oaustegard/finding-skills
plugins/skill-development/skills/finding-skills/SKILL.md
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 --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add oaustegard/claude-skills finding-skillsInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- finding-skills
- description:
- 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).
- version:
- 0.1.0
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 challenging
In 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 <keywords> - The boot emitted names-only and you want the description of a candidate →
show <name> - You want catalog breadth before picking an approach →
list
Pattern
search "<what you want to do>"— get 3–10 ranked candidatesshow <top-pick>— 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<name>\t<description (truncated to 200 chars)>, 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.
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