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find-skills
find-skills is an open-source backend skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by CherryHQ. Its author describes it as: “Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be use…”. The project has 51k stars on GitHub and is available under the AGPL-3.0-only license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/find-skills`.
What find-skills does
This skill helps you discover and install skills from the open agent skills ecosystem.
Installation
Add find-skills to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/find-skillsAlways review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.
What's inside
The SKILL.md for find-skills is organised into these sections:
- When to Use This Skill
- The skill tools
- How to Help Users Find Skills
- Step 1: Understand What They Need
- Step 2: Check the Leaderboard First
- Step 3: Search for Skills
- Step 4: Verify Quality Before Recommending
- Step 5: Present Options to the User
- Step 6: Install (Uses the Active Permission Mode)
- Common Skill Categories
- Tips for Effective Searches
- When No Skills Are Found
When to use it
Reach for find-skills when you want backend help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.
Strengths
- Clear AGPL-3.0-only license — safe to read and adapt
- Ships in CherryHQ/cherry-studio, an established project with 50,722 GitHub stars
- Actively maintained (recent commits)
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does find-skills do?
- Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
- How do I install find-skills?
- Run git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/find-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio before installing.
- Is find-skills free to use?
- Yes. find-skills is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0-only license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Where does find-skills come from?
- find-skills ships inside CherryHQ/cherry-studio, a repository that contains 20 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 50,722 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
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