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Agent Skill Search

Portable skill catalog search for AI agents. MCP server + CLI.

Skills folders eat your agent's context window — every SKILL.md loads whether the task needs it or not. Move them into a catalog and the agent fetches a skill only when it's relevant. Use grep-like search terms to find the right one for your task.

Install

# recommended — isolated tool install
uv tool install agent-skill-search
# or
pip install agent-skill-search

The PyPI distribution is agent-skill-search — the name skill-search on PyPI belongs to an unrelated package. The commands stay skill-search and skill-search-mcp.

Usage

CLI

export SKILL_CATALOG_DIRS="$HOME/.hermes/skills"

skill-search search "react performance"
skill-search search "planning|prd|guide"   # multiple keywords (OR search)
skill-search view "vercel-react-best-practices"
skill-search list

# Also scan well-known agent skills dirs (opencode, claude, codex, ...).
# Same-named skills are deduplicated; off by default.
skill-search --include-known list        # or SKILL_INCLUDE_KNOWN=1

# Move skills from a source dir into the catalog (frees agent context).
# Note: `add` MOVES directories out of the source tree, it does not copy.
skill-search add ~/.hermes/skills

MCP server

One command installs it into your client:

skill-search install claude-code   # or opencode / codex / gemini / openclaw / hermes / pi / claude-desktop / chatgpt

See INSTALL.md for per-client details, manual config snippets, the ChatGPT remote-HTTP setup, and troubleshooting.

Agents without an MCP connection can use the CLI directly. Opt in to append a short usage snippet to existing CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files (marker-checked, append-only, never created from scratch):

skill-search install gemini --cli-hint

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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