Find Skills

Find Skills Review: The Skill That Finds the Right Skill for Every Job

There are tens of thousands of agent skills now, and browsing directories by hand is a losing game. You open skills.sh, scroll a leaderboard, guess which entry fits your task, and hope the install command is real. The catalog grows faster than any person can read it, and the skill you need is usually buried three pages deep.

Find Skills turns that search into your agent's job. Built by Vercel Labs, it is the most-installed skill on skills.sh, with more than 3.8 million installs and a repository holding over 38,000 GitHub stars. Install it once, then ask your agent whether a skill exists for what you are doing, and it searches, vets, and proposes the install for you.

What is Find Skills?

Find Skills is a single SKILL.md file that teaches a coding agent a six-step routine: check the skills.sh leaderboard first, fall back to keyword search with the skills CLI when the leaderboard has nothing, then verify install counts, source reputation, and GitHub stars before recommending anything. It never installs silently. It shows you the options with their install commands and skills.sh links, then offers to install the one you pick.

The skill itself gives your agent no new tools or permissions. It is pure procedure: where to look, what counts as trustworthy, and what to say when nothing good exists. That restraint is the point. A recommendation from a search hit alone is not allowed, and a repository with very few stars is treated with skepticism.

Key Features

1. Leaderboard-first discovery

The agent checks the skills.sh leaderboard before anything else, so well-known, heavily installed skills surface first. Ranking comes from real anonymous install telemetry collected by the skills CLI, not from editorial votes or star counts alone.

2. Keyword search when the leaderboard has no match

If no leaderboard entry fits, the agent runs a keyword search through the skills CLI and works from those results. You get coverage of the long tail instead of only the famous names.

3. Vetting before any recommendation

Every candidate is checked against install count, source reputation, and GitHub stars. The guidance prefers skills with more than 1,000 installs, is cautious with anything under 100, and prefers official sources such as Vercel Labs, Anthropic, and Microsoft.

4. One-command install handoff

When a skill checks out, you get the exact install line, such as the skills CLI add command, plus a link to its skills.sh page. You approve it, and the agent runs it. Nothing is installed behind your back.

5. A slash command in every session

Once installed, the skill becomes a slash command in Claude Code, so you can call it by name in any session. It works wherever the open Agent Skills format is supported, including Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and Windsurf.

How It Works

Install it once with the skills CLI. The command below installs it globally for Claude Code; drop the flags and the CLI asks where to install instead:

npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills

Then restart your agent or reload skills, and ask in plain words, for example, that you need a skill for writing database migrations. The agent checks the leaderboard, searches if needed, vets the candidates, and shows you the shortlist with install commands. If nothing matches, it says so and offers to help you write your own skill.

Who Should Use Find Skills?

Anyone who uses Claude Code or a similar coding agent and keeps hearing about new skills is the audience. It is most useful for developers who install skills often, for teams standardizing on shared skills, and for newcomers who do not yet know what the ecosystem offers. If you only ever use two or three skills, you will rarely need it.

Pricing

Find Skills is completely free. The skill, the skills CLI, and the skills.sh directory are all free, and the repository is MIT licensed. There is no paid tier, no account, and no usage limit.

Pros and Cons

Pros: the most-installed skill in the ecosystem, so its advice reflects real usage; strict vetting rules reduce the chance of installing a dud; one command installs it anywhere the skills CLI runs; free and MIT licensed.

Cons: it recommends skills, it does not audit them deeply, so you still need judgment; install counts are telemetry, not a guarantee of quality; one independent review noted a medium-risk warning from a security scanner, so security-conscious teams should scan before installing; needs Node.js 22.20 or newer for the CLI.

Final Verdict

Find Skills is the sensible first install for any coding agent. It does one job, it does it with explicit vetting rules, and it is backed by the largest install base of any skill in the ecosystem. Install it, then let your agent do the browsing from now on. Try it on GitHub: vercel-labs/skills.