/user/ are a catalog — too expensive to preload as descriptions in every session's context. This skill is the on-demand accessor, analogous to Anthropic's ToolSearch for MCP tools.
Usage
PY=/home/user/.spokes/claude-skills/finding-skills/scripts/skills.py
# List every skill by name (cheap, ~1.4KB)
python3 "$PY" list
# Search by keyword — ranks name matches above description matches
python3 "$PY" search "adversarial review"
# Load the full SKILL.md of a specific skill
python3 "$PY" show challengingIn a live CCotw session the script lives at /mnt/skills/user/finding-skills/scripts/skills.py.
When to reach for this
- You have a task where a skill might help but no obvious name comes to mind →
search - The boot emitted names-only and you want the description of a candidate →
show - You want catalog breadth before picking an approach →
list
Pattern
search ""— get 3–10 ranked candidatesshow— read its SKILL.md- Follow the SKILL.md's instructions (which may point at
scripts/,references/, etc.)
Stop at step 1 if none of the candidates fit — don't shoehorn an unrelated skill onto the task.
Ranking
- Exact match on skill name: 100
- Substring match on skill name: 10
- Substring match in description: 1 per match (multiple hits compound)
Case-insensitive throughout. Results sorted high-to-low, ties broken by name.
Output format
list: one skill name per linesearch: tab-separated\t, one per lineshow: raw SKILL.md contents to stdout; exit 1 with a stderr message if not found
All three are line-oriented so they compose with grep, head, etc.
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: oaustegard
- Source: oaustegard/claude-skills
- License: MIT
- Homepage: https://austegard.com/ai-tools/claude-skill-releases.html
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.