finding-skills SKILL.md skillA
finding-skills from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/finding-skills@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
finding-skills/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Apr 22, 2026
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- 2,262 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
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).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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 ```bash 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 1. `search "<what you want to do>"` — get 3–10 ranked candidates 2. `show <top-pick>` — read its SKILL.md 3. Follow the SKILL.md's instructions (which may point at `scripts/`, `references/`, etc.) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/finding-skills@sha256:db4f87ba5590f1bdThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 22, 2026.
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Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dmrroyosqm6lmaqc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/finding-skills GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db4f87ba5590f1bda4a6c64fba55fb368df8554ffea097d600df043f9c66e9b7
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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