Overview
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 52k 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.
Best for
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
Installation
Add find-skills to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio ~/.claude/skills/find-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
License
find-skills is published under the AGPL-3.0-only license.
Strengths
- Clear AGPL-3.0-only license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in CherryHQ/cherry-studio, an established project with 52,047 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 2,859 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
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.
- Which agents does find-skills work with?
- find-skills lists Claude Code and Codex — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does find-skills come from?
- find-skills ships inside CherryHQ/cherry-studio, a repository that contains 37 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 52,047 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
