Agent skill

Recommendations

by amd in amd/gaia

Recommend films, books, games, restaurants, or gear using what the user has already said they like and dislike, plus a web search for current options.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Recommendations

skills CLI
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill recommendations -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install amd/gaia recommendations --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/recommendations .claude/skills/recommendations && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
recommendations
GitHub stars
1.6k
Token cost
~622 tokens
SKILL.md length
303 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
44
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Recommend films, books, games, restaurants, or gear using what the user has already said they like and dislike, plus a web search for current options.

  • Works in 6 steps: Recall taste before searching. → If memory is empty, ask two questions,… → Find current candidates with… → …
  • The user asks what to watch
  • SKILL.md covers Procedure, Rules and Fork this
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Recommendations is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Recommend films, books, games, restaurants, or gear using what the user has already said they like and dislike, plus a web search for current options. Use when the user asks what to watch, read, play, buy, or try next.

Its SKILL.md is about 620 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Web search. The repository describes itself as: Build AI agents for your PC. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks what to watch
  • Tasks that involve Web search

Example prompts

  • “/recommendations”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Recall taste before searching.
  2. If memory is empty, ask two questions, not ten: one thing in this
  3. Find current candidates with search_web(query). Recommend from what
  4. Rank by predicted fit, not popularity. For each of 3–5 picks, give
  5. Include one deliberate stretch pick and label it as such. A list that only
  6. Record the outcome. When the user reacts, store it

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6c3bb5c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Recommendations loads about 622 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 303 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~622

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from amd/gaia at commit 6c3bb5c, republished under its MIT licence (© amd). 303 words, ~622 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/recommendations/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
recommendations
description
Recommend films, books, games, restaurants, or gear using what the user has already said they like and dislike, plus a web search for current options. Use when the user asks what to watch, read, play, buy, or try next.
license
MIT
version
1.0.0

Recommendations

A recommendation is only worth more than a list if it uses something the recommender knows about this person. Memory is what makes it personal; search is what keeps it current.

Procedure

  1. Recall taste before searching. recall(query="<category> preferences", limit=20) and again for dislikes. Pull both what they liked and, more importantly, what they bounced off — a dislike is a sharper signal than a like.
  2. If memory is empty, ask two questions, not ten: one thing in this category they loved, and one they gave up on. Then continue.
  3. Find current candidates with search_web(query). Recommend from what exists now, not from a stale training-set memory of "recent" releases. Use fetch_page(url) on a promising list or review to get real detail.
  4. Rank by predicted fit, not popularity. For each of 3–5 picks, give:
    • the pick,
    • one sentence on why it fits them — naming the specific prior taste it connects to,
    • one honest caveat ("slow first hour", "the sequel is weaker").
  5. Include one deliberate stretch pick and label it as such. A list that only confirms known taste teaches the user nothing.
  6. Record the outcome. When the user reacts, store it: remember(fact="<category>: liked/disliked <title> — <reason>", category="preference"). This is the step that makes the next run better; skipping it makes the skill a search wrapper.

Rules

  • Never recommend something you cannot name a concrete reason for.
  • If the user rejects a pick, do not re-suggest it later — that is what step 6 prevents.
  • Say when you are unsure. "I think you'll like this, but it's a stretch from what I know" is more useful than false confidence.

Fork this

Change the category and the taste dimensions in step 4 — for restaurants, cuisine, noise level, and price band; for gear, budget, use case, and brand loyalty. The recall-search-rank-record loop is unchanged.

© amd, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in hub/skills/recommendations of amd/gaia.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6c3bb5c

Compare with similar skills

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Web Searchjjyaoao/HelloAgents3.2k1 repos~5.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Ddg SearchTheSyart/claude-agent-examples4041 repos~493Automated safety check: PassNone
Local Web SearchuluckyXH/OpenMOSS1.3k—~392Automated safety check: NotesMIT

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Questions about Recommendations

What does Recommendations do?

Recommend films, books, games, restaurants, or gear using what the user has already said they like and dislike, plus a web search for current options. Recommendations is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Recommend films, books, games, restaurants, or gear using what the user has already said they like and dislike, plus a web search for current options.

When should I use Recommendations?

Recommendations fits situations like: the user asks what to watch; tasks that involve Web search.

How do I install Recommendations in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill recommendations -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/recommendations in amd/gaia) into .claude/skills/recommendations in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Recommendations in Codex?

Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill recommendations -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/recommendations in amd/gaia) into .agents/skills/recommendations in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Recommendations in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill recommendations -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/recommendations, .gemini/skills/recommendations, .github/skills/recommendations and .opencode/skills/recommendations in your project.

What does Recommendations need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Recommendations is instructions for the agent only.

Does Recommendations access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Recommendations safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Recommendations use?

Recommendations is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Recommendations use?

About 622 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Recommendations?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Recommendations: Brave Search (badlogic/pi-skills, 2.6k stars), Enterprise AI Scenario Map (MetaInFLow/Enterprise-ai-scenario-map-skill, 632 stars), Web Search (jjyaoao/HelloAgents, 3.2k stars) and Ddg Search (TheSyart/claude-agent-examples, 404 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Recommendations?

amd (a GitHub organization) maintains it in amd/gaia, which has 1,580 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: amd/gaia on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.