Skills Search

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Reusing a Skill
• Finding PDF/code-review tools
• Inspecting a Skill
• Listing installed/popular/recent Skills

Example prompts

• “Use the skills-search skill to find Skills in configured local repositories before searching CCPM”
• “/skills-search”

Requirements

• Python 3
• Node.js
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Always execute directly — run the selected local helper or ccpm command, never ask the user to run it manually.
2. 2Summarize results — after executing, present the output in a clear, readable format.
3. 3Choose from the result — a local Skill may already be installed. Verify that separately; do not reinstall merely because it was found. If…
4. 4Handle errors gracefully — if ccpm is not found, fall back to npx @daymade/ccpm. If the registry is unreachable, say so clearly.
5. 5Namespaced skills — support @org/skill-name format (e.g., ccpm install @daymade/skill-creator).

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0e52df5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read

  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:

  • npx
  • uv
  • npm

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

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, uv and npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  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

Skills Search loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 672 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~69

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.9k

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read

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 daymade/claude-code-skills at commit 0e52df5, republished under its MIT licence (© daymade). 672 words, ~1,535 tokens.

name

skills-search

description

Finds Skills in configured local repositories before searching CCPM. Use when discovering or reusing a Skill, finding PDF/code-review tools, inspecting a Skill, listing installed/popular/recent Skills, or installing/updating/removing Claude Code Skills/plugins.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read

uv run --script <skill-dir>/scripts/local_sources.py list
uv run --script <skill-dir>/scripts/local_sources.py search '<capability>' --tier owned

ccpm search <query> [--limit <n>] [--tags <t1,t2>] [--author <name>] [--smart]

ccpm popular [--limit <n>]       # Most downloaded
ccpm recent [--limit <n>]        # Recently published/updated

ccpm install <skill-name>        # Install (user-level, default)
ccpm install <name> --project    # Install to current project only
ccpm install <name> --force      # Force reinstall
ccpm list                        # List installed skills
ccpm info <skill-name>           # Detailed skill information
ccpm update [name]               # Update a skill
ccpm update --all                # Update all skills
ccpm uninstall <skill-name>      # Remove a skill

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skill-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "skills-search-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

© daymade, MIT. 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 3 other files (scripts, references) in daymade-skill/skills-search of daymade/claude-code-skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/local-repository-search.md
• scripts/local_sources.py
• tests/test_local_sources.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0e52df5