Agent skill

List Skills

by apache in apache/magpie

Print a human-readable index of every skill installed for this repository, grouped by the family each one declares, with the name to invoke it by and the first sentence of its description.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install List Skills

skills CLI
$ npx skills add apache/magpie --skill list-skills -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install apache/magpie list-skills --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/apache/magpie.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/magpie-utilities/skills/list-skills .claude/skills/list-skills && 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
list-skills
GitHub stars
110
Token cost
~2.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
986 words
Files
3 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
47
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Print a human-readable index of every skill installed for this repository, grouped by the family each one declares, with the name to invoke it by and the first sentence of its description.

  • Works in 2 steps: Run the listing script → Hand the output to the user
  • SKILL.md covers Pre-flight — is this project…, Prerequisites, Step 1 — Run the listing script and Step 2 — Hand the output to…, plus 2 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python3, git and uv

What it does

List Skills is an agent skill from apache/magpie. Print a human-readable index of every skill installed for this repository, grouped by the family each one declares, with the name to invoke it by and the first sentence of its description. Discovery is installation-aware: it covers a pinned snapshot install, the framework checkout, and marketplace plugin installs, so the index matches what the agent can actually run. Generated on every run from live SKILL.md frontmatter, so it never goes stale when skills are added, removed, or rewritten.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/list_skills.py` and `tests/test_list_skills.py`).

The repository describes itself as: Agent-assisted maintainership and development framework for Apache projects — Triage, Mentoring, Drafting (agent-authored fixes with human review), and Pairing (developer-side… The licence is Apache-2.0.

Example prompts

  • “/list-skills”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Run the listing script
  2. Hand the output to the user

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d1f8f2c. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3
    • git
    • uv

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • apache.org
    • peps.python.org

    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

List Skills loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 127 tokens; SKILL.md has 986 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~127
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.4k

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from apache/magpie at commit d1f8f2c, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© apache). 986 words, ~2,437 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/list-skills/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
list-skills
description
Print a human-readable index of every skill installed for this repository, grouped by the family each one declares, with the name to invoke it by and the first sentence of its `description`. Discovery is installation-aware: it covers a pinned snapshot install, the framework checkout, and marketplace plugin installs, so the index matches what the agent can actually run. Generated on every run from live `SKILL.md` frontmatter, so it never goes stale when skills are added, removed, or rewritten.
family
utilities
mode
Meta
when_to_use
Invoke when a human asks *"what skills are available"*, *"list the skills"*, *"show me the skills in this repo"*, *"give me a table of contents for the…
capability
capability:stats
surface_hash
sha256:5b9c9751b398f81b
license
Apache-2.0
measured_tokens
2413
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
<!-- Placeholder convention (see AGENTS.md#placeholder-convention-used-in-skill-files):
     <project-config> → adopting project's `.apache-magpie/` directory
     <tracker>        → value of `tracker_repo:` in <project-config>/project.md
     <upstream>       → value of `upstream_repo:` in <project-config>/project.md
     <framework>      → `.apache-magpie/apache-magpie` in adopters; `.` in
                        the framework standalone -->

list-skills

<!-- BEGIN MAGPIE PREFLIGHT — generated from tools/dev/preflight-block.md -->

Pre-flight — is this project set up?

Do this first, before anything else in this skill, and do it silently. One command answers it and carries its own rules; there is nothing else to read.

Run the checker with this skill's own frontmatter name: and surface_hash:, and one --requires for each requires_config: entry:

bash
PYTHONPATH=".apache-magpie-local:$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/../.apache-magpie-local:$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/apache-magpie" \
  python3 -m setup_preflight --skill <name> --hash <surface_hash> [--requires <file>]...

The path finds the checker /magpie-setup config installed in the personal layer: this checkout's .apache-magpie-local/, the main checkout's when this is a linked worktree, or the git directory's apache-magpie/ when Magpie is only installed.

  • {"verdict": "ok"} → silent. Continue into the work the user asked for and say nothing about pre-flight. This is the ordinary answer.
  • {"verdict": "action", ...} → each finding names a section, and rules carries that section's text. Follow it. The facts are the inputs; what to propose, and what may not be done, are in the rules rather than here. Act on a finding only through its rules.
  • The command did not run at all — no such module, a non-zero exit, no python3 — → never read that as a pass, and do not re-derive the check by hand: it lives in code so that there is one version of it. If the project has no .apache-magpie.lock, .apache-magpie-overrides/, or personal layer (any of the three directories above), nothing has been set up here and there is nothing to reconcile — resolve this skill's requires_config: entries yourself (first match wins: .apache-magpie-local/<file>, the main checkout's .apache-magpie-local/<file>, <git-common-dir>/apache-magpie/<file>, then .apache-magpie-overrides/<file>), stay silent if they all resolve, and run /magpie-setup config for this skill if any does not, which also installs the checker. Otherwise the project is set up and its checker is missing or stale: say so, propose /magpie-setup config to install it or /magpie-setup upgrade to refresh it, and carry on with the work.

