Skill Export

Skill Export

Generate a comprehensive markdown catalog of all Claude skills available in the environment.

Workflow

Discover Skills from Three Sources

Personal Skills: ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md

• Scan all subdirectories for SKILL.md files

Project Skills: .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md

• Scan all subdirectories relative to current working directory

Plugin Skills: Requires careful multi-step discovery

1. Read ~/.claude/settings.json to get enabled plugins (format: plugin-name@marketplace-id)
2. Parse each plugin ID into plugin name and marketplace ID
3. Look up marketplace location in ~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json
4. Read {marketplaceLocation}/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json to get the marketplace manifest
5. Find the specific plugin by name in the manifest's plugins array
6. Only scan skills listed in that plugin's skills array (do not scan entire marketplace)
7. For each skill path, read {marketplaceLocation}/{skillPath}/SKILL.md

Critical: Plugin discovery must be scoped to enabled plugins. Do not scan all skills in a marketplace—only those listed in the specific enabled plugin's manifest entry.

Extract and Format

For each SKILL.md file:

• Parse YAML frontmatter to extract name and description.
• Record location as absolute path to the skill directory (use dirname() of SKILL.md path)

Critical: Only read the YAML frontmatter, i.e., the top 5 lines, of SKILL.md files.

Generate markdown table:

# Skills

Skills are additional instructions for specific scenarios. Given below is a list of name, description, and location of all available skills. 
If a skill is relevant to the task you're performing based on its description, read the SKILL.md file at the location of that skill for additional instructions.

| Name | Description | Location |
|------|-------------|----------|
| skill-name | Description text | /absolute/path/to/skill |

Formatting: escape pipe characters (\|), remove newlines from descriptions, sort by location type then name.

Write Output

Write the output into a SKILLS.md file at the current working directory. Write the generated markdown into the file, and display summary to the user in chat.