🔍 find-skills

Find Skills

Discover and install agent skills from the open ecosystem using the Skills CLI.

Overview

The Skills CLI (npx skills) is a package manager for modular agent skill packages. It connects to the open agent skills registry to search, install, and update skills from thousands of contributors.

Browse available skills at https://skills.sh/

Core Commands

npx skills find [query]     # Search interactively or by keyword
npx skills add <package>    # Install a skill from GitHub
npx skills check            # Check for skill updates
npx skills update           # Update all installed skills
npx skills init             # Scaffold a new custom skill

Install a specific skill:

npx skills add <owner/repo@skill> -g -y

Workflow

Step 1 — Identify the need Determine the domain and specific task. Estimate how likely a published skill exists.

Step 2 — Check the leaderboard first Visit https://skills.sh/ to browse the most popular and highest-quality skills before searching.

Step 3 — Search if needed Run targeted searches using relevant keywords (domain + task, e.g. "react performance").

Step 4 — Verify quality Before recommending a skill, confirm:

• Install count (prefer 1,000+)
• Source reputation (official sources: Vercel Labs, Anthropic, Microsoft, HuggingFace)
• GitHub repository star count (prefer 100+)

Step 5 — Present options Include: skill name, what it does, install count, and the install command.

Step 6 — Assist installation Run the install command if the user confirms:

npx skills add <owner/repo@skill> -g -y

When No Skills Exist

• Acknowledge the gap honestly
• Offer direct assistance for the task
• Suggest scaffolding a custom skill: npx skills init

Quality Tiers

Examples

• User asks: "How do I add persistent memory to my agent?" → Search "memory agent", find mem0ai/mem0@mem0, present install count and command.

• User asks: "Is there a skill for building Gradio demos?" → Check leaderboard, find huggingface/skills@huggingface-gradio, present it.

• User asks: "Find a skill for Kubernetes manifest generation" → Run npx skills find "kubernetes manifest", present top results.