Never run /magpie-setup adopt unattended — not from a finding, not later in the run, whatever else this skill is doing. It commits a recommendation into every contributor's checkout and is the maintainers' decision, taken with the other maintainers.

Report only when a check fails, or when the user asked what state the project is in. /magpie-setup verify is the full diagnostic.

<!-- END MAGPIE PREFLIGHT -->

Print a human-readable index of the skills installed for this repository. The index is generated on every run from live SKILL.md frontmatter — there is no cached copy to keep in sync. The skill exists for humans (newcomers reading the repo, maintainers checking what is available); agents route invocations via the same frontmatter the script reads, so this skill is purely informational.

What counts as "installed" depends on how Magpie was put in place, so the script covers all three shapes and labels which one each entry came from:

InstallWhere the skills liveInvocation shown
Pinned snapshot.agents/skills/ plus the per-agent relays beside it/magpie-<skill>
Framework checkoutthe repo's own skills//magpie-<skill>
Marketplace pluginthe plugin cache this script runs from, and its sibling plugins/<plugin>:<skill>

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.11+ on PATH. Nothing else — the script is stdlib-only, as skills/pyproject.toml requires of every helper script in this tree, and declares that contract in PEP 723 inline metadata. uv run --script and a bare python3 therefore behave identically.

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Step 1 — Run the listing script

Run the bundled script and present its output to the user verbatim:

bash
python3 .claude/skills/magpie-list-skills/scripts/list_skills.py

Run that command literally, as written — do not expand it to an absolute path. It is a repository-relative path that resolves under both install methods that put skills in the repository: a pinned snapshot install and the framework checkout both carry .claude/skills/magpie-list-skills as a symlink onto the real skill directory.

For a layout that puts each description on its own indented line (easier to read when descriptions are long), pass --verbose; to inspect a repository other than the enclosing one, pass --root:

bash
python3 .claude/skills/magpie-list-skills/scripts/list_skills.py --verbose
python3 .claude/skills/magpie-list-skills/scripts/list_skills.py --root /path/to/repo

Marketplace installs are the one exception. They write nothing into the repository, so that path does not exist — the skill lives in the plugin cache. Build the command from the base directory reported for this skill instead:

bash
python3 <the base directory reported for this skill>/scripts/list_skills.py

The script:

  • resolves the repository from git rev-parse --show-toplevel (or --root), not from its own location — under a per-family plugin install its own location is one family, not the whole install;
  • walks the agent-target directories that install writes into (.agents/skills/ and its relays — the registry in ../../../magpie-setup/skills/setup/agents.md is the source of truth), the framework's own skills/ when the repo is the framework checkout, and the sibling plugins in the marketplace cache when it is running from one;
  • de-duplicates by the name you would type, so relay directories collapse to one entry while a skill available from two install methods keeps both — they are two different things to type;
  • groups by each skill's declared family: frontmatter key, per Golden rule 8. Family is never inferred from the name prefix: repo-health and contributor-growth span several prefixes, and write-skill is family utilities, not family write. A skill that declares no family lands in other;
  • prints each entry with the first sentence of its description, then a summary of which install each entry came from.

Step 2 — Hand the output to the user

Quote the script output back to the user as-is. Do not paraphrase, summarise, or re-order — the value of this skill is that the listing is the canonical, deterministic view of what exists. If the user asks for more detail on a specific skill, read that skill's SKILL.md and answer from it.


Hard rules

  • Read-only. This skill never edits, creates, or deletes files. It only reads SKILL.md files under the install directories listed above.
  • No paraphrasing. Always present the script output verbatim. Paraphrasing reintroduces the staleness this skill exists to prevent.

References

© apache, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in plugins/magpie-utilities/skills/list-skills of apache/magpie.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/list_skills.py
  • tests/test_list_skills.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d1f8f2c

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Questions about List Skills

What does List Skills do?

Print a human-readable index of every skill installed for this repository, grouped by the family each one declares, with the name to invoke it by and the first sentence of its description. List Skills is an agent skill from apache/magpie. Print a human-readable index of every skill installed for this repository, grouped by the family each one declares, with the name to invoke it by and the first sentence of its description.

How do I install List Skills in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add apache/magpie --skill list-skills -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/magpie-utilities/skills/list-skills in apache/magpie) into .claude/skills/list-skills in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install List Skills in Codex?

Run `npx skills add apache/magpie --skill list-skills -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/magpie-utilities/skills/list-skills in apache/magpie) into .agents/skills/list-skills in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use List Skills 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 apache/magpie --skill list-skills -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/list-skills, .gemini/skills/list-skills, .github/skills/list-skills and .opencode/skills/list-skills in your project.

What does List Skills need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, List Skills needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python3, git and uv). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does List Skills access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: apache.org and peps.python.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is List Skills 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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does List Skills use?

List Skills is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does List Skills use?

About 2.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.7k 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 List Skills?

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Who maintains List Skills?

apache (a GitHub organization) maintains it in apache/magpie, which has 110 GitHub stars. The repository holds 47 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

